Queer Art Projects

SUNDAY 15th of June 🎙️Closing Performances Closing performances by Chloé Filani, Puer Deorum and Joy Kincaid from 3-6 pm (As part of A Collective Archive Programme) Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3PL Tickets: link in bio

Sophie Brain is a dancer and performance artist whose work exists primarily in nightlife spaces. She is part of performance collective Sue Veneers and has performed at festivals including Glastonbury, Gala and Milkshake. She also has a regular slot in The Box Soho’s late night cabaret show. Taking inspiration from her dance training background and her experience as a drag performer in queer London, Sophie’s work is layered with a camp sensibility and ruptures with pleasure found in the dirty punk material body, which lies at the heart of her work. Sophie will present Meet me in the dressing room, their new performance on Saturday evening Avoid the folk...who see the blood but not the energy form’ Taking cues from Diane diPrima’s Revolutionary Letters, Sophie’s performance challenges the body’s extremes to explore world building action and possibilities in an era of powerlessness. Combining movement and character based performance, the figures Sophie creates unleash female ‘hysteria’ through dirty and despicable acts.

FRIDAY the 13th – Martin O’Brien Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis) (As part of A Collective Archive Programme) Durational performance | 6–9pm Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3PL Tickets: link in bio A scratchy sound of white noise emanates from a small radio, filling the dark room. A faint voice comes through. It sounds like nothing from this world, as if death itself were speaking. Somewhere else, sickly patients lie in hospital beds in hell. They don’t understand why they are still sick. They listen to the hospital radio, but it doesn’t play their favourite songs. Instead, they listen to the sounds of a life once lived. Drawing inspiration from hospital radio and stories of ghosts heard through analogue technologies, this 3-hour performance by Martin O’Brien explores the human desire to communicate and record. In a strange and eerie landscape, O’Brien shuffles around, recording and playing half-heard voices and unholy sounds. Martin O’Brien is an artist and zombie. He works across performance, writing and video art. His work uses long durational actions, short speculative texts and critical rants, and performance processes in order to explore death and dying, what it means to be born with a life-shortening disease, and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected. Photo: Martin O’Brien, Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis), Whitechapel Gallery, 2023. Photo by Marco Berardi. Please note: this work contains nudity, sexual content, and deals with issues of death.

Say hello to Chloé Filani, performing as part of “A Collective Archive”. Chloé is an Artist, performer, poet and writer working with and in her lived experiences Nigerian Yoruba and Eshan heritage. Examining broader themes of identity and power structures, Filani’s work is about going on artistic journeys with play, movement and vocal expression, using her body to communicate the artistic self. Her sound work explores Black sound and the collective Black consciousness experience of sound like in her work ‘Negro Ecstasy/ Black Ecstasy’ and ‘Three breaths they were here’ She will be performing her piece ‘BLK SIRENS & With a guttural screams We can create ragful choruses’ This is a vocal oral sound and rage movement piece an awakening of the blk siren. With acceptance to our play of faith in riot to not rot but create resistance. Sound design collab with @__felixtaylor We are honoured to house Chloé’s artistry🤍

Welcome Joy Kincaid to the stage for “A collective Archive” taking place this June. Their performance entitled, “Follow me as I free myself, and you shall be made free”, is an interactive live performance and ceremony warmly inviting folk to join me in freedom. 📸 @yasmine_akim

Save the Date 🎉  A Collective Archive 12–15 June at Ugly Duck, London A Collective Archive is a four-day programme of performance, gathering, conversation, and celebration, marking the final chapter of Ugly Duck as we’ve known it. For over thirteen years, Ugly Duck has existed as an evolving and porous space—a home for experimental practices, shared resistance, and community organising. Programme highlights: Thursday 12 June – Opening soirée with new works and performances by Biogal, Bold Melon Collective supported by Southwark pride artists Friday 13 June – A dedicated performance night featuring Martin O’Brien and more. Saturday 14 June – A full day of activity: archive collage workshop, panel talks, a live radio show broadcast from the space, followed by The Last Dance – a final celebration with Josh Quinton and Tribe Incorporated. Sunday 15 June – A closing gathering with performances by Chloé Filani, Puer Deorum and Joy Kincaid. Confirmed artists: @biogal @blanca_regina @pierrebouvierpatron @1.chloe.f @clayebowler @elodiegatacre @astermunro @feef_la @georgiasemple @hazelnblair @inesmichelotto @jean_cleverley69 @johnleebird @joshquinton @joy.kinkaid @93lmss @martinobrienart @puer_deorum @roughfabrics @svarsimpson — with more to be announced. This project is a celebration of what has been possible and what can be done again. We want to inspire others to carve out space in the cracks of capitalism, to build infrastructures of care, and to continue resisting erasure through art and community. We are immensely proud of the work we’ve accomplished and deeply grateful to the artists, collaborators, funders, and audiences who have made Ugly Duck what it is. While our physical space is transient, the legacy of what we’ve built together will persist—in memories, in friendships, in future projects that are yet to come. Join us as we celebrate the legacy of a space built together— tickets and the full programme available via link in bio! Poster design Alfie Allen - @alfie_allen_ Supported by @aceagrams

“Look at this candle we light for our dinner table Remember how we started uttering stories By the slithering flame Tens of thousands of years ago?” 🌙 ✨This month in our March newsletter we shared: There’s no border in the horizon: Burned House Horizon’s queer-trans-feminist time travelling and border crossings by Giulia Casalini. Text & audio available - link in bio 🔗🔗 ⚡️This text responds, via creative writing (intertwined with process-based documentation, diary entries and poetry), to the programme and exhibition Burned House Horizon, taking place at Mimosa House (London) 18 January - 9 February 2025. Written by co-curator Giulia Casalini, the text also features poetry by co-curator Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast. Images 📸 1.Installation by Alex Hincapié at Mimosa House, 2025. Photo by Eda Sancakdar Onikinci. 2.One of the four works by Ayshe-Mira Yashin at Mimosa House, 2025. Photo by Eda Sancakdar Onikinci. 3.Installation by Alex Hincapié at Mimosa House, 2025. Photo by Eda Sancakdar Onikinci. 4.Installation by Sym Stellium and n:u at Mimosa House, 2025. Photo by Eda Sancakdar Onikinci. 5.Installation by V(A), with inscriptions by visitors at Mimosa House, 2025. Burned House Horizon Artists: Giulia Casalini @queer___femme Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast @fortunetailedbeast Gisou Golshani @gisougolshani n:u (fka melissandre varin) @n.u.practice Sym Stellium @systellium Alex Hincapié @hincapiendo Ayshe-Mira Yashin @ayshemira V(A) @1hatek1ds Venues: QUEERCIRCLE @queercircle Mimosa House @mimosahouse Residency: Bidston Observatory @bid_obs Outreach: United Queerdom @unitedqueerdom The Outside Project @lgbtiqoutside Production assistance: Queer Art Projects @queerartprojects Funded by: Arts Council England @aceagrams

Powerful images from @burnedhousehorizon ‘Our prayers role-playing futures’ event, which took place at @mimisahouselondon with a full house on 1 February 2025. An evening to celebrate Imbolc with ritual performances by 🔥 Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast @fortunetailedbeast 🔥 Gisou Golshani @gisougolshani 🔥 n:u (fka melissandre varin) @n.u.practice 🔥 Sym Stellium @systellium ... and final howling invitation by Giulia Casalini @queer___femme Photos by Eda Sancakdar Onikinci @edasan #burnedhousehorizon #queerspirituality #landart #queermigrant #cucutenitrypillia #queerhomelessness #queerhomemaking #queereasterneurope #transnationalfeminism #queermythmaking #queerperformance #liveart #liveartUK #liveartLondon #Londonevents #imbolc2025 #imbolc

Some images from the opening of @burnedhousehorizon at @mimisahouselondon that took place on Friday 17 January 2025 - with activation ritual by Byuka @fortunetailedbeast and acknowledgement ceremony by Giulia Casalini @queer___femme Works by 🔥 Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast @fortunetailedbeast 🔥 Alex Hincapié @hincapiendo 🔥 Ayshe-Mira Yashin @ayshemira 🔥 Gisou Golshani @gisougolshani 🔥 n:u (fka melissandre varin) @n.u.practice 🔥 Sym Stellium @systellium 🔥 V(A) @1hatek1ds 📸 Eda Sancakdar Onikinci @edasan #burnedhousehorizon #queerspirituality #landart #queermigrant #cucutenitrypillia #queerhomelessness #queerhomemaking #queereasterneurope #transnationalfeminism #queermythmaking

✨ON NOW✨: Burned House Horizon @burnedhousehorizon 🗓 Open until 9 February 2025 Exhibiting Artists: 🔥Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast @fortunetailedbeast 🔥Alex Hincapié @hincapiendo 🔥Ayshe-Mira Yashin @ayshemira 🔥Gisou Golshani @gisougolshani 🔥n:u (fka melissandre varin) @n.u.practice 🔥Sym Stellium @systellium 🔥V(A) @1hatek1ds Burned House Horizon looks at the Neolithic civilisation Cucuteni-Trypillia to process trauma in the present via contemporary myths, rituals, ancestral healing & speculative fiction. This civilisation inhabited present-day Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, creating pottery and anthropomorphic figurines connected to the veneration of land, solar-lunar cycles and goddess-centered spirituality. Mysteriously, they cyclically burned their settlements, leaving behind only sculptures: Burned House Horizon is named after this phenomenon. ❣️Curated by Giulia Casalini @queer___femme & Byuka. 🌙Funded by Arts Council England National Lottery @aceagrams . 🤝 Partners: @mimosahouselondon @queercircle @queerartprojects @performingborders @lgbtiqoutside @unitedqueerdom Photography: @edasan #burnedhousehorizon #queerspirituality #landart #queermigrant #cucutenitrypillia #queerhomelessness #queerhomemaking #queereasterneurope #transnationalfeminism #queermythmaking

Upcoming event at @mimosahouselondon for @burnedhousehorizon exhibition 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆-𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝑺𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚 1 𝑭𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚, 7-9𝒑𝒎 Performance evening with n:u @n.u.practice Sym Stellium @systellium Gisou Golshani @gisougolshani and Byuka aka Fortune Tailed Beast @fortunetailedbeast NOTE: Sign up to reserve a FREE place (link in bio). If sold out, email [email protected] for the waiting list. The 1st of February, also called Imbolc, is the halfway point between the winter solstice and spring equinox - when the first subtle signs of bloom envelop our senses and our biorhythm. An opportunity to connect with the circular timezones created by the Sun, the joy of the returning light and the embodied resonance with the land and its slow rebirth. Join our celebration of ancestrality, futurism, fire, healing and queer spirituality through poetry, movement, soundscapes and performance-rituals. #burnedhousehorizon #ritualperformance #futureancestry #firetales #soundart #livemusic #liveart #enduranceperformance #imbolc #queerperformance #Blackliberation #ancestralconnection

WE ARE OPEN! Come visit @burnedhousehorizon at @mimosahouselondon Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm until 9 February. Upcoming performance evening: Saturday 1 Feb, 7-9pm (free booking on the website link) /burned-house-horizon For out-of-hours visits and to arrange group tours get in touch with [email protected] or @queer___femme * 'Future ancestor' sigil by Byuka @fortunetailedbeast @scribeofearthskins #burnedhousehorizon #queerritual #queerritualperformance #queertarot #exhibitionlondon #timecapsule #privateview #londonart #performanceart #londonexhibitions #queerlondon #ritualart #transnationalfeminism #transnationalart #ancestralhealing #futureancestor