The Obsessors
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Fri 17 Apr ’2620:00Frascati, AmsterdamFrascati 4
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Sat 18 Apr ’2620:00Frascati, AmsterdamFrascati 4
But don’t freak out. Tonight, a team of three mediums using special techniques will offer free spiritual cleanse for three lucky members of the audience, live on stage. They will extract The Obsessors from their bodies while the Shaman Bull Boy negotiates their release.
Meet these ancient beings: the Obsessors are dead lost souls and invisible beings who wander among us, influencing negative thoughts and behavior such as gossip, envy, power hunger, purposelessness, burn-out, emptiness, corporate language, thirst for clout, corruption and so on…
Be careful though! These spirits only fear the Shaman Bull Boy, a powerful outsider who looks like no one, refuses to have labels, followers, and will guide the ritual session.
Join us for the latest provocation by Thais Di Marco, your friend The Goldfish Bleeding, the Roma Queer director who’s been happily terrorizing Amsterdam, with an angry team, sharp laughter, and a burning desire to set some ghosts free.
Credits
direction Thais Di Marco performance Thais Di Marco, Bebel Carvalho, Neslihan Kaymak, Hanna Rojer, NANA interns Hooi Ying, Léa Valery, Xiao Chuyue sound The Obsessors light design Diego Molinaro Reis teaser and edit Werner van der Zwan production Stichting The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks supported by AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Dutch Embassy in Belgium co-produced by DE SINGEL, Arenberg, ICK – Dans Amsterdam also supported by Melkweg, LeineRoebana illustration Saphyra Nancy graphic Dani Junqueira 3D Art Carlos Arrom special thanks to Tarim Flach, Sr. Cadrucho, Master Daniel Reverendo, Lucas Evers, Joana Faggin, Kay Doms, Shamisa Debroey, La Mama Spoleto
About Thais Di Marco
Thais Di Marco (they/them) is a Queer Roma descendant, performing arts director, and multidisciplinary artist from São Paulo, Brazil, born into the Candomblé community of Redandá in Cipó-Guaçú. Since 2017, they have been based in Amsterdam. At Frascati, Thais has previously shown their long-term art project The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks.
In 2018, Thais graduated from DAS Choreography in Amsterdam, conducting research in Benin, West Africa, on post-colonial aesthetics under the mentorship of artist Romuald Hazoumè. Their work intersects decolonial movements and the arts, with collaborations including the EZLN guerrilla in Mexico, the independent space Bon Gah in Iran, Lucha Libre wrestling master El Gladiador, and the anarcho-feminist movement Mujeres Creando in Bolivia. In 2024, Thais was awarded the 3 Package Deal grant by the city of Amsterdam in partnership with Framer Framed.
Thais has collaborated internationally under the direction of Norwegian choreographer and activist Mia Habib, promoting community-based art practices. In 2023, they were a guest teacher at the Master's in Dance program at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and presented at De Singel’s Radiant Nights.
They are the director of Stichting The Goldfish Bleeding in a Sea of Sharks, BIXARIA—a Queer Brazilian club night—and CIRCULO - decolonial resistance, priestessing, chanting, and women’s drumming. Their work blends critical thinking, experimental art with comedy.
