The History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender residency, 23-26 June, @ ONCA Barge. Curated by multi-disciplinary artists & performance makers SL Grange & E.M. Parry, showcasing a range of time & gender-queering events, inc. exhibition, performance, drag, poetry & workshops (see individual listings for details). All events free / donation.Weds 23/06 6-9pm: Launch party, hosted by Jacobethan drag king Mal Content. Historical fancy dress encouraged "go full Marie Antoinette, or keep it ruff n ready: prizes for innovation, effort, & starching!23-26/06 10-5.30pm: 'We Elizabethans' - a cluster of sibling artworks in ONCA Barge's Lower Deck: Closet Dramas: photographic works; Fag Ends // Fag Breaks: installation & performance; A Lucky Resurrection: live writing / seance -details below:Closet Dramas: E.M. Parry - An enigmatic cast of queer & unruly characters haunt, provoke & flirt with the viewer. Drawing on the historical genre of the closet drama, these works use a bricolage of practices to offer quasi-dramatic experiences in a playfully haunting hybrid of performance, document & score.Fag Ends//Fag Breaks: E.M. Parry - durational installation & performanceKinetic sculpture / queerly embodied archive, Fag Ends//Fag Breaks uses centuries-old tobacco-pipe stems mudlarked along the Thames banks, traces of human physicality & interaction to mark out a map across time, traced in the surrogate bones of the nameless dead.The work can be experienced as a durational installation open daily 10-5.30 (drop-in), or a one-off performance, Fri 25/06, 7.30pm (booking advised). Performance accompanied by A Lucky Resurrection -live, improvised writing event by SL Grange.E.M. Parry is a trans-disciplinary artist working with, through & for the queer body, squinting at history, flirting with ghosts & the things that go bump in the margins. SL Grange is a multi-disciplinary artist & writer working in live performance contexts with an eclectic background in poetry, theatre & art
