YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS de/by Rachel Mars no âmbito do/under QUEER PORTO 3 [em inglês, sem legendas] 8 OUT . 20H30 // 8.30 PM mala voadora (Rua do Almada, 277) 5€ // reservas@malavoadora.pt Em junho de 2016, logo após o Brexit, Rachel Mars encontrava-se no norte de Nova Iorque deprimida. Para animá-la um amigo leu-lhe algumas cartas sexuais escritas por Joyce para Nora Barnacle. As cartas eram lindas, obscenas, honestas e surpreendentes. “You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole.” James Joyce, carta para Nora Barnacle, 1908 Depois desse dia, Rachel foi à procura de outras cartas fantásticas de sexo e amor, e com a ajuda da internet, amigos e de dois sexólogos desenterraram cartas que datam de séculos e transformaram-nas numa performance. A performance conta com cartas de Joyce, Frida Kahlo, de alguns monges gays. Georgia O'Keeffe, Mozart, Charles Bukowski, Radclyffe Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt e outros, além de mensagens sexuais que lhe foram enviadas de forma anónima. --- In June 2016, immediately after the Brexit vote Rachel Mars was depressed and in upstate New York. In order to cheer her up, a friend read her some of Joyce's sex letters to Nora Barnacle. They were beautiful, filthy, honest and surprising. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. James Joyce, letter to Nora Barnacle, 1908 After that she went in search of other fantastic sex and love letters, and with the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists unearthed letters dating back centuries, and turned them into a performance night.
