©Luis Luque
PAUL B. PRECIADO. “YO SOY EL MONSTRUO QUE OS HABLA”
DRAMATISED CONFERENCE
DATE // TIME
15th February, 2024, Thursday // 7:00pm
SPACE // DURATION
Auditorium // 120'
TICKET
€18 / €12,50 with AZ Card (Tickets purchased before January 15th will receive a 50% discount)
REDUCED RATES
Ticket sales only in person at AZ Info: €13,50 for professionals in the sector, persons over 65*, under 30* or with a disability over 33%* (show ID card or proof of disability when buying a ticket) / €13,50 Groups of 8 or more/ €9 person in a wheelchair and companion. All tickets purchased before January 15th will receive a 50% discount.
Imagining a new utopia.
Paul B. Preciado gave a speech in December 2019 before 3500 psychoanalysts attending the Conference of l’École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris. Reprising Franz Kafka’s text in which an ape that had learnt human language addressed an academy of scientists, Paul B. Preciado addressed the assembly of psychoanalysts as a Trans man with non-binary gender, not only to denounce the structural violence exercised by psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis over people considered homosexual, Trans, intersexual or non-binary gender, but also to invite psychoanalysis to open towards the gender and sexual mutations taking place. The result is a monologue that is both intimate and political. It is not only aimed at psychoanalysts but also at each and every one of us and our ability to accept change and imagine a new Utopia.
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“Yo soy el monstruo que os habla” is neither a work nor the theatrical adaptation of a text, but rather something different according to the author. It is a text in several voices, with which he endeavours to generate an oral community and bring to light what he finds interesting about theatre, e.g. the possibility of a body becoming a public signifier and how it can address other naturalised spaces. Paul B. Preciado is the curator of “A voice for Erauso. Epilogue for a Trans time exhibition” by the artists Cabello/Carceller, produced by Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao and exhibited from March to September 2022.
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Production: Elena Artes Escenicas
Cast: Paul B. Preciado, Bambi, Victor Viruta, Andy Díaz, Fabi Hernández
Text & Direction: Paul B. Preciado
Artistic Stage Collaboration: Tanja Beyeler & Natalia Álvarez Simó
Artistic Assistant: Alexandru Stanciu
Technical Collaboration: Béla Nagy
Production: Elena Martínez – Elena Artes Escénicas with Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque
Lighting Design: Paco Ariza & David Checa
Co-ordination: Gabi Belveder
Stage Management: Conde Duque, Gema Monja
Acknowledgements: Luis Luque, Carlota Ferrer, Jessica Velarde, Equipo CCC Conde Duque & Madrid City Council
Is a philosopher, art curator and film director, internationally known for his work on body, gender and sexuality politics. He has been the Director of Public Programmes and the Independent Studies Programme at the Barcelona Museu d’Art Contemporani, curator of Public Programmes at documenta 14 Kassel and Athens, and curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice, among other institutional tasks. He is the author of “Manifesto Contra-sexual”; “Testo Yonqui, Sexo, drogas y biopolítica”; “Pornotopía”; “Un Apartamento en Urano”; and “Yo soy el monstruo que os habla” and “Dysphoria Mundi”, all published by Anagrama. His first film, “Orlando: mi biografía política” was acclaimed by the critics and received for 4 awards at the 2023 Berlinale. He was born in Burgos and lives in Paris.
