“They are on four, wide open, waiting for you, inviting you to contemplate the possibilities and implications of reevaluating the integrity of the body through the lens of the anus.” 

The objective of their joint project, “anal body and politics,” is to activate the potentiality and political implications of the body from a morphologically rearticulated perspective that undermines the established hegemonic norms. This includes challenging prevailing notions such as the Phallic body, the frontal body, the heteronormative body, the reproductive body, the (liberal) individual body, among others. 

The concept of the anal body proposes something more intrinsic to the body itself, devoid of reinforcing a hetero-capitalistic logic centered on reproduction, self-possessiveness, verticality, and property/propriety. Anal politics posits that the body can find meaning and assume an active role in society without being primarily focused on reproduction. Rather, it emphasizes the body’s capacity to maintain balance, offer comfort, and willingly embrace passivity and vulnerability. It aims to transcend any specific identity, be it male, female, non-binary, trans, etc., and seeks to legitimize and emancipate pleasure as a critical aspect, one that has been problematically suppressed in our heteronormative and religiously influenced sociopolitical environments. 

Authors: Aleksandar Georgiev and Slavcho Dimitrov

Text: Slavcho Dimitrov 

Choreography: Aleksandar Georgiev 

Videos selection: Slavcho Dimitrov

Multimedia visuals and graphic design: Gjorgji Despodov

Light design: Pete Ayres 

Sound: Tsvetan Momchilov 

Producer: Beatriz Bello

Thanks to Darío Barreto Damas for backing up the work

This work was realized with the support from behind the alternative budget structure of the solo choreographic work “Atras” by Aleksandar Georgiev, through various collaborators such as LAV (Laboratory of Living Arts and Citizenship), ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center), Garage Collective, Cultural-Social Space Jadro, Konstnärsnämnden (Swedish Arts Grants Committee), Government of the Canary Islands (ICDC), European Union Next Generation EU Funds (Support for Cultural Accelerators), Cabildo of Tenerife, Teatro Victoria, Central Eléctrica, and Culture Moves Europe.