Propaganda for the Self is an excavation of the conflict in queer love between the radical opportunity to reimagine how we relate to each other and the seductive, conscriptive power of the American Dream. The show centers around four utopian love stories written by the cast. Each story reflects on the role of desire and love in our individual and collective choices. Dancing, spell casting, video collages, and plenty of glitter propose a new kind propaganda, a propaganda that invites us all to reflect on dreams, the one’s we have and the one’s we’ve been given. Propaganda for the Self is an invitation to abjection.
Quoted Works:
YERBAMALA COLLECTIVE, OUR VENDETTA: WITCHES VS FASCISTS
References:
Barbara Creed, Horror and the monstrous-feminine: An imaginary abjection
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
David J. Getsy with William J. Simmons, Appearing Differently Abstraction’s
Transgender and Queer Capacities
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Mabs Segrest, Of Soul and White Folks
Raoul Peck, text by James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro
Rosa Menkman, Glitch Studies Manifesto
Susan Sontag, On Photography
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
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