The Lust Weekend

• Various locations on the Lower East Side
• Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, times vary

Avant-garde dances, sensual songs, mysterious avatars, and intimate confessions: Performa pays tribute to Futurist poet and dancer Valentine de Saint-Point, author of the “Manifesto of Lust” (1913) and the only Futurist to perform in New York (in 1917), with an enticing program of events at University Settlement and a variety of galleries on the Lower East Side, designed to coincide with the Feminine Futures exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute.

Let yourself be tempted…

Valentine de Saint-Point (1875-1953) was a French poet, dancer, thinker, and one of the few women who established themselves within the Futurist movement. She is the author of the “Manifesto of the Futurist Woman” (1912), a response to Marinetti’s vision of women in the Manifesto of Futurism, and the “Manifesto of Lust” (1913), a highly controversial text which states that lust is a catalyst for creative energy and explores questions related to gender, war, and art. A key figure in the intellectual life of her time, Saint-Point exiled herself in New York during World War I, where she developed “la Metachorie,” a new form of art mixing dance, theater, music and poetry. She spent the last 20 years of her life in Egypt and the Middle East, where she converted to Islam and committed herself to defending the rights of women and fighting European colonialism.

Curated by Tairone Bastien and Virginie Bobin. Presented by Performa.

DOWNLOAD MAP: LW_map

DOWNLOAD SCHEDULE: LW_schedule

EXHIBITIONS:
“Feminine Futures” at the Italian Cultural Institute
“Futuriste” at Casa Italiana Zerili-Marimo
“Cold Water” at La Galleria

PANEL:
Futurism and Women

PERFORMANCES:

Saturday & Sunday
Ylva Ogland: Snofrid Ruby Distillery
Einat Amir: Ideal Viewer
Katia Bassanini: A Soldier’s Lust
Marcella Vanzo, Jennifer Walshe and Lucie Fontaine: PERFORMAT

Saturday
BROADSIDE: Broadcast
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: The Present Doesn’t Exist In My Mind and The Future is Always Far Behind
Tracey Emin: Reading from “Those Who Suffer Love” and “Strangeland”
Discoteca Flaming Star: Ingrid (Inzwischen)
Yemenwed: Bedroom w TV and a Woman Lays w Aide

Sunday
Kalup Linzy
Professor Eilers: 4 Hour Fundamental
Lisa Kirk: Demonstration
Nils Bech and Lina Viste Groenli
Emily Sunblad & Margaret Lee: Betteraves Club

FREE