“Will You Marry Me?”

Igor Shugaleev, Belarusian actor and performer A drag stand-up performance built around the question: “Please, will you marry me?” — addressed to citizens of EU countries. Conceptually, the performance continues until an actual marriage is registered. The project highlights the brutality, absurdity, and tragedy of the realities migrants face in the process of legalization. “The idea emerged from a common joke among my friends and me: exhausted and disillusioned by the search for ways to legalize our stay in the EU, we often say it might be ‘easier’ to enter a sham marriage just to obtain the long-awaited documents.”