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May 28, 2025: Dancing Through a Drone | interview w/ Harald Beharie | Batty Bwoy

Batty Bwoy starts from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “Batty Bwoy” (literally, butt boy), slang for a queer person, Harald Beharie’s work twists and turns the myths of the black queer body unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety.

In an odyssey of droning prog-rock, Batty Bwoy scrutinizes the absurdity of a queer monstrosity, attacking and embracing sedimented narratives around the fear of the queer body as a perverse and deviant figure. The expression "Batty Bwoy" evokes an ambivalent creature that exists at the threshold of the precarious body, liberated power, joy, and batty energy! The work has found inspiration in mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings, and fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, Italian giallo films from the ‘70s, resilient “gully queens,” and queer voices from Norway and Jamaica involved in the process. --FTA

Batty Bwoy | May 28 - 31 FTA 2025 | LINK



Photo Credit: Tale Hendnes

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