Theater
"We tear up archive photos, put on mother's dresses and ignore father's gaze." In Desire Has No History, Paul van de Waterlaat and Haiko Sleumer cut up the past until it fits. This is a performance lecture about secretly wanting to wear dresses as a boy. About being forced into a racecar against your will. About preferring dance to football.
From scraps of photos, textiles and clippings, they build collages, quilts and deepfakes; lower art forms that crack open the past. They mix performance, visual art and queer theory. Susan Sontag wrote: desire has no history, no codes of conduct. Desire is a source of life. This is your escape route from the cage of the past.
