Handcraft for Warcraft is a 2,5 hour solo performance which was performed at Seven of Seven Festival at Myymälä2 gallery, Helsinki in April 2023.

The performer stretches a fishing net on the clothing rack - a simple solution to making camouflage nets from one’s domestic space as the performer has learned online. They cut the colorful bedsheets into long stripes. Then they enter the costume of a headless bear upside down, their head going into the bear's rear - similar to how the nets are made in the rear of the war - the hands sticking out from bear legs. The monstrous bear, the head bulging through its crotch, the arms searching around its body, stretched out, grabbing, cannot see, cannot sense. Its desire is huge, its love is horrific, its presence is senseless. It swallowed the human body to follow the only direction it knows. 

In this work I make a camouflage net while wearing a bear costume which blocks my vision. I use touch to navigate the process of handcrafting. 

Since the full invasion of Russia into Ukraine camouflage nets or ‘maskseti’ as it is called in Russian turned into one of the symbols of the supreme care for the man, the husband, the son, the father, the soldier, never the killer but the mother/fatherland protector - the hero. This is an ongoing reproductive labor that women of the aggressor country contribute to the war from the rear. It is filled with the strongest affect, submerged into a horror love that protects those who are “us” and does not see or sense those who are “them”. Russian women make maskseti at reproductive and affectual places: community centers, backyards, school auditoriums, daycare centers, playgrounds, their homes.