Residency of Antonello Foddis, Martin Talaga, Tomáš Procházka

hosted by Drama Queer

Participating countries:

  • Czechia
  • Italy
  • Slovakia
  • Dance
  • Storytelling
  • Theatre

Period

  • From 01-01-2026 to 31-12-2026
Generation #4

Website

Address

Bratislava

Project summary

This duo performance by Italian artist Antonello Foddis, artists Martin Talaga (performer), Tomáš Procházka (director) creates a historical dialogue on queer emancipation. Through a hybrid of drag, dance, and documentary theatre, it intertwines the life of Lucy Salani—an Italian trans survivor of Dachau—, Romina Cecconi - historic trans activist, architect of the Gender Transition Law in Italy, with that of Countess Sonata Mondscheinová, a pioneering Czechoslovak drag figure. The work is a powerful human rights statement, conceived as an act of artistic resistance against the current oppressive political reality faced by the LGBTQ+ community in Slovakia and other EU countries experiencing growing hatred toward queer people. This work also develops a new genre: documentary drag performance

Artist

Antonello Foddis, Martin Talaga, Tomáš Procházka

Biography: Antonello Foddis / La Trave Nell’Okkio (IT), Martin Talaga / Venice (SK/CZ), and Tomáš Procházka / LA CUNTESSA (SK/CZ) are three acclaimed European artists whose work merges performative art, physical theatre, and the political dimensions of queer and drag performance.
Foddis is an actor and a pioneer of the Italian drag scene. Talaga, a dancer and choreographer awarded the Thalia Prize 2025, is a leading figure of the Genderfuck as a Political Gesture movement. Procházka is a director and performer.His original performance Kafka.Dreaming. was nominated for the DOSKY award.
Their artistic practice radically challenges aesthetic prejudices, using the body as an instrument of authenticity, rawness, and vulnerability. Together, they embody powerful and critical voices of the contemporary quee
Contact: matki.talaga@gmail.com
Website: https://pinkbusplatform.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/latrave_af/ https://www.instagram.com/martin.talaga/ https://www.instagram.com/countess_garbage/
Work: https://www.facebook.com/vyrocnicenythalie/photos/martin-talaga-z%C3%ADskal-cenu-th%C3%A1lie-v-kategorii-alternativn%C3%AD-divadlo-za-sv%C5%AFj-mimo%C5%99%C3%A1/1333413298579681/ https://live.coastmagazine.it/en/events/la-trave-nell-okkio-sequence-knowles-drag-show-15437.html/ https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Proch%C3%A1zka

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