DREDGE
as part of MARTIN O’Brien’s DISCHARGE
at Ugly Duck, London, March 2024.
Marking the end of Martin O’Brien’s year-long Whitechapel Gallery residency (An Eternity of Nothingness or The (Im)possibility of Living On), DISCHARGE was a day of presentations, conversations and performances reflecting on sickness, sex, disability, mourning and practices of living and dying queerly.
This event was a reprise of a notorious performance art event series curated by O’Brien and hosted in kink and fetish clubs in London in the early 2010s. Dedicated to presenting difficult, radical and marginalised performance work, DISCHARGE embraced the endless possibilities of the performance space for aesthetic, physical, and political art and experimentation.
Alongside my work included live performances from Anne Bean and Ansuman Biswas, Electric Adam, Emilyn Claid and Martin O’Brien, Maya Williams, Pianka Pärna, and zack mennell.