
Body [dys]morphing por Forbidden:4ØΞrror
Event Details
Residency: January 13–17, 2025
Research Session: January 15, 6–9 PM
Performance: January 18, 7 PM
This week-long residency invites the local audience to explore unique and complex relationships with their bodies. Shifting the narrative from constant dissatisfaction with perceived flaws to one of care, intimacy, desire, and deserved love, the residency challenges (hetero)normative beauty standards and conventional perceptions of sex and love.
Through somatic practices and sacred rituals, it embraces queer perspectives on personal intimacy and masturbation, fostering reconnection with our bodies, letting go, being present, and creating space for gentle, loving self-touch.
Self-touch is portrayed as a radical act of self-liberation and resistance against societal shame surrounding queer bodies and sexual expressions. By deeply attuning to our bodies, the residency seeks to reclaim them as our own—an act of recovering personal ways of moving, connecting, and loving ourselves and others. Participants will learn to embrace desire in its many forms, heal through it, and feel at home within themselves.
Artists
Forbidden:4ØΞrror
Sofa (they/them) is a modern witch, multidisciplinary artist, and neurodivergent, non-binary performer. Their work processes trauma, emotions, healing, and interactions with the world through abstract art and performances. Sofa’s experience of being different in a binary-structured world led them to explore alternative realities within their personal imaginary worlds, channeling these into art and healing.
Their work focuses on trauma and healing, exploring internal worlds, fears, and desires through artistic expression while embracing vulnerability and openness. By working with abstract concepts, Sofa experiments with layered, nonverbal languages and expressions, investigating how representation and communication shape individuals in relation to society. Their goal is to guide audiences on an introspective journey, evoking discomfort and confusion that ultimately lead to catharsis and release, promoting both personal and collective healing.
Comf
Jazz (they/them) is a producer/performer who balances sound design for new media art with creating experimental bass, breaks, downtempo, and electronic music. Their main project, Comf, uses experimental electronic music as an outlet for expressing the intricacies of their life and experiences.
After releasing a three-EP project, The Texture Tapes (2021), they produced and mastered works for exhibitions like Au bord du Styx (Galerie l’Aléatoire, Paris) and created a soundscape for the performance Body of The Beast (Catalyst, Berlin). Recently, they designed sound for the VR piece Anamnesis and composed music for Hector Maclean’s debut runway show at London Fashion Week (2023).
_ Performance _ 18 enero 19h
In the final activity performance “BODY [DYS]MORPHING” multidisciplinary artist and performer Forbidden:4ØΞrror (they/them) will share their journey overcoming body dysmorphia through self-touch, self-love and self-sex. Music will be performed by experimental sound artist Comf (they/them), who is utilising sounds and textures in collaboration with Forbidden:4ØΞrror to create a sonic landscape for the final performance.
Suggested collaboration performance 15€
Variable depending on your current situation. 10-30€
See information about variable collaboration
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