I'll Be Here All Night

I’ll Be Here All Night operates across multiple registers of guilt, shame, and submission. The performance draws on deep-seated forms of self-blame, from patriarchal and religious conditioning to the psychological weight of being undeservedly punished. It engages with society’s fixation on the exploitation and suffering of young women, which many of us have internalised.

Threaded through the work is the masochistic imperative of hypercapitalism: the demand to expose oneself in order to survive within an attention-driven economy. Vulnerability is labour; confession and submission are strategies for control and seduction within unequal power structures. Emotional exposure is a weapon and a trap.

I’ll Be Here All Night sits with how we hurt ourselves through our own actions as well as through other people and asks whether any of it is justified. The performance explores how shame circulates, how spectatorship feeds it, and how punishment takes place.