Friday, December 15 at 7:30 PM

Natacha Voliakovsky:
Denied Status 

To be alive we need a system that supports our survival. How many lives are we expecting to lose in the global fight across borders? Denied status is an action. This action has a message inserted into the skin, emulating the flags used in marches in South America. The action demonstrates the abuse of institutional power that takes over our bodies and penetrates the lives of people with fewer resources around the world. This performance aims to show the need for global laws that protect our survival and the freedom to choose over our own territory to generate social reflection and open up to collective reparation.

Mette Loulou Von Kohl & Leila Delicious: Eat me Baladi

Eat Me Baladi is an exploration of what it means to be Palestinian in diaspora. How to understand the self across distance as you witness the genocide of your people from afar? How to locate the self as part of the struggle within the belly of the beast, and reject dehumanization by staying connected to the self and community? Through movement, sensuality, and sexuality, Leila and Loulou explore undoing internalized impacts of settler-colonialism which have disturbed/interrupted/thwarted their self-understanding as Palestinians. They use satisfaction and pleasure to envision resistance and liberation for their people and for the land.

About the artists

DENIED ACCESS
Natacha Voliakovsky (she/they) (Buenos Aires, 1988) she/they practice takes place at the intersection of queer-rights, sudaca-feminism and the reclamation for the sovereignty of our own body towards physiological trauma healing and social-justice. She was selected at SU-CASA residency of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council-LMCC (NY, 2023), Take a Breath residency (NY, 2023), INVERSE (AR, 2021), Creative Capital Taller (NY, 2020) EMERGENYC - Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (NYU, 2019), at the Venice International Performance Art Week (2018), among others. Since 2018, she’s the Founder and current Director of Argentina Performance Art, the first research platform on performance art in Argentina. 

EAT ME BALDI
Mette Loulou von Kohl (all pronouns) was born from the orange at the center before the new world came. She is a performer and a wanderer. Mette Loulou is a queer femme, of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Danish descent. Mette Loulou is fascinated by the intersection between her personal identities as a jumping off point to reveal, dismantle and rebuild realities and dreams. Mette Loulou weaves movement, words, and objects into the exploration of her embodied histories. She exists in two places at once.

Leila Delicious (she/her) is a Palestinian burlesque/movement artist and professional snacker, who exists at the epicenter of queer Palestinian decadence and a bad case of munchies. By embodying a queer liberated Palestinian woman who has everything she desires, Leila is able to dance this fantasy into existence. Leila began her performing career as a political performance artist and sees burlesque as a continuation of that work. This work of performing indulgence and abundance has moved beyond the goal of healing intergenerational trauma and has now become a ritual of embodied decolonization.