Rat-Fuck Theory
A documentary-performance project that examines sexual violence as a structural condition of gendered capitalism, Rat-Fuck Theory exposes precarity, institutional silence, and survival as forms of labor—refusing confession, catharsis, and respectability.
Rat-Fuck Theory is a research-led performance project at the intersection of documentary theatre, embodied testimony, and critical theory. It approaches sexual violence—rape, harassment, coercion—as structure: produced within gendered capitalism, precarious labour, and the institutional environments that reward exposure while withholding protection.
Built from lived experience and collected accounts, the work refuses confession as a genre. Testimony is not offered as consumable evidence or a redemptive narrative; it returns in fragments, loops, breaks, and silences shaped by the conditions under which speech is demanded and safety remains optional. Incoherence becomes method, not failure.
The rat is the project’s operative figure: not a decorative metaphor, but a way of thinking from the underside. A body that survives on leftovers, inhabits cracks, and persists without permission, it names the position of the precarious worker, the disposable artist, the survivor navigating systems that convert exhaustion into normality.
In dialogue with Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory, the work treats rage as knowledge and refusal as ethics, resisting both aestheticization and psychologization of violence. Through Bojana Kunst’s Artist at Work, it reads the art field as a labour regime—built on permanent availability, emotional extraction, and the romanticization of precarity—where vulnerability becomes currency.