Swiping Right | Lecture Performance | GUM x NTGent

In the lecture performance Swiping Right, Sophie Anna Veelenturf investigates what happens when political opposites meet each other in an intimate situation. What does ideology do to our dating world, desires, and relationships? How do political differences influence the way we navigate between attraction and resistance? Based on her own experiences – in which dates with right-wing conservative men went wrong time and time again – Sophie Anna, a self-proclaimed "left-wing girl," translates her quest to the stage. With humor and sharp dialogues, she brings theatrical re-enactments of interviews she conducted: with her dates, but also with politically mixed couples and academics, among others. The result is an exciting encounter between ideology and intimacy, in which Sophie Anna flirts with stand-up comedy and documentary theater. In a relentless yet vulnerable way, she explores the boundaries between love and politics. Thus, she holds up a mirror to the audience and asks the pressing question: can opposites truly attract each other?