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Liad Hussein Kantorowicz

is a performance artist, activist, and perpetual migrant. Her performances deal with de-exotifying and de-mystifying the positions of so-called sexual or political deviants. In them, the body is used as a tool to transgress the boundaries of the public space, and to call into question the public‘s ‘democratic’ limitations. She started co-ordinating street interventions and direct actions in the West Bank and performing in events in the formative years of Palestine- Israel‘s queer scene. After moving to Berlin she gradually placed her work on stage. Her works include: Pussy. An Ongoing Performative Research (2018), No Democracy Here (2017), Queerhana: This is a Free Zone (2017), Terrorist Superstars (2016). Her work has been presented at the 10th Berlin Biennale, Athens Museum of Queer Arts AMOQA, Kampnagel, Transmediale festival, among other institutions; she also performs in streets, social centers and queer bars in Europe and Palestine-Israel. Liad is a spokesperson for sex workers’ rights and a founder of a Berlin peer project for migrant sex workers at Hydra e.V.
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