Reignite 2021: Artist Bursaries
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Reignite 2021
A micro-bursary programme which supported six artists working within live performance to enable them to continue their work in the challenging times of COVID.
Whiskey Chow: You must everywhere wander 你必顧盼
This work showcases an imaginative queer masculine body-scape, where the spices used in Chinese cooking grow as spectacular natural landscapes
It is a hybrid of filmed performance, CGI animation and sound art drawing on Chinese myth and a sense of belonging from an Asian queer diasporic perspective.
Whiskey Chow is a London-based performance artist and Chinese drag king.
You must everywhere wander 你必顧盼 debuted at ‘Queering Now 酷兒鬧 2021: Dreamality’
Local Foreigner: Just An Other Crossing
This project places audiences in the middle of a channel crossing journey using virtual reality and the live amplification of their heart beats.
A collaboration with photographer and film maker Manuel Vason who captured the artists journey across the channel in 360° film.
Local Foreigner makes work in response to the confused socio-political climate surrounding ideas of locality and foreignness.
Performed at Folkestone Fringe during the 2021 Triennial
Pink Suits: Closet Bodies
A live dance theatre performance and multi media arts exhibition exploring gender roles, identity, fantasy, expression and the complexities of being ‘closeted’.
Through punk rage, dance improvisation, music and theatrical imagery pink suits immerse you into an imaginarium of gender non conformity and radical self love…
pink suits are a Non Binary, Queer Feminist Punk Rock & Rage duo based in Margate, UK
Eirini Kartsaki: LUXURIA
From the depths of the mediterranean, the darkest corners of the ocean emerges LUXURIA, the seaweed monster. Her labia is so long it resembles a beast, a beast, a linguine beast, her tummy is pushing, it’s pushing, and there is some seaweed coming out of her seaweed coming out of her seaweed coming out of her tubes, her eels, her eels, and she is lactating orange juice.
Eirini Kartsaki is a performance practitioner, writer and Lecturer in Drama at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex.
Tink Flaherty: Benched
“Sitting side by side with a stranger always makes me feel at ease, a feeling that I often struggle to achieve as an autistic person trying to connect in a neuro-typical world.”
Benched is an intimate performance about fleeting relationships with unlikely people in unlikely places. It’s about a search for spontaneous connection in a world that has us turning away from each other.
Tink Flaherty is an artist making intimate, provocative work exploring disability, class and connectivity.
Rodent: The Big Bad Wolf
A cabaret performance for children ages 6+ exploring ideas around anxiety, joy and being your true self.
Rodent is a Creature Performer who comes out late at night….
