JOTA MOMBAÇA & DANIEL LOURENÇO

The Brasilian author and performance artist Jota Mombaça and Author and researcher DanielLourenço will do a reading performance on Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the last Saturday during the exhibition ‘Ovartaci & The Art of Madness’

‘untitled, unreasonable’ (reading session) by Jota Mombaça & Daniel Lourenço

Jota Mombaça and Daniel Lourenço intercalate readings of their respective fragmentary poetic prose work, surrounding the problematic of unreason and touching on matters such as affectivity, crisis-shaped relationality, anxiety, embodied political strugle, depression, and the ethics of madness. The reading session will be held in English, Corró and Portuguese.

BIO

Jota Mombaça (1991) is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes and performs on the relations between monstruosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.

Daniel Lourenço (1988) is a researcher and writer who lives and works in Lisbon. He has a master’s in Sexual Dissidence in Literature and Culture by the University of Sussex and he is a phd candidate at the University of Lisbon, where he works on formal tactics and affective, racial and gender politics in the work of Kathy Acker. He is the author of the poetry pamphlets “Lábio/Abril” (Traveller, 2015″ and “fox, closet & fist” (Winter Olympics, 2017).