Criminal Queers
Chris Vargas Eric A Stanley
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
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Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.