habits
A feverish, ten minute duologue set between two people moving through a toilet queue, on a train, an online messenger and sat in a waiting room. The script was derived from real conversations between the two of us. It references: internal sensation, viscosity, class, cliche, deviance, labour, systems, gaps, tendencies, dispositions and difference. The performance explored the liminal locations it is set between as heterotopic places to posit and play with thoughts. Lived experiences are anchored by abstract references as the protagonists, go round and round never arriving at their destination or an answer. Together the two friends tease out ideas and paint dada-esque visual poems of ‘white bread made of chicken feathers’, overflowing ‘plastic cups of menstrual blood’, ‘walking through life as a nub, having sex as a nub, shopping for spinach as a nub’.
The script was published as part of a book on contemporary feminist writing by Harn und Drang in Vienna summer 2019.
Images: Sophie le Roux.