sant’agata’s room

a collaboration between a.Monti & Aimé Dabbadie

Sant'Agata's Room is an experimental noise poetry duo and a poetry zine loosely based on Saint Agatha, who had their breasts taken off by Roman persecutors. Two millennia after Agata’s death, the city of Catania celebrates her annually in the third-largest of catholic feasts. AGATA reimagines this story. AGATA writes poetry and makes her own ricotta. AGATA stuffs his mouth with dough and rubs cream all over his scars. AGATA is tender. AGATA is horny. AGATA knows that eating is the most basic and literal way of encountering God and that there are so many things that can happen inside of a mouth: AGATA opens their mouth and invites you in. Come closer. AGATA says: Blasphemy! Amen! Buon Appetito! 

The zine is available for purchase here.

Sant'Agata's Room also features a traveling communal altar, which includes real and imagined saints, queer icons and transcestors, and makeshift ornaments. These pieces are traveling to every performance we do and we encourage you to bring/leave something.