“Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. Look at them today swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.”

Frantz Fanon

 

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With his body as a locus, Rodrigo expands explicitness into an aesthetic, investigating straightforward language and propaganda, gore-pornographic visuality and decolonization as a process of violence, all within an intense body research made from impulses of iconoclasm, indigestion, mutilation, blood and sex.

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Credits

Conception and Performance: Rodrigo Batista

Text: Rodrigo Batista quoting Frantz Fanon, The Fugees, Juliano Gomes, Thais Di Marco, Heiner Müller, Nicole Oliveira, Iggy Pop and Rihanna

Video design: Rodrigo Batista

Sound design: Cainã Vidor and Rodrigo Batista

Light design: Jimmy Grima and Jãnis Balodis

Collaboration in dramaturgy: Thais Di Marco and Fabien Marcil

Advisors: Joachim Robbrecht, Katerina Bakatsaki, Thais Di Marco and Aitana Cordero

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Co-production: Das Theatre Amsterdam