Masked Rituals at Salon of Queer Indoctrinations
Masked Rituals at Salon of Queer Indoctrinations
09.05.2025
20:00
UBIK, WORM, Rotterdam
Tickets HERE
“Masked Rituals” will be part of the third edition of St.Elio’s Salon of Queer Indoctrinations, a series of performance nights that aim to generate communal, multi-perspective knowledge and awareness by collectively exploring different social concepts, relevant to queer thought. For the third edition of this performance night, the theme is “Rituals”. The night will include live performances from different artist’s, who’s work relates to the theme and a group discussion between everyone present will follow. In “Masked Rituals” two fighters (Marcelo “Killah” Daza and Yun “Jade Fist” Lee) engage in drills and rituals of protection before facing off in a fight to exhaustion navigating the lines between attraction and repulsion, intimacy and violence. The performance exploits elements of boxing such as drills, ring walks and stare downs to explore the various facets and spectrums of masculinity and homoerotic tension that exist within the sport. The fight is accompanied by an increasingly surreal commentary which gradually shifts from narration to generated text on capitalist masculinity, eventually melting into a cinematic soundtrack as the fighters begin to collapse. In essence, “Masked Rituals” is a fight for and against masculinity.
Yun Lee is a US born, Hong Kong raised artist and curator mostly working with lecture-performances, sound, and digital culture. They are concerned with how our technologically filtered ways of seeing and hearing both limit and extend the ways we compose and define what it means to be human. Yun was not allowed to do any martial arts training as a child. As an adult they fell in love with boxing and MMA and have been training for several years.
Marcelo S. Daza is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Chile, currently based in Berlin. He works as a musician and sound/installation artist in Theatre/Performance collectives, dance companies and as a soloist. As an artistic director, Marcelo has created different platforms for emerging artists, presenting works at festivals, theatres, digital platforms and as well as street interventions. His practice looks for shared sensorial experiences and to open space for artists who are not considered in Berlin’s networks.
