Director Mimi Gehin debuts ‘Savage Sex In a Rave’, a hyper sexual, subversive and techno-y dance film for artist R.organic.

Set in a gallery space, the performance artists become turned on by their own performance; sexually liberating themselves and in the process disturbing the relationship between the exhibitionist and the voyeur. We watch the dance unfold in such a natural and curated space, but it remains taboo and disconcerting; this is exactly Mimi’s intention as she explores the relationship between sex and shame.

Mimi and Sabrina Wong’s (Choreographer and Lead Dancer) successful collaboration lures and empowers the audience. It's sweaty and visceral, and like a sex scene in a film, you feel compelled to look away but can’t quite bring yourself to. Natalie Wilkin’s styling also perfectly complements the creative direction with the mix of perspex bondage garments, torn tights, ribbons and hospital bandages.

Gehin says: 'This idea was actually borne from the shared experiences of navigating sexuality, something the choreographer Sabrina Wong and I felt had been repressed not only due to our gender, but even more so, growing up ESEA (east and south East Asian) where sex isn’t as readily shared, taught or joked about in the west.

We came to the conclusion, that regarding sexuality (if we were to think in a binary way) the east would be more Superego and the west would be more ID.

These became discussions and it became this really cathartic collaboration! Sabrina proposed the idea of doing repetitive and harsh sexual movements, exploring how bodies can interact sexually (ID) and my idea was to keep these movements, especially in the beginning, as abstract as possible and somewhat restrained (superego).'

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