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.
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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