LABIA is an autobiographical artistic project of a permanent processual nature, never fixed but transforming with each moment and space it occupies. Rooted in queer identity as an act of destabilizing one’s own identity, LABIA fosters a meeting between multidisciplinary artists who navigate between worlds without being confined to entrenched ways of operating, in a coexistence and re-signification of their (re)(ex)istences.
In alliance with an intersectional transfeminist thought, we propose the urgency of becoming- collectivities while preserving our subjectivities and nurturing a non-hierarchical relationship between them. We construct a universe that allows for the extrapolation and transcendence of individual and bodily materiality, dismantling the colonizing and binary language, and proposing discourses of language through gesture, expanding its multiple possibilities in a lifelong artistic process.
LABIA brings to DDD 2025 memories, constructions, and affections from previous moments of process, which here take on new contours, allowing themselves to be disturbed and to overflow into other cosmologies. — Jo Castro
LABIA is durational performance-installation, and the audience can move around, enter and exit the room.
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Credits
Artistic concept and direction
Jo Castro
Lighting design, sound composition, texts, set design and performance
Jo Castro, Lui L’Abbate and Rezmorah
Participation in the research process
João Leonardo
Bio materials, scenic sculptures and performance
ROD
Video and performance
Francisca Manuel
Financial management
Sekoia Artes Performativas
Research and creation grants
Reclamar Tempo - Câmara Municipal do Porto,
Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Teatro de Ferro, OSSO Associação Cultural, Asta – Teatro e Outras Artes, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, Teatro da Voz and Programa Guelra - Arte Total
Research residencies
CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Teatro de Ferro
Research, creation and artistic residencies support
Trust Collective, Devir Capa, A Gráfica, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, A Casa do Comum, O Lugar do Meio, OSSO Associação Cultural, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro da Voz, Arte Total and Gnration
Co-production residency
O Espaço do Tempo
Co-produced by
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Cineteatro Louletano
Acknowledgements
Be Dias, Melissa Rodrigues, Maurícia|Neves, Pietro Romani and Vera Martins
Observations
Text in Portuguese and English
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