ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE is a transdisciplinary programme exploring queer and trans imaginaries of world-building in response to apocalypse(s).
Grounded in ongoing research, the programme critically reinterprets the idea of apocalypse through queer and trans lenses, actively resisting capitalist and colonial narratives that frame apocalypse as a singular or final event.
Drawing inspiration from Oxana Timofeeva’s concept of apocalypse as a cyclical and continuous condition, this project engages with apocalypse as an ongoing transformative process that shapes collective memory and artistic practices.
Drawing inspiration from Oxana Timofeeva’s concept of apocalypse as a cyclical and continuous condition, this project engages with apocalypse as an ongoing transformative process that shapes collective memory and artistic practices.
Led by independent curators and artists, the programme challenges conventional narratives around ‘the end,’ creating spaces for dialogue, experimentation, and collective expression. The programme imagines exhibition-making as an inclusive and collaborative learning process, working closely with queer communities to build spaces of resistance, care, and speculative creativity.
Through radically intimate and emergent methods, this initiative uses apocalyptic thinking as a means of envisioning alternative and transformative present and future.
Through radically intimate and emergent methods, this initiative uses apocalyptic thinking as a means of envisioning alternative and transformative present and future.
Programme
ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE will soft launch as part of Deptford X this July - with inaugural performances by Catherine Hoffmann of their latest work; Wormhole Of Our Formation at 3pm & 5pm on Saturday the 12th of July.
Wormhole Of Our Formation is a vertiginous road trip through collapse, driven by unyielding text through warped music and howling storms.
RSVPs essential - More information here.
Wormhole Of Our Formation is a vertiginous road trip through collapse, driven by unyielding text through warped music and howling storms.
RSVPs essential - More information here.
Documentation of Wormhole Of Our Formation by Catherine Hoffmann. Photographed by Claire Haigh.
The continuing programme will unfold over the following six months with a series of exhibitions, public gatherings, workshops, talks, and experimental learning events at VSSL Studio and across community spaces. FURTHER ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON. The programme invites audiences to collectively engage with post-apocalyptic thinking, queer world-building, and trans-led imaginaries that centre care, pleasure, hybridity, and embodied knowledge.
Credits
ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE is co-curated by Mine Kaplangı, Benjamin Sebastian, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Ash McNaughton. The programme is made possible with public funding from the National Lottery and Arts Council England.
