Ascension : Intimate Bodies Forbidden Stories
12/12/2023
Oyoun, Berlin Germany
Ascension is a theatre play - an outcome of a durational project about gender, femininity and mentruation. The project engaged wth a community debate in order to reflect on gender equality and social change. The project explored menstruation, taboos, and identity from all potential directions such as historical, political, embodied, culture, religious, social, healthand artistic concerns.
Dr. Maiada Aboud worked with seven participants in a series of workshops on identity, femininity and pain, taboos around menstruation, equality and social change. The project results included a series of testimonies and a new performance that was shown during the festival. In addition, Maiada took up a series of discussions on gender and taboos, which was published in the run-up to the festival.
Following an open call, Dr. Maiada Aboud worked with seven participants in a series of workshops focusing on identity, femininity, pain, taboos around menstruation, equal rights and social change. Project outcomes wias included a series of testimony videos and a new performance which was showcased during the festival. Maiada also recorded a series of discussions on gender and taboos which was
released in the run up to the festival.
+ Antonia Führ, Christina Gabriela Galli, Maria Trinks, queering _ menstruation
Performance : Dr. Maiada Aboud (IG: @maiada), Antonia Führ (IG: @fazathoughts), Maria Trinks (IG: @mariatrinks), Uli Pilwax (IG: @ulipe)
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In conversation with Juliana Yazbek | On Feminism, Femininity and Finding Home Within
Juliana Yazbeck is a Lebanese-American-British singer-songwriter whose mixed cultural upbringing
influences her signature sound: a genre-bending, multilingual and mesmerising fusion of haunting vocals, spoken word,
otherworldly electronics.
Dr. Maiada Aboud is recording a series of conversations on being a pirate pioneer woman* – socially,
artistically, and politically – as part of her project: Ascension – Intimate Bodies Forbidden Stories. First up is this
conversation with Juliana where they discuss feminism, femininity and finding home within. These chats shed the light on
lifting the veil: deconstructing restrictive gender roles, boundaries placed on femininity, and taboos surrounding menstruation and pain.
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Ascension is a play about the secretive aspects of femininity and menstruation. The play aims at engaging participants with
a community project in order to reflect on equal rights issues and social change. The project will explore menstruation, taboos, and identity from all
potential directions such as historical scopes, political, embodied, cultural, religious, social, health, and artistic concerns.
We are looking for womxn who are interested to take part in workshop series dealing with femininity and pain, which will potentially lead to a
final outcome of a theatre play (one-hour performance).
ey themes
Gender, menstruation, femininity vs. masculinity, objectivity vs. subjectivity, performance as therapy, endurance art, decolonizing the body, cultural identity.
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