GRACELESS (2023)

GRACELESS (2023)

Creation and performance: Ren Mauney
Videography: Rita Senra + Joao Pedro Trinidade
Residency Support: Cie Olga Roriz, Estudios Victor Cordon, Goethe Lisboa, Polo Cultural das Gaivotas

Research Funding: Fonds Darstellende der Künste

Premiere: Sismografo Porto, May 5th, 2023

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Synopsis:

"How can I understand myself to be homosexual

If I don´t understand I have a sexuality to begin with

I am haunted by stories of our silence

I am haunted by the feeling of conquering

Conquering being something that you are not, to avoid the violence of being what you are

But there is violence anyways"


GRACELESS is a story of resilience, of refusing to dissociate the body from its history, a sexual battleground, a queer refuge. GRACELESS is the story of a non conforming body, a queer body, a lesbian body, a southern body, a rural body, a rejected body. GRACELESS is the story of growing up as a gender non conforming lesbian in a small town in the american south.

This autobiographical solo performance explores the erotic nature of emancipation. It places my history back onto my body, and asks how it still feels, what it still means, what has transformed, what has been abolished.