bonebag (2024)
Performance Dates
May 1st and 2nd, 2024
Verbs on the screen are fragments from censored parts of a film script
Verbs associated either with women, female ghosts, animals, Buddhist rituals written into scenes for Lady Hong the Beauty (1969), directed by South Korean auteur Kim Ki-Young
The deletes and edits were made for the “concern that they will harm public order and standard of decency,” according to the censorship committee set up by Park Chung Hee’s military junta (1961-1979)
bonebag is a collection of scenes made with rituals and gestures derived from censored verbs
our attempt to breathe life into what was redacted, silenced
Choreographer Yun Lee
Source KMdb (Korean Movie Database)
Performers Lucienne Ducharme, Niki Farahani, Kala Garrido, Aj Rombach, Alina Tschumako
Research Advisor Melinda Buckwalter
Lighting Designer Amber Tanudjaja
Photographer Stephen Texeira
Tunes
am i here, composition by Maddy Sher
BOY BOY, PLAN B from ARCHIVO VOL.1, Kelman Duran
Equestrian Lovecore, Schacke
Special Thanks
Professor Vicente Carillo and classmates from QUEER LATINE SEXUALITIES: PERFORMANCE, RACE, AND CULTURE seminar + Bay Area Queer Ecologies performance jams