an intimate performance for small groups with Hannah Fair
RSVP: Multiple times - Sunday the 19th of October - at VSSL Studio
Promotional image for The Pest Confessional, courtesy of Hannah Fair, 2025.
Rats. Mice. Bed bugs. Flies. Roaches. Fleas.
We are in an era of mass extinction, characterised not just by unprecedented socioecological loss, but one of unwanted abundance. The Pest Confessional invites attendees to reckon with everyday and ambivalence more-than-human entanglements.
It provides space for visitors to anonymously share their experiences of unexpectedly or unwillingly sharing their homes with nonhuman others. Stories of disgust, fear, humour, and joy are all welcome. Embrace the chance to confess your pests and be freed from the shame of domestic infestations.
We are in an era of mass extinction, characterised not just by unprecedented socioecological loss, but one of unwanted abundance. The Pest Confessional invites attendees to reckon with everyday and ambivalence more-than-human entanglements.
It provides space for visitors to anonymously share their experiences of unexpectedly or unwillingly sharing their homes with nonhuman others. Stories of disgust, fear, humour, and joy are all welcome. Embrace the chance to confess your pests and be freed from the shame of domestic infestations.
The Pest Confessional is a solo interactive experience, so if others are already at the venue there may be a wait. The duration of the experience is determined by the participant and the stories they wish to share.
The Pest Confessional a secular and non-judgemental space for contemplating social and environmental ethics.
If participant consent is given, confessions will be recorded as part of a wider research project into the impacts of domestic infestations: Situating Pests: Impacts, Disgust, Expertise, and Responsibility (SPIDER).
The Pest Confessional a secular and non-judgemental space for contemplating social and environmental ethics.
If participant consent is given, confessions will be recorded as part of a wider research project into the impacts of domestic infestations: Situating Pests: Impacts, Disgust, Expertise, and Responsibility (SPIDER).
Booking Information
Sunday the 19th of October at VSSL Studio
Multiple time slots
on the hour, 20 past, and 40 past the hour - between 2pm (inclusive) & 6pm
︎︎︎ RSVPs essential - Book tickets HERE
"The Pest Confessional invites attendees to reckon with everyday and ambivalence more-than-human entanglements..." - Hannah Fair
Headshot, courtesy of Hannah Fair, 2025.
Promotional image for The Pest Confessional, courtesy of Hannah Fair, 2025.
About HANNAH FAIR
Hannah Fair is a lecturer in human geography at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, specialising in contemporary environment-society relations.
At the heart of her research are questions of how to live well with anthropogenically transformed and transforming natures. She critically situates her work in the overarching framework of the Anthropocene and draws upon decolonial, feminist, queer and experimental more-than-human approaches.
Her latest project, ‘SPIDER', explores this through the lens of domestic pests and housing precarity.
www.hannahfair.co.uk
Credits
HANNAH FAIR: THE PEST CONFESSIONALS as part of ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE APOCALYPSE is co-curated by Mine Kaplangı, Benjamin Sebastian, Joseph Morgan Schofield and Ash McNaughton. The Pest Confessional has been funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/Z503563/1) and Royal Geographical Society (SRG-03.24), with ethical approval from the University of Southampton (ERGO 99515.A1). Entanglements Of The Apocalypse has been made possible with public funding from the National Lottery and Arts Council England. The Pest Confessional is also part of Antiuniveristy Festival 2025.
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