BECOMING MY BODY by Bishop Black
From 21 to 24.06.2024 at 8 pm / Sunday at 7 pm
Is there a space where different power dynamics prevail? Another universe, multiverses, a simultaneous rotation with different directions and speeds in the omniverse?
This world is rigid, it is becoming even more rigid. The increasing power of right-wing, nationalist positions hardens the binary, Christian and white-dominated orders. The movement must begin, accelerate, spread warmth. It has already begun, without beginning or end. Into other multiverses.
Bishop Black seeks decolonization. Movement by movement, image by image, word by word, Bishop Black works against the old myth of "In the beginning was purity". With each sound layer and every muscle movement, they seek to resist the pressure of the old polar axioms of sexual identity and racial identity and to open the gravitational field to a third, open, unknown pole.
Becoming my body is the path against colonization through concepts of sexuality and fashion, through Eurocentric cosmology and epistemology. Becoming my body is a performative, danced, synthetic stride towards a space where different power relations prevail, Bishop Black's invitation into their multiverses.
With Becoming my body, Bishop Black presents the first full-length solo performance - as a concentration of their own strategies in video, sound, dance, drag show, and performance.
Photo: Ze de Paiva
A production of Cultural Leaps at Ballhaus Naunynstraße non-profit GmbH. The first production was created as part of the Postcolonial Poly Perspectives festival, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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