Take my Breath Away: Queer World-Making and this Mess that is Desire by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld

In our performance-lecture we ask, “what does it mean to desire breathlessness?” What does it mean to desire one’s own undoing in the context of a queer orientation towards the future and a queer politics that often appears too sure of itself, too certain of itself, as if we all knew what a better world looks like, as if such vision would by default smoothly align itself with the wants of our bodies, the resonances of our flesh? Through text spoken, read and recorded, through images still and moving, thorough sounds uttered, gasped and moaned, we dig holes in our queer world-making and we jump in them headfirst, always refusing to fill them up afterwards. We stick with the holes and their traces, we stay with the trouble (Haraway 2016). We hornily corrupt our own orientations towards the future, embracing its promise as the promise of an abyss. Start: 19:00 Uhr Ende: 20:30 Uhr Eintritt frei Eine Veranstaltung von Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck