performingbordersLIVE24: trans[*] glocal
12th September 2024
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.
Artists’ 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.
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 and Necessity Fund.
Image: courtesy of the artists Raju Rage, Kaur Chimuk, Nads MA.