Edvinas Grinkevičius / Querelle: I Need My Nails Done
PLACE: Turku City Theatre, 2nd floor lobby, Itäinen Rantakatu 14
DATE & TIME: Tue 2.9. at 17:15–17:45, The performance is part of the opening event.
DURATION: 30 min. Advance registration required. Pre-registration
LANGUAGE: English
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During the terrorist drag stand-up performance, the audience is invited to apply fake nails on Querelle’s fingers. While they are doing this, they listen to (and may share) anger-inspired stories about issues concerning the LGBTQ+ community. Querelle has been performing terrorist drag DJ performances and fighting against the boredom of heteronormative society since 2016 (or 1988 when he was born).
Edvinas Grinkevičius (he/him) is a curator, cultural worker and drag/performance artist, currently based in Kaunas, Lithuania. The broad spectrum of his practice consists of curatorial and artistic activities, all connected through an interest in left-leaning and queer-feminist politics and practices, which aim to provide artistic work with a transformative potential especially within institutionalised structures.
Grinkevičius has worked as a curator at the Kaunas Artists’ House (2017- ), and Unlearning Eastern Europe (2019- ). In 2021, along with Rebeka Poldsam, he started the Baltic queer art and politics network Black Rose Black Carnation. Initiator and co-curator of WE ARE PROPAGANDA, the counter-culture queer movement. Since 2016, he began his terrorist drag dj performances under the artist’s alter ego –drag persona Querelle.
He has presented his work at music, performance and live art festivals in Baltics and Eastern and Central Europe.