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Castillo, Fefa Vila, Javier Sáez, Marnie Slater, and Roberto Tovar

Such Loud and Obvious Ungovernability
Women and Children First
  • Sat 08.03
    11:00 - 12:30
    De Vooruit, Gent
    De Vooruit - Foyer Theaterzaal
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Project X in het nonnenklooster

Queer projects are a work of joy yet strenuous to sustain in time. Last September at VIERNULVIER, “Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium” were dissolving when asking: What do we do when our projects end? Half a year later, Castillo, Fefa Vila, Javier Sáez, Marnie Slater, and Roberto Tovar put on a rehearsed reading of Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits), a 1983 film directed by Manchego filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. In the reading, actors play by reading rather than having learnt the words, and use minimal staging. The film narrates the disbanding of a convent of five nuns in Madrid, practicing community health when hosting a singer after she witnesses an overdose death, and meeting each other in each one’s own terms, in a labyrinth of lesbian desires. The five actors host assemblies in the crossroads of arts making and queer community health organizing. For some, this includes “Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium.”

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Image credit: Marnie Slater, Waiting in line at the bakery not because you want to buy bread but because you need to go to the toilet (2015), oil on canvas, 240 x 120 cm. Image by Aurélien Mole. Title credit: Excerpted from the dissolution notice of La Radical Gai (Madrid) in Planeta Marica: Periódico mensual de sátira maripolítica (1997).