Poster Designed by Moon II Sun from original photograph taken by Arnhel de Serra 

​when I place myself in a re-imagined animal, I can learn about my environment, people's reactions as they encounter me, and the introspection that surfaces from sitting for long periods being concealed. 

Poster designed by Liv England 2025

​By putting the exhibition on, I realised this was about letting go of my practice and allowing the work to become static, especially the costumes I usually wear.  It was also about stepping back and becoming the researcher, stepping into a role that I have struggled with, as I was so immersed in the practice as a performer. I accept the responsibility that I was afraid of letting go of, even though I understood that to bring the knowledge of the third performative space into the public domain, I needed to learn and adapt to a new way of seeing the work objectively. Throughout the last few years, I was constantly reminded that it wasn’t about my practice but the project. 

"If certain animals dream-but not all, and not all in the same way-what sense is is there in using this noun in the singular (the animal), and what right do we have to do so wherever an experience as essential as dreaming, and hence a relation among consciousness, subconscious, and unconscious, as well as representation and desire, separates so many animals species one from the other and at the same time brings them together certain animals and what is called man?" (Jacques Derrida p62)

Photograph by Arnhel de Serra 2024