Why are you so negative?

Through her work, Lux Veneréa advocates for inclusivity towards seropositive people as participants in society who choose to live life on their own terms with agency over their own narrative. Experiences with HIV are different from context to context, inherent to class, race, gender and geography. She will address these topics with comedy and a performative lecture.

Lux Veneréa is a transmedia storyteller, artist and speaker. Navigating unconventional mediums such as comedy, irony, speech or memes, she studies the behaviour of the dominant classes around the presence of dissident-migrant bodies. Through satiric performances and overacted storytelling viewers are challenged toreflect upon their own position and the authoritarian nature of subjectivity. Lux’s work has been shown in various theatres, such as Kammerspiele Munich, Gorki Theater, CCBA Barcelona, Primavera Sound, WORM Rotterdam, Belvedere Theater Vienna and Berghain Kantine. As an educator and HIV rights activist she has worked with several institutions such as AIDS-Hilfe (Berlin, Mittelhessen, Zürich), Checkpoint, TriQ, MigrationsRat, Les Migras, and has lectured in universities like UDK, HWR and Willem de Kooning Academy.