ALICJA PASZKIELA performer in a wool blazer and suit pants stands up from the audience and greets the public, presenting a lecture. They present and discuss slides featuring reproductions of ancient art (a coin from Knossos, a Kouros, a Dying Gaul). They discuss William Hogarth’s “husk-like method” of research and propose the thesis that what we now consider the cradle of European culture was born out of a reluctance towards the flesh.
The performer invites the audience to identify with the Minotaur, comparing the labyrinth to a club where one can discover their non-normative desires. They ask if a queer revolution is possible, giving examples of Christina de Pizan, Eileen Myles, and Zoe Leonard.
Next, they play Jennifer Lopez’s music video "I'm Glad" and watch it. They take off their clothes, imitate the movements from the video, and enter a dancing ecstasy. In the end, they read three oneiric stories in which dreams and desire become carriers of knowledge.
