SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together!) (Carlos Motta, John Arthur Peetz, Carlos Maria Romero), initially with Joshua Hubbard, Carlos Mauricio Rojas, Claudia Palazzo, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Despina Zacharopoulou, and joined later by Krishna Istha, Elijah W Harris, Joshua Serafin, Tokyo De Ville, Camilo Godoy, Jason Guevara/Jenn D’Role, Vivian Crockett, Manu Mojito, Daniela Gonzalez, Manuela Zapata, Honey Vergony, Astergio Indalecio Pinto Apüshana and Mati Gonzalez.
The SPIT! Manifesto was a series of performance interventions at Frieze Projects London (2017) that used speech acts and performative gestures inspired by queer manifestos from the 1960s to the present. SPIT! wrote a series manifestos that respond to contemporary pressing issues of sexual and gender oppression and invited performers Joshua Hubbard, Carlos Mauricio Rojas, Claudia Palazzo, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley, and Despina Zacharopoulou to interpret, (in cases) rewrite, and perform them.
SPIT! also published The SPIT! Manifesto Reader bringing together a selection of historical and contemporary queer manifestos to create a dialogue between radical queer histories past and present. The reader was distributed for free during the performances and is available online here: SPIT! (PDF)
Frieze Projects curator: Raphael Gygax. Frieze Projects Production: Keziah Goudsmit, Lewis Gilbert and Holly India Shuttleworth.
Trailer for The SPIT! Manifesto by Laura Bushell for Frieze Projects
SPIT! has been presented at:
-Kirik, Istanbul, 2021 / Video online screened 25 November- 9 December, 2021
-Skopje Pride Weekend, 2021 / Performance + handout with manifestos in Macedonian
-‘and if i devoted my life to one of its feathers’, Kunsthalle Vienna, 2021 / Video in group exhibition
-Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2020 / Video online
-‘RIOT’, Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, 2019 / Performance
-BOFFO, Performance Art Festival, 2019 / Performance
-3 Periodica, Bogotá, 2019 / Manifesto in Spanish on printed magazine
-‘Carlos Motta: Conatus’, PPow Gallery, New York, 2019 / Video in solo exhibition
-‘I Apologise’, France, 2018 / Manifestos on zin
-Verbo, Performance Art Festival, São Paulo, 2018 / Manifestos in Portuguese printed in festival catalogue
-Odeon -Intensivo-, Bogotá, 2018 / Performance + handout with manifestos in Spanish
-'Debes seguir - No puedo seguir - Seguiré', espacio odeón, Bogotá, 2018 / Performance in group exhibition + handout with manifestos in Spanish
-The London Summit: Queering Space, 2018 / Performance
-Queer Migrant Takeover: Deeper Routes, London, 2018 / Performance
-Queer Migrant Take Over, Latitude Festival, UK, 2018 / Performance
-PRIDE: Past, Present and Future, UAL, Bishops Gate Institute, London, 2018 / Performance
-Love Lazers, Bogotá, 2018 / Manifesto in Spanish, German and English in website + Public readings
-Femmetopia Festival, Vogue Fabrics Dalston, London, 2018 / Performance
-Talking HIV Stigma during Stick It To Stigma, Canvas Cafe, London, 2018 / Performance
-Queer Cafe at Lush - Summit, London, 2018 / Performance
-Beyond The Binary, Lomography, London, 2018 / Performance
-Section 28 Tribute Night - 30 years on, Queer Tours of London, 2018 / Performance
-Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, Weekends, Paris, 2018 / Readers in group exhibition
-Frieze Projects, London, 2017 / Performance + handout of the Reader
Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley: We The Enemy Manifesto (rewritten by Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley)
All photos by Lewis Ronald
Joshua Hubbard: The Faggot Manifesto
Claudia Palazzo: The PrEP Manifesto
Malik Nashad Sharpe: The Anti-Assimilation Manifesto (rewritten by Malik Nashad Sharpe)
Despina Zacharopoulou: We The Enemy Manifesto
Carlos Mauricio Rojas: The Anti-Assimilation Manifesto (rewritten by Carlos Mauricio Rojas)