Research-residency: Love Shrine & Your Majesty – Slash/Future (2018)
In a post-apocalyptic landscape, three bodies wake up from a slumber. Connected through touch and breath; a hand in another’s hand, a soft embrace, a head resting on a thigh. Breathing in unison. Their minds are filled with a mishmash of fragmented memories of sensations, sounds and images. Their bodies are surprisingly unharmed. No broken bones, only some scratches and bruises. No pain nor ache. Actually they have never felt lighter, stronger, more at ease. It is as if the inner myriad of energies has gone from rapids and dams to steady but lively uninterrupted streams.
As they slowly wake up, these broken memories start to manifest themselves in words, sentences, melodies and movement. A hand traces another’s spine, as it reaches the small of the back and the buttocks, his voice remembers a song:
“Last night..I was inside of you. Last night..While making love to you..I saw the sun..The moon..The mountains and the rivers..I saw heaven when I made sweet love to you..” (Song by: Az Yet)
The more they touch, squeeze and move the more they create. As if they read with the hands, think with the heart, listen with the gut, feel with the pelvis. Their bodies as containers for reflection. As language forms so does the body and the space around them.
LS&YM – Slash/Future is a futurist, homoerotic fan-fiction asking: What do we do when we can start over? What memories and experiences do we choose to keep?
Idea & concept: Marcus Baldemar
By and with: Justin F Kennedy, Zen Jefferson and Daniel Åkerström Steen.
