Following the impressive premiere of I Vow To Distract Forever (MOMO Festival 2024), interdisciplinary performer and creator Djuwa Mroivili returns to MOMO with the premiere of her new performance Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever: a performance in which Mroivili throws you into the deep end. To deep seas, fragmented roots, age-old rituals, and new forms of resistance. She draws connections between Comorian traditions, the contemporary queer scene, and life in the deep sea—a world people still know little about. 

Mx. CoelaCunt is inspired by the coelacanth: a fish attributed a crucial role in the theory of evolution. A creature with primitive lungs and fins that move like quadrupeds on land, which went unnoticed for a long time by European scientists, yet was long known among Comorian fishermen. The Comoros—where Djuwa has a family history—form the beating heart of this performance: a place where oral traditions, music, and glittering weddings intertwine the past and present. Where both matriarchal and patriarchal structures coexist. But also a place where European rulers stigmatized and erased the lives of people whose gender and sexuality did not fit within colonial norms.

Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever is a tribute to everything that moves, changes, and refuses to disappear. It’s ultimately an ode to survival—to everything and everyone who refuses to be captured by form or norm. With a fluid mix of different musical languages, choreography, fashion, spoken word, and glamour, Djuwa creates a performance that is both healing and confrontational.

“In I Vow to Distract Forever, Mroivili makes it clear in a surprising way that it matters who plays the piano, and that there is liberation in that act.” — Theaterkrant

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