Xava Kasimir Mikosch
chimeric tendencies – process showing
Performance
Photo: Xava Kasimir Mikosch, panther documentation by Elmar Gubisch
chimeric tendencies – process showing is a multimedia performance that creates an immersive cosmos of black light, projections, associative objects, live audio descriptions, and experimental electronic sounds.
Inspired by the origin story of the Styrian panther, chimeric tendencies uses performative strategies to create multiple, collective, queer bodies that constantly reinvent themselves in space. The heraldic animal was originally not a predatory cat but a Pan-Tier, a “pan-animal,” a chimera that unites different animal bodies and spits fire from all orifices.
The performance explores the complexities of being categorized from a collective, trans-futurist perspective and explores the possibilities of queer, anti-racist, intersectional appropriations of folk myths. How is something never-before-seen named? How can what is actually perceived and what is merely imagined merge and yet contradict each other?
A cooperation within the context of steirischer herbst ’24
Education event
10.10., following the performance
Eat and Greet
10.10., 11.10., 12.10., 19:30
Volkshaus Graz
Lagergasse 98a
8010 Graz ♿
25/20/12 euros (pay what you can)
Tickets are available at the box office.
Director: Xava Kasimir Mikosch
Production: Sophie Tautorus
Text and recitation: chora malik
Performers: Kristin Jackson Lerch, Rey Molina Joichl, Valentino Skarwan
Sound: Tobias Leibetseder
Set design: Sophie Tautorus
Costumes: amaaenastudio
Slime production: Philomena Theuretzbacher
Dramaturgic collaboration: Jasemin Khaleli
Slime research based on: Gootopia und Gootopia – The Treatment by Doris Uhlich
A cooperation within the context of steirischer herbst ’24
Education event
10.10., following the performance
Eat and Greet