To my Ancestors - Trans-Formations in Space and Time

To my Ancestors – Trans-Formations in Space and Time is a performance for a non-binary person and a projector. The performance is searching for trans ancestry in Europe. For a trans historiography is only beginning to emerge. It seems as if our history only begins with the Age of Enlightenment and its associated pathologization. But what did our history look like before that time? To my Ancestors wants to answer these questions. It does so from the perspective of a non-binary person. In this performance the non-binary body of Dan Dansen serves as a surface to project video material which reflects Europes trans history: the witch hunts, gender variant concepts in pagan cultures, queer flora and fauna.

To my Ancestors creates a collective ritual of gender euphoria in which a non-binary person evokes their trans ancestors.

Script, Directing und Performance Dan Dansen
Music CNM
Camera video installation Antonia Pepita Giesler, Dan Dansen
Video- and audio installation Dan Dansen

UPCOMING

December 2022

Berlin, Germany
09.12.2022
To my Ancestors - Trans-Formations in Space and Time experimental film (WIP)
7:00 p.m. Doors open
8:00 p.m screening with Q&A
At gallery NEON KUNST, Herrfurthstraße 23, 12049 Berlin, Germany


Berlin, Deutschland
08.12.2022
To my Ancestors - Trans-Formations in Space and Time solo performance
6:00 p.m. Doors open
7:00 p.m. Performance by and with Dan Dansen
At gallery NEON KUNST, Herrfurthstraße 23, 12049 Berlin, Germany


August 2022

Berlin, Germany
24.08.2022
To my Ancestors - Trans-Formations in Space and Time as part of the group show Sounds of Water by the association Studios Australian Embassy East
6:00 p.m. Performance by and with Dan Dansen
At Kleiner Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg, Diedenhofer Straße, 10405 Berlin


July 2022

Berlin, Germany
02.07.2022
To my Ancestors - Trans-Formations in Space and Time with an interactive botanical garden of queer plants
7:30 p.m. doors open for the installation
8:00 p.m. performance
At alpha nova & galerie futura, Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin


Berlin, Germany
01.07.2022
World Premiere: To my Ancestors - Trans-Formations in Space and Time with an interactive botanical garden of queer plants
7:30 p.m. doors open for the installation
8:00 p.m. performance
At alpha nova & galerie futura, Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin

More shows to be announced.


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