Saturday, August 9th, at 7PM, we invite you to /SAC Berthelot (str. Gen. H.M. Berthelot, no. 5, ring at 10) for the performance “Waacking on Thin Line” in the context of the exhibition “The Thin Thread Line”. The performance will be followed by a Q&A session, which will take place in English. Admission to both the performance and the Q&A is free, with prior reservation:
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“Waacking on Thin Line – Threading the kNot…Yet“
artists: YCS, Iuana, Luci, Octavia, Una Toma
curated by: Adela Wagner
Presented within “The Thin Thread Line”, this performance brings waacking into the institutional space of a gallery – a dance style that emerged in 1970s queer clubs in Los Angeles, characterized by expressive, rapid arm movements and theatrical poses. More than a form of dance, waacking embodies cultural memory and a mode of resistance.
“Waacking on Thin Line – Threading the kNot…Yet” explores the body as a site of political articulation, and dance as a practice of imagining queer futures. The title draws inspiration from José Esteban Muñoz’s “Cruising Utopia”, particularly his notion that queerness is “not yet here,” but instead belongs to the realm of potential – a horizon we move toward, collectively. Through shared rhythm and movement, it threads together a queer futurity not as a distant utopia, but as a lived and felt potential already emerging in the now.
Set against a live disco set by YCS, the dance performers: Iuana, Luci, Octavia, and Una Toma are dispersed through the space, posing as sculptural figures, queer bodies rendered static, staged. Through waacking, their gestures trace invisible threads across the room, drawing lines between one another, between the personal and the political.
The work challenges dominant narratives of which bodies and gestures are worthy of preservation and display. It asks how queer presence can inhabit and transform institutional spaces without being assimilated or neutralized – how joy, excess, collectivity, and desire can leave marks within a system that so often privileges restraint and control. As the performers begin to converge, their movements generate a shared choreography of belonging: a momentary archive of queer futures unfolding live, through the body.
This is not only a performance, but an artistic and political intervention — a refusal to move within systemic lines, and a proposal to thread new forms of relation, movement, and visibility.
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The performance “Waacking on Thin Line – Threading the kNot…Yet” takes place in the context of the exhibition "The Thin Thread Line" (26.06 - 16.08.2025), curated by Alex Radu and Thomas Zitzwitz, with an exhibition/graphic design by Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement and Alexandra Müller.
Artists: Justin Baroncea & Cristian Matei, Marie Bovo, Nicolae Comănescu, Iulian Cristea, Călin Dan, Suzana Dan, Elger Esser, Maria Ghement & Alexandra Müller, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ana Ionescu, Alicja Kwade, Julian Lennon, Ana Ion Leonte, Dragoș Lumpan, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Ruxandra Nițescu, Marcel Odenbach, Marlon Red, Haleh Redjaian, Mircea Suciu, Virginia Toma, Dominika Trapp, Marco Verhoogt, Jorinde Voigt, Nives Widauer, Thomas Zitzwitz
The exhibition "The Thin Thread Line" can be visited at /SAC Berthelot (str. Gen. H.M. Berthelot, no. 5, ring at 10) in the period 26.06 - 16.08 from Thursday to Saturday, 4PM to 8PM.
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Cultural project co-financed by AFCN – Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project's content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
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