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What can you make when your kitchen table is the stage + your camera is the audience? 7 artists, 7 commentaries on where we find ourselves: a beta-test platform for new work.

PROGRAMME (RUNNING ORDER) Voidance Company · Underneath the frying pan… Slowly but surely the rage builds up, coconut rum or baileys, knife or fork, saucepan or plate… Confused, demented, wandering round and round, finding NO answers by NOT sitting down OR STANDING UP……waiting for Ken. Performed by Julia Griffin · Music: In C - Extension (Simple Mix David Lang Remix) by Bill Ryan & Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble Loïs Soleil · In between the lines you are a poem A choir of selves recites a love poem in this interactive self-portrait by artist and poet Loïs Soleil. Here, language is not just a tool to express ourselves with, but a medium in and of itself. Miray Sidhom · THE BREAD WE BREAK A journey through a landscape of sourdough hills and flour rain. A hand leads the way from the forests of Oxfordshire to the streets of Cairo… Weaving memories of a childhood in Egypt and frank conversations with her mother, Miray questions bread’s cultural symbolism in religion and revolution. Commissioned by Contact · Music: Inshad by Soliman Gamil Avital Raz · A Woman’s Voice Is Her Nakedness ‘A Woman’s Voice is her Nakedness’, some Rabbi said in the 10th century — and that caused millions of women to shut up. Avital explores the effect of male teachings about women on women, and endeavours through distortion to find a woman’s voice. Alice Connolly · Hugs in My Pockets Locked-down in her house, where hugs no longer exist in the way they used to, Alice creates a new kind of hug for herself and the loved ones of all those watching. Mitzee · The ARTIST A comment on Transformation, posing questions around the Queer body and ideas around beauty. “I see myself as an Artist. My body as the canvas and my life experiences as the paint.” Witness, for the first time, the transformation of a Male to Mitzee — getting ready for a performance that is never going to happen. Performed by Mark Powell · Sound scape by Murray Jamieson, featuring vocal samples from Lady Gaga (Paparazzi, Fame) & David Bowie (Fame) Lydia Cottrell · DOOMSDAY BOOKS Our future hangs in the balance sheets, it’s accrual world and we can depreciate it together. Standing at the ledger the earth, let’s get fiscal as we liquidate our assets. Account me out and calc-u-later. A performance that accounts for the end of the world, based on the Rapture Index and Religious Eschatology. Hosted by Peader Kirk.