Overview
On crowded dance floors at queer club nights in Tokyo, Yogyakarta and Rotterdam, ravers celebrate the lives and works of Japanese author Fumiko Hayashi, Indonesian author Suwarsih Djojopuspito and Dutch-Indonesian author Beb Vuyk. These women challenged patriarchal and nationalist politics from the 1930s to the 1950s, a turbulent period marked by violence, war and decolonization. They wrote openly about sensitive subjects such as women’s labour, sex work and resistance to colonial and patriarchal oppression. Contemporary activists, artists and researchers engage with the authors’ literary legacies through collective reading, and performance. These local actors quote from the writers’ work and, through improvisation, enact how these women might have responded to complex situations. The writers’ artistic practice, activism and feminism resonate with the creative practices of today’s transnational queer community, connecting different ways of creating and claiming space.
Director and cast
- Wendelien van Oldenborgh Director
- Luna Oliver / Andromeda as herself / Fumiko Hayashi
- Fitriana Puspita Dewi as herself / Fumiko Hayashi
- Kanae Tanikawa as herself / Fumiko Hayashi
- Aquarini Priyatna as herself / Suwarsih Djojopuspito
- Nuraini Juliastuti as herself / Suwarsih Djojopuspito
- Elin McCready as herself / Suwarsih Djojopuspito
- Falke Pisano as herself / Beb Vuyk
- Yoshiyuki Ishikawa as themself / Beb Vuyk
- Pamela Pattynama as herself / Beb Vuyk
- Deise Tigrona as special appearance
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