CUNTEMPORARY EVENTS

Performing Rights Series: Ecologies of Migration
09 April 2019

A selection of performance videos reflecting on how stories of migration, border-crossing and refuge-seeking are integrated within ecological discourses from queer, feminist and decolonial perspectives.

DEEP TRASH Eco Trash
Friday 19 April 2019

Deep Trash Eco Trash delves into our present day ecological dystopia to explore alternative futures for our planet and all the diverse creatures within it.

In Residency: Xavier de Sousa & Andre Neely
05-07 April 2019

Starting from historical effervescent political protests, Xavier De Sousa and Andre Neely's residency investigates the potential of domino-effect actions that grow out of our personal and collective awareness of the urgency of environmental activism.

Local Dialogues – Global Movements
Sat 06 April 2019

A day-long eco-fair with performances, talks, and screenings, showcasing local and global activisms on site the exhibition Staring at the Sun.

Weaving Local Voices

Workshop sessions led by Raisa Kabir explore how weaving can respond to the ways women’s labour is exploited in the textile industries.

Mother The Verb: Workshop
Sunday 07 April 2019

Rooted in queer and indigenous/of colour worldviews, this 2-part workshop offers the space for participants to complicate the concept of motherhood in relation to our environment.

Mother The Verb
Friday 05 April 2019

Fusing dance, storytelling and audiovisual projections, Mother The Verb is a performance with an air of ritual enacted from queer, trans and indigenous/of colour perspectives.

TRANSITIONAL STATES
01.02.2018 – 15.12.2018

International touring video art exhibition and public programme exploring the role that hormones have in everyday life.

art + activism: queer & feminist visibilities
Friday 27 April 2018

art + activism: queer & feminist visibilities @ UCL Friday 27 April 2018 10.30am — 18.00pm There is a long tradition of employing images and performance a... Read More...

NEW SYSTEMS: QUEER AND FEMINIST CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Saturday 3 March 2018

Presentation and round table discussion at the Royal Academy exploring queer and feminist curatorial strategies.

SUMMIT
Tuesday 13 February 2018

SUMMIT @ MOTH CLUB Tuesday 13 February 2018 10.30am — Wednesday 14 February 2018 23.59pm Tickets: one day £10, both days £15 INFERNO is a club night and com... Read More...

DEEP TRASH Romance
Saturday 10 February 2018

Live art night, screening and exhibition at BGWMC featuring over 50 international artists reflecting on all dark and positive aspects of romance.

Love, Pain & Intimacy in Live Art
Thursday 8 February 2018

Symposium exploring the affective relations involved in live art practices.

PERFORMING THE OCCULT
Thursday 19 October 2017

Symposium at Queen Mary University exploring the magickal and the monstrous in live art through queer-feminist, post-colonial and anti-capitalist perspectives.

POWER, SUBCULTURES & QUEER STAGES
Thursday 27 April 2017

Symposium at Queen Mary University redressing the hierarchy between ‘high art’, style and the political power of performing sexuality within queer communities.

SELF/PORTRAITS: RELATING NARRATIVES
Friday 9 December 2016

Performative screening at Centrespace (Dundee) of 12 visual narratives addressing self-determination, female sexuality, motherhood, ecology and violence.

LIVE ART & THE CYBORG BODY
Thursday 20 October 2016

Symposium at Goldsmiths University where artists and academics explore the idea of the cyborg in its most expanded forms.

SEXUALITY & GENDER IN TIMES OF CRISIS: LIVE ART & FEMINISM IN GREECE
Thursday 20 April 2016

Symposium at Goldsmiths University on manifestations of queer and feminist politics within contemporary performance art in Greece and the diaspora.

Autoritratti
Friday 11 December 2015

Performative screening inspired by the writings of Italian Feminist thinker Carla Lonzi. Hosted at Showroom as part of the NOW YOU CAN GO programme.

SOME LIKE IT WRONG
22-24 May 2015

Exhibition and performance curated for Genderotica Festival (Rome) exploring the relationship between pornography and humour.

PORN & TECH: A DANGEROUS LIAISON
Wednesday 18 February 2015

Workshop for young audiences at FACT Liverpool on art, censorship and sexuality. With an interactive session by artist Diana J. Torres.

NOTES ON QUEER-FEMINIST AESTHETICS
Saturday 21 June 2014

Presentation for the Re-materialising Feminism project at ICA, followed by a book publication addressing new materialism in relation to non-binary sexual politics in art practice.

MERCURIAL BODIES
22 & 30 May 2014

A live art night and roundtable discussion held at MIRO (Limassol) addressing how bodies can challenge normative representations of sexualities and genders.

HARD CAMP
Saturday 17 August 2013

A live art club night held at Resistance Gallery at the provocative crossroads of fetish and camp.

PLAYLIST #03
CUNTEMPORARY @ POINT CENTRE, NICOSIA
Wednesday 24 July 2013

Presentation and video installation on queer contemporary Cypriot artists at Point Centre (Nicosia).

GUERRILLA PORNFARE
ART & THE POLITICS OF PORN
Saturday 13 July 2013

Screening at ]performancespace[ concerned with the intersections of performance art and pornography, in the context of changing experiences of everyday technologies.

HAPPINESS NOW?
10-27 March 2013

Exhibition and public programme at Guest Projects on alternative notions of happiness through feminist, queer and affective methodologies.

EVENTS

Queer-feminist Ecocriticism in Live Art & Visual Cultures
Saturday 13 April 2019

SF Trans*Plant
09-13 April 2019

Staring at the Sun
05-14 April 2019

PROJECTS

DEEP TRASH Turkish Delight
Friday 20 March 2020

Ecofutures Festival Programme
04-19 April 2019

Water Makes Us Wet
11 April 2019