How can we face a world where global leaders, billionaires, and even minorities aligned with conservative values claim identities they do not enact? To find an answer, Naya de Souza brings together stand-up comedy and lecture performance. Her cabaret juxtaposes the German self-determination law with the lived reality of a trans woman. Each joke comes with an aftertaste that directs our attention to everyday acts of structural violence. De Souza employs comedy as a political tool to examine post-truth governance and the collapse of moral coherence in contemporary global politics.

Naya de Souza (1991, Caatinga, Brazil) is an artist who moves between disciplines such as performance art, stand-up comedy, and cooking. She works under different alter egos and sees art as a perpetual process of immigration and translation. Her work has been showcased in institutions such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Kampnagel, Hamburg; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin; Münchner Kammerspiele; Theater im Park am Belvedere, Vienna; CCCB, Barcelona; Primavera Pro, Barcelona; Berlin Art Week; and WIENWOCHE. She lives in Basel.

English and German
For ages 14 and up
45 min.

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