A gay bar called Everywhere

The collaborative performance project “A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (with costumes and no practice)” began with the idea that all of philosopher and writer Susan Sontag’s life and work took place in a gay bar. She never left the table. People come and go – styles, decades, regimes, and theories.

Ten years after its initial staging at the performance space The Kitchen in New York, the gay bar is “re-spaced” at MDT in Stockholm. On stage, we meet a group of international and Stockholm-based artists, writers and curators, who move between performance, improvisation and everyday life. During this durational work, they each contribute their part to a collective staging that thinks through and performs the myriad changes, challenges, and glories that have shaped our queer lifetimes.

Since “A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (with costumes and no practice)” was first performed in 2011, things have changed in countless material and manifest ways. Questions of gender and representation have exploded in popular culture. It’s a new era in activism and identity politics. How do we think and perform now? What is the gay bar still offering? Missing? Where did it go?