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Trajectory makers Prisca-Agnes Nishimwe and Rachid Laachir spent three weeks in residence at wpZimmer this summer.

During her residency, Prisca explored female archetypes and her own practice, resulting in a closed performance with a listening meal.
During the listening meal, guests listened to an episode from the BBC Radio 4 podcast series, “You’re Dead to Me”. Greg Jenner and his guests, Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch, travel to 1920s Paris to meet the phenomenal Josephine Baker. While listening, Matoké was served according to a recipe from the cookbook ‘Cuisines D’Afrique de Paris à Bamako’ by Abdoulaye & Fousseyni Djikine Marie-Liesse Cabaret. ‘Matoké’ refers to a specific type of plantain, often used as a staple in East Africa, mainly in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It is a main component of Ugandan cuisine and is known as one of the most important food sources in the region.

Rachid worked on his research into a theatre of loving cruelty.
Rachid wants to create space for deeper (practical) research into his creative methodology, in relation to Artaud’s theatre of cruelty. What does a theatre based on Artaud’s principles look like, filtered through my own time, methodology, principles and practice? In short, this project is an exciting but perhaps insane attempt to refine Artaud’s manifesto of cruelty into a theatre of loving cruelty.
With a group of artists and experts, Rachid picks up where Artaud left off: the practice.

Manizja Kouhestani, Fiene Zasada, and Kato van Ermen participated in Shortstay, a brief residency where emerging artists and theatre makers can get to know each other.
During their residency, Manizja and Fiene explored sexuality from a female perspective. They are interested in the different emotional repercussions of sex for women and men, and how biology, power, and cultural norms influence each other. As stated in The Feminist Porn Book: ‘Feminist porn challenges the idea that depicting sex is inherently oppressive; instead, it can be a space where desire is celebrated, power is redistributed, and new forms of eroticism become visible.’ They are inspired by the work of Katherine Angel, Tony Tulathimutte, Anne Carson, Amia Srinivasan and Michael Kaufman, and look forward to exploring themes such as desire, rejection and patriarchal structures.

Kato continued to work on PRINSES PLACEHBO and took the first small steps towards a new princess.