Lesbo Erotics

We place the lesbian-queer gaze at the center of the stage, directing works towards queer audiences and lesbian perspectives.

Lesbo Erotics is an artistic project founded in 2022 that organizes lesbian art events in Helsinki. The project explores lesbian and queer physicality and representation through dance and performance art.

In our work, we combine the conventions of stage art and parties into an experimental hybrid. We are interested in different audience relationships, where the audience has agency and where the traditional performance situation transforms into a multi-sensory spectacle.

The Garden Party is a series of performative garden parties where the working group acts as hosts and performers, inviting the audience to participate. In the garden, bodies, text, sound, and the environment create dramaturgies stripped of heteronormativity. Lesbo Erotics aims to dismantle the fetishization and invisibility of the lesbian body caused by heteronormativity. We seek queer logic within the context of contemporary dance and performance art and hosting space.

Thus far, parties have been produced with the following titles...

PART 1: Lesbian Courtship

POV: LESBIAN EROTIC THOUGHTS FORM IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL REGULATION, JUDGEMENT AND CONSENT

While preparing for this party we were discussing what lesbian courtship is for us. Intense eye contact, poetry, and lingering caresses, tension, fully giving into and surrendering to the now of relationships, passions and excitements.

PART 2: Vibrations in relation

POV: LIQUID IDENTITIES, SHAKING BEING, SOLID INTENTIONS

Fighting post pleasure shame, talking about wants, needs, pleasures, desires, feels. Creating connections with friction and intensity. Wrestling, slippery lesbian bodies, bathing and playing in public.

PART 3: (after, community, self, take) care

POV: GROUNDING CARE, MAGIC, RESISTANCE

While preparing to the third party we have practised and talked about boundaries, negotiation, consent and kink culture. About support, magic and its role in healing. Traditions, identifying and exposing patterns of power, relationships and pleasure.

PART 4, 2024: Still Thirsty

POV: LOW EFFORT; HIGH REWARD

While preparing for the party, we have been talking about things such as yearning, tension, almost kissing, moments before other moments, preparing, negotiation, fantasies, it being what it is but what even is it and suspense.