VROUWENPROBLEMEN:

Upcoming performance for RRR!

Blending fiction and archival material, Vrouwenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking is a polyphonic choral piece conceived by Andrea Celeste La Forgia & Gloriya Avgust that brings into focus the idiosyncrasies of supposedly class-related female ‘troublemaking’.

In Vrouwenproblemen, she is found everywhere: in the prison, the factory, the workshop, the brothel, the housing estate, the roof, the kitchen, the bedroom, the street. She incarnates everyone: the mother, the worker, the nurse, the unemployed, the witch, the prisoner, the artist, the “we”, the “I”. Guess what? They all turned out to be exactly the same person. In Vrouwenproblemen, she lingers with the trouble, moving across non-linear historical accounts as a strategic act of constant dispossession and repositioning.

Vrouwenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking is performed by Sarah Atzori, Julia Dahee Hong, Melanie Hyams, Gloriya Avgust and Andrea Celeste La Forgia. The event is produced by Reading Room Rotterdam and hosted at Tale of a Tub.

Bios:

Gloriya Avgust (1993, Bulgaria) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice blurs memoir, fiction, and feminist history to channel corporeal and semantic notions of womanhood. Engaging with the materiality of writing, she twists and morphs her subjects in a speculative swirl of possibilities, exploring gender, ancestry, the psychic, and the erotic as political tools for affirming one’s life force in the world.

Andrea Celeste La Forgia (1995, Italy) is a working-class artist based in Rotterdam. Using family experience and history as a starting point, often in dialogue with local history and archival research, she explores the condition of the contemporary working class, the personal and political implications of class dispossession, the evolution of a multi-generational working class and the meaning of class struggle today.

Big thank you to our host A Tale of A Tub