The Freak Rituals
“An underrated stage of relationship building is the ‘testing the waters to see how much of a freak you are’-stage.”
The Freak Rituals is build around different archetypal energies in the landscapes of queer relationship building that challenge obstacles, pleasure and potentialities. In a non-confrontational way the performance feels into questions of longing to belong, the urge to posses those we love, battling with our attachment traumas, and exploring the possibilities to be queerly entangled and fully present with all that is here and now.
The piece is born out of aserious refelction paired with untamed silly energy and blends singing pop songs about love with live music, dance, and a philosophical spoken word lecture.
The performance takes place on a large pink fluffy carpet surrounded by the audience from all sides. The audience is invited to witness an intimate process of entanglement among three queer companions. The piece evokes moments of reflection and empathy through mirroring shadow dynamics in relations we are all familiar with but are usually told to shy away from.
To be entangled is not simply to be intertwined with another, as in the joining of separate entities, but to lack an independent, self-contained existence. Existence is not an individual affair. Individuals do not pre-exist their interactions; rather, individuals emerge through and as pare of their entangled intra-relating . Which is not to say that emergence happens once and for all, as an event or as a process that takes place according to some external measure of space and of time, but rather that time and space, like matter and meaning, come into existence, are iteratively reconfigured through each intra-action, there by making it impossible to differentiate in any absolute sense between creation and renewal, beginning and returning, continuity and discontinuity, here and there, past and future.”
― Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
