Synopsis

This performance is derived from a lecture made for the conference on “the staging of monstrous bodies and orders”. The monstrosity of its form and content pushed it out of the conference room to meet other spectators, and worlds other than the academy, in an attempt to diffract our present world. A world in which monsters have emerged from certain actions to intrude on our daily lives, to be among us, and within us. This performance looks at how monsters are made. This conference creates monsters, to generate a situation in which we are invited to re-evaluate our view of the other, our relationship to the strange, between the unacceptable and the acceptable, between the desirable and the undesirable.

About Xavier Le Roy

Xavier Le Roy holds a PhD in molecular biology and has been working as an artist since 1991. He is also a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany. His early solo works were credited as ground-breaking, opening new perspectives in choreography. Motivated by the need for transformation, he creates with the desire to alter our understanding of dichotomies such as: Human/Non-Human, Subject/Object, Passive/Active, Norma/Anormal, and to multiply our perspectives.

His latest works investigate time, space as well as the relationship between the public and live artworks made possible by exhibitions, museums and other public spaces.

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