Interactive Performance | Draw Me Close

Draw Me Close is a solo, multidisciplinary performance that combines drawing with dance.

The walls and floor are covered in large sheets of paper, and Matagumpay is a medium for mark-making. Alone, he can only move languidly, aimlessly, producing weak and noncommittal lines. At what point do you want to interrupt? Lead him in dance, or guide his hand, to draw together. Adopt stewardship over his body, over the movement and the marks. What do you desire to see, and how messy would you get to make it happen? Depression doesn't lift magically.

Draw Me Close is a stage of trust. Not an abandonment of personal responsibility, not a resignation to defeat, but an insistence that when I make myself this weak, I will be held so closely. There must be something worth surrendering to.

*This is an interactive performance. Wear clothing that you don't mind getting marked with charcoal and/or ink.

Please register via email at: ma.matagumpay@gmail.com

Ticket: 10-15 euros (box office only)
Language: English
Doors open: 16:00 p.m.
Event start: 17:00 p.m.

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BIOGRAPHY

Matagumpay 

Matagumpay is a Filipinx trans/genderqueer artist and writer making work about queer desire and community. His performances combine storytelling with drawing as an embodied practice. In 2022 he performed Let Me Be the Rope at Cafe Karanfil and VISIT ME at Haus der Statistics for the Queer Trans Liberation Network Summer Festival. In drag he is Kuya June.

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