Imagine having to sit in a waiting room for two years for a much-needed medical appointment, and during this time also having to worry about whether you are going to have access that care at the end of that waiting period. An unbearable thought; and yet thousands of trans and non-binary individuals in the Netherlands and Belgium are currently sitting in this suspension waiting to begin their journey within gender-affirming care.
Waiting for transgender care in the Netherlands and Belgium takes far too long - an average of two years for an intake interview. How does it feel to make that waiting time tangible? How does that hold music echo in the minds and souls of those waiting? And how do you keep giving and receiving care in a system so under pressure?
MAS curator Marion Wasserbauer talks to artists exploring these questions:
- The Pink Cube presents OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE, a participatory art project in which the unimaginable waiting time of transgender care is translated into a metre-long, colourful quilt of time. By embroidering, drawing, writing and sewing, participants make visible what it is like to wait - minute by minute, day by day.
- In his solo performance, Bert Roman, former nurse and performer, talks in his solo performance Who Cares about the vulnerability, strength and tenderness of caring in times
Practical information
- When: 7 August, from 19:30 to 21:00
- Where: MASbox
- Free activity
