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Sat 17.05 13:30 - 14:00
Pretend it's a toilet
Sara Leghissa
free

Pretend it's a toilet

Sara Leghissa
OPENBARE WERKEN
  • Sat 17.05
    13:30 - 14:00
    Locatie
    free

A graphic, light yet also political performance about power relations in public space

Can the public bathroom – both the place of historical queer sociability and at the same time of binary politics enforcement – serve as an excuse to interrogate the power dynamics that permit or prevent us to take a position with respect to unwritten rules? Why do some bodies feel they are in the right place compared to others and therefore entitled to tell others what to do? Can we intercept these dynamics and get together to create a little short circuit? In modern societies we no longer need a controlling system, but it is we, ourselves, who self-regulate our own and other bodies. But just as bodies are mutable and intersectional, so are spaces.

Part of

“Space is neutral, it is the presence of 'normed' bodies that makes a specific space a place of power.”

Sandra Cane

a project by Sara Leghissa - dramaturgy collaboration: Sandra Cane and Tomas Gonzalez - activated with Seba Lorenza Pala - choreographic assistance: Michele Rizzo - costumes design: Lucia Gallone - graphic design: Marzia Dalfini - executive production: Federica Iannuzzi - produced by Associazione L’Altra - coproduced by Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Teatro Prospero / ROM - Residency On the Move, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, far Nyon, Lavanderia a Vapore