This performance is part of an ongoing series that pays tribute to LGBTQIA+ communities through the intertwining of history, folklore and ritual.
This performance is part of an ongoing series that pays tribute to LGBTQIA+ communities through the intertwining of history, folklore and ritual. Inspired by Arthur Evans’s Witchraft and the Gay Counter-culture (1978), it reactivates queer symbols and gestures that have largely disappeared, treating them not as historical relics but as living material.
The centre of the work is the desire to reclaim, disrupt and transform these codes by layering them with ritual, mythology and personal memory. The performance unfolds within a temporary installation of some personal performative archives, altered everyday objects and symbolic elements that are gradually activated through a sequence of slow, repetitive actions.
Moving between vulnerability and resistance, intimacy and collective history, the work develops a gestural language shaped by ritual practices and monstrous figures. Fear is not concealed but exposed as a material of transformation. Rather than reconstructing the past, the performance proposes an embodied and unstable archive in which traces of queer histories continue to circulate, shift and acquire new meanings in the present.
Danny’s performance is 60 minutes.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Art and Creation |
TAGS: | Performance | Dunlop Art Gallery | Arts and Creativity | Artist and Author Talks | Art |
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