WORK-IN-PROGRESS: BINARY THE TRILOGY

AT ANTI-FESTIVAL 15.9.2022 KLO 15-21

Where: Galleria Ars Libera
Maaherrankatu 3
70100 Kuopio

Will a nonbinary reality ever be possible? What could it look like?

Anna Cadia will start a two-year Residency Program for Impossible Performance with the Reality Research Center and ANTI Festival in September 2022. During their residency, Cadia will search for, study and explore nonbinary realities and examine what sort of knowledge the information related to gender, sexuality and nonbinariness entails in the context of the stage. Cadia will work together with the visual designer Minttu Vesala during the residency.

Work-in-progress at ANTI-festival 15th of September. The language of the piece is English.

BINARY THE TRILOGY will be open for one evening at the 2022 Festival, allowing the audience to familiarise themselves with the themes of the artwork in the form of demos of different shapes and discuss them with the working group. At the end of the first residency, the working group wishes to share the results of its expeditions and provide information about its work in a nonbinary Kuopio. After its completion, the artwork will be presented at the 2023 ANTI Festival.

BINARY THE TRILOGY is part of Cadia’s doctoral research at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Their research questions include how to bring something as fragile and elusive as sexuality or gender to the stage, and what kind of a stage is capable of acknowledging nonbinary diversity.