the erotic clown invites you, your gaze and your shivers
an invitation; offering and serving.
dive into the erotic potential of destruction; to stroke, pulse, touch and taste;
an invitation to enjoy the landscape of pelvic articulation
and to witness a narrative written in crumbles

For seven years, Sepideh Khodarahmi has toured and researched their cakesitting performance—a sensory piece where they construct, seduce, and ultimately sit on a cake. With club dances, drag technique, and somatic work as starting points, they play the teasing game of seduction and destruction.

It is tactile poetry, a teasing game, a sensorial ritual—seriously playful, playfully serious.
How can the body embody a desire for destruction? What does this desire expose or make possible? What is the game of seduction, and how does it intertwine with the vulgar and the kitsch?
Can eroticism hold both excess and delicacy—can it be both sexy and poetic?
Where does pleasure meet collapse?

Ultimately, the act becomes a vulnerable and poetic questioning of the erotic potential of destruction. The performance reshapes and rearticulates eroticism through a direct encounter with excess and collapse. As the cake breaks down, so do the boundaries between desire, vulgarity, and intimacy, opening space for new ways of sensing and surrendering.

Sepideh Khodarahmi (b. 1992) is an iranian actor, dancer, choreographer, and video artist whose work interrogates themes of eroticism, queerness, power, and embodied transformation Combining rhythm-based movement, club dance styles, and hyper-gendered drag practices, they create performances that are kitschy, sexy, and trashy—while also deeply poetic and intimate. Their practice navigates the complexities of self-objectification, power dynamics, and absurdity, while questioning the limits of embodiment and spectatorship. At the heart of Khodarahmi’s work is an exploration of intimacy—not just as love or connection, but as a space where grief, seduction, and joy collide, especially in the context of queer bodies finding new ways to express vulnerability, desire, and loss.

Khodarahmi holds a BA in Acting from the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and has studied at the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University, Broadway Dance Center, and the Mime School at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance. Drawing from this diverse background, they approach performance as a site for both physical and intellectual inquiry.
Throughout their career, Sepideh has collaborated with influential figures such as Hooman Sharifi, Marina Abramović, and Meg Stuart. Their performances have been featured on renowned stages including Sophiensaele (Berlin), The National Royal Theatre of Sweden, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon), and Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.

On 22 and 23 August Sepideh Khodarahmi is also leading an Erotic Clown Workshop.