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Title: 
Yo soy el monstruo que os habla
Programme: 
eszenAZ. Live Arts Season
Date: 
15-02-2024
Place: 
Auditorium, floor -1
Artist(s): 
Preciado, Paul B. (1970-)
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Performance
Tags: 
Gender identity
Queer Theory
Body
Summary: 

Imagining a new utopia

Paul B. Preciado gave a speech in December 2019 before 3500 psychoanalysts attending the Conference of l’École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris. Reprising Franz Kafka’s text in which an ape that had learnt human language addressed an academy of scientists, Paul B. Preciado addressed the assembly of psychoanalysts as a Trans man with non-binary gender, not only to denounce the structural violence exercised by psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis over people considered homosexual, Trans, intersexual or non-binary gender, but also to invite psychoanalysis to open towards the gender and sexual mutations taking place. The result is a monologue that is both intimate and political. It is not only aimed at psychoanalysts but also at each and every one of us and our ability to accept change and imagine a new Utopia.

Yo soy el monstruo que os habla is neither a work nor the theatrical adaptation of a text, but rather something different according to the author. It is a text in several voices, with which he endeavours to generate an oral community and bring to light what he finds interesting about theatre, e.g. the possibility of a body becoming a public signifier and how it can address other naturalised spaces. Paul B. Preciado is the curator of “A voice for Erauso. Epilogue for a Trans time exhibition” by the artists Cabello/Carceller, produced by Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao and exhibited from March to September 2022.
Description: 

Production: ElenaArtesescenicas
Cast: Paul B. Preciado, Bambi, Victor Viruta, Andy Díaz, Fabi Hernández
Text & Direction: Paul B. Preciado
Artistic Stage Collaboration: Tanja Beyeler & Natalia Álvarez Simó
Artistic Assistant: Alexandru Stanciu
Technical Collaboration: Béla Nagy
Production: Elena Martínez – Elena Artes Escénicas with Centro de Cultura  Contemporánea Conde Duque
Lighting Design: Paco Ariza & David Checa
Co-ordination: Gabi Belveder
Stage Management: Conde Duque, Gema Monja
Acknowledgements: Luis Luque, Carlota Ferrer, Jessica Velarde, Equipo CCC Conde Duque & Madrid City Council
Appears in Collections:
Scenic arts