TEMPEL OF TEMPTATION
TEMPEL OF TEMPTATION
BRITNEY X FESTIVAL 2023, SCHAUSPIEL KÖLN
BY AND WITH DAMIEN THORN, ANNA SCHALL, JPEG.LOVE, NORA AARON SCHERER, JANOUSHKA KAMIN, NATALIE ANANDA ASSMANN, ISU MIGNON MIGNONNE 異水 謎龍 未姩, ANDREAS SCHNEIDERS, ANDRAS_2020, ELIO;
TEMPLE OF TEMPTATION celebrates new rituals of coming together and imagines radical future forms of gender, sexuality and care.
In the modernised space of the Protestant Christuskirche in Cologne's Neustadt, the artists break with patriarchal, dualistic worldviews and redefine traditional ritual practices such as washing or flogging from a queer-demonic perspective. What possibilities do we have to protect and care for our queer bodies from exploitability, male economies of need, stigmatisation and mechanisms of subjugation? What form of encounters outside of neoliberal functionality and self-optimisation does our community-centred spirit desire? And, how can care, desire, love, responsibility, lust and community be thought together? On three levels of the sacred building, the audience encounters various individual and collective desires of the temple in the course of the performance, not least to be thrown back on the question of the solution.
TEMPLE OF TEMPTATION is a collaboration of performance artists, sex workers, LGBTIQ activists, musicians and pro sex work activists from Berlin, Vienna and Cologne. The collective work is located at the intersection of theatrical intervention, activist education and queer club culture. TEMPLE OF TEMPTATION is the third collaboration of the collective.
GRAFIK BY WINONA HUDEC
PRODUCED BY SCHAUSPIEL KÖLN