Motor For Hope
“Motor For Hope” is a digital map gathers a collection of interviews, readings, personal writings and audio recordings from and for neurodivergent, gender nonconforming peers. It is a garden, a soft environment away from the straight gaze, a composite field made of testimonies of various forms. It is also an online performance during which i present the context and the content of this "garden", offering a tour to an ideal audience composed of friends, family and peers disseminated around the world.
"Motor For Hope" started off as a self-lab, a very personal project during the first lockdown of the covid pandemic, which i spent mostly on my own in a container housing in amsterdam. A surreal and ideal opportunity for a long-fantasized performance: liberating my brain from psychotropes and sorting out my chaotic relationship to oestrogens intake, whose necessity i was still doubting at the time; understanding my body's needs and finding autonomously a well-adjusted set of habits and supplements; reaching out to friends, facilitating conversations to voice and share our stories, pleasure practices, resources and hesitations; and collecting the abundant elements of this research in an online space accessible anytime for future strolls.
It thus became a tool to facilitate and generate interactions between a collective formed across geographies and locations, co-creating a fertile soil of resources.
"Motor For Hope" is a dance between the self and the collective, between voicing and listening, a personal and social choreography: it accounts for my own physical and neurological journey and develops into a reportage on my peers' relationships to their bodies, sexualities/sensualities, mental health and communities. It is in that way a continuation of my film "Rural Trans*" and aims for self- and mutual affirmation through interconnectedness, convers ations and poetics.
« I envision a world full of spiders, weaving interconnected webs that resist patriarchal forms of supremacy that works so well at keeping us distraught, distracted, and divided. » —Monique Tula, Executive Director of Harm Reduction Coalition, in her contribution to the book "Pleasure Activism, the Politics of Feeling Good" written and gathered byAdrienne Maree Brown.
interviews available on youtube and soundcloud.
Advisors : Raoni Muzho Saleh and Paul Maheke.
"Motor For Hope" started off as a self-lab, a very personal project during the first lockdown of the covid pandemic, which i spent mostly on my own in a container housing in amsterdam. A surreal and ideal opportunity for a long-fantasized performance: liberating my brain from psychotropes and sorting out my chaotic relationship to oestrogens intake, whose necessity i was still doubting at the time; understanding my body's needs and finding autonomously a well-adjusted set of habits and supplements; reaching out to friends, facilitating conversations to voice and share our stories, pleasure practices, resources and hesitations; and collecting the abundant elements of this research in an online space accessible anytime for future strolls.
It thus became a tool to facilitate and generate interactions between a collective formed across geographies and locations, co-creating a fertile soil of resources.
"Motor For Hope" is a dance between the self and the collective, between voicing and listening, a personal and social choreography: it accounts for my own physical and neurological journey and develops into a reportage on my peers' relationships to their bodies, sexualities/sensualities, mental health and communities. It is in that way a continuation of my film "Rural Trans*" and aims for self- and mutual affirmation through interconnectedness, convers ations and poetics.
« I envision a world full of spiders, weaving interconnected webs that resist patriarchal forms of supremacy that works so well at keeping us distraught, distracted, and divided. » —Monique Tula, Executive Director of Harm Reduction Coalition, in her contribution to the book "Pleasure Activism, the Politics of Feeling Good" written and gathered byAdrienne Maree Brown.
interviews available on youtube and soundcloud.
Advisors : Raoni Muzho Saleh and Paul Maheke.
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