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QUEER BELARUS
Scenario: Paweł Leszkowicz
Video performance
2010
Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
3 min
As the curator of the Ars Homo Erotica exhibition, I am entering a performance competition for the Bergamot group. By doing so, I am participating in the art project of this group. I believe that curators must have the right to select works for exhibitions, but they should not come up with works for or in favor of the artists, but in accordance with the wishes of Raman and Volha, I present them with my scenario. This form of their participation in the exhibition was the idea of the artists themselves.
The title of the commissioned performance - „Queer Belarus”
Medium - video performance
Duration - no less than 1 minute, no more than 5 minutes.
Language - Polish with English subtitles, or English with Polish subtitles.
Deadline for making the performance and presenting it to the curator for approval - June 1, 2010.
The purpose of the performance is to present the legal, social and cultural situation of gays and lesbians in Belarus today. Europe is very interested in human rights in Belarus, Poles are concerned about the fate of the Polish minority, so let’s ask the
question about the situation of sexual minorities in this remarkable country. All the more so because there are increasing voices about organizing a parade in Minsk.
I ask the artists of the Bergamot group to learn about the situation of gays and lesbians in Belarus, conduct research on the subject, learn about the history of the emancipation movement, interview members of the organization.
Based on the collected material, I ask you to prepare a short simulation of a Belarusian TV program reporting on the situation of gays and lesbians in Belarus.
„The program” is to be precisely a video performance by artists, who will participate like TV presenters summarizing the situation or experts on the subject. The data given is supposed to capture the specifics of the situation of gays and lesbians in their country, but also give the audience information about the most interesting events, phenomena, activists and actions.
Within the conventions of a news program, artists are allowed to be inventive and imaginative, as long as they convey key and interesting news on the topic posed.
Pavel Leszkowicz
© BERGAMOT GROUP, 2010, QUEER BELARUS, video performance, scenario: Paweł Leszkowicz, Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland