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‘How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience?’ This question, phrased by adrienne maree brown, is explored by Nina Sandino’s Elsewhere, thus creating a manifesto for holistic resistance. In this space, rest, pleasure, and joy work as radical tools for personal and collective empowerment. An hommage to Afro-Indigenous queer futurism, acknowledging that traditional practices are not relegated to the past but remain a vital and powerful force to shape the present and future. A joyful rebellion for self-preservation!
Chantal by Veza Fernández is an avant-garde anatomic spectacle in which Chantal opens her body, engaging with the audience in her own unique activist way. Chantal is a manifold of figures: a living anatomy doll or a lesbian Venus growing from her songs of broken hearts. Chantal is an essayistic, visceral concert that radically redesigns the dispositive of the anatomical theatre and explores what the staging of the inside beyond norms and dominant regimes of attention could mean.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by zombies, heartbreak, and the humble cockroach, The Last Show Before We Die by Ell Potter and Mary Higgins is an existential cabaret about the big things in life. And death. “Made with cocky confidence and total abandon, this is a sweaty, heady, gut-wrench of a show… Vividly, viscerally alive.” – The Guardian
Daily schedule
Sat 29.06.
10.00–13.00
Workshop Embodied Echoes by Aaron Josi Sternbauer & Crystal Wall
18.30
Meet & Greet / Supporting programme
19.30
Artist Talk hosted by Hyo Lee
20.45
Start performance programme including Nina Sandino, Veza Fernández and Ell Potter & Mary Higgins
was born in Bilwi on the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast, a region with diverse cultures, indigenous peoples, and ethnic communities. Nina is an architect and movement artivist. Their work is moved by the urgency of artistic expression as a political action, a close alliance between artwork and activism. Their practice focuses on the transmission of ancestral communal knowledge and Afro-indigenous queer futurism as a way to look into the future while looking back.
is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work deals with the realms of the poetics and politics of vocal expression as a place of relation, imagination, and transformation. She entangles singing, writing, dancing, and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation, and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Fields that, in one way or the other, influence her artistic research and modus operandi within art making and art presenting. She holds a Master’s in Choreography from DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown amongst others in brut (Vienna), Tanzquartier (Vienna), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Gesnerallee (Zurich), deSingel (Antwerp), and La Casa Encendida (Madrid).
are actors, writers, and ex-partners. They are the co-founders of HOTTER Project, a queer creative collective dedicated to creating radically honest (and silly) work about the stuff that no one wants to talk about. Their previous sell-out shows HOTTER and FITTER tackled sex, bodies and shame, and now the pair are applying their verbatim cabaret methods to perhaps the scariest theme yet: endings. Other credits include: Lem N Ginge: the Princess of Kakos and Life of Bi: a slippery history of bisexuality.
Credits
Elsewhere
Concept, performance, costume design Nina Sandino In close collaboration with Daniela Hernández Flores, Andrea Vezga Acevedo Music Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir Mask Marisel Bongola Dramaturgy Sunanda Mesquita Special thanks to Hena Moreno Corzo, Fidel Wilson, Yusimi Moya Rodríguez, Huggy Bears mentoring programme by Bears in the Park, KLAC (Kunstlos Art Collective)
No admission under 16 years