© Théâtre Prospero
Pretend it's a toilet
Can the public bathroom – both the place of historical queer sociability and at the same time of binary politics enforcement – serve as an excuse to interrogate the power dynamics that permit or prevent us to take a position with respect to unwritten rules? Why do some bodies feel they are in the right place compared to others and therefore entitled to tell others what to do? Can we intercept these dynamics and get together to create a little short circuit? In modern societies we no longer need a controlling system, but it is we, ourselves, who self-regulate our own and other bodies. But just as bodies are mutable and intersectional, so are spaces.
Credits
Project Sara Leghissa
Dramaturgy collaboration Sandra Cane and Tomas Gonzalez
Activation Seba Lorenza Pala
Choreographic assistance Michele Rizzo
Costumes design Lucia Gallone
Graphic design Marzia Dalfini
Executive production Federica Iannuzzi
Production Associazione L’Altra
Coproduction Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Teatro Prospero / ROM - Residencies On the Move, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, far Nyon, Lavanderia a Vapore
Sara Leghissa
Sara Leghissa is an independent artist based in Italy whose work encompasses performance, visual art, and curating. Her research stems from a need for connection and transformation with contexts and people. Her artistic practice takes place mainly in public spaces. Following an ecological principle, she uses whatever is already available outdoors as much as possible. She creates systems and devices that attempt to mimic the context in which they occur in order to engage different audiences. She uses accessible, everyday technologies to transmit images and content. She explores the dynamics of life and action with a community of people, to share temporality and practices, independently, horizontally, and outside the logic of production, through principles of mutualism, care, training, and collective self-determination. She co-organizes Nobodys Indiscipline, an international and independent platform for the exchange of practices in the performing arts, NESSUNO, a public gathering for a community of people who, during the night, recover and celebrate the energy of bodies and their differences, and Una Sauna, a shared wooden room containing the equipment necessary to obtain dry air at high temperatures. She co-founded the Strasse collective, an in situ creation project that works in the field of performance and cinema to question and intensify our relationship with reality. She has presented her artistic work in various contexts, such as the Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Short Theatre (IT), Triennale Teatro Dell'Arte (IT), far Festival (CH), Sareyett (PS), La Casa Encendida (E), Festival Parallèle (FR), Saal Biennal (EE), Les Tombées De La Nuit (FR), Mir Festival (GR), Beursschouwburg e Kunstencentrum Vooruit (BE).