Based on ongoing research, the Entanglements of the Apocalypse programme critically reinterprets the idea of apocalypse through queer and trans views, actively resisting capitalist and colonial narratives that frame apocalypse as a singular or final event.
Invited collaborators include: Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Carefuffle Working Group, Black Quantum Futurism, Dani d’Emilia, Catherine Hoffmann, Mijke van der Drift, Zissel Aronow, Hannah Fair, Bassam, Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Rose Choreographic School – with more artists to be announced.
“Drawing inspiration from Oxana Timofeeva’s concept of apocalypse as a cyclical and continuous condition, this programme engages with apocalypse as an ongoing transformative process that shapes collective memory and artistic practices.”
Mine Kaplangı
Trans Get Down: Hospicing He-Man at the Bitter End
Friday, 26th September, 7-9 pm at VSSL Studio. (doors open 6:45pm)
A performance talk by Mijke van der Drift (text) and Zissel Aronow (visuals). More information on Mijke, Zissel, and further details of this event and tickets are available through VSSL Studio.
“Patriarchy’s tantrum of death sees attacks on trans people, refugees, migrants, and “politics of inclusion”, which is shorthand for the right to racism and misogyny. The end might come in the guise of climate breakdown, or social uprisings, but it is coming closer, and we are part of it…“
The Pest Confessional
Sunday, 19th October, 2-6 pm at VSSL Studio.
An intimate performance for small groups by Hannah Fair. More information on Hannah and further details of this event and tickets are available through VSSL Studion.
• Each allocated slot runs for 20 minutes.
• Bookable time slots are available: On the hour, 20 past, and 40 past the hour between 2pm (inclusive) & 6pm
• Each performance time has 4 allocated tickets.
• Please arrive 5 minutes before your allocated time slot.
“Rats. Mice. Bed bugs. Flies. Roaches. Fleas. We are in an era of mass extinction, characterised not just by unprecedented socioecological loss, but one of unwanted abundance. The Pest Confessional invites attendees to reckon with everyday and ambivalence more-than-human entanglements…“
VSSL Studio, Enclave 50, Resolution Way, London SE8 4AL, United Kingdom.
