Ugly Duck Bermondsey announces the return of their flagship programme @Disturbance on November 10 & 11.
Championing LGBTQIA+ performance, video and digital artists, the live events will be accompanied by a simultaneous livestream enabling audiences unable to travel to experience @Disturbance in full effect.
Ugly Duck continues to encourage accessibility and support radical, diverse, queer artists.
Creative Director of Ugly Duck and founder of @Disturbance Deen Atger says: “At @Disturbance we find and nurture the talents of tomorrow – bold and forward-thinking artists deconstructing boundaries and paving the way for totally new aesthetics. Each year @Disturbance evolves and we’re excited to welcome new artists into our growing network”.
Ugly Duck is currently celebrating a decade of revitalising underused buildings and supporting marginalised artists. Established in October 2012, the organisation has transformed a spacious, empty Victorian warehouse in SE1 into a thriving, creative hub. Over 1500 artists and arts collectives have collaborated with Ugly Duck over the past 10 years.
@Disturbance 2022 artists working with performance include amongst others, Gisou Golshani originally from Iran now London-based, Gisou will create a multi-sensory, immersive performance and installation via ritualistic movement, visuals and sound. Joy Yaa Kincaid, whose focus on the intersection of race and gender is at the heart of their multi-faceted work. Their practice embodies their uncompromising aesthetic and sensitive individuality.
River Cao revisits the marginalised queer experience of growing up in small-town southern China. Now London-based, River will create a series of self-narrative spaces at @Disturbance in their performance I found a dead bird, to rethink emotions of grief. River has previously presented work internationally and in London at the ICA.
Video artist Sandrine Schaefer frequently presents performance art installations using repetition, duration and multisensory elements. @Disturbance will show a new performance made for camera titled Simple Relations No. 4. Sandrine’s work has frequently been shown in Chicago as well as across other US states.
Orlando Myxx is an Italian-born, London-based artist whose practice encompasses photography, film-making and performance. At @Disturbance they screen The Plastic Drag, a visual and sound work investigating how a new wave of underrepresented gender-non-conforming and diverse drag artists are redefining the art of drag and its subversive potential.
Other @Disturbance artists include London’s Talia Beale, Yana Bachynska from Ukraine, Sophie Hoyle and Olivia Morrison who are both based in the UK, Noam Youngrak Son who lives and works in Ghent and Khairullah Rahim from Singapore.
