Fabeln: die Fliege, die Frau, das Glühwürmchen, der Tropfentagschläfer

Fabeln: die Fliege, die Frau, das Glühwürmchen, der Tropfentagschläfer is a solo sound-theater performance that articulates three woman-animal matamorphoses. Through the potentialities of sound, images and of my own body, I re-imagine the female body, and the animal body, open to possibilities beyond places of curse, punishment and violence.

To help me in this task, I am guided by a fly ,a firefly and a potoo.

The association between women and animals is historically supported by philosophy, science, art, literature and, more recently, the mass media. The concept of "mankind" in Western culture has political and social roots that have served as a mechanism for the exclusion of diverse populations, such as women, from the category of subject. The symbolic and conceptual relationship between animals and women —and among other human subjects— has justified, and still justifies, a series of violence: exploitation, colonization, genocide, feminicide. Animality, therefore, serves as a device of exclusion for those denied access to the category of subject. This only happens because animality is considered a space of legitimate violence.

“Fabeln: die Fliege, die Frau, das Glühwürmchen, der Tropfentagschläfer” was created in the context of the Weltoffenes Berlin fellowship program 2021, in collaboration with Acker Stadt Palast, funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.