"The flying lesbians are back"

A poetic manifesto, the idea of a transcorporeal, tactile, sensitive ‘me-us’.
How do you say ‘us’? Imagine ‘us’ but in a space-time of the future. The water rises, and fragments of archives arrive diffracted from the trans/feminist manifestos of the past, in waves. The archives are mobile and unstable, haunted by spectres, like our memory. The ‘lesbian smell’ is our revolutionary infrastructure. Water is full of toxic substances and living micro-organisms. There are no borders between our bodies.

"Getting wet is our job, / and we know how to do it very well."

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Ilenia Caleo is a performer and researcher in queer studies and feminist epistemologies at Venice's IUAV university. She is one of the co-founders of Campo Innocente, a network set up after the pandemic to defend the rights of art workers.

Martina Ruggeri, aka Bunny Dakota, is one half of the performance and visual arts duo Industria Indipendente. She is the creator and resident DJ at happening Merende, one of Italy's liveliest and most important queer parties.

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Concept, original text ‘Lesbos | Λέσβος 2174’ and voice: Ilenia Caleo
Sound design: Martina Ruggeri
Translation: Alessio Bonaccorsi, Alexandre Roccoli, Étienne Letérrier
Production: Ménagerie de verre

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