Splayed Festival 2020 | Interactive Digital Brochure

SPLAYED FESTIVAL 2020 WED 14 - SUN 18 OCT

Artwork by Eve Stainton

e Queer iv t p u r is D f o n An Eruptio al Arts it ig D & s e c n a m r Perfo

SPLAYED FESTIVAL

AN ERUPTION OF DISRUPTIVE QUEER PERFORMANCES & DIGITAL ARTS A NOTE FROM AMY BELL, ARTIST AND CURATOR OF SPLAYED FESTIVAL If queerness is about disrupting norms, then 2020 is already a pretty queer year. Now more than ever, what we thought we knew about bodies, gender, power, desire, violence, connection and performance is vibrating, being upended and reimagined.

Splayed brings together a cluster of subversive artists energised by queerness as an approach to creativity. With moving bodies at its heart, the festival offers up a fistful of bold new work, buzzing with urgency, experimentation and defiance. You’re invited to delve into live and pre-recorded performances, films, video essays, discussions, audio works and choreographic provocations. Watch online or in the flesh, live or when it suits you.

We hope Splayed creates space to upend expectations and celebrate the richness of throwing convention into question, setting new possibilities rubbing up against each other.

CAJ COLLAB WITH...

NANDO MESSIAS AND REBECCA BELLANTONI LIVE ONLINE WED 14 OCT 7.30PM (BST) Facilitated by Michael Kitchin and Eve Veglio-White, CAJ COLLAB invites two artists who have never worked together before and gives them one day to create a performance.

HOW TO WATCH When you book for the event you will be sent a link and password to access the screening on Wed 14 Oct at 7.30pm (BST).

PRICE Pay what you can.

Photos by Holly Revell and Katarzyna Perlak

In this edition, audiences can witness the unique chemistry and the sparks that fly when the creative minds of artists Nando Messias and Rebecca Bellantoni collide.

EVE STAINTON

WITH JOSEPH FUNNELL AND GABY AGIS RUBBY SUCKY FORGE LIVE AT THE PLACE

THU 15 OCT 7.30PM (BST)

Working with the idea that metal has emotional edges, Rubby Sucky Forge takes a queer form of multiple atmospheres placed next to one another that cross contaminate in transition.

Material inhabiting these atmospheres are: metal bars, people, video collage, tank traps, cigarette lighters, interaction, other invisible things like waves, imagination and drama. Sequences of conflict and a psychedelic horror that can be caused from being in proximity to the cold harshness of constructs. Anger or fear aren't always bad things.

HOW TO WATCH Watch live at The Place.

PRICE £10

Artwork by Eve Stainton

The Place, in partnership with And What Queer Arts Festival, will open its doors for the first live performance since lockdown with the premiere of Eve Stainton’s Rubby Sucky Forge.

CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM QUANIMACY THU 15 OCT

LISTEN ONLINE UNTIL FRI 13 NOV

Part biography, part technique, part conversation Quanimacy is an intimate testimony from Cunningham on the evolution of a practice which developed from and gave rise to the self-recognition of a queer plural body of flesh, bone and crutches.

The work will also exist as a piece of writing to be read if preferred.

HOW TO LISTEN When you book for Quanimacy you will be sent a link and password to access the audio work from Thu 15 Oct, 10am (BST).

PRICE FREE but booking is essential.

Artwork by Claire Cunningham

Quanimacy is a new spoken word audio work from disabled artist and choreographer Claire Cunningham, exploring and articulating their bespoke dance technique Quanimacy, from the concept of queer animacy.

TRIPLE BILL

MELE BROOMES | MALIK NASHAD SHARPE & ELLEN FUREY | ROSANA CADE & IVOR MACASKILL +

LIVE DISCUSSION ON QUEERNESS AND EMBODIMENT LIVE ONLINE FRI 16 OCT 7.30PM (BST) HOW TO WATCH

PRICE

When you book for the event you will be sent a link and password to access the screening on Fri 16 Oct at 7.30pm (BST).

Pay what you can.

MELE BROOMES

NEVER ENDING JOURNEY WITH LOVE AND SORROW. MANIFESTATIONS OF LOVE AND SOLIDARITY #3

WATCH ONLINE UNTIL SAT 14 NOV

In this short film captured on a mobile phone, Mele embeds herself in the greenery and views of the breathtaking landscape of the West Coast of Scotland. She lets the sound of her voice and her movement do the ‘talking’ as she explores a new process in understanding and developing video and vocal work.

MALIK NASHAD SHARPE & ELLEN FUREY BUSINESS INSIDER

An ocean between them can’t stop regular collaborators London-based Malik Nashad Sharpe and Montreal-based Ellen Furey from working together on this adaptation of live materials for the video format.

Business Insider is a choreographic video-based enquiry into co-authorship in performance, which draws on Malik and Ellen’s solo aesthetics, practices, and beliefs.

WATCH ONLINE UNTIL FRI 23 OCT

CADE & MACASKILL PRESENTING OUR SELVES

WATCH ONLINE UNTIL SAT 14 NOV

The shows are cancelled, the nightclubs are closed, and nobody’s buying what we’re selling.

Photo by Theo Seddon

Artists and lovers Cade & MacAskill contemplate what is lost (besides money) when their queer bodies don’t get to be on stage, and what gets sucked out of them through the audience’s gaze when they do. In this new video work, specially created for Splayed, they tenderly scrutinise the ways they have used the framing of live performance to discover, embody, and own their shifting identities before your very eyes.

AZARA

JUST ANOTHER DAY AND NIGHT LIVE AT THE PLACE SAT 17 OCT 7.30PM (BST) Flitting between rhythmical dialogue, poetry and breakdance, Azara struggles to shrug off questions about race, gender, sexuality and just dance!

HOW TO WATCH Watch live at The Place.

PRICE £10

Video by Holly Revell

Azara, a charismatic performer and storyteller, accompanied by two live drummers, will take a socially distanced audience on her journey proving that intimacy doesn’t have to mean proximity.

FRINGE! QUEER FILM & ARTS FEST SPLAYED X FRINGE! OUR BODIES CAN FLY

FILMS AVAILABLE UNTIL MON 16 NOV

SUN 18 OCT 7.30PM (BST) Gliding on the counter currents of possibility, when you are really on the edge, instead of falling, you fly...

Tune in online for a screening of short films presented by Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest that celebrate LGBTIQA+ stories from around the world.

Stay online after the screening for a Q&A with the film directors and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest programmer Josefeen Foxter.

HOW TO WATCH When you book for the event you will be sent a link and password to access the screening and live Q&A on Sun 18 Oct at 7.30pm (BST).

PRICE FREE but booking is essential.

Image taken from This is for Us directed by Shanel Edwards

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