NANDO MESSIAS
(UK)
TRANSMISSION: SISSY TV
THU 26 OCTOBER 2023 17:30 - 18:30
FRI 27 OCTOBER 2023 19:00 - 20:00
£12 - £8 (Concessions)
Tramway (Directions)
Content note: Nudity, direct reference to transphobia and violence.
Age limit: 16 +
ACCESS: BSL
BSL Interpreted by Ali Gordon. (Festival Access Page)
TransMission: Sissy TV is a project investigating trans archives. It seeks to address the gap in representation of trans and non-binary voices in institutional archives and starts with the personal and artistic archive of Nando Messias, accumulated over two decades of creating work. Messias uses their archive as a framework to discuss larger issues such as transphobia, the pathologisation of trans bodies and identities, trans exclusion, social violence and visibility. They travel the country with their archive in tow, performing inside their closet which they set up on stage. The audience is invited to enter and sit with Messias, to touch their costumes, to smell their perfume, to try on their shoes and to queer exclusionary notions of who has the right to speak up.
Nando Messias’ work straddles performance art, dance and theatre, combining beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. As well as a practitioner, Nando is movement director and a researcher of queer theory and performance with a number of publications in the field. Nando is a Lecturer of Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Show Credits:
Concept and performance: Nando Messias
Co-design: Joshua Gadsby and Naomi Kuyck-Cohen
Directing support: Hester Stefan Chillingworth
Dramaturgical support: Neil Bartlett
Production manager: Malachy Orozco
Design adapted for Glasgow performances and stage hand: Gabe Gilmour
Production credits: Developed with support from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Arts Council England and Artsadmin
Photos: © Holly Revell