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suturing a wound

By  n:u (melissandre varin) 2023

Dimensions
30min

Moseley Road Baths

30 minutes

material: swimming pool water, 100 red roses, rope,

jar of rum hair lime thyme and hair, tarpaulin

commissioned by: itch funded by Fierce Festival (GB)

n:u brings water from the swimming pool, 100 red roses, a rope, a jar of M.I.L.K, and a tarpaulin used in a previous performance, into an investigation of intergenerational healing mechanisms/trauma.

Image credit: Ayesha Jones, suturing a wound, Moseley Road Bath (GB), 2023

Credit Mandip Singh Seehra 1756123077 n:u (melissandre varin)

performance by Maria Muehombo and n:u

45 min

material: ​soil, bells, sparkling wine, butter cloth, shea butter, salt

soft discomfort, salt & shea butter, transition, fugitive mapping, ​soil, bells, speculative tension​, sparkling wine, butter cloth

The Last Place They Thought Of, Kunsthal Mechelen, curated by Sorana Munsya

image credit: Hans Gaston Op de Beeck

doucement

performance arts

30 minutes

material: black synthetic hair, In Search of Our Mother's Garden by Alice Walker, bin bags

commissioned by: Grand Union, Hettie Judah, Coventry Artspace, Spill Yer Tea

(dis)placing, re-imagining, and harvesting.

Inspired by In Search…

who's gonna clean the mess in/of your garden?

extraction of knowledge (2021)

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