Dance meets porn: a love affair between bodies and machines
Iacopo Loliva – Julie Goslinga
Location: De Sloot, Kleine Zaal
- GENRE: Dance, Multimedia performance, Performance Art
- THEME: Connection, Digital me, Queer Stories
- LANGUAGE: English
- CONTENT NOTE: This performance contains nudity, This performance contains pornographic content
- ACCESSIBILITY: Assistance dogs welcome, Genderneutral toilets, Toilet for wheelchair users, Wheelchair accessible
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Cheat on Me, Please is a queer interdisciplinary dance performance exploring intimacy in the age of artificial intelligence and disinformation. Combining movement, text, projection and 3D animation, the audience enters a post-pornographic dimension where desire becomes a portal for political resilience, where abjection becomes beauty and the laws of attraction are hacked.
In their first international collaboration, choreographer Iacopo Loliva and 3D artist Julie Goslinga join forces to create a living choreography ruled by queer fantasies and new technological seduction. Rather than simply asking what is real and what is not, Cheat on Me, Please asks how we inhabit bodies whose boundaries, rhythms and truths are constantly shifting through technological mutation. Biological flesh and cyborg body merge as human desire longs to be cheated on by machines.
Biography
Iacopo Loliva is a Berlin-based choreographer and performer. Graduated at Codarts, University for the Arts in Rotterdam, they danced with TanzLuzernerTheater and Stadttheater Giessen before moving into freelancing between Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Austria. Their interdisciplinary works focus on intermedia representations of queer bodies, exploring intimacy and the border between the biological and the digital. They were part of Amsterdam Fringe Festival in 2025 with Between Heart and Hole at Frascati Amsteram and this year they continue their journey between dance and post-pornogaphy with Cheat on Me, Please.
Julie Goslinga (2002) is a 3D artist, freelance designer and filmmaker currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Academy of Arts the Hague (2024), course Interactive/Media/Design. As an artist her work is deeply inclined to be looking for the edges of the human, and what it might mean to be humane; fueled by the social implications of difference, understanding and Otherness, nearly-human beings usually argue, fuck and whisper in dreamy tongues: and are therefore, like queer bodies, inherently and nonconsensually political. The film Understanding Other(s) (2024) premiered her artistic career, and was amongst others screened at Rotterdam Art 2024.
Rex Collins [they/them] is an artist currently based in Amsterdam. Their artistic practice using installation, image, performance and text, centers around in-betweenness and intimacy through a critical queer/trans lens. The work incorporates elements of drag, pop culture, and unconventional materials. Rex directs the audience’s attention to the often overlooked experiences of trans fantasy. Through poetry/auto-fiction practices and an education of movement: Rex opens the space between your body and the other, your body and pleasure, your body and what it could potentially be. Their work is a meditation on the everyday dynamics of the body, our relations, and broader social contexts we exist within. Rex holds a Masters in Artistic Research at the Dutch Art Institute as well as a BA from the University of the Arts Amsterdam.