ROTTEN: crip imaginings

A NIGHT OF QUEER DISABLED PERFORMANCE AND LAUNCH OF ROTTEN VOL.1

ROTTEN CRIP IMAGININGS

Rotten is a crip collective of disabled artists wanting to create a space for crippled/disabled/neurodiverse/mad people to meet together, talk and create and this event explores the disabled right to get F*cked up and Nasty!

A NIGHT OF QUEER DISABLED PERFORMANCE AND LAUNCH OF ROTTEN VOL.1

come all to shake your bones, tap your sticks, rev your wheels and sit yourself down to watch a night of disabled queer performance and music

We have a live durational performance from Néa Ishana Ranganathan. Their practice centres the documentation of Tamil homeland through participatory land-based mapping and broken translation. He is interested in sculpting with bodies in colonial landscapes and divided waters as a way of imagining moments for ancestral grief and radical futurism. Néa makes site-responsive work in the curatorship duo shelf/break, which invites and hosts transitional spaces for emerging artists through intimate moments of community.

And taking to the stage we have:

Shikhandi , a bharatanatyam dancer (traditional Indian dance form), performing a dance to the Mahishasuramardini stotram, a prayer in praise of Goddess Durga defeating a demon.

X.O clowning around and dragging it up

Tall child , a South East London based musician of Nigerian/Indian heritage paving the way for black artists in the indie music scene, exploring their identity as a disabled POC through honest lyricism and dreamy music.

MY PUSSY TASTES LIKE MICROPLASTICS bringing us a tribute to disabled artist Katherine Araniello, as well as an entourage of loud crip wonder

And finally, Herman's military antiques bringing the bang and the crash and boom - eclectic and wonderful!

we will also be launching ROTTEN vol.1 :crip imaginings - a culmination of our workshops and research in our residence in pie house for the past few months . Exploring crip theory and community through creative speculative ways. 64 pages of full colour crip art work, essays, short stories exploring crip utopias and beasts .

We will also have ZINE BOX facilitating queer made zines for free/low cost.

BSL interpreter + live captioning TBC please email if you have any access concerns - a member of our core team is a native signer.

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Who can come?

All are welcome

This is a disabled led collective and the space we are making is for disabled people, open to all who call them selves disabled, mad, crippled, sick, neurodiverse etc but this event is a night to celebrate the overlap of queerness and disability justice , and is open to all!

We use the social definition of disability: anyone who is disabled by barriers in society

if you are still exploring your own connection to disability, a disabled companion or part of a disabled persons support network you are welcome to explore it in this space

Access information

The Piehouse coop is a fully level access, with large, open communal spaces, accessible loo and lowered bar section for wheelchair and short stature use+ fitted with a HEPA air filter

This a nut free and scent free event please don't bring any food with nuts or wear heavy perfume,

Being verbal is not needed in this space

BSL interpreter TBC (being booked will share updates once we have) please email if you have any aditional access concerns

Masks encouraged and provided

See our pinned post on instagram for information on traveling to and from the venue made by a wheelchair user, and contact us for any additional access requirements or questions :)

ROTTEN OUT

XOXO