Performance time 21.30 Performance time 21.30
Thais Di Marco
/Social Design/
0UT SPOK3N B$Cht%% is an experimental performance resulting from an ongoing research into, and serves as a celebration of, the corporeality of Romani women. Often labeled as inappropriate, debauched, and dangerous—in other words, outspoken. The work delves into the concept of “moral madness”, a concept coined by Doris A. Santoro, which for Di Marco articulates the experiences of artists and activists confronting oppressive structures. With this performance they honor the anti-assimilation and anti-absorption contributions of Roma cosmovision in the fight to transcend national borders. The research for this piece emerges from dialogues with various Roma artists participating in an “ethnic coming-out”—a collective movement aimed at understanding and making visible Roma ancestral legacy within decoloniality.
Thais Di Marco is a queer Roma descendant, born in a traditional Candomblé community on collective land: Redandá, Brazil, they hold the title of Egbomi (loosely translates to ‘young shaman’). Their multidisciplinary practice exists at the intersection of decolonial movements and the arts. Di Marco has studied and collaborated with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Mexico, the artist-run platform Bon-gah in Iran, and with Bolivian anarcha-feminist movement Mujeres Creando. They've also worked with Romuald Hazoumé in Benin and Lucha Libre wrestler El Gladiador in a master-apprentice capacity. Furthermore, they serve as the director of projects such as The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks, BIXARIA - Queer Brazilian Club Night, and of CÍRCULO- Decolonial resistance, priestessing, chanting and women’s drumming.
LeineRoebana / Casa da Dança de Almada/ CCAmstel and FLAM - Forum for Live Arts Amsterdam.