ARCHIVE EVENT 49.


PROUD FLESH

27.10.2023


LOCATION: MOLT, Tempelhofer Ufer 1A, BERLIN

FORMAT:
Exhibition, performance, live-set

CURATOR:
Artists



ARTISTS:
Laurean Wagner (Performance) 
ft. Anna K Bitter (Video, Installation)
and ft. Peter Isachenko (Live Sound)
Jessyca R. Hauser (Performance/Lecture) 
NANA (Annalise Van Even) (Performance) 
Nora Aaron Scherer (Performance, Video) 
Nobutaka Shomura (Ambient Live/DJ Hybrid Set) 
Haemin Jung (Object, Video) 
Moran Sanderovich (Object




PROUD FLESH ITERATION 1.0 IS AN ONGOING RESEARCH INTO QUEER DESIRE, CRUISING AND ITS METAMORPHIC POSSIBILITIES.

URBAN CRUISING SPOTS ARE A PLACE WHERE THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS, AND SEXUALITY BLUR IN A DYNAMIC CHOREOGRAPHY OF SEEING AND BEING SEEN, DESIRE AND RISK. A MYCELIAL SETUP OF INTIMACY AMIDST THE PUBLIC. DEEPLY ROOTED WITHIN CIS GAY MALE CULTURE ITS FOCUS HAS BEEN ON A NORMATIVE, CIS MALE BODY AS THE OBJECT OF DESIRE. FOR ITS FIRST EDITION PRESENTED IN OCTOBER 27TH AT MOLT GALLERY BERLIN THE BERLIN BASED COLLECTIVE FATAL | VIOLET (LAUREAN WAGNER, ANNA K BITTER) BRINGS TOGETHER ARTISTS FROM SEVERAL DISCIPLINES TO CREATE A TRANSMEDIAL PERFORMANCE EVENING: PROUD FLESH. 

THE PRESENTED WORKS (INCLUDING OBJECT INSTALLATION, LIVE PERFORMANCE, VIDEO AND LIVE SOUNDSCAPES) AIM TO (RE)OPEN THE CRUISING TERRITORY AS A NARRATIVE SPACE FOR QUEER/NONBINARY BODIES AND THEIR BIOGRAPHIES THROUGH A SEX-POSITIVE, QUEERFEMINIST LENS. A PERSPECTIVE THAT QUESTIONS THE ROLE OF BODIES IN PUBLIC CRUISING SPACES AS WELL AS THE PART NATURE CAN PLAY AS ITS SETTING.




Photos by Gil Corujeira






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