Curator: Deniz Güvensoy
Artists: Zeynab Kirikou Gueye, anton_ie and Marina Leo Shamov
Performance and Lectures,
May 20-21, 2023 18:00 - 22:00
Location: Fabrikraum, Johnstraße 25-27 R02, Vienna, Austria
collaboration of QM&A Artist Collective and Das Goldene Buch Project
In these two performative evenings, which will follow the first workshop of the Das Goldene Buch project, we will experience three different performative approaches that engage art with activism. All interested in the issues of trans-inclusive, queer feminism, anti-war, anti-discriminatory activism, ecology and more than human identities, the artists will present a set of a variety of manifesting political and artistic expression. Following the workshop, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye will perform ‘Homecoming’, an artwork based on story telling and a semi-hybrid DJ-Set. Sharing the nuances of learning about belonging through their embodied experience of returning to Senegal, a place of their ancestry, they will question what power lies in a Black queer consciousness multiplied by racially distinct contexts. On our second evening, anto_nie will present a lecture, taking you a ride into the world of queer/coded villains, queer monstrosity and its representation in horror movies. After that, Marina Leo will perform a rap performance “When somewhere there becomes somewhere here”, dealing with political oppression and queer resistance, based on the manifesto-songs of the Techno-Poetry cooperative, of which Marina is a member.
Biographies:
anto_nie is a mixed media artist and facilitator who comes from an activist background and incorporates care into her work. Her practice includes facilitating workshops based on adrienne maree brown's practice, exploring 'gossip' as a radical feminist sonic technology, also works with 3D, game engines, immersive audio, and other ways of creating communal non-physical space.
Zeynab Kirikou Gueye is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, community organizer, founder of a digital queer-feminist platform and a DJ. Their practice is influenced by their Senegalese heritage, love for pro-Black queerness, intersectional feminism and by their interest in natural cultural ecologies and the abilities to dream of visionary futurisms amidst social depression.
Marina Leo Shamov is an artist, queer-rap performer, and LGBTQ2 activist who explores various topics in their artistic practice, such as bacterias, plants, political imagination, identity politics and non-human identities. After being detained for participation in queer pride, opposition to transphobic laws and their anti-war stance, during Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Marina Leo emigrated after holding seven anti-war dance pickets in St.-Petersburg.
Program :
May 20, 2023
19:20- 20:00 “Homecoming”, semi-hybrid, DJ set and performance by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye
20:00- 22:00 Music and drinks
May 21, 2023
18:00 - 19:00 ‘Build your own dream villain’, Lecture performance by anto_nie
20:00 - 20:40 Marina Leo Shamov, When somewhere there becomes somewhere here”, Musical Rap Performance
20:40 - 22:00 Music and drinks
Supported by BMKOES, Stadt Wien and 15. Bezirk