This April we are delighted to invite artist and Axis member Elly Clarke into our community to lead on events and activities throughout the month.

Elly Clarke is an artist interested in the performance and burden (‘the drag’) of the physical body in a digitally mediated world, as well as what Elly calls the ‘snapping-to-grid’ of templates both offline and online. Elly explores this through video, analogue and digital photography, music, community-based projects and #Sergina, a multi-bodied, border-straddling drag queen who sings and performs songs about love, lust and loneliness in the mesh of hyper-dis/connection. View Elly's Axis portfolio here

Join us tonight for this collective presentation and online exhibition opening! This online exhibition was collectively dragged & conjured up by nine participants of a two hour workshop run by Elly Clarke on 12 April - with people joining from the UK, Switzerland, Belgium and India.

Exhibitors worked together to playfully curate, conjure up an exhibition out of found objects brought from their homes or workspaces during the 2-hour workshop on the 12 of April.

Through individual and collective writing, role play and discussion, they explored the stories these objects might tell – alone, and in dialogue with others.

They imagined these objects in different disguises – [different drags] - the art object, the archival fragment, the historical artefact, the evidence, and others.

Finally they placed these objects together as an exhibition, complete with interpretative texts and a collectively-written curatorial statement.

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Axis is committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities, recognising that a disability can affect people in different ways. If you have an access requirement that you feel might impact your ability to attend or take part in this event, please contact Lucy on lucy@axisweb.org in advance and we will do our best to help you. Closed caption live transcription is available as standard at all Zoom events.

This event will NOT be recorded

Dragging Up An Exhibition: An unlikely cast of characters

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