The Body Elastic: Claude, Dersch and the Sky Collector

Simona Dumitriu and Ramona Dima

A performance in 3 acts for hortus conclusus (enclosed garden)
Sun, Aug 23rd, 20:30
MQ courtyard

Act 1. I love you too much

Act 2. Rollkur

Act 3. The ladder breaks the horn of the unicorn.

Simona Dumitriu and Ramona Dima (aka Claude and Dersch) and guest artist Ileana Faur (aka the Sky Collector) invite you in their enclosed garden of affects. 3 simple minimal acts will remind you of the conjectural fragments of conversations, fights and declarations that you become part of sometimes when walking past other persons in the street, will remind you of the contingency of overhearing, of the daily sensorial intermingling in the lives of others. If you?re a woman, maybe a migrant, or fat, or queer, performing your femininity or your masculinity, if you?re a sissy of any gender, you know for instance that you need to look away and pass by quicker in the street when you encounter, let?s say, a group of shirtless, semi-drunk, loud speaking sausages. If you?re a cis hetero male, you know that taking your shirt off in the street will definitely not result in parents covering the eyes of their children, public offense and possibly arrest. But if you?re a woman performing as a male, in drag, you can only express your feminist doubts in front of Egon Schiele?s beautifully drawn abuses, show your breasts, and hope not to be totally engorged by the sans souci culture that you came to confront.

* The Body Elastic performance is part of Simona and Ramona?s stay at Q21 / Museums Quartier Wien as Artists-in-Residence recommended by tranzit.org/ERSTE Stiftung. (Becoming Claude, august 2015).

* The performance contains partial nudity.

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