No Matter What | R3LN4CHT
No Matter What | R3LN4CHT
R3LN4CHT presents No Matter What
Somewhere near the toilets, an ominous showdown is taking place. In a tantalizing mix of candid lyrics, energetic music and a grimey setting, two friends search for the limits of their ‘faggot friendship*’: a very intimate friendship with no hidden romantic feelings. What are the limits of intimacy, now that falling in love plays no role?
No Matter What is a poignant, theatrical love letter to your very best friend. The performance is an ode to toxic patterns, destructive forces and new forms of intimacy. – ‘Fuck, I wish I was your lover!’
Faggot Friends
Intimacy without love and/or sex, what about that? In literature and movies, queer friendships often revolve around a secret, unrequited love (think Call Me By Your Name, Brokeback Mountain, Saltburn). What forms does intimacy take in a relationship where this doesn’t play a role? To explore this more broadly, the creators came up with the framework “faggot friendship.” During the course of their research, it turned out there was little space for such platonic bonds within current systems, leading to a portrait of a dystopian friendship with palpable socio-political overtones.
Performative Intervention by Content y Contenido
Prior to No Matter What there will be a performative intervention by Content y Contenido. Content y Contenido are Lucía Vives and Ingeborg Kraft Fermin as 'artners'. Since 2020, they have been experimenting with the ethos ‘fake it till you make it’ and have accelerated the tensions between oversharing and storytelling through performance and installations. By embracing these characters, they have been exploring pop-cultural concepts such as the poetics of daily life, 12-second attention span, gender politics, instant gratification, and - most importantly - fun.
About R3LN4CHT - “The art in party, the av in rave, the heat in theater.”
R3LN4CHT is the brainchild of performer and theatre maker Didi Kreike (they/them, '94) and producer and dramaturg Kas Pijs (they/them, '97). Together they search for alternative futures and new spaces for thinking outside prevailing conceptions. Within R3LN4CHT queerness is not the subject, but a means to address contemporary issues and perform artistic research.
*R3LN4CHT recognizes that faggot is a provocative word used in a discriminatory manner. This performance follows in the footsteps of a long history of creators, writers and individuals from the queer community who reclaimed the word as a slogan. The frame of the ‘faggot friend’ is a conscious choice derived from the queerness of the creative team, including the questions it raises.
Note: this performance is in Dutch with English surtitles.
A queer nightclub in Amsterdam
Club RAUM is a cultural space in continual movement evolving around music, by the queer community. Queerness, for us, is not an object of fixation but an essence in perpetual movement that defies rigid definitions and resists oppressive systems that are imposed on us. We strive to be a space where unity is essential and curiosity thrives; where acceptance and growth intertwine.
CLUB RAUM will never be completed; it will always be in movement.
A queer nightclub in Amsterdam
Club RAUM is a cultural space in continual movement evolving around music, by the queer community. Queerness, for us, is not an object of fixation but an essence in perpetual movement that defies rigid definitions and resists oppressive systems that are imposed on us. We strive to be a space where unity is essential and curiosity thrives; where acceptance and growth intertwine.
CLUB RAUM will never be completed; it will always be in movement.
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