Queer Family Album is a new trans-disciplinary festival that highlights and feeds itself by collaborative efforts from a group of diverse queer Artists.
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Queer Family Album
The performance series strives to break barriers and imagine utopias for queer futurities by using a performance-based methodology for queer transdisciplinary storytelling.
In 2024 the new festival presents its first Volume at Ballhaus Ost, featuring world premieres from KAy Garnellen and Yvonne Sembene.
In 2025 Volume 2 will follow at Sophiensaele, presenting anonymous, Juliana Piquero, Joy Mariama Smith and Dylan Spencer-Davidson.
The goal? to continue to share and highlight queer experiences and create a space for a community that disrupts Mainstream ideologies.
Humour voyages through queer journeys dialogue with each other. Featuring collaborating artists KAy Garnellen and Yvonne Sembene touching on Topics like isolation within queer utopia and queer Feminist responses to rigid societal demands and definitions.
Track one: ‘She Shanty’ by Yvonne Sembene
A lonely princess sets out to sail the choppy waters of queer identity and the hidden divisions within the LGBT community in search of her ideal kingdom.
The queer ocean is vast. Will she make it to land across these seas? Who might she encounter on the way? Inspired by seas shanties, sirens and the queer history of sailing, the work uses satire to poke fun at the traditional narratives and stereotypes associated with gender and sexuality and seeks to highlight the complexities and nuances of a world that often imposes rigid definitions on fluid realities.
Track two: ‘Pass This On’ by KAy Garnellen
Sixteen years after his transition from a lesbian working in finance in capitalist banks or insurance companies to a trans/queer artist, sex worker and anti- capitalist coparent, KAy Garnellen took the opportunity of the queer family album project to reflect on this time frame, passing across different topics such as loneliness, invisible conditions and ageing.
Using humour and different types of multimedia he’s gonna take you into a journey mixing his past life to the present one, addressing some of the dystopia he encountered on his way but also some hopes that are still remaining. Although mostly alone on stage, KAy is using the material randomly given by other queers he knows in real life or just online.
