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MISTRIAL (2025)
Project type
Performance
Date
July 6th, 2025
Location
Durham, NC
ANTICONFESSIONAL : MISTRIAL is a participatory performance by performance artists and activists Telmo Branco (Germany/Portugal) and Ren Mauney (Germany/US). You are invited to join us for this artistic intervention, this political workshop, an interrogation of self and citizen, nation and body. We will be your hosts, facilitators, and fellow un-citizens in an immersive experience in which we question together the State of things and dare not only to imagine otherwise, but to do otherwise. Together.
This is an attempt at examining democracy, citizenship, and nationalism. This is a question of why we remain allegiant to what has been designed to harm us.
This encounter will last in total around 90 minutes, including a post-performance reflection.
This project is funded by THE MAP FUND and hosted by Culture Mill (Saxapahaw) and The Fruit (Durham).
Performances Dates:
Culture Mill (Saxapahaw, NC) - June 29th, 2025
The Fruit (Durham, NC) - July 6th, 2025
Concept: Ren Mauney
Performance and Creation: Telmo Branco and Ren Mauney
Sound Design: Telmo Branco
Videography: Iximche Media and Jade Wilson
Photography: Jade Wilson
Supervision: Francisco Carballo through Goldsmiths University of London Department of Politics and the Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Special thanks to Tommy Noonan, Murielle Elizeon, and Caitlyn Swett
