In the waiting room, history performs its own waiting. Romance is a bite from an open window, the stench of it burnt her nostrils. Earth is deadnamed. As the stench of geraniums fill the room of a theater, a waiting room is performed onstage and a love scene unfolds between two more-than-human beings ‘Fowelley’ & ‘Gabriel’, in a perpetual coming-of-age that never arrives.
Mining the romantic horror of trans-femininity from the score of Alfred Hitchcock’s cinema classic Vertigo (1958), the performance-for-video troubles real-life experiences of how trans communities share gender affirming care outside of official medical channels into a noxiously desirous play of more-than-human sense, crossings and pollinating intimacy. Featuring a musical performance duet with the artist Marie Tučková, “pollen spools out, words scatter through a waiting room window” is an ecosexual ode to the ways in which our bodies, both human and more-than-human meet and exist for each other in the waiting room. A love scene for friendship in the horror of a shapeshifting yolk.
Supported by Gasworks and the Dutch Art Institute, with Sonsbeek 20-24.