Date: 26th October 2024 – Time: 4:45pm -7pm

Where (in-person): Recreation Room at the Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN

Booking: Free but please reserve your place here as tickets are limited

Access: BSL interpreted. This performance will be Relaxed. A chillout room will be available. More info here

trans[*] glocal sees three bodies from three time zones (México, India, UK) cross trans-local and global borders. 

In this participatory performance gathering, each body plays a crucial contextual role in a unique ecosystem of resistance and re-existence.

For this year’s event, performingborders invites Raju Rage (UK) who will be digitally joined by guest performance artists Kaur Chimuk (India) and Nad MA (México) to engage the audience in collectively delving into performative collaborative methods.

Presenting approaches that extend across territories, trans[*] glocal examines practices, languages, and contexts while building potential new ecologies and alternative presents within their contexts and beyond. 

This exchange is an open-source resource in the formation of a growing network, using flux and decolonial toolkits, and revising post-archival documentation methods. 

The gathering will be attended by writer Heba Hayek, who will later respond with a written piece.

Artists and writer’s bios

Raju Rage (UK) uses art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Their practice is expansive, combining print, sculpture, installation, writing, audio-video, anti/performance, workshops, culinary arts, curation + more. They are a member of Collective Creativity and Another Roadmap decolonial art-education collectives and a creative educator/independent scholar using radical pedagogy. Working transglobally, they have a theirstory in queer/transgender/people of colour social movements from which their creative practice draws on / from. 

Kaur Chimuk (India) is an independent curatorial decolonial methodologist exploring trans(non)binary viewership in collective research. Based in South-East Asia, they work between India, Bangladesh, and Sweden with Meteor International. Kaur co-founded TAC (Tracing A City) in India, facilitating collective research initiatives. They consult on cultural exchanges and curatorial programs, collaborating with platforms like Inventory Platform (UK), Bom Artist Residency (Sweden), and Zmayat (Bangladesh-India).  

Nad MA (México) is a graphic artist, community arts worker, performer, dissident geographer and massage therapist, centring free pedagogies focused on art/body/space/gender. They facilitate workshops on corporeal awareness, collective mapping, graphic and audiovisual arts, collective care in arts and drag performance. They belong to the Feral engraving workshop, DescuartizadoraHack and Red King Latinoamericana collectives.

Heba Hayek is a palestinian london-based author, workshop facilitator, and communication consultant. Rooted in de-colonial and indigenous practices, Heba’s work pushes the boundaries of supremacist norms, engaging in various exploration of what lies beyond these constraints. She is committed to cultivating liberatory conditions amidst a backdrop of deep individualism and desensitization. Positioned on the other side of the Canon, Heba seeks out the stories of those who reject the limitations of traditional archives and resist imposed terms of visibility.  Heba is also a communication consultant who is passionate about projects that centre the nourishment and cultivation of working class, immigrant, queer, and global majority folk. Heba holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, Ohio, where she taught composition and rhetoric, as well as creative writing, for two years. In 2019, she moved to London to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at SOAS University. Heba’s debut book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies won the 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a 2021 Book of the Year by The White Review, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab.

trans[*] glocal is Raju Rage’s response to the themes of performingborders’ e-journal #3 Entangled Practices published in September 2024.

performingbordersLIVE24 is curated and produced by performingborders, with support from Battersea Arts Centre and funding from Arts Council England, Necessity Fund, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Image: courtesy of the artists Raju Rage, Kaur Chimuk, Nads MA.