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The HELLERmoves Workshop "Monstrous Counter-Narratives" proposes a space for collective exploration and creation around gender performativity, drag art as a life technology, and the power of fiction and movement as a critical tools to imagine and inhabit other ways of existence.
The session is structured in three parts: an initial, more discursive moment, where conceptual frameworks and personal experiences related to drag practice are shared; followed by two practical sections that invite participants to write and share their own narratives through a drag biomythography exercise and a collective lipsync improvisation.
From a situated transfeminist perspective, the encounter revolves around a central question: how can we hack structures of power through the transformative potential of drag art? The aim is to offer tools to dismantle normative mandates over bodies and affections, activating fictions that work as engines for reimagining the possible. We start from the idea that writing new versions of our stories can become a radical pact of imagination with ourselves and our collective.
In November, M0nster.L4b will be in residence at HELLERAU as part of the three-year EU exchange program “Moving Identities”
Biography
Photo: Mila Ercoli
Lu Chieregati (they/them) is a researcher, choreographer, performer, and dramaturge. They are currently pursuing a Master’s in Choreography and Performance at the University of Giessen and hold a degree in Dance and Movement from Anhembi Morumbi University (Brazil) and a Master’s in Performing Arts and Visual Culture from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid). Their performative and choreographic work centers on fiction and imagination. They develop their processes by inventing practices that activate narratives parallel to those of techno-heroic capitalist time.
Photo: Mila Ercoli
Feña Celedón (she/her) is a Chilean multidisciplinary artist and activist. Her work focuses on gender performance and art direction. Through transvestism and drag, Feña Celedón explores the boundaries of gender-performativity. She develops pedagogical methods to decolonize gender through drag and, as an art director, designs artistic productions and costumes for LGBTQ+ audiovisual projects. Shehas a degree in theater studies and a post-graduate degree in theater education and art in Santiago de Chile.
*We will send you a confirmation of registration for the workshop one week before the start of the event. So don't worry if you don't receive a confirmation straight away. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee participation if you register at short notice, but we would still be delighted if you simply came along and gave it a try. As a rule, we close the sign-up form once the workshop is full.
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