Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever

Welcome to the universe of Mx. CoelaCunt, a fluid being that refuses to be contained. Not by time. Not by binary systems. Not by humans.

Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever is a performance in which creator, musician, and performer Djuwa Mroivili takes you into the depths. Into deep seas, fractured roots, ancient rituals, and new forms of resistance. Djuwa draws connections between Comorian traditions, queer culture, and the mysterious life of the deep sea – a world still largely unknown to humans.

The Comoros Islands – where Djuwa traces a family history – is where the essence of this journey unfolds: a place where oral traditions, music, and campy weddings intertwine the past and present. A place where matriarchal and patriarchal structures coexist. But also a place where European colonizers once stigmatized existence itself – and erased the lives of those whose gender and sexuality defied colonial norms.

Mx. CoelaCunt will live forever is a tribute to everything that moves, shifts, and refuses to disappear. An ode to survival and the different ways we do this. Through a fluid blend of musical languages, choreography, fashion, spoken word, and glamour, Djuwa creates a performance that is both healing and confrontational.

Inspiration Mx. CoelaCunt
Mx. CoelaCunt is inspired by the coelacanth: a fish with a crucial role in evolutionary theory. A fish with primitive lungs and fins that move like the limbs of land animals – unnoticed by European scientists, but long known to Comorian fishers.

In Djuwa’s hands Mx. CoelaCunt becomes an icon: a symbol of all that is fluid and uncontainable. Between fish and human, between gender and no gender, between land and sea, between now and forever. The coelacanth becomes a metaphor for the stigmatization and appropriation of all that is not understood. 

“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

Language: Dutch (with English and French; music plays a central role in the performance).