ASH MCNAUGHTON
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BEATHE FEAR IN. BREATHE GOLD OUT.

BREATHE FEAR IN.

BREATHE GOLD OUT.

COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE WITH VEST AND PAGE, & JOSEPH MORGAN SCHOFIELD. (2025)


A participatory closing performance for Future Rituals festival CEREMONY (III), conceived by VestAndPage in collaboration with Ash McNaughton and Joseph Morgan Schofield, intertwining alienation with intimacy.

Longing for visions of critical utopianism, we create a space where individual and collective experiences converge. We are guided by the transgressive energy of breath, a form of communication and communion. Bodies are suspended in surging, viscous substances emblematic of our epoch—accumulative, smelted, hard coagulate, bound together by a stickiness that remixes the natural and the synthetic in grotesque, poetic hybridity. The audience participates in an immersive unveiling through guided participatory acts, embracing transformation through vulnerability. BREATHE FEAR IN. BREATHE GOLD OUT evokes a collective process of imagining, becoming, and nurturing tender connections.

Peal, reveal, uncover. Breathe.