Introduction to Macho Dancing

Eisa Jocson

born in the Philippines, was trained as a visual artist, with a background in ballet and pole dancing. Her first public art interventions started when she would climb up and “tag” public flagpoles. Later, she expanded to investigating the social economics, mobility, and the gendered body in the entertainment industry.

Her artistic practice involves embodying personae such as a pole dancer, a macho dancer, a Japanese hostess and a Disney princess. Poised between observing popular culture and subversive power relations, these works confront our perceptions of sexuality, gender formation and seduction politics.