Arrangement of sculptural props, costumes, and other ephemera used by the activist collective Papaya Kuir (PK) in a series of performance workshops held in West, Contemporary Art Center. These objects were part of the scenography created for the enactment of a collaboratively written myth.
The workshops were developed through an open call organized with Papaya Kuir, which brought together a fixed group of 12 queer and trans immigrants and asylum seekers. Over a number of 10 co-creation workshops, we produced multiple outcomes, including this myth.
The myth narrates the cosmopolitics and story of Q-loXXX, a place where all earthly species—extinct, endangered, and present—exist in a state of continuous mutation. This transformative place is threatened by static and contaminated external forces. In response, the inhabitants of Q-loXXX enact a cannibal sacrifice to restore the land’s cyclical and ever-changing nature.
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