NOTRE-DAME is a multimedia piece about the constant feeling of closure to death experienced by trans bodies, and what it is to carry stigma inside and out. Lux uses a series of weapons in an attempt to “destroy her own inner cathedral”. She will break your heart and make you laugh with jokes as sharp as it’s pieces. The performance will be held in english.
After the Performance there will be an Q&A between Ivy Monteiro, Lux Venérea and the audience.
Lux Venérea, (aka Pollux Frei), Cangaceira transplanted from Sertão of Brazil to Berlin. Apocalypse avantgardist. Tragic comedian. Underdeveloped activist. Fashion terrorist. Chef de cuisine.
Believes in performance art as a way to re-experience the body. In food and cooking as the needle and the line in the social fabric and in comedy as a tool to study oppression. Aims for unlearning and destruction through her practices.
Lux uses every medium she can to express the things that get lost in translation from language to language and the use of colonized languages themselves. Being herself a medium in fantasious-fetishist autobiographical storytelling, she holds vulnerability as a weapon pointed to the viewers. From comedy to deep “non sober poetry” she attempts to drive the viewers from tear to laugh with lots of friction in order to point the constant state of trauma surrounded by laughs/normalization experienced by herself and other dissident bodies.
