| Year | 2025 |
| Medium | Performance |
| Materials | Breath, voice, soap, rope wand, bowl, responsive sound and lighting system |
Sex is the World Our Desires Produce is a performance by Melanie Hoff. Hoff takes a rope wand that droops taut between both hands in an inverted triangle, dips it into consumer-grade dish soap sat in a bowl like a giant's contact lens, waves it in the air as if dancing, then crawls beneath it incessantly, blowing against the spheroid's form to keep it up.
Between these sessions are poetic meditations on social reproduction. The sex act is transmuted & spills out as a fractal, from a massive scale to the infinitesimal, into realms of caregiving & supplication.
Collect, contract, expand, blow, float, explode, become air again. Through every permutation, like the kiss of breath through a wand that forming a bubble gives, the goal is to give the immaterial spatial form, to turn oneself inside out, to float nearly in anti-gravity & take everything else imprinted on its surface with it. Usually the bubble pops & the liquid film splits on their face. No matter, no problem. Hoff's legs & feet accumulate suds, sliding in past each pop. There is more spirit, breath, where that came from & more flesh, soap, to hold it. The meaning is in the doing.
Text by aristilde kirby, adapted from "Nucleation of the Dakini," 1080PRESS Newsletter No. 18 (December 2023)
| 2025 | Open Studios, curated by Empress Wu, CPR – Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn) | performance |
| 2023 | sex is the word our body bursts, Amant (Brooklyn) | performance |