ON (DARK)MATTER. A strike through DARK. A conversation with Cherish Menzo.

DARKMATTER is a laboratory of experiments in which Cherish Menzo, together with Camilo Mejía Cortés, reflects once again on the cultural implications of the black body and experiments with the multiple possibilities that its own fluid substance allow, to free ourselves of the distorted way of looking at bodies and the stereotyped signs that we attribute to them.

The black body is dark matter, unfathomable, almost invisible yet powerful. What happens when we watch it while disconnecting it from the stories and labels attributed to it? Stretching voices and movements, as in a Chopped and Screwed remix, perceptions are altered and the body reveals itself as malleable material.

Cherish Menzo will be at Short Theatre 2022 also on September 9th, in the frame of Anticipation of the Night, in a talk in dialogue with Francesca De Rosa (scholar of Cultures of Ibero-American Countries, Luso-african studies and professor at Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) and on September 11th, with the workshop Distorted Rap Choir/Chopped and Screwed.

Beside the usual partnership, this year NERO and Short unite in a new entity with the new Short Books publishing series, at the crossroads of aesthetics, critical thinking and performing arts’ practices. The first issue is Palcoscenici Fantasma: Gisèle Vienne by Bernard Vouilloux and translated by Edoardo Lazzari.

You can read the following conversation in Italian on CUT/ANALOGUE.