December Artist-in-Residence: Valentina Baché

OFFLEEP

December 11th 

7.30pm 

This piece is a prayer for healing the quiet invasions of intimate procedures, those necessary violences we are asked to endure for the sake of health.

 Its pain lives inside a history of medicine shaped by exploitation, pap smears born from experiments on unconsenting people, contraceptives tested on marginalized bodies, a legacy that still shadows the present.

 Cold stirrups, a widening speculum, the acrid smell of burning flesh, all of it recalls a lineage of harm, sharpened by a surreal lack of information.

The body, in another context, still yearns to be entered. What does consent mean when your body must open on command. Through humor & tragedy I weaponize my body to strengthen and dream of possibilities where these procedures can someday become comfortable?

We are a single small studio for rehearsal and performance exploration. We believe in a poetic means of processing information. As we move through constantly changing paradigms, Otion Front Studio offers space for moving it through the body.

Otion Front is run 100% on work-exchange, ticket sales, and donations from our community.

Accessibility & Warnings: There are several flights of stairs to access the building, if you need help using the stairs please notify us and we will be there to assist. Masks and proof of vaccine encouraged at shows. Email us at otionfront@gmail.com.

Established in March 2014 by Monica Mirabile & Sigrid Lauren