Project
The SPIT! Manifesto (Performances and Reader)
The SPIT! Manifesto was a series of performance interventions at Frieze Projects London in 2017 that used speech acts and performative gestures inspired by queer manifestos from the 1960s to the present. SPIT! wrote a series manifestos that respond to contemporary pressing issues of sexual and gender oppression and invited 6 performers to interpret, (in cases) rewrite, and perform them:
Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley: We The Enemy Manifesto
Joshua Hubbard: The Faggot Manifesto
Claudia Palazzo: The PrEP Manifesto
Malik Nashad Sharpe: The Anti-Assimilation Manifesto
Despina Zacharopoulou: We The Enemy Manifesto
Carlos Mauricio Rojas: The Anti-Assimilation Manifesto
SPIT! also published The SPIT! Manifesto Reader bringing together a selection of historical and contemporary queer manifestos to create a dialogue between radical queer histories past and present. The reader was distributed for free during the performances.
