CULT BABY

In the organizer's words:

a work by bösen blumen, collective for artistic research and unruly practice

by and with Nana Bauernfeind, Lea Bäurle, Christina Bergemann, Sebastian Horn, Gina Lauser, Rebecca Okechukwu, Lola Yolanda Zbornik

Love, violence, half-orphan, witch, penis, goth, trans, catholic, Jehovah's Witness, woman, non-binary, Daughter of Cain, lust, monster, vulva, love, violence. 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ 𝒶 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓎ℯ𝓇 Write in and out of great stories, perforate, play with, interweave. Beat until I scream and you finally hear me. We search for lines of pain of cultural imprinting. Lost & found: Southwest Germany, Schutterwald, (m)a village, 1557. Anna Sütterlin, name of (m)a great-grandmother. An alliance nipped in the bud. Murdered as witches because they hurled embers into the male grimace. Whether their blood flows through our veins is lost, but history flows. We write ourselves in and out, we surrender and emancipate ourselves without being appropriated. What markings do we wear on our backs? How can we exist in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit? When do we dominate narratives, when do they dominate us? Can we be fluid here? What shapes our heart? Searching for artistic traces in a discarded shrine. History is slippery. Between holy mass, ecstatic sound and performative action. 𝓁ℯ𝓉 𝓊𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓎 Who is afraid of the evil monster when it speaks, when it screams, when it sings?

Recommended for ages 18 and up

Content Note: The performance works with explicit, sometimes sexualized depictions of the body and uses religious symbolism. It works intensively with bright light and high volume.

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Love, violence, half-orphan, witch, penis, goth, trans, Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, woman, non-binary, Daughter of Cain, desire, monster, vulva, love, violence. 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ 𝒶 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓎ℯ𝓇 - inscribing and erasing ourselves into grand history, perforating it, playing it, weaving it through. Strike until I scream and you hear me at last. We are searching for cultural topographies of pain. Lost & found: Southwest Germany, Schutterwald, a village, 1557. Anna Sütterlin, name of a great-grandmother. An alliance smothered at its formation. Women murdered as witches for hurling embers into the face of patriarchal violence. Whether their blood flows through our veins is lost, but history flows still. We write ourselves in and out, hold one another, surrender and emancipate. What markings do we carry on our backs? How can we exist in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit? When do we dominate narratives and when do they dominate us? Can we become liquid here? What shapes our hearts? Tracing artistic sediments in a discarded sanctuary. History is slippery. Between holy mass, ecstatic sound, and performative action. 𝓁ℯ𝓉 𝓊𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓎. Who is afraid of the big bad monster, when it speaks, when it screams, when it sings?

recommend for 18 and older

Content Note: The performance contains nudity and sexualized body imagery and makes use of religious symbolism. It works with harsh lighting and high volume levels.

Funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg as part of the funding program POPLÄND: Perspektive 2.0 and the Cultural Office of the City of Mannheim