Cassandra's Riddle at Art Porn Week in Berlin

Photo: Nada Žgank / memento

Performance
Clytemnestra: Cassandra's Riddle
at Art Porn Week in Berlin on Thursday, June 13 at 21:45
Mindpirates Vereinsheim in the Red Room (Schlesiche Strasse 38, Haus F, 3rd courtyard)

In Ancient Greek epics, Clytemnestra, the queen of Mycenae, was routinely portrayed as the jealous and destructive femme fatale who felt little remorse for killing her husband, Agamemnon, and the Trojan princess Cassandra, his war prize and mistress.

In Cassandra's Riddle, Clytemnestra retells the tale in her own words, focusing on her relationship with Cassandra. In their last encounter, the Trojan prophetess, activist and erotic explorer spoke to her about the aural potentials of female sexuality in mind-teasing riddles – riddles Clytemnestra needs your help solving.


Clytemnestra (Mycenae, Ancient Greece) is Tea Hvala's stage persona, inspired by Christa Wolf's Cassandra (1983) and Marijs Boulogne's question, posed at the Tiny Buttons workshop, ran by Antonia Baehr and Keren Ida Nathan in Ljubljana in 2011. Since then, Tea has developed a few tiny amateur performances that focus on female masculinity and bikesexuality. She occasionally performs with the Rdeče zore (Red Dawns) impro theater group from Ljubljana.