Live Archive (2019)

Medium
Performance

Keywords
Body as archive, queer history, archives, museum conservation, kink, bondage

Performance History
• Queer Heritage and Collections Network (2025)
• Trancestry, Museum of Transology, London (2025)
• Queer and Now, Tate Britain, London (2023)
• Transcend Festival, Bristol (2023)
• Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Leeds (2022)
• Before you go home, Reading Arts Festival, Reading (2019)

Images by Lydia Chouler-Tissier

Drawing from practices in collection management and archival grade packing, this performance explores the body as an archive, detailing queer histories of the body and entering them into a fictionalised store.

Funders/Commissioners
• Double Okay, Reading

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