The Right to Protest, Performance Night

PERFORMANCE NIGHT

Evening of performance that responds to The Right to Protest and Pro Radix mission statement:

We are nature We are citizens

Stand radical in the centre of uncertainty

Make new rivers with vulnerable fierce improvisation

Knowing this is your community

Serena Bobowski

For The Right to Protest Serena performs her piece SeeHearSpeak. Using the concept of the Three Wise Monkeys, the performer covers her eyes, ears, and mouth to shut out her uncomfortable surroundings only to connect with her internal pain. An emotional rollercoaster! 20 mins.

Elly Clarke

#Sergina's Desperately Delicious Dirty Data Delivery - Participatory Edition!! Including Demonstrate Your Data & Live Data Discharge. The project explores how refusing to [be] clean/ed [up] can be a [queer draggy] form of protest in the data-discharging, data-lapping context. 2x 30 mins. (One to happen earlier in the day).

Stuart Semple - timing TBC

Zero Fucks. Participatory performance arranged as if you have come to give blood, but you come to give a fuck in person, online, or give a fuck to a friend.

Alexis Bamforth

Short performance Cuffs about workers, and a participatory performance, Water about the interconnected nature of humans, a piece which may also become a physical work, possibly the largest work of land art ever. 5 mins.

Plowman and Cummins

Experimental clown duo. More info soon.

Arthur Poujois

A durational piece with a bed. More info soon.

+ additonal special guest perfromers

About the artists:

Serena Bobowski - traverses the worlds of arts and healing. Founder of the mind-blowingly inventive Shunt collective 1999-2014, Serena played an integral part in the birth of Immersive Theatre as well as creating a supportive space for all artists to collaborate. Her recent projects include: The Crone Interviews & The Body Evolution Program, relating to menopause & bodily connection.

Elly Clarke - collaborative & participatory artist, interested in the impact that networks, mobility and communication technology have on our relationships with ourselves, other people and the environment as well as on our experience of history and the ways in which histories are learned and narrated.

Stuart Semple - is a multidisciplinary British artist whose practice spans painting, performance, internet art, and installation. His works adopt a sociological lens to explore themes of youth politics, mass culture, image, technology, and anxiety. Often activist in nature, his broader projects frequently strive for fairness, equality, and access, particularly within the arts.

Alexis Bamforth - artist & ecology catalyst who explores relationships between the natural world and socio-economic systems. Evolved from Conceptual, Land art and Arte Povera, he uses cultural references to discuss ideas around human and nature equality. His multidisciplinary work has probed social trends and humankind's affects on Earth since 1989.

Plowman and Cummins - experimental clown duo Sally Plowman & Cailin Cummins. Their work is informed by the connection, subversion and silliness of clowning with a focus on collaborative working methods to think about looping, infinite failure, and the meaning of possession and use.