The Last Hour
by Máté Janky, Csaba Molnár aka Nicole Clore, and Gyula Muskovics
2023
lecture performance
The Last Hour is an immersive lecture-performance in which theory merges with contemporary dance, drag, video, installation, and experimental noise music. Máté Janky, Csaba Molnár aka Nicole Clore, and Gyula Muskovics explore the position of queer monsters within a homonormative society through a constellation of references drawn from film, visual art, and literature.
The performance departs from Gyula Muskovics’s essay A Person Who Functions Normally in a Sick Society Is Himself Sick, which analyzes, among other things, Canadian director Bruce LaBruce’s 2008 film Otto; or, Up with Dead People. In the film, the radical feminist character Medea Yarn directs a political gay zombie porn film, convinced that it is the only logical response to the toxic reality we are forced to (un)live in.
On the one hand, The Last Hour pays tribute to the radicalism of LaBruce’s queercore aesthetics; on the other, it seeks to decenter hegemonic discourses surrounding queerness, gender, and sexuality.
Created and performed by Máté Janky, Csaba Molnár aka Nicole Clore, and Gyula Muskovics
Performed at Trafó Gallery, Budapest; aqb, Budapest (including guest performer Andi Soós); SoMad, New York (including guest performances by Tamás/Tanya Marquardt and Claywoman)
Featuring artwork by Klaudia Janusko
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