BINARY THE TRILOGY: TESTO TEMPLE 2023BINARY THE TRILOGY is the series of works forming the artistic part of Cadia’s doctoral thesis. TESTO TEMPLE is the first one that series. It premiered in the contemporary art festival ANTI 15.9.2023. 

TESTO TEMPLE explores how can something as fragile and elusive as gender or sexuality be represented on stage?

One of the starting points of the work has been a theoretical and empirical study of testosterone as a trigger for unmaking of gender. Testosterone, like sex hormones in general, is seen as a symbol of gender and as a producer and building block of the characteristics associated with it. In reality, the role of hormones in the human body is much more complex and far from a socially produced binary structure. TESTO TEMPLE is a proposition in the form of a performance about what non-binary feels like, how non-binary reality might be accessed and how gender might be understood from a non-binary perspective.

TESTO TEMPLE is conceptualised and realised by Cadia and Minttu Vesala. All texts by Cadia. Sound design by Exploited Body. 


https://antifestival.com/en/programme/binary-the-trilogy-testo-temple-2/