Essential Information
| Type | Events and festivals |
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| Location |
In Greenwich
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| Date and Times | POSTPONED due to illness |
| Prices | POSTPONED |
*** POSTPONED due to illness ***
Join poet and performance-maker SL Grange and trans*disciplinary artist E.M. Parry by the Thames for a live artistic performance, uncovering queer and unruly maritime histories and the ghosts of the foreshore.
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Created by E.M. Parry, Fag Ends is a multi-stranded, ongoing work, in which the artist stages the trans body as a site of un-remembering. Using centuries-old tobacco-pipe shards mudlarked from and returned to the Thames, they mark out a map of queer time, traced in the surrogate bones of the unknowable dead.
This performance features interventions from SL Grange's Smoke Trails poetry improvisation. Poet SL Grange will generate text in conversation with these unknown others, allowing them to speak back. Voicing both materials and lives that have been marginalised, discarded or erased, the resulting poetry also generates and leaves gaps into which the living and the dead dream each other.
Event information
Gather to watch the performance by the steps to the foreshore behind the Royal Naval Colleges, directly in line with the Queen’s House.
Timings are approximate, depending on tidal and weather conditions. Please note, the foreshore is unstable terrain and caution is advised.
About the performers
E.M. Parry is a transgender, trans-disciplinary artist, working with, through and for the queer body, squinting at history, flirting with ghosts & the things that go bump in the margins. Transient and ephemeral, their work flickers between durational performance, kinetic sculpture, drag act and ritual, blurring the lines between artefact & event.
SL Grange is a poet, performance-maker and queer historian whose work foregrounds conversational and emergent practices, often with and for the unruly dead, often in archives of all kinds.