« DIRTY CLOSET » de Marianne Chargois.

As part of the 19th edition of the JERK OFF festival, which will take place from October 1st to 10th, the Wallonia-Brussels Centre invites you to a theatrical evening to discover "DIRTY CLOSET" by Marianne Chargois.

Dirty Closets is a documentary performance addressing the theme of economic and sexual exchange in a colonial context, the coming out of sex workers, and the collective and historical need for reparations that arises from it. What if the actions and voices being raised today carry within them more ancestral needs for justice stemming from yesterday's history?

Jamal Phoenix and Marianne Chargois, two contemporary sex workers, both have genealogical lines rooted in countries colonized by France, in the Antilles and in former Indochina. Between genealogical-biographical narrative and surveying of minority life, the two performers attempt to answer the silences of their history: caught in the issues of gender, class and race, what economic-sexual intimacies did their ancestors experience?

With live participation from sound designer Mona Servo and visual artist Thy Truong Minh, Dirty Closets tells stories from yesterday's industrial colonial era to today's neo-colonial and neo-capitalist era.

Translated automatically - see original description in French