BODY RIOT (2022)

BODY RIOT (2022)

BODY RIOT is a manifesto of queer radical pleasure in the form of a 3 hour durational performative protest. The work examines sensual performative languages not only as a conceptual statement, but also a collective call to action and intrusion on the heteronormative politics of pleasure.

The body cannot heal when it cannot move oppressive and violent colonial concepts out of its organism. This oppression often drives queer activism into a place of prioritizing survival and destruction, rather than rebuilding and reclaiming. However, through self-authorship of radical creative work, there is the possibility to experience that which was stolen and forbidden. The trauma story must be told, but when it remains the only story we know how to tell, we continue to exist for our oppressors' attention, and never in revolution.
BODY RIOT is a call to embody a future we hope for, desires we long to access.

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Concept, choreography, performance: Ren Mauney

Sound design, performance: Telmo Branco

Videography: Fabiana Piscitelli and Lala Minoso

Residency Support: Cordillera Berlin

Premiere: Hosek Contemporary Berlin// June 16th-18th, 2022

Tour dates:
THE NUDE Festival Opening //Stoerpunkt Gallery Münich // Sept. 15, 2022

Galeria Antonio Prates (Lisboa) // October 21st, 2022

This project is supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK-STEPPING OUT, funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR.