Events

@DISTURBANCE // SOUTHWARK LGBTQI+ SPECIAL We are over the moon to announce the support from local organisation Team London Bridge to continue our experimentation around dance, performance, video art and live stream with our project @Disturbance. @Disturbance is a platform supporting diversity, underrepresented bodies and voices in the arts. It aims at transcending boundaries between digital &…

@DISTUBANCE: SHOWCASE OF QUEER PERFORMANCES & VIDEO ART TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DIGITAL & PHYSICAL SPACE. https://vimeo.com/543149207 After the success of our first @Disturbance show in October 2020 Ugly Duck are coming back with a new selection of queer experimentations around dance, performance and video art using livestream as our creative medium. On the 24th February…

Niya B | Ekdysis   Single-channel video In Greek mythology, the seer Tiresias was allegedly transformed into a woman for seven years for disturbing two copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene. Niya B re-reads this myth from an eco-transfeminist lens through ritual performances, workshops and sonic explorations. The project is called ‘Ekdysis’ – the biological term referring…

WINGS BY LEAH KIRBY - RESIDENCY AND INDUSTRY SHARING On 9th July 2021 WINGS (work in progress) will be presented at Ugly Duck, following a two-week research and development period supported by Arts Council and The Chateau. A project that has built significant momentum despite being birthed mid-pandemic, WINGS is essential viewing for anyone interested…

TERMINAL BY RCA - EXHIBITION Terminal is not where; it’s when. When flights were indefinitely delayed. When the desolated underground acted out dystopias, devoid of passengers. When communities dispersed across the globe, separated by miles and time Zones. When confinement. When it felt like the end — terminus from Latin. For the neo-nomads, lobby-room dwellers, coffee-shop inhabitants — creatures…

AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY AND RESEARCH PROGRAMME, INVESTIGATING NEW WAYS OF COLLABORATING VIRTUALLY AND ENGAGING AUDIENCES ACROSS GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES AUGUST 12TH – SEPTEMBER 24TH 2021 Nairobi/ Barcelona/ Accra/ Kampala/ Berlin/ Dar es Salaam/ Bangalore/ Gaborone/ London How can we connect and collaborate with other creatives in meaningful ways that push our artistic practice? East African…

RESIDENCY FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC SHARING Collective Attention: Anarchic Action is a project gathering of 8 action-based performance artists. It is a culmination. Emerging from a longing to be in-relation, this assembly has been formed and held in arduous times. It is a chance to commune and confer. Through weekly co-learning sessions the artists have…

A NIGHT OF FILMS HIGHLIGHTING TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES OF TRANS AND GNC PEOPLE therness Archive in support of The Chateau has created a short film program highlighting the beautiful and transformative experiences of trans and GNC people. Join us for a no-cost screening night featuring work from the 80s to today. This event is in partnership…

PSX: A DECADE OF PERFORMANCE ART IN THE UK After ten journeys around the sun - our bodies soaked in blood, sweat, tears & eco-glitter - we are celebrating our 10th anniversary by looking to the past, present & future(s) of performance art in the UK. Through a series of screenings, talks, performances, exhibitions, bursaries,…

THE CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS MA FINE ART COURSES, CLASS OF 2020 WELCOMES YOU TO THEIR GRADUATE SHOW, THURSDAY 2ND - SUNDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2021 The CSM MA Fine Art courses, class of 2020 welcomes you to their belated graduate show curated by where’s the frame?. The show runs from the 2nd - 5th September 2021…

I’M HERE - A NEW PERFORMANCE BY FRANKO B I’m Here is a new performance by Franko B, in collaboration with Anthony Martin. Known internationally as a pioneering performance artist, Franko B revisits his seminal bloodletting works for the first time in 15 years through 360° body-mapping techniques. The deep cuts, at times exaggerated and distorted, are interwoven with 7000 images from the…

THE QUEER HOUSE PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH UGLY DUCK: DEAR YOUNG MONSTER (WORK IN PROGRESS SHARING) Written and performed by Pete Machale Directed by Sammy Glover Designed by Cecil Fenn The monster didn’t make the film. He’s not the one telling his story. I see that in that scene... the monster can’t win.” Pete is…

TRANS BOOK CLUB KINESIS Collective are an all-transgender and gender variant group composed of artists, activists and community organisers. Born out of lockdown, a time in which transgender people saw a fragmentation of their community, KINESIS aims to produce spaces of solitarity and healing. They are keen to create spaces for trans people outside of…

PENTHOUSS PRESENTS A NEW PERFORMANCE WORK CALL TO ARMS EXPLORING THEMES OF POLICING, CONTROL AND GOVERNANCE. Opening in London in October 2021, CALL TO ARMS is a new immersive artwork by PentHouss that uses dance, sound, light, optical illusion to explore themes of governmental power, control, and social unrest. PentHouss’ artists Anna Lann and Yonathan…

THE SUBLIME 3.0: FEAR AND AWE In our technological landscape, what is left of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful as conceptualised by Edmund Burke in 1757? Has the virtual enhanced our conception of the sublime? How can this idea be translated into the metaverse?  In this virtual reality exhibition, we have selected 11 international…

BLACK HORIZON'S - WORLDING WITHIN THE RUINS OF RACIAL CAPITALISM The current students from ADS2 will run a series of collective workshops + activities surrounding the theme of 'Worlding: Beyond Racial Capitalism'. ADS2 is a student collective from the Royal College of Art guided by Dele Adeyemo, Ibiye Camp and Dámaso Randulfe. Their work is framed from multiple worldviews,…