Luiz Roque | Screening: Insomnia

In the organizer's words:

9. In English language
10. Location: KW, 4th floor

Tickets availableonline / remaining tickets at the Box Office

9. 9. Duration: approx. 90 minutes

Insomnia is a screening of several video works that take Luiz Roque's short film Rio de Janeiro (2017) as a starting point to explore questions of belonging, anti-colonial institutional critique and critical positions on the representation of queer bodies and desires in a cross-generational compilation of videos. In Rio de Janeiro , Roque recreates the burning of the Museum of Modern Art in the Brazilian capital in 1978; the performer Carol Diaz sits impassively and watches as the museum and the canonical artworks inside it burn in the dark of night. Why should she care? At the time, neither she herself as a black trans woman was represented in the collection's holdings, nor were her stories and dreams.

Rio de Janeiro and the other works in the screening, made between 1975 and 2023, raise the question of how dominant structures of heteronormativity and colonial power silence, exploit and (mis)represent many other voices. Overall, the videos reflect and imagine queer positions throughout history and search for alternatives through nocturnal journeys full of dreams, nightmares, reveries and hallucinations.

Sequence:

Luiz Roque, Rio de Janeiro, 2017, 5 min

Leticia Parente, Preparação I, 1975, 3:30 min

Rafael França, Insônia (Insomnia), 1989, 8:30 min

Distruktur, Cat Effect, 20011, 40 min

Michelle Handelman, LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL, 2019, 13 min

Tarek Lakhrissi, Coeur Brillant (Bright Heart), 2023, 14 min