1-800-LONGING4IT is a one-on-one live performance that happens late at night on the phone.Mass Hysteria - an all female, multinational collective of twelve performers based in London - have invited Leah Marojević to create a new work for them in a time when disembodied intimacy and loneliness soar across our present and into the foreseeable. Audiences are invited to book a time-slot with an individual from the collective to experience an intimate sound performance/conversation suspended in the imaginative space shared between two bodies.

This work employs the format of phone sex hotlines and personal ads as a means to problematise how virtual connection and female bodies are consumed. These audio choreographies comprise twelve fictional fantasies that serve to queer normative power roles, prioritise care, pleasure and dreaming and momentarily release both performer and audience from reality… if you’re LONGING4IT, call now!

TICKETS AND HOW TO BOOK

Saturday 6th February: 1-800-LONGING4IT by Mass Hysteria Collective / Leah Marojević

Sweet Escape

(£2 )

All tickets for the festival can be booked here: www.presentfutures.org/tickets

*Please submit your phone number with area code on Eventbrite when purchasing your ticket

**Please ensure you will be available to receive a call at the time you select to book, calls will last between 10-15 minutes each. The call will come from a withheld number, and after three missed calls your slot will be skipped.

ABOUT PRESENT FUTURES DIGITAL

Present Futures Glasgow 2021 is the fourth edition of a multi - disciplinary art event curated by Colette Sadler and produced by Feral in partnership with CCA .The 2021 digital edition will happen from 5th - 7th Feb 2021. This iteration of the festival will be re-imagined as a virtual space and prism through which the local and global can come together to consider post humanism, bodily representation and speculative futures with artistic experimentation at its core. Presenting a collection of short film, artist moving image, immersive audio, online discussion and workshops the digital edition of Present Futures will highlight Scottish and International artists whose work operates between performance, film, visual art and sound.

The 2021 festival will continue an artistic and scientific enquiry into the field of human/non-human relations and entanglements. What is the future of relationships between human and artificial agencies? How do we position ourselves as individuals and collectively within an ever evolving post-humanist world view? How are artists utilising virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotic engineering and synthetic biology to probe hybridisation and new interspecies relations? To what extent are artists reflecting utopian or dystopian futures in their work?

Featuring contributions from artists including KEIKAN, Simon Senn, Alicia Matthews & Robbie Thomson, Colette Sadler in collaboration with Mikko Gaestel & Heiko Tubbesing, Justin Shoulder, Mass Hysteria Collective & Leah Marojević, Wong Ping, Tim Murray-Browne & Panagiotis Tigas, Samir Kennedy, Soojin Chang, Hamshya Rajkumar, Clarinda Tse, Laura Fisher, Siri Black, Jake Elwes, Libby Odai, Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir.

For information on the full programme, access and how to experience the festival visit: www.presentfutures.org/programme

CREDITS

Supported by Creative Scotland, The Work Room, Centre for Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Tramway.