Cosmic Bodies

Frascati co-curated a complementary program with Cherish Menzo, starting from chapter 02 Glitch is Cosmic from Legacy Russel's book Glitch Feminism. Submerge into an evening where three artistic works travel at the intersections of Speculative and Science fiction, Spirituality, Ancestry, Afro-futures, Black Posthuman dreams, Sonic textures, and Natural Worlds.

''In-between, pasts, presents, and futures where cosmic bodies ‘’the inconceivably vast’’ are the matter that allow us to witness and experience the abstract.” - Cherish Menzo

The evening begins with the solo performance Movements of Soul by Christian Yav, in which he combines dance with fashion and music, followed by D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER by Cherish Menzo with Camilo Mejía Cortés. The evening will be closed by Soil Sciences:  a set by DJ, musician and artist M I M I (Brussels), whom explores her Afro-European background through art and music.

Program

19:30 - Movements of Soul - Christian Yav
20:30 - D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER - Cherish Menzo with Camilo Mejía Cortés
22:15 - soil sciences - M I M I

Combi discount

Please enjoy the combi discount when you buy tickets for both performances on Friday January 6: D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER and Movements of Soul. For the two performances together you pay EUR 25 instead of EUR 32. You can visit soil sciences for free afterwards.

Glitch Feminism

Cosmic Bodies is inspired by the book Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell. The book by the American writer/curator is a new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the gap between body, gender and technology.

Glitch Feminism has been heralded as one of the "best art books of 2020" by The New York Times, "spellbinding" by Artforum, and a "groundbreaking text" by Forbes.

When we are all stardust, we will say the media distorts the public’s perception of cosmic bodies. … I’m not opaque. I’m so relevant I’m disappearing. - Anaïs Duplan, ‘’On a Scale of 1-10, How ‘Loving’ Do You Feel?’’

The body is an idea that is cosmic, which is to say, ‘’inconceivably vast’’. Though evidence of human life leading up to the Anthropocene spans 2.6 million years and running, we have only just begun to scratch the surface of what the body is, what it can do, what its future looks like.

Body: it is a world-building word, filled with potential, and as with glitch, filled with movement. Bodied, when used as a verb, is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as ‘’give [ing] material to something abstract.’’ Noun and verb alike, we use body to give form to abstraction, to identify an amalgamated whole.

We all begin in abstraction: ungendered but biologically sexed bodies that, as we develop, take on a gendered form either via performance or according to constructs of social projection. To dematerialize—to once more abstract—the body and transcend its limitations, we need to make room for other realities. - Legacy Russell, "Glitch Feminism", chapter 2 - Glitch is Cosmic. Legacy Russell