trans[*] glocal
performingbordersLIVE24
Information
This event is sold-out – please email boxoffice@bac.org.uk to be added to a waiting list. We will contact you if a ticket becomes available
Times: 4.45pm – 7pm
Tickets: FREE
Running Time: 2 hours 15 mins (no interval)
This event takes place in person in our Recreation Room and will be BSL interpreted
trans[*] glocal sees three bodies from three time zones (Mexico, India, UK) cross trans-local and global borders.
In this participatory performance gathering, each body plays a crucial contextual role in a unique ecosystem of resistance and re-existence.
For this year’s event, performingborders invites Raju Rage (UK) who will be digitally joined by guest performance artists Kaur Chimuk (India) and Nad MA (Mexico) to engage the audience in collectively delving into performative collaborative methods. The gathering will also be attended by writer Heba Hayek, who will later respond with a written piece.
Presenting approaches that extend across territories, trans[*] glocal examines practices, languages, and contexts while building potential new ecologies and alternative presents within their contexts and beyond.
This exchange is an open-source resource in the formation of a growing network, using flux and decolonial toolkits, and revising post-archival documentation methods.
Credits
Curated by performingborders
Artists: Raju Rage in collaboration with Kaur Chimuk (India) and Nad MA (Mexico)
performingbordersLIVE24 is created and produced by performingborders, with support from Battersea Arts Centre and funding from Arts Council England, Necessity Fund, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Biographies
performingborders
performingborders is a collectively run platform for artistic research and creation, focused on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders through international live art and performance practices.
Drawing from the knowledge shared by the contributors of the platform, performingborders has over the years created a digital and live tapestry of interconnected, transnational experiments through interviews, artist commissions, open calls, publications, residencies, workshops, conversations, events, newsletters, and performingbordersLIVE. All our work is freely accessible online.
Co-run by Alessandra Cianetti, Xavier de Sousa and Anahí Saravia Herrera, in collaboration with guest curators, thinkers, artists, activists and researchers.
https://performingborders.live
Raju Rage
Raju Rage (UK) uses art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Their practice is expansive, combining print, sculpture, installation, writing, audio-video, anti/performance, workshops, culinary arts, curation + more. They are a member of Collective Creativity and Another Roadmap decolonial art-education collectives and a creative educator/independent scholar using radical pedagogy. Working transglobally, they have a theirstory in queer/transgender/people of colour social movements from which their creative practice draws on / from.
Kaur Chimuk
Kaur Chimuk (India) is an independent curatorial decolonial methodologist exploring trans(non)binary viewership in collective research. Based in South-East Asia, they work between India, Bangladesh, and Sweden with Meteor International. Kaur co-founded TAC (Tracing A City) in India, facilitating collective research initiatives. They consult on cultural exchanges and curatorial programs, collaborating with platforms like Inventory Platform (UK), Bom Artist Residency (Sweden), and Zmayat (Bangladesh-India).
Nad MA
Nad MA (Mexico) is a graphic artist, community arts worker, performer, dissident geographer and massage therapist, centring free pedagogies focused on art/body/space/gender. They facilitate workshops on corporeal awareness, collective mapping, graphic and audiovisual arts, collective care in arts and drag performance. They belong to the Feral engraving workshop, DescuartizadoraHack and Red King Latinoamericana collectives.
Heba Hayek
Heba Hayek is a palestinian london-based author, workshop facilitator, and communication consultant. Rooted in de-colonial and indigenous practices, Heba’s work pushes the boundaries of supremacist norms, engaging in various exploration of what lies beyond these constraints. She is committed to cultivating liberatory conditions amidst a backdrop of deep individualism and desensitization. Positioned on the other side of the Canon, Heba seeks out the stories of those who reject the limitations of traditional archives and resist imposed terms of visibility. Heba is also a communication consultant who is passionate about projects that centre the nourishment and cultivation of working class, immigrant, queer, and global majority folk. Heba holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, Ohio, where she taught composition and rhetoric, as well as creative writing, for two years. In 2019, she moved to London to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at SOAS University. Heba’s debut book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies won the 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a 2021 Book of the Year by The White Review, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab.
Access
PRE EVENT INFORMATION
This event takes place in person in our Recreation Room. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.
This performance will be BSL interpreted.
If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.
PERSONAL ASSISTANT/COMPANION TICKETS
If you require the assistance of a friend or helper to attend, we can make a free ticket available for your companion. You can book access companion tickets online or contact the Box Office to book by emailing access@bac.org.uk.
To book a free access companion online:
- log in to your account here
- go to ‘Other preferences’ and tick ‘I require a personal assistant/companion’.
- Choose the performance, date and seats you would like and if you add at least 2 tickets to your basket, then one of these will automatically become free.
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
- Potential nudity
This performance will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.
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