to she who treads water

Finding voice in a world that often only feels moved by silences and violent erasures, a cut has been made in our ability to practise. Together we try to step through. Ada Maricia Patterson and Yael Davids, together with M. Maria Walhout, call and respond through poetry, voice, sound, music and movement.

to she who treads water makes space for a close interfacing between lived experiences in this global political moment: colonial terror and the eradication of transfeminine life. With what little words we have to speak to unspeakable conditions, our bodies—inscribed by our being in this world—write back.

This project is dedicated to honouring the hesitations in finding voice; that even though our words might not be enough to move the world differently, that while our usual survival tactics and ways of making might suddenly feel toothless, surrendering to silence is not an option.

Forsaken in the wilderness, talking to God when God feels absent, floating directionless in open seas, to she who treads water offers a score that laments, grieves, rages, yearns and loves.

Hosts: Marija Cetinić & Jimena Casas.

** tickets will be available soon**