What happens to us when our refuge becomes our prison? How cruelty stalks us from the most unexpected, most intimate places and steals our confidence? Patriarchal violence creeps into our homes and beds, and it also lives among allies, in feminist collectives, and in non-heteronormative relationships. In the name of love, we have normalised and romanticised a thorny path that is difficult to avoid. There is a gulf between what happens behind closed doors and the politics we theorise and construct. This performance narrates the odyssey of escaping fear and pain, of the shame of what is difficult to name, in order to shed light on building new ways of relating to each other.
Diana J. Torres (Madrid, 1981), a.k.a. La Pornoterrorista, is a writer and performer whose work focuses on the vindication of sexuality, the autonomous body, peripheral identities, and the boundaries between pleasure and pain. Aura Spitale a.k.a. Rosario Veneno (Rosario, 1992), actress, dancer, therapist, and facilitator. Since 2016, she has been touring with several artistic and educational projects, promoting self-exploration of sexuality, community health, and the free exchange of knowledge and pleasures. Andy Clark (Barcelona, 1978) is a pornoterrorista collaborator who has provided sound for Diana’s spells on multiple occasions. Digital tools, instruments, and electronic devices are the contributions of this apprentice.
