An Evening of Readings: Presence

About

As part of the public programme for the Waiting Room, artists and writers have been invited to present on the themes that emerge from Sarah Sze's new exhibition at Peckham Rye Station.

For the second event in the series, artists Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Nicola Singhand Petra Szemánparticipate in an evening of readings and performances that will focus on the theme of Presence in relation to bodies, queerness, race and place.

Access Information

• BSL will be available at this event.
• Hand outs of the texts will be available in print and digital formats.
• The readings at this event will take place within the exhibition space, which contains bright, flashing imagery that may cause discomfort and /or seizures for those with light sensitivity and/or photosensitive epilepsy.
• For information on step-free access, visit our access information page for The Waiting Room or email us at info@artangel.org.uk.
• We will be hosting accessible accompanied tours throughout the summer, with the first of these taking place on 28 June. Visit the event page for more details.

About the performers:

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (b. 1995, London) is a Berlin/London-based artist. They received an BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video game development. Their practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell the stories of Black Trans people.

Nicola Singh is British-Panjabi performance artist and experimental vocalist, working between experimental new music and visual art. She uses text, sound and improvisation to explore the formation of diasporic identity. She focuses on embodied, ritual and somatic practices, often using Yoga-philosophies to explore notions and experiences of collective healing, liberation and decolonisation. Singh is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Curation at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and has a practice-based PhD in Performance Writing from Northumbria University (2017).

Petra Szemán (b. 1994, based between NE England and Japan // born in Budapest, Hungary) is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. Their practice focuses on the murky borderlands along the arbitrary line separating real and fictional, and the kind of lives, experiences, and perspectival systems that are possible there. Turning away from thinking of the cyberspace as a radically ’other’ realm, Petra hopes to walk the line situated between dystopian and utopian frameworks, eyes set on new queer horizons.