Natacha Voliakovsky + Mette Loulou Von Kohl & Leila Delicious
Eat me Baladi

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 SouthAmerica. 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.