Dragz is de new folklore by GeneVegas

Performance and dj-set by GeneVegas. NUIT DES MUSEES. Auditorium and Garden of the MEG. Saturday 21 May from 8pm to midnight.

"Everything you never wanted to know ABOUT..."
Followed by a book signing
Followed by a press conference

Drag folklore is the collective productions of a people that are transmitted from one generation to the next by oral tradition and imitation. These popular and nocturnal arts and traditions include literary culture (punch-lines, music and beliefs), figurative culture (rituals, looks, dips and shows), material culture (wigs, looks, make-up) and technical culture (padding, binding, tucking, contouring...).

Our society of spectacle and consumption also has its folklore... ironic and flamboyant.

The transmission of the drag folklore takes place through rhizomatic structures. A real viral poetics of propagation, of body to body between spirits burning with a fever of the Great Saturday Night. It never stops evolving in all directions and each of its elements can influence another. This situated and embodied knowledge takes place as much in the urban fabric of the city of Geneva as in the muscular and adipose tissue of its local avatars and participates in the vitality of the popular culture of French-speaking Switzerland with flamboyance. It unfolds in the backstage of clubs, cellars, on sofas and in the flow of metahistories, on the razor's edge. Drag folklore has no author; it is networks, interactions, knots, and catcalls.

Follex-chlore-hic! From the blue Prosecco pool Ivrex of the gene lacrimo screams:" FEM!" and yet the male scream! The glands the Haus burns ...and we look away...To become better To become Flamboyantly ignifugal?

Artists:

MOON, daytime painter under the name Trystan Anna Matthey and nocturnal TRANSgressive creature. Inhuman in human form, she will give herself up to you before tasting you in turn.

BALLKANIKA TRAUMA, his work questions the place of the diaspora, in particular the Albanian-speaking diaspora, within Swiss society. His art challenges questions of gender and ancestral customs in a theatrical, actancial, humorous and playful way.
Jaja'ttireJaja'nime Jaja'guicheJaja'llucineJAJA JADORE, Dragqueen performer and icon of the Swiss nightlife. Former uniporn star amatrix-dominatrix and Stop Model, she now devotes her entire career to Jetset Life.

LUIGI's work questions gender, the transmission of emotions, the status of the stage, the translation of song lyrics, the phenomenon of musical covers, the relationship with the public during the quasi-trance that is a show. Just ask to be stepped on.

KIKI DANCER was born in 2008 from the passionate love between a moody toad and a musky rose. After studying recycling engineering, he became a clown. His passion? The mini Miss contests in which he participates every weekend. Neither monster nor woman, Kiki is the friend of animals but above all the love of Cristal C.

LUNA LA NOUR, half human, half chicken, high priestess of fashion. From the top of her infinite legs, she will make you lose your head.

NYX (the late Nina Nana), flamboyant djx, hysterical poet, dissident researcher, co-organiser of legendary parties, radical activist, performer in resistance and indignant teacher, the multiple fields of activism and artistic practice developed by Nyx shake the norms and notions of gender and productivity by posing the question: "Can one be queer and a teacher?"