Babe You Are Perverse

Workshop, 120 min.

By: Marcella Bruno (writer), Athanasios Anagnostopoulos (artist, writer, curator)

ENGLISH

Location: TBA

Maximum participants: 15
Fee: 8 EUR
Registration (required): oaao213@gmail.com

Join Marcella & Reverend Thanatos on a journey across academic performativity, spiritual rituals, self-help narratives, erotica and BDSM imagery & literature. In this workshop, we explore perversion as methodology, bringing into conversation queer theories (perversion as a political tool) and psychoanalytic theories of perversion and unconscious desire. We will problematise radical identitarianism by shifting the focus to unleashing individual inner contradictions and perverse fantasies.

The first part of the workshop will be an introductory lecture performance on perversion as methodology. The performers will “re-read” relevant or irrelevant texts: is there friction between political identities and desire?

In the second part we invite you to engage with these narratives: We will ask participants to use images or texts shown in the first part or their own (feel encouraged to bring your own images/texts) and they are invited to produce short texts or photography. Each work produced will be individually delivered as confession to Reverend Thanatos: the toilet booth as a confession room is where our perverse desires will materialise.

Participants are encouraged to bring personal objects, texts or images to work with.