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Discharge

  • Ugly Duck 49 Tanner St, London SE1 3PL (map)

“DISCHARGE was a notorious performance art event dedicated to presenting difficult, radical and marginalised performance work. Curated by artist Martin O'Brien and hosted by kink and fetish clubs in London, DISCHARGE embraced the endless possibilities of the performance space for aesthetic, physical, and political art and experimentation.

Marking the end of Martin's project ‘An Eternity of Nothingness or The (Im)possibility of Living On’, DISCHARGE returns with a special one-off event making space to think queerly about living and dying.

The talks, conversations and performances reflect on sickness, sex, queerness, death, disability, mourning and (im)mortality.”

Symposium  

  • Key Note: Martin O’Brien 

  • End(ing) Times panel with Kelechi Anucha, Patricia MacCormack, Sam McBean and chaired by Swati Arora  

  • Live Art, Dead Art panel with Anne Bean, Oreet Ashery, Rubiane Maia and chaired by Lois Keidan

    Performance art actions, sonic activations, dance and kinky goings on from: 

    • Emilyn Claid

    • Anne Bean and Ansuman Bisawsa

    • Maya Williams

    • Ash McNaughton

    • zack mennell 

    • Electric Adam

    • Pianka Pärna

Images - Manuel Vason

Videography and editing by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi

Later Event: August 4
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