Becoming My Body
Performance by Bishop Black
Becoming My Body
Performance by Bishop Black
(in English)
Is there a space in which other relations of forces prevail? Another universe, multiverses, a simultaneous spinning with different direction and speed in the omniverse?
This world is rigid, it becomes more rigid. The increasing potency of right-wing, nationalist positions is hardening the binary, Christian and white dominated orders. The movement must begin, accelerate, spread warmth. It has already begun, without beginning or end. Into other multiverses.
Bishop Black seeks decolonization. Movement by movement, image by image, word by word, Bishop Black works against the old myth of „In the beginning was purity.“ With every sound layer and every muscle movement they seek to resist the pressure of the old polar axis powers of sexual identity and racial identity and to open the gravitational field to a third, open, unknown pole.
Becoming My Body is the way against colonization by sexuality concepts and fashion, by Eurocentric cosmology and epistemology. Becoming My Body is a performative, danced, synthetic stepping towards a space where other power relations prevail, Bishop Black’s invitation into their multiverses.
With Becoming My Body Bishop Black presents the first full-length solo performance – as a bundling of his own strategies in video, sound, dance, drag show and performance.
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Credits
A production by Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. The initial production was created as part of the Postcolonial Poly Perspectives festival, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
„Man sieht Bishop Blacks Schmerz, die Wunden der Vergangenheit, aber auch Freude, seine persönliche Geschichte und Gegenwart.“ (taz, Januar 2020)
„Bishop Black sees the body as a palimpsest: a manuscript constantly inscribed upon and rewritten by its surroundings and onlookers. As a queer person of colour, Black seeks to escape from the matrix of white, Christian identity. In Becoming My Body, his first full-length performance and solo piece for Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, the British performer embarks upon a torturous attempt to free himself from these objectifying conditions…“ (Exberliner, Januar 2020)
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Ballhaus Naunynstraße
Naunynstraße 2710997 Berlin
14.00 EUR - 8.00 EUR