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• Intimate Threads

  BY NIYA B

  Intimate Threads is a simultaneous ritual across continents, emerging from an online collaboration between artists Bunny Cadag and Niya B. The artists follow the common threads that connect them across continents, particularly the pre-Christian mythology and cultural and spiritual traditions of the Philippines and Greece. Bunny Cadag deploys her performative alter ego Vera Maningning to weave a trans-personal journey of decolonisation and healing. Through ritualistic dancing and the art of doll-making, she invokes the spirit of the Snake Woman, the hybrid offspring of Niya B’s mythopoetic practice, which is inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Tiresias. In challenging the confines of colonial and patriarchal narratives, the artists cohabit a space of possibilities for trans-local and trans-cultural entanglements. Amidst the global climate crisis and struggles for transgender rights, they articulate a new mythology that embraces the diversity of genders and the interconnectedness of all species.
• I Was Once the Snake Woman

  BY NIYA B

  The performance acts as a metaphor for the possibility of a resilient identity in a fast-changing world of political extremes, climate uncertainty, species extinction, and the fetishization of nature. It is an investigation of serpent mythologies, fashion’s fascination with the animal world, and the contradictions inherent in imitating the skin pattern of a species that humans both fear and kill. Niya embodies the Snake Woman—a hybrid offspring inspired by the metamorphic ancient Greek myth of Tiresia. The hybrid creature glides between captions from online fashion videos and lines taken from Snake Poems by Margaret Atwood. “…to talk with the body is what the snake does...” Margaret Atwood. After Heraclitus. In Interlunar. 1984 “…if you monochrome the print If you abstract the print You sort of take the danger Take the heat Take those messages away from the animal print You’ve just left with this nice idea of it Without of it being too scary…” Jess Cartner-Morley. How to dress: animal print. The Guardian. 8 November 2013.
• A feeling

  BY JOSEPH SCHOFIELD - ASH MCNAUGHTON - MARCEL SPARMANN

  A collective performance initiated by Future Ritual, A feeling explores ideas of death, remembrance, transformation, rebirth and the transference of energy.