PRETEND IT’S A TOILET | Spring Rolls

A project by Sara Leghissa
dramaturgy collaboration Sandra Cane and Tomas Gonzalez
activated with Sebastiano Lorenza Pala
choreographic assistance Michele Rizzo
costumes design Lucia Gallone
graphic design Marzia Dalfini
production L’Altra Associazione
co-production Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Teatro Prospero / ROM – Residency On the Move, Kunstencentrum Viernulvier, far Nyon, Lavanderia a Vapore

“(…) I want queer to exist as a contagious, dangerous, uncontainable force. Not something that you need to deserve, but something that cannot be resisted.”
Non-Monogamy Letter #5 _ Simon(e) van Saarloos _ ArtsEverywhere

Seeing someone deviating from the norm suggests a possible hijacking in those who follow the norm. This must not happen, otherwise a social system based on the exploitation of bodies cannot be maintained. For this reason, it can thus be asserted that in modern societies we no longer need a controlling system, but it is we, ourselves, who self-regulate our own and other bodies. But just as bodies are mutable and intersectional, so are spaces. According to the words of Sandra Cane, space is neutral, it is the presence of ‘normed’ bodies that makes a specific space a place of power.

Can the public bathroom – both the place of historical queer sociability and at the same time of binary politics enforcement – serve as an excuse to interrogate the power dynamics that permit or prevent us to take a position with respect to unwritten rules? Why do some bodies feel they are in the right place compared to others and therefore entitled to tell others what to do? Can we intercept these dynamics and get together to create a little short circuit?