Stalls HO VILLAGE
Exhibition WHORE AND PAINTER
Show GAZE.S
Marianne Chargois & Romy Alizée
Friday 27 may
OPENING SNAP ! @ BEURSSCHOUWBURG - Streeat August Orts 20/28 - 1000 Brussels
17h – Beurscafé
18h – White Foyer
Opening and guided tour with the artists
20h – Golden Space
10/8€
The SNAP Festival 2022 exhibition sheds light on the sex workers who use painting, drawing, craft techniques or any type of graphic creation to interrogate their experience.
The title, Pute et Peintre (Whore and Painter), was chosen in reference to the famous Grisélidis Réal who asked to have the epitaph “writer, painter, prostitute” engraved on her tombstone.
This year, the SNAP Festival wishes to pay her a particular vote of gratitude. It is also the title of an episode of the Belgian show Strip-tease filmed in 1986, in which we see Dolly working behind her window in Schaerbeek, painting large-format canvases between two clients. Lastly, it is what Maïa Izzo-Foulquier – who passed away much too early at the age of 28 – painted on a public wall in her video-performance Curriculum Vitae.
The exhibition Whore and Painter will offer a wide range of world visions from the perspectives of heterogeneous sex workers who belong to different generations.
Exhibition and continuous projections are visible until June 17, 2022 during the opening hours of the Beursschouwburg.
Continuous Screening / DEEP INSIDE SEX WORKERS MINDS
18h – Black Box
Continuous Screening
A selection of international films made by sex workers or collectives, in which the latter disclose their relationship to their activity, their political utopias and their militant actions.
Exhibition and screenings are visible until June 17, 2022 during the opening hours of the Beursschouwburg.
GAZE.S / Marianne Chargois & Romy Alizée
Lenght: 1H10 – French with english subtitles
The word Gaze expresses the idea that the diverse representations of our world always come from a particular perspective. Romy and Marianne use this concept to try to define what a “Sex worker Gaze” would look like, using this question as a starting point to create a radical porno manifesto. During this reflexive, autobiographical and performative journey, they dwell on the gray area between one’s submission to injunctions and the re-appropriation of dominant norms.
Marianne Chargois is a sex worker, artist and performer. She creates artistic, feminist and political events in order to explore bodies and minoritized sexualities. Since 2018, she has organized – among other things – the SNAP, a festival dedicated to the representations of sex workers.
Romy Alizée is a photographer, actress and sex worker. Through meticulously orchestrated self-staging, she relentlessly questions relentlessly her sexuality and the idea of self-representation. Her sense of humor is never far away. She has also been documenting queer communities through photography for several years.
Conception/Realisation : Marianne Chargois
Performance, texts, photos, videos : Romy Alizée, Marianne Chargois
Artistic advises : Matthieu Hocquemiller
Musical creation:
Vivian Allard (Song) , Baxter Halter (Tech)
Video Control : Baxter Halter
Light Creation: Abigail Fowler
With the vocal participations of : Amar Protesta, Maxime Maes, Kay Garnellen, Beverly Ruby
Production: Art Whore Connection – with the support of ASPASIE
Ho Village
17h – Beurscafé
Sex worker stalls: serigraphs, tattoos, fanzines, ressources…
Exhibition WHORE AND PAINTER
18h – White Foyer
Vernissage et visite commentée
Free entrance
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The SNAP Festival 2022 exhibition sheds light on the sex workers who use painting, drawing, craft techniques or any type of graphic creation to interrogate their experience.
The title, Pute et Peintre (Whore and Painter), was chosen in reference to the famous Grisélidis Réal who asked to have the epitaph “writer, painter, prostitute” engraved on her tombstone.
This year, the SNAP Festival wishes to pay her a particular vote of gratitude. It is also the title of an episode of the Belgian show Strip-tease filmed in 1986, in which we see Dolly working behind her window in Schaerbeek, painting large-format canvases between two clients. Lastly, it is what Maïa Izzo-Foulquier – who passed away much too early at the age of 28 – painted on a public wall in her video-performance Curriculum Vitae.
The exhibition Whore and Painter will offer a wide range of world visions from the perspectives of heterogeneous sex workers who belong to different generations.
Exhibition and continuous projections are visible until June 17, 2022 during the opening hours of the Beursschouwburg.
Continuous Screening / DEEP INSIDE SEX WORKERS MINDS
18h – Black Box
Continuous screening
A selection of international films made by sex workers or collectives, in which the latter disclose their relationship to their activity, their political utopias and their militant actions.
Exhibition and screenings are visible until June 17, 2022 during the opening hours of the Beursschouwburg.
Show GAZE.S – Marianne Chargois & Romy Alizée
20h – Golden Space
10/8€
Previous
Next
GAZE.S / Marianne Chargois & Romy Alizée
Lenght: 1H10 – French with english subtitles
The word Gaze expresses the idea that the diverse representations of our world always come from a particular perspective. Romy and Marianne use this concept to try to define what a “Sex worker Gaze” would look like, using this question as a starting point to create a radical porno manifesto. During this reflexive, autobiographical and performative journey, they dwell on the gray area between one’s submission to injunctions and the re-appropriation of dominant norms.
Marianne Chargois is a sex worker, artist and performer. She creates artistic, feminist and political events in order to explore bodies and minoritized sexualities. Since 2018, she has organized – among other things – the SNAP, a festival dedicated to the representations of sex workers.
Romy Alizée is a photographer, actress and sex worker. Through meticulously orchestrated self-staging, she relentlessly questions relentlessly her sexuality and the idea of self-representation. Her sense of humor is never far away. She has also been documenting queer communities through photography for several years.
Conception/Realisation : Marianne Chargois
Performance, texts, photos, videos : Romy Alizée, Marianne Chargois
Artistic advises : Matthieu Hocquemiller
Musical creation:
Vivian Allard (Song) , Baxter Halter (Tech)
Video Control : Baxter Halter
Light Creation: Abigail Fowler
With the vocal participations of : Amar Protesta, Maxime Maes, Kay Garnellen, Beverly Ruby
Production: Art Whore Connection – with the support of ASPASIE
Performances FUCKING GENDER
21h30 – Beurscafe
Drag Whore Performances et Dj Set.
Norms of masculine and feminine are performative. In sex work, there’s often a play around some of these gender prescriptions. At this opening night, sex workers will delight you through body and words to thwart expectations and disturb gender diktats.
With Amar Protesta, Kay Garnellen, Violente Violette, Orla Fyst. Followed by a spicy B2B from Romea Diabla & FKS…
KAY GARNELLEN
KAy Garnellen is a queer/trans artist, activist, sexworker and parent based in Berlin. He explores the themes of sexuality and gender through live stage performances, theater or dance but also with workshops, photos or writings. Since 2008, he has been a queer porn actor, and has directed short movies. He loves working with other queer artists and sexworkers for their inspiration, motivation, and for developing new skills.
ORLA FYST
I’ve lived two years as a man, I’ve lived many years as a woman, I now live as a proud but invisible non binary femme person.
In my work, I try to navigate between the need to be true to myself and the necessity of appealing to the male gaze.
It’s often hard but it’s fun.
I’ll make visual metaphores of my journey with my body and the help of a few stuffed friends. If you don’t want to see any harm done to a stuffed animal, don’t go watch me ! I’ll talk about being a trans dominatrix, the deceptions of the relationships with the clients, and other related topics.
AMAR / CRASH
“Crash” is a performance that questions the assignments to femininity in sex work. By mobilizing interactions with my clients and using their words, languages and stories, I wanted to show that my “living body” (the body that I experience as non-binary, crossed by a multiplicity of gender expressions), is constantly in tension with my body “at work” perceived as “feminine”.
My pseudo-feminine, deviant, and ambiguous body – the body of a “tomboy” as they say – opens spaces of dangerousness where the cisgender masculinity wavers, stumbles, loses its words.
Amar is a queer sex-worker, activist and performer. Obsessed with the way different forms of power try to leave marks or traces (symbolic or real) on the bodies of sex workers, (s)he tries to interrogate the strategies and processes of resistance elaborated from the intimacy. In this sense, (s)he conceives performance work as an immediate, burning, furious response to all attempts – institutional, social, medical, intellectual – to dispossess the bodies of sex workers of their agentivity.
VIOLENTE VIOLETTE
Violente violette is a queer creature born from kitsch, musical and noise. Usually hairy and naked, they will bewitch your ears with their honey voice and wipe out your stereotypes.
