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Can vaginal fluids predict the arrival of the next meteor?
Aline Olmos Steler
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[vdm_eventbuttons]- GENRE: Performance Art, Social Arts
- THEME: Changing the Norm, Recommended by RIGHTABOUTNOWINC, The female voice
- LANGUAGE: English
- Trigger Warning: This performance contains nudity
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
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Have you ever searched for signs about the future? Maybe in coffee grounds, palm lines, tarot cards, or the stars above?
What if we told you that some of you have been producing your own means of making sense of the future?
Right between legs leaks a forgotten oracle: vaginal discharge. Imprinted on underwear.
And now is the time to revive it.
By interpreting signs left every day in billions of panties, we confront premonitions, desires, fears, and visceral disgust.
For years these fluids have been sending messages to us. Are there dooms or hopes making our underwear wet?
Aline Olmos Steler collects a phantasmagorical universe: Guided by an enigmatic curator through an exhibition of oracular underwear, alongside allies ranging from the herbaceous to the cretaceous, you are invited to decode intimate prophecies, ascertain humanity’s future, and indeed transcend space, time, biological species, and fate itself.
Biografie
Aline Olmos Steler is a Brazilian theater director, clown, and performer based in Amsterdam. She has recently graduated at DAS Theater, and from 2025 to 2027, she will be a resident artist at both Right About Now (Netherlands) and Mestizo Arts Platform (Belgium). Her artistic practice is guided by techniques of accumulation and layering, using chaos, absurdity, and humor as forms of language.
Interested in what lies at the margins, her research explores themes such as vaginal discharge, dream, excrement, female masturbation, the non-sexualized vulva, piracy, and hacking technologies. Her work exists between popular theater and circus references, engaging in dialogue with elements of contemporary art and post-dramatic theater. Her creations, often built from household materials, embrace a DIY aesthetic that brings the artist and audience closer together while questioning who gets to be an artist and who gets to be an audience in late capitalism.
As co-director of the ultraVioleta_s collective, she creates both solo and collective works. She is currently developing the Trilogy of Satiety composed of: The Rediscovery of the Future – Oracular Practices; In Love with a Table, I Sat on It – Masturbatory Practices; I Want to Be You – Practices of Cover and Piracy.
credits
Conception and Direction: Aline Olmos
Dramaturgical advice: Mahsa Koochak
Performers: Aline Olmos Steler, Mahsa Koochak, Raha Tafakori, and Ritzah Statia
Set design: Lili Huston Herterich, Renan Marcondes, and Aline Olmos Steler
Lighting design: Giovanna Gonçalves
Technical direction and operation: Giovanna Gonçalves
Sound Design: Pero Manzé
Costume design: Aline Olmos Steler
Playwright: Aline Olmos Steler, in collaboration with:
Exhibition presentation: Billy Mullaney, Mahsa Koochak, and Joachim Robbrecht
Discharge presentation: Mahsa Koochak
Egg dialogue: Carolina Nóbrega and excerpts from The Egg and the Hen by Clarice Lispector
Graphic design: Gabriela Fernandes Gomes
Collaboration during the research process: Billy Mullaney
External advisors: Marjorie Boston and Maarten van Hinte
Production: Right About Now
Supported by: Electric Shadows
Production: Rightaboutnowinc
Acknowledgments to the artist-friends-family who have been close to this work at different stages:
Laiza Dantas, Tetembua Dandara, Maurício Schneider, Carolina Nóbrega, Paula Mirhan, Gabriele dos Santos, Electric Shadows, Marta Keil, Leandro Souza, Ingrid Vranken, Chun Shing Au, Carmen Lee, Sîpan Sezgin Tekin, Elise Bernardelo, Lilian Papini, Maria Fernanda Vischi D’ottavio, Gabriel Kitoffi Tonelo, Nataly Pimentel Rodrigues, Tatiana Silva Capitanio, Elike Roovers, Lucas Pradino, Fernanda Jannuzzelli, Antônio, Nilcilea and Thais Olmos, and the DAS Community.