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 this July and August with inaugural performances by:︎︎︎ Catherine Hoffmann (Wormhole Of Our Formation as part of Deptford X) - a vertiginous road trip through collapse, driven by unyielding text, warped music and howling storms. 12th July, VSSL Studio (SE8)
︎︎︎ Keioui Keijaun Thomas (Come Hell Or High Femmes: The Dolls Rise at The Horse Hospital) - a speculative portal into a post-apocalyptic future where only black trans-femmes have survive and are building a new world. 13th August, The Horse Hospital (WC1N)
RSVPs essential - More information available through the links above.
RSVPs essential - More information available through the links above.
‘Wormhole Of Our Formation’ by Catherine Hoffmann. Photographed by Claire Haigh.
‘Come Hell or High Femmes: The Era of the Dolls’ - Fierce Festival, Birmingham, UK, 2024. Photos by Manuel Vason
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.
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.