Mourning Stage (Live Performance)
In Mourning Stage, a series of drawings by Motta is used as a performance score. These images depict different renditions of the devil in hell. Among this group of demons, feminized characters suggest sexual perversions as typified by the Catholic imagination. Paetau interprets and responds to the drawings using her body and facial expressions in a ritualistic performance, where the body, fetishized and colonized by morality, is mourned.
Original and English title: MOURNING STAGE
Directed & Produced by: Simon(e) J. Paetau & Carlos Motta
Performed by: Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Associate Producer: Kristina Konrad
Countries of production: Germany, Colombia, USA
Year: 2022
Length: 16:29 Minutes
Language: No dialogue
Genre: Live Performance
Selection of Festivals, Exhibitions & Awards
Maxim Gorki Theater 2024, Queer Week
FICUNAM – Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM 2023, Latin American Premiere
Haus der Kulturen der Welt – HKW 2022, World Premiere
Berlin Biennale (Work in Progress)
Credits
Conceived and Developed by: SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU & CARLOS MOTTA | Performed by: SIMON(E) JAIKIRIUMA PAETAU | Original music: ISABEL GONZÁLEZ TORO | Assistant composer original music: JOSÉ MARULANDA | Sound Mix: RUBÉN VALDÉS | Live video mix & Software creator: OLIVIA JACK | Distribution: LUCÍA GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA
Co-produced by Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, the Goethe-Institute Kolumbien, and WeltFilm. With the support from the XI Berlin Biennale.
Date:
December 1, 2022