PLAYING MONOGAMY | An encounter with Simon(e) van Saarloos
4 Julho 2021 18h00
PLAYING MONOGAMY | An encounter with Simon(e) van Saarloos
July 4th at 18:00
Free Entry *
We are thrilled to invite you for an encounter with the writer and philosopher Simon(e) van Saarloos, who will be talking about their book Playing Monogamy. The conversation will be mediated by Pê Feijó, a Lisbon-based writer, scholar, and militant.
Through a contemporary rereading of the cult of monogamy, van Saarloos playfully queers the way in which the structure of monogamy is upheld through social convention within Western contexts. Playing Monogamy proposes an expanded and polyamorous engagement with intimacy and sexuality as a possible alternative.
The book will be available for consultation and for purchase and the participation of the public in the discussion is encouraged. The talk will be held in English and the entrance is free.
The presence of Simon(e) van Saarloos in Lisbon is made possible by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
BIOGRAPHIES:
SIMON(E) VAN SAARLOOS (1990, Summit, New Jersey) is a writer and maker based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They published several books in Dutch including a novel and a collection of columns. Their most recent book, Herdenken herdacht, is a non-fiction work about queer forgetfulness, whiteness and embodied commemoration. Their book Playing Monogamy is available in English. In collaboration with Kübra Uzun, Simon(e) recently created an audio installation work called Cruising Gezi Park (Amsterdam Museum). Together, they also hosted a symposium titled “The Architecture of Sex,” as well as co-initiating Through the Window, a solidarity project between queer artist in Turkey and the Netherlands. From May to October 2021, Simon(e) is the guest curator of the Abundance exhibition at Het HEM. Simon(e) also hosts the Asterisk Conversations podcast. [ www.simonevansaarloos.nl | @svansaarloos ]
PÊ FEIJÓ é uma escritora, estudiosa e militante sediada em Lisboa. Preocupa-se sobre a monstruosidade com a qual a teoria e a práxis encorparam as políticas das minorias (nomeadamente crip, cuir, descolonização e lutas de classes).
As suas obras públicas incluem o “Acordo Queerográfico” (2013), um artigo sobre questões de género para a revista Electra, “De-Generatione: From the margin of gender” (2018), a co-tradução portuguesa e o prefácio do 'Manifesto Contrasexual' de Paul Preciado (Edições Unipop, 2015, e Orfeu Negro, 2019), o ensaio “The Three-legged Bird: Monstrosity and Imagination” (2020), e seu mais recente ensaio poético-teórico, “Episodes of Fantasy and Violence” (2021). Uma secção da sua dissertação de mestrado será publicada em breve pela Universidade de Uppsala com o nome de “The Architecture of a Secret: An Inquisitorial Machine in the Works”, com foco na produção arquivística e a arquitectura do poder literário no contexto da bruxaria e na Inquisição portuguesa
pê feijó obteve a sua licenciatura na Universidade de Lisboa e um Mestrado na Universidade de Cambridge. Atualmente está a desenvolver um doutoramento em Retórica na University of California, Berkeley.
* [No contexto da pandemia Covid-19, o uso de máscara sanitária é obrigatório e os lugares são limitados, em consonância com as medidas da DGS]
July 4th at 18:00
Free Entry *
We are thrilled to invite you for an encounter with the writer and philosopher Simon(e) van Saarloos, who will be talking about their book Playing Monogamy. The conversation will be mediated by Pê Feijó, a Lisbon-based writer, scholar, and militant.
Through a contemporary rereading of the cult of monogamy, van Saarloos playfully queers the way in which the structure of monogamy is upheld through social convention within Western contexts. Playing Monogamy proposes an expanded and polyamorous engagement with intimacy and sexuality as a possible alternative.
The book will be available for consultation and for purchase and the participation of the public in the discussion is encouraged. The talk will be held in English and the entrance is free.
The presence of Simon(e) van Saarloos in Lisbon is made possible by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
BIOGRAPHIES:
SIMON(E) VAN SAARLOOS (1990, Summit, New Jersey) is a writer and maker based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They published several books in Dutch including a novel and a collection of columns. Their most recent book, Herdenken herdacht, is a non-fiction work about queer forgetfulness, whiteness and embodied commemoration. Their book Playing Monogamy is available in English. In collaboration with Kübra Uzun, Simon(e) recently created an audio installation work called Cruising Gezi Park (Amsterdam Museum). Together, they also hosted a symposium titled “The Architecture of Sex,” as well as co-initiating Through the Window, a solidarity project between queer artist in Turkey and the Netherlands. From May to October 2021, Simon(e) is the guest curator of the Abundance exhibition at Het HEM. Simon(e) also hosts the Asterisk Conversations podcast. [ www.simonevansaarloos.nl | @svansaarloos ]
PÊ FEIJÓ é uma escritora, estudiosa e militante sediada em Lisboa. Preocupa-se sobre a monstruosidade com a qual a teoria e a práxis encorparam as políticas das minorias (nomeadamente crip, cuir, descolonização e lutas de classes).
As suas obras públicas incluem o “Acordo Queerográfico” (2013), um artigo sobre questões de género para a revista Electra, “De-Generatione: From the margin of gender” (2018), a co-tradução portuguesa e o prefácio do 'Manifesto Contrasexual' de Paul Preciado (Edições Unipop, 2015, e Orfeu Negro, 2019), o ensaio “The Three-legged Bird: Monstrosity and Imagination” (2020), e seu mais recente ensaio poético-teórico, “Episodes of Fantasy and Violence” (2021). Uma secção da sua dissertação de mestrado será publicada em breve pela Universidade de Uppsala com o nome de “The Architecture of a Secret: An Inquisitorial Machine in the Works”, com foco na produção arquivística e a arquitectura do poder literário no contexto da bruxaria e na Inquisição portuguesa
pê feijó obteve a sua licenciatura na Universidade de Lisboa e um Mestrado na Universidade de Cambridge. Atualmente está a desenvolver um doutoramento em Retórica na University of California, Berkeley.
* [No contexto da pandemia Covid-19, o uso de máscara sanitária é obrigatório e os lugares são limitados, em consonância com as medidas da DGS]