Your gloves don't match your shoes!
After his intriguing performance «Death Asshole Rave Video» the choreographer and artist Jeremy Wade is coming back for a residency and an open, collaborative research on art, activism, performance and civil disobedience. Jeremy will offer a public talk and a workshop under the title «Tactical Frivolity» and also a showing on Wed 13 april.
Jeremy Wade: A talk about Tactical Frivolity: “Your gloves don’t match your shoes!”
Disruption is what tricksters do best. One of my favorite stories from the now infamous ACTUP protests held in NYC during the plague years of the AIDS Crisis recounts one of many brilliant performative confrontations with the police. Mid protest, a group of ACTUP activists were huddled on the ground, back to back and arms linked. As the police approached for the predictable arrest the activists noticed that the officers were wearing super thick industrial neon orange rubber gloves that were fit to deal with highly radioactive material. In an act of tactical defiance and high frivolity the faggots, dykes and transgendered queens began to chant; “Your gloves don’t match your shoes! Your gloves don’t match your shoes! Your gloves don’t match your shoes!” This is where a sense of humor functions as a life giving force of solidarity in the face of machine like oppression. This is also a bunch of queens who are practicing strategic form of tricksterism via disruption, disobedience and high flamboyance. Lets talk about a spectrum of tricksters, clowns and fools through the layer of art, activism and disruption.