Queer Dada is a live performance of writers –from across nations, genders, and the intersections that make up the human species. It is a trans-space inhabited by artists reaching out from beyond cultural boundaries, gender binaries, and the violence of the Anthropocene. In defiance against datafication and the quantification of the self, we celebrate queerness and the fluidity of dada. The term ‘dada,’ aside from its reference to the avant-garde movement born out of the turmoil of the First World War, is also used as an act of defiance against “dataism,” the quantification of the ‘self-performed’ by digital technologies. The participants are Simon(e) van Sarloos is a Dutch is a writer and artist; Raphael Amahl Khoury is a trans artist from Jordan, who has authored several plays and documentaries on queerness; Drew Pham is a queer, transgender American writer of Vietnamese heritage; Natalia Borges Polasso is a Brazilian researcher, writer, and translator; Allison Grimaldi-Donahue is an American poet, writer, translator and lecturer in English at John Cabot.
