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Juan Pablo Cámara, Andrey Bogush

Homopticum

The collaboration between the choreographer Juan Pablo Cámara and the visual artist Andrey Bogush is inspired by Paul B. Preciado’s essay Pornotopia, which examines the culture and architecture created by the Playboy empire. Borrowing from the vocabulary of peep shows, dark rooms and matchmaking apps, Cámara and Bogush devise a speculative choreography where discipline and repetition meet the monstrous, yielding control, surrender, and the potential for liberation. In a dystopian take on time and self-surveillance, across the mundane and spectacular, they examine the materiality of subjectivity and the art of fabulation, questioning homosexual desire within the object-human relation.

The premiere of Homopticum will take place in April 2025 at the Kiasma Theatre in Helsinki, Finland.

Concept, choreography Juan Pablo Cámara, Andrey Bogush
Performance Juan Pablo Cámara
Light design Joseph Wegmann
Costume design Lenard Schnitzler
Outside Eye Luis Garay, Zander Porter

Supported by Kiasma Theatre, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tanzhaus Zurich, Tapiola Artist studios, DIORAMA Berlin

Juan Pablo Cámara

Juan Pablo Cámara is an Argentinean-born, Berlin-based choreographer and performer who graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Drawing from his country’s psychoanalytical traditions, he explores the boundaries between the personal, fictional, and cultural, harvesting vulnerabilities within formalities, using artificiality and hyper-theatricality as tools for world-making and identity construction. His recent works, La cosa piel and Main, Main, who’s there?, were co-produced by Sophiensaele in Berlin. He has performed across Europe, North and South America, and collaborated with artists like Adam Linder, Michele Rizzo, and Jefta van Dinther.

Andrey Bogush

Andrey Bogush lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Their practice focuses on images and installations where the fantastic and the familiar are indistinguishable. Bogush’s works have been shown at venues including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Plato Ostrava, Tate Modern, and the Finnish Museum of Photography.

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