Shirley Harthey Ubilla (SWE)
Abject of Desire
26-27 October 2018
Programme
26 Oct
20:00
27 Oct
20:00
For the second Late Night of the season, it's time for dancer Shirley Harthey Ubilla to make her debut as a choreographer. Last autumn, she showed a work in progress in our studio about lesbianism and whiteness and has now taken the theme to her first solo work.
I Abject of Desire it portrays an agency that constantly relates to contradictory processes. By make Shirley Harthey Ubilla wants to control the voyeur's gaze, which here becomes the mirror of the subject. In the quest for ownership of the self, carnal desire is embodied through extensions and displacements of the otherwise abhorred.
Organisation of the evening
20:00 Abject of Desire
ca. 21.00 Mingle
ca 21.15 Andria Nyberg Forshage
ca 21.45 Butcherqueen
About the choreographer
Shirley Harthey Ubilla
Shirleys is based in Stockholm where she works as a performer and freelance choreographer. Her work can be defined from two starting points: one based on street dance as a genre and its tradition and the other from a theoretical, contemporary performative approach.
She is one of the members of the dance and performance group JUCK and in spring 2017 she worked with Marina Abramović to create the works Freeing series & Art must be beautiful, Artist must be beautiful at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In the autumn of 2018, Shirley's first solo work will premiere at Dansens hus, focusing on issues of lesbianism and whiteness.
Shirley's work is characterised by issues of gender, whiteness, feminism and intersectionality.
Andria Nyberg Forshage
Andria has a Scorpio ascendant and a master's degree in aesthetics, On sublimity and the excessive object in trans women's contemporary writing. She has recently published poetry in Datableed zine and Two thirds north and lectured on becoming, the feminine sublime, and the minor writing of impossibility at the International Trans Studies Conference at the University of Arizona, on the double affirmation of ashes and lesbian deproduction at the Queer Death Studies Workshops at Linköping University, and on necropolitics and reigniting the active in activism at the Trans Studies Conference at Karlstad University. She plays bass in the anti-fascist, cyborg feminist black metal band Offer.
Butcherqueen
Butcherqueen explores her experience of living in an in-between relationship through performance, textile costumes, space and installation.
About the performance: Butcherqueen is a hybrid Living on earth, in a sacrificing way trying to find its place in society through the ayahuasca dream