TRANSEUROPA Festival & the Red Jasper Theatre present Nephelae Nymph-oids.
Our ancient cloud nymph has entered the digital realm – she’s in the cloud, she’s in the technocapitalist state, she’s everywhere all at once, and she’s here to queer the whole thing.
Cyborgs, ghosts, cross-border creatures and other fabulous disturbances take the stage for a night of performance art, cabaret, music, and partying.
Come and meet the nymph-oids to discover new ways of living, breathing and resisting together.
Evening Programme:
Hosting by Umbrianno
21h – You Will Miss Them When They Are Gone by Bombyx MÓri
Look closely – an entire world is disappearing beneath our feet.
You Will Miss Them When They Are Gone is an interdisciplinary performance inspired by the silent disappearance of insects and the fragile systems that connect human life to the more-than-human world.
Through large-scale handmade cocoons, aerial silks, shadow theatre and movement, Bombyx MÓri transforms space into a shifting ecosystem of nests, bodies and suspended forms.
Inspired by insect architecture, and playing with scale, fragility and transformation, the performers construct and unravel an environment that is constantly adapting around them.
21h45 – UKIYO – FLOATING WORLD by Katerina Tiga & Konstantinos Papathymnios
What happens when the gazed start to watch back?
Ukiyo – Floating World is an interdisciplinary puppetry and performance piece where a performer, a marionette and a live musician meet in a shifting world of control, movement and transformation.
As the boundaries between object and subject begin to blur, the puppet becomes something unstable: material and alive, controlled and autonomous, watched and watching.
Through puppetry, live music and physical performance, Ukiyo – Floating World plays with visibility, agency and representation – leaving us to wonder who is really holding the strings.
22h30 – Man-nual by Vicky Panakia
Prepare to be taught a lesson in becoming a “real man.”
Man-nual is a live performance disguised as a motivational seminar, led by an overconfident alpha-male guru in a spectacularly artificial muscle suit.
Expect dominance drills, fitness wisdom, emotional control and all the essential tools for taking up space properly. Drawing from the language of online masculinity and self-improvement culture, the performance turns the “perfect man” into something increasingly theatrical, ridiculous and unstable.
As the seminar spirals into the absurd, Man-nual exposes the contradictions behind strength, authority and gender itself. Through humour, irony and a gloriously manufactured masculine body, the piece asks what happens when identity is built around the need to dominate – and how easily those ideals can be learned, performed and sold back to us.
23h15 – Mr Drago Balls and the Artificial Intelligence by Kris Peacock
Meet Mr Drago Balls – a Drag King with something to prove.
Blending drag and clowning in a wordless physical performance, Mr Drago Balls comes face to face with an Artificial Intelligence and things quickly get strange.
Through movement, gesture, music and live interaction, the two begin to imitate, challenge and outsmart one another in an increasingly absurd game of human versus machine.
By the end, one question remains: who – or what – is actually the intelligent one?
00h – closing mini performance by Umbrianno + DJ set by dj camslut
Closing the night: dj camslut has entered the chat.
00h45 end of sound
01h00 closed to public