In 1820, 19-year-old Mademoiselle Lefort's international career took off with an exhibition. She was presented to the public as an ‘irresistible attraction in which the sexes are equally united’. What Lefort felt at the time is unknown. The way her body has been studied and looked upon by doctors has been meticulously documented.

To this day, medical science declares inter* persons as a biological phenomenon and anatomical impossibility. Evaluation by evaluation dissects, examines, evaluates, and ultimately invalidates their existence.

In the performance ‘JUICE’, River Roux enters a transparent space. Whether museum, strip club or observatory, the gazes directed at her oscillate between desire and disgust, between attraction and shame. Roux examines the fascination with bodies in-between: Which body is perceived as ‘natural’, which as insurgent? And who is allowed to exist beyond fetishization?

Please note: Terms such as ‘hermaphrodite’ are now only used as self-identifiers or in a historical context. Most inter* individuals refer to themselves as ‘inter’ or ‘intersex’.

Information on accessibility and language 

• Stepless access

• Language: in English spoken language

• Content Notes: discussion of forced medical interventions, of discrimination of trans and inter* persons as well as death, sex and kink/fetish; nakedness

• sensory triggers: loud sounds and noises, explosion-like noises