Installation with HD and 3 blinds, 20 min., 2020


Choreography/Performance: Julie Cunningham, Werner Hirsch, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, Aaliyah Thanisha

Can we disrupt the colonial idea that some groups are behind time, and some others are ahead of time? Can we stop the future being a fantasy of heterosexual reproduction?

The linear model of time, following a concept of progress, marching away from the past and pointing towards the horizon of the future has always been bound to violence and normalization. It seems urgent to create a stage for something beyond: what will a minoritarian mode of temporality look like?

Four performers seem to be rehearsing for a queer time: extreme slowness, moving in circle, being out of synch, changes of rhythms, stillness and breaks are working on escape routes. Can movements simultaneously connect to political despair and utopian aspiration?

The performers employ and often deliberately mix a range of dance elements inspired by hip-hop, dancehall, (post-)modern dance and drag performance. Even though they noticeably differ in their styles, they connect through sudden similarities, haunting movements, and body memories, producing and shifting their points of contact.

Directors of photography: Bernadette Paassen, Siri Klug
Sound: Johanna Wienert
Lights: Bernadette Paassen
Costumes: Heloise Mantel
Stage production: Wibke Tiarks
Dramaturgical assistance: Renen Itzhaki
Sound design: Rashad Becker
Colour grading: Waveline
Music: It´s lover, love by Aérea Negrot, remixed by Philip Bader, Mambos Fudiz by Nidia Minaj, Forward Flamingo by rRoxymore