We Want no Fucking One for Fresident
Foto de João Viegas (Rabbit Hole)
We want a black dyke for president.
We want a person with AIDS for president and we want a trans person for vice president and we want someone with no health insurance and we want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. We want a latino faggot for president who saw their best friends die in a mass shooting. We want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and we want a candidate who is a part-time hooker. We want a differently abled refugee for president. We want a president with no airconditioning, who has stood in line at the clinic, who stole their last meal and has been unemployed and was sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported.
We want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. We want someone who has bad teeth, someone who has eaten hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. We want someone who has committed civil disobedience.
We want an alien chimera who vomits instead of speaking. A president with a prosthetic that is a rusty sex machine who dreams of killing electric sheep. We want a dead body from a monster that exploded in someone’s minimal cuisine, a pandemic of disphorias that swarm, swirl and jeez. We want liquidity and fluidity, new primordial soups in the presidency. We want for president a cyborg and vorpial blades, kittle and pools of petrochemicals.
IN FACT WE WANT NO FUCKING ONE FOR PRESIDENT. WE DON’T WANT ANY-FUCKING-
THING FOR PRESIDENT. WE WANT ABOLITION OF SUCH POWERS, AUTHORITIES AND HIERARCHIES. WE STRIVE FOR THE ABOLITION OF GENDER, RACE, CLASS AND ANTHROPOCENTRISM. WE WANT A CATACLYSM, ANOTHER END OF THE WORLD.
May we free ourselves from our biological conditions and bodily limitations and seek emancipation from the cultural codes, perpetrators of a sense of inadequacy.
May we free ourselves from the muck of neo-liberal powers hauling for queer assimilation, laws and regulations - over a totalitarian idea of a WE, a naif idea of a unified US. What are those but clusters of privilege and domination, blindness and citizenship?
We claim for a rejection of a natural authenticity to unleash an alien storm, doubt and uncertainty. A striking storm from which all subjectivities shall not remain unaltered…
Foto de João Viegas (Rabbit Hole)
Manifesto escrito e adaptado por Pedro Marum
Inspirado e com citações de Zoe Leonard, Laboria Cuboniks e Additivists
Manifesto apresentando numa performance homónima pelo colectivo artístico Rabbit Hole*
Performers: Francisco Belard, Joana Sousa, Luis Odriozola, Mariana Nobre Vieira, Pedro Marum e Sara Leite
*A Rabbit Hole, criada a 12 de Fevereiro de 2011, é uma Associação Cultural sem fins lucrativos e plataforma criativa com várias valências artísticas, que tem por objectivo fomentar a criação de um espaço de mostra e liberdade expressivas, culminando na realização de eventos e objectos artísticos sob a forma de performances, instalações, exposições, peças de teatro, entre outros. Os eventos da ACRH implicam uma dedicada curadoria de ciclos de cinema e videoarte, performances e concertos, debates, encontros e festas. A Rabbit Hole é um projecto associado à Rua das Gaivotas6 e conta no seu historial com inúmeros eventos e participações decorridos em importantes espaços artísticos tais como a Galeria Zé dos Bois, Teatro do Bairro, mala voadora.porto, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Teatro Sá da Bandeira, assim como diversas colaborações com entidades de relevo do panorama cultural português como o Queer Lisboa – Festival Internacional de Cinema Queer, Doclisboa – Festival Internacional de Cinema, USU - Universidade Sénior Unisaber da Freguesia da Misericórdia e Camara Municipal de Lisboa através da participação no programa BIP/ZIP implicado na dinamização de bairros e zonas prioritárias de Lisboa. Com o intuito de promover um espaço seguro e de inclusão para a expressão das comunidades alternativas, a equipa da Rabbit Hole desenvolve o seu trabalho junto de criadores emergentes e de artistas de um panorama diversificado, visando debater questões como os limites do corpo e da interacção humana, a exploração da identidade sexual e de género, ou os valores culturais e sociais instituídos.
