A double-bill with two performance artists who, together with associate artist ANOHNI, started an art project called Future Feminism. They will present dance and music originating from the ground-breaking New York performance scene.
Kembra Pfahler (the driving force behind the band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black) and Johanna Constantine were from the very beginning involved with the project Future Feminism that associate artist ANOHNI and CocoRosie are also part of. Future Feminism calls for a feminine collective consciousness to emerge in order to save what remains of our world.
In 2014, they made thirteen marble works presenting tenets, such as: ‘The subjugation of women and the earth is one in the same’, and ‘Relieve men of their roles as protectors and predators’. Since the project began in 2014, the tenets of the Future Feminism Manifesto have been widely recognised and appropriated in popular culture, most notably tenet 13: ‘The future is female’.
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black presents The Way We Are. A fearlessly activistic concert with fantastic props and costumes designed by lead singer Kembra Pfahler herself. The song lyrics are inspired by Future Feminism’s thirteen tenets.
Performance artist and DJ Johanna Constantine will present her longest work ever: Tenebris Suspiria Naturae (‘The Dark Sigh of Nature’). This work with several dancers has the struggle for survival in an unpredictable environment as its theme.
‘We now have a term called "interdisciplinary” (...) but for decades our perspectives on performance, feminism, all the things that seem to be the zeitgeist today, were met with bottles being thrown at you, and being chased down the street. It’s a new beginning. Maybe this new popularity will guide us into a gentler female hour...'
- Kembra Pfahler, from: A Letter to the People of Utrecht and Europe at Large (2018)
dates
Fri June 23 2023 8:30 PM
prices
- default including drink from € 27
- CJP/student/scholar € 12
information
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English
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1 hour 30 minutes (met 1 pauze)
related
Click read more and scroll down to read an additional interview with Kembra Pfahler as well.
‘I choose to believe in the struggle of humanity’
Interview with Johanna Constantine
Johanna Constantine is one of the oldest friends and collaborative partners of associate artist ANOHNI. She is one of the founders of Future Feminism, and she will perform her new piece Tenebris Suspiria Naturae (‘The Dark Sigh of Nature’). A conversation about her work and feminism.
by Evelien Lindeboom