Performance: Listen to It Like You Haven’t Been Born Yet, Tell It as if You Are Still in the Surrogate Womb

Ofri Cnaani, and Agnė Jokšė, Carmen Hines, and Morgane Billuart:
Listen to It Like You Haven’t Been Born Yet, Tell It as if You Are Still in the Surrogate Womb

How deeply are we attuned to the technological systems we place ourselves in and we place in ourselves? This program will focus on the role of platform capitalism in shaping and orienting users’ bodies, gender, and sexuality. Combining performance, participatory experience, and live podcast, the evening will bring together the artists Agnė Jokšė and Ofri Cnaani and the researcher-creators Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart. Agnė Jokšė works with words. They are currently creating a non-binary Lithuanian language and use performance to explore queerness and language. Jokšė will present Lezbynai (2020), an erotic story about lesbian love against the backdrop of the Lazdynai district where they grew up. Cnaani will lead the audience in Stories from the Surrogate Womb, an exploration of the Generali Foundation Collection that focuses on the idea of somatic listening.

The performance is a personal wandering through call-and-response prompts and allows participants to re-experience familiar and unfamiliar sites in the collection through the notion of choreographic listening.