Birds Without Gender

Spoken word , schrijven , performance , Educatie , Artistiek onderzoek

My work focuses on intimacy and the complexity of the human condition. The work itself explores the question around the ethics of truth telling as a writing and performing methodology. I am interested in pleasure and in how we can navigate desire and consent, how the exploration of desire can become a radical proposal in a conflicting, overstimulating, and normative world. I hold space for desire and grief and for the nuances of truth: opposing, incomplete, elusive, confusing, overlapping, unbearable, weird, repetitive, chaotic, painful, exciting, blurry, elliptical, exposing, sensational, and ultimately vulnerable.
My work is obsessively text based. I approach the text as a transformative, transcendental experience through writing, reading, recording, jamming, drawing, and through multimedia performance work.

I Own My Hunger
I Own My Hunger - I Own My Hunger is an umbrella title for my current research material and ongoing projects from 2023 onwards, on intimacy and the complexities of the human condition, on desire and truth-telling. I Own My Hunger is simultaneously a text art piece acrylic on card 42cm x 30cm x 6 pieces part of a collective exhibition @W1555 South Explorer, Rotterdam, 2026
Borderlines
Borderlines - Borderlines is a text-based multimedia performance art project in development. What does connection look like near the borderlines? How many ways are there to sniff each other?
How vulnerable can we be near our actual boundaries? The performance includes reading/ kinetic sculpture/ dancing. The text is being developed through writing and recording, drawing (acrylic on cardboard), as well as a series of sound installations and public readings. The dance and movement improvisations are being developed through a series of rehearsals and workshops. currently in development Rotterdam, 2026 Sound Installation / exhibiting text work in progress material from the performance part of a collective exhibition @W1555 and @C3 South Explorer, Rotterdam
Heart Cracked Open
Heart Cracked Open - Heart Cracked Open is my first book, a book about navigating sober in-loveness and desire awaiting publisher 2025-2026 (followed by a sequel book currently in the writing Fucking Times: unpacking desire, manifestations of pleasure, and the quest for healing ancestral sexual trauma) Reading performance extracts from my upcoming book Heart Cracked Open @Au Jus, Brussels, May 2026 (image) @Projektraum, Berlin, April 2026 @Unwanted Words, Amsterdam, February 2026
@Unwanted Words, Rotterdam, January 2026 @Performing Arts Forum (PAF), St Erme, France, July 2025
Live Poetry
Live Poetry - Live Poetry improvisation/ performance with musicians part of jamming group collaboration   @W1555, Rotterdam, South Explorer, June 2026 @W1555, Rotterdam, October 2025 @Performing Arts Forum (PAF), St Erme, France, April 2025 @Performing Arts Forum (PAF), St Erme, France, November 2024 with Slow Frequencies @Extratonal Varia, Rotterdam, March 2024
Text Paintings
Text Paintings - instead of screaming the words out into the world or into the void instead of being silent, compliant, or numb instead of being unseen a series of text paintings acrylic paint on cardboard or paper Rotterdam, 2023-2026 part of a collective exhibition @W1555, South Explorer, Rotterdam, 2026 part of collective exhibition @W1555, South Explorer, Rotterdam 2024
Writing as Truth as Desire
Writing as Truth as Desire - Auto-fiction Writing Lab: Writing as Truth as Deisre A short presentation based on my writing work and my artistic research questions, used as inspiration. Followed by experiential exercises and short writing and reading sessions. part of the Embodiment project of the 2nd year Moving Image course @AKI Academy of Art & Design, Enschede, 2026 Writing Lab Truth is a River @Rib Gallery, Rotterdam, November 2025 @Clublokaal (part of the Good Mood Program), Breda, November 2025 (photo)
Overlapping Places
Overlapping Places - Overlapping Places. Poem, contribution for Norient anthology, edition Home Is Where The Heart Strives, 2024. Reading, part of Norient Anthology presentation, edition Home Is Where The Heart Strives, @Page Not Found, Den Haag, 2023
Incomplete: A Sci-Fi Reading Performance In Seven Parts
Incomplete: A Sci-Fi Reading Performance In Seven Parts - Incomplete: A Sci-Fi Reading Performance In Seven Parts @Extratonal Varia, Rotterdam, March 2024 @Queer Current Festival, Amsterdam , August 2023 @Performing Arts Forum (PAF), St Erme, France, July 2023 (photo) extracts @Wolk, Rotterdam, June 2023
EH
EH - Film titled Eh, 43′ 38”, production and direction conceptualised in Edinburgh/ Barcelona/ Berlin, 2004 filmed together with 18 artists in Edinburgh, April 2009 edited in Rotterdam/ Athens, 2024
Birthday
Birthday - Video titled Birthday, 5’ 22’’, Barcelona 2010 music by Andriana Minou
The Task
The Task - The Task, MA Final Show @Goldsmiths University College, London , 2007 The first of a series of text based performances under the umbrella title naked-just-body-video-performance London/ Barcelona/ Madrid/ Thessaloniki/ San Sebastian 2007 - 2013

Truth is a River

Datum:
Locatie: Rib, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B, 3082 GJ Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Rib

Writers, artists, and, artists, and everyone else who wants to explore truth (as a story, as trauma, as hope, as pleasure, as a river...) to participate in a three hour writing and reading experience, followed by an open presentation and public reading.
https://www.ribrib.nl/truth-is-a-river

https://birdswithoutgender.com
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