QUEERDOS: RESISTANCE - Budapest - September 28, 2019
QUEERDOS RESISTANCE
AURORA, September 28, 2019
Featuring performers:
DIEGO OLEA
FANCSALI KINGA
RÓBERT FEKETE
ANDREA LUKÁCS
Cat
Jugravu, theatre maker/drag performer
Andrei
Raicu, sound designer/director
Jenny
Browne, writer
Luqua Bertini, set designer
Patrycja
Rup, producer
If no longer tied to the politics of 'coming out' but focusing on the
question of visibility, how does queer performance act?
Which are the techniques and performative strategies applied in order
to open up safer spaces for us?
ACTing UP Queerdos - spoken word workshop + Performance
Duration: 23rd to
27th of September 2019 (5 days+1 day presentation)
Performance
presentation: September 28th 2019
Location: Jurányi
Incubator House and Auróra
ACTing
UP Queerdos is an international performance workshop open to all queer- and trans-identified performers based
in Budapest, Hungary. Based on the concept of intersectionality and collective
creation, every story is a valuable one and therefore everyone identified as
LGBTQI+ is welcome to apply, regardless of age, background and stage
experience. In a safe and friendly environment, you will be encouraged to ask
the questions you have always wanted to ask with a view to building visibility
through performance in order to develop and nurture a more inclusive working environment
and creative practice.
Drawing on queer theory's
questioning of identity, representation, and authenticity, the workshop
involves going through an introspective personal route to unlock/practice
effective performative strategies in a queer space.
The week-long workshop session
consists of a mix of creative writing exercises, psychological games,
trust-building techniques, music and spoken word practice and leads to a
collectively devised spoken word performance in Auróra, Budapest, on the 28th
of September.
The training sessions are facilitated
by four Queerdos artists, a Berlin-based performance collective.
QUEERDOS is a transdisciplinary performative
ensemble focusing on initiating discourses and dialogues in the frame of an
LGBTQI+ narrative. By engaging in theatrical work using mainly spoken word with
various artists belonging to queer minorities in Berlin and other cities where
queer politics are often ignored or looked down upon, we hope to promote
acceptance and understanding on a larger scale; to utilize its great potential
for impact.
Challenging gender binaries (male/female) and
exposing the social coercion at the base of the performative nature of identity
is already a political act, but Queerdos aims at transcending beyond, through
daring performances that mirror social or political misconduct, thus becoming
an incentive towards proactive attitudes. Subjects such as abuse, trans and
homophobia, racism, and xenophobia are very often addressed in our
performances. We are aiming towards creating a platform for free speech and
artistic expression in the queer community, emphasising tolerance, integration
and awareness in/of our ever growing environment. Spoken word as a performance
lightens up the sometimes hard-to-digest political contexts through the usage
of elements (singing, dancing, spoken word, stand-up comedy etc) which can
reach a mixed audience.
Queerdos aims at bringing the community of what
society deems as ‘misfits’ together in a safe space for expression and
learning.
