DIRTY CLOSETS - AWC Production / Marianne Chargois

Dirty Closets is a documentary performance addressing the theme of economic-sexual exchanges in a colonial context, the coming out of sex workers, and the need for collective and historical reparations expressed therein. Jamal Phoenix and Marianne Chargois, two contemporary sex workers, both have family trees rooted in countries colonised by France, in the Caribbean Islands and former Indochina. Between genealogical-biographical narrative and surveying minority life, the two performers attempt to respond to the silences of their history: caught up in issues of gender, class and race, what economic and sexual intimacies did their ancestors experience? With sound designer Mona Servo and visual artist Thy Truong Minh performing live, Dirty Closets tells stories from yesterday`s industrial colonial era to today`s neo-colonial and neo-capitalist era.