The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks - Christmas Special Edition
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Fri 10 Nov ’2321:00FrascatiFrascati 4
The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks is a long-term art project that has multiple actions such as performance pieces (no evening is ever the same), panel series coordinated by activist Chihiro Geuzenbroek, workshops, a publication, a research trip to Bolivia to study with the anarcho-feminist movement Mujeres Creando, BIXARIA – Queer Brazilian Club Night and more! There are already around 30 artists involved. It is coordinated by the badass Cuir, Roma and Decolonial director (ufff) Thais Di Marco, who intends with this project to generate social mobilization around the life and the livelihood of artists while living into a radical neoliberal cultural politics.
The actions of the project reflect on the impact of the art system in the social role of the arts for the permanence of all the people (s) and the planet Earth, confronting risks such as cultural homogenization, tokenism, exploitation, cosmological domination, precarization, emptying, washing and whitening. The motto of the piece is Lucha Libre, a Latin American form of wrestling where social characters enact current conflicts, opening up windows for grief, anger and dreams for the future.
The fantastic wrestling club of artists and activists trying to save the planet with the best business model of the art world, confronting visa issues, tokenism, gatekeeping, heteronormative cis-tem, etc.,, is landing in Amsterdam to serve you with a special Christmas edition.
We are thrilled to announce that our superhero Saint Nikloaca is arriving from Ibiza after a whole summer of psy-trance and spiritual awakening to apologize for his past wrongdoing finally; exploiting collaborators and convincing young entrepreneurs to open a Stichting. He also has a new proposal for the future…
Let’s see if Saint Nikloaca will accomplish his mission or if a special surprise opponent is ready to tell him what no one is brave enough to say!
The evening starts with Mc Delivery, our super side jobber hero against Shiela, in a classical duet and finishes with a spoken word act by Guiné-Bissau artist and activist Sofia Lobo. And, of course, Jack Sparrow Hug will be hosting you through the whole evening directly from the Dam Square to the High Arts World!
Dj SUKUBRATZ will envelope the evening with Denbow, Reggaeton and Brazilian Funk. Come and bl33d with us!
Aaaand there's more!
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Pop-up spoken word workshop - claim free ticket here |
| 20:00 - 21:00 | Open mic |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Performance |
| 22:00 - 01:00 | Mini BIXARIA afterparty - free entrance, no reservation needed |
About Thais di Marco
Thais di Marco is an artist from the City of São Paulo and based in Amsterdam since 2016. Thais is a choreographer, performing arts director, teacher and project coordinator with 15 years of professional trajectory working in contexts such as artistic residencies, creative platforms and independent spaces focused on social projects and critical thinking. Thais is a Queer Roma descendent, born into a traditional Candomblé community in Brazil and carries the legacy of their ancestors, making art for social change and futurities that we might want to live in.
In The Netherlands, Thais has a long partnership with Het Huis in Utrecht and collaborations with community-based cultural centers such as WORM in Rotterdam, the Black Archives, Framer Framed, and popular venues such asPAARD in Den Haag. Thais also carried out collaborations and performances at Veem House, Theater Rotterdam, Tropen and Stedelijk Museum.
In the European context, has a collaboration with De Singel in Antwerp, Centrale Fies in Italy, and made collaborations at Beursschouwburg in Brussels and Balhous Ost in Berlin, and multiple houses in Norway working with the director and choreographer Mia Habib.
Thais has worked internationally within social movements such as EZLN in Mexico, the Pan-Africanist movement in Benin - West Africa, at the independent space Bon Gah in Iran and at the anarcho-feminist movement Mujeres Creando in Bolívia.
As a teacher, Thais was educated in social projects for art and democratization in São Paulo, and worked for 6 years teaching youngsters at Casa de Cultura da Brasilandia, one of the neighbourhoods with the highest rates of state genocide in the Americas, as well as at Ocupa Ouvidor, the biggest artists occupation in the Americas.
Thais works with comedy, open mic platforms around power struggle and liberation and believes art making has the power to support the permanence of all the people(s) and the Earth in opposition to cultural homogenization and cosmological domination
director Thais Di Marco dramaturgy Felizitas Stilleke performance Tom Pacheco, Anna Lunna, Diego Oliveria, Avantika Tiberwala, Wannes Labath, Fazle Shairmahomed, Sofia Lobo costume design Draga Dina makeup Qiao Chu Guo scenery Roxette Capriles made possible by WORM - Rotterdam, AFK , FONDS21, FLAM and Het Huis Utrecht hosted by Welcome to the Village, Framer Framed, The Black Archives, Stedelijk Museum, De Singel in Antwerp thanks to maestro Jan Pier Brands, Milone Reigman, Shamisa Debroy, Tata Inkisi Mona Guiamazy, Rotterdamse Queer Community, Mother Lucía, Bar Bario, Mother Gunzo, Mother Yansã, Jimmy-Pierre and others.