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SUMMARY:Some Kind Of Bliss
DESCRIPTION:Some Kind of Bliss is not a performance you watch. \nIt’s a zone you enter. There’s no stage. Only presence. No protagonist—only fragments. \nRooted in the lived experiences of the Pan-Asian queer diaspora in London\, this piece reclaims small acts of transgression—taking an onion\, leaving a broken speaker\, a fake eyelash in the sink—as gestures of survival\, desire\, and self-making in the face of urban alienation. \nInspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of the Rhizome\, the work builds a post-linear\, anti-hierarchical structure. There is no fixed center. No clear start or end. Each performer generates their own territory. Each audience member\, by entering\, reshapes the space. It’s self-organizing. Nomadic. Improvised. \nWe don’t just talk about queerness—we queer performance itself. The structure\, the temporality\, the syntax. In this performance\, language breaks into what I call a divaricate tongue—cursed\, forked\, overflowing with semantics but void of clear meaning. When we speak in the borrowed tongue of another’s system\, our words crack. Our grammar glitches. But grammar never saved us. Only gesture does. \nThe toilet becomes a symbolic stage—a space without spectators. We shit\, we clean\, we think. These gestures\, in their solitude\, become public. Intimate spaces turn into sites of collective awkwardness\, overexposure\, refusal. It’s not purification—it’s revelation. \nThis is a place of displacement—not just thematically\, but structurally\, temporally\, emotionally. It moves sideways. It doesn’t belong. But it connects. We are not interested in being part of a named form. Once you’ve felt the soft\, undefined structure of queer community\, you can’t go back. You don’t want to. – \n  \nDirected by Shuwent @shuwent_ \nProduction: \nSherr(Yixue Gao) @yixue.exe \nPeng Yuanqinghe @penguin0o0oo \nPerformers (A-Z) \nBabyangelanqi @babyangelanqii \nCalvin @calvintcao \nHuman @humanitself \nMars @chmmars \nQingqing Liu @weeeekdu \nShuya \nShuwent @shuwent_ \nCostume \nHuman @humanitself \nLesslie @leslesslie \nArt Design \nRuby @rubyyo.o \nMusic Live \nGreg @gre9_d \nPrensented by Pharos \n@pharos_london \nExhibition \nThe Great Doll：Two-Year Retrospective of PHAROS\nOutside of the performance\, we’re also presenting a two-year retrospective exhibition at the ground floor. \nFrom Beijing to London\, Pharos celebrates over two years of radical queer performance with a retrospective of our core series. This exhibition revisits five works from the VOL performance series and selected moments from Golden Prostitute\, tracing our evolving language of resistance\, ritual\, and re-imagined identity. Through theatre\, drag\, and embodied mythologies\, we reflect on what it means to gather\, to fracture\, and to begin again.\n\n \n* We warmly welcome audiences from neurodiverse\, LGBTQ+\, cross-cultural\, and disabled communities. This is a space for shared presence and care. \nAccessibility:\n• The venue is partially wheelchair accessible. Please contact us in advance for assistance.\n• The performance involves standing and moving through different zones. \nNeurodiversity Friendly： This is a sensory-rich environment with fluctuating sound and lighting. Quiet zones are available. Please reach out for a sensory guide or support.
URL:https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/pharos/
LOCATION:Hub / Garage\, 49 Tanner Street\, London\, SE1 3PL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Upcoming
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