We’re Sick to Death of All This Nonsense: divas de mas muertas

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Program 7:30p

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Ridgewood, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Welcome to another round of our multimedia series combining live performance, reading, sound and image selected by poet Christine Larusso & writer and curator Rachael Rakes: We’re Sick to Death of All This Nonsense. It’s not ekphrasis. WS2DOATN is a live series merging words, sounds, and moving images, intended to reframe—or unframe—what constitutes the poetic, the time-based, the time-less, the urgent and endurant in art and discourse

Let us present to you, round four—Divas de Mas Muertas.

A true diva never really dies, does she? It’s October. It’s time to invoke those  merely  departed from this plane, them baddie in our bones, keeping us keeping the flame.  We, the nearly departed, will lay the marigolds on the altar together. Literally, bring your objects, amulets, and spells along.

This edition features readings from poets Dorothea Lasky and Hafizah Geter alongside Jesse Mclean’s short film, Somewhere Only We Know.

Each edition begins with the prompt of one word or phrase —from English and several other languages, which will be turned about through the program—with the composition of works, live performances, and other interjections openly combining with the desperate hells and imaginaries of the day. From this, we aim to follow the threads that unspool from this combination of fragments, feelings, artworks, and impermanence of the moment, guests, and audience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Program

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Opening from hosts Rachael Rakes & Christine Larusso [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]

Reading from Dorothea Lasky [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]

Reading from Hafizah Geter [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]

Ngüru Ka Williñ (The Fox And The Otter) by Seba Calfuqueo [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 min, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The early 20th century fable “The Fox and the Otter,” from the Historia y Conocimiento Oral Mapuche: Sobrevivientes de la campaña del desierto y ocupación de la Araucanía (1899–1926), tells the story of a homoerotic relationship between two animals – a fox and an otter, both males – where anal penetration is seen as an offense to masculinity. This 3D animated video proposes a new version of the fable, where its protagonist is a transgender vixen who, by means of its charms, achieves to attract the otter, unsettling colonial constructions about desire and heterosexuality and allowing to break these paradigms and create new cosmologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]

Watch the conversation between Presenter1, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub.

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