Contributors: Faye Larkin, Eve Radville, Ben Meredith, Samina Parveen, Lisa Krawczyk, Nigel Eavns, Louise Longson, Clay Stewart-Larson, James Hickman, Hanna Rose Bergmann, Lindsay Tempest, L.C. Gutierrez, Cameron MacGregor, Louise McComiskey, Melanie Wichlein, Simon Linder, Mariah Shipley, Diana Amendt, Zuhra Abakarova, Stephane Vereecken, Thea Mangatal, Federica Colletti, Sergey Gusev, Julie Barnes, J.A. Handville, Natalia Tcherniak & more.
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SNEAK PEEK
AT THE BACK OF THE STAGE ARE THE DIGITS
OF A DIGITAL CLOCK COUNTING THIRTY MINUTES
NOTHING IS HAPPENING...
AND THE DANCERS ARE PULSATING ONSTAGE
AS THEY LET THE RHYTHM UNDER THEIR SKIN
NOTHING IS HAPPENING...
AND A LINE OF SAND CASCADES LIKE A THIN
SHAFT OF LIGHT DOWN THE STAGE'S CENTRE
NOTHING IS HAPPENING...
Extract from 'Equinox' by Aaron Facer
Welcome to earth. Welcome to life.
Welcome to the destruction from the inside.
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A long time ago, Before any creature had walked the
lands, We had been nothing, But a tiny breath in this
vast universe.
Extract from ‘The Burden you have to carry’ by MeadowZ
"ACROSS THE STREET A GUY HELD UP THE NATIONAL FLAG OF BELARUS IN BOTH HANDS. THE POLICE INMEDIATELY TOOK HIM INTO THE AVTOZAK"
Extract from 'Belarus Protests in Moscow: An Experience' by Sergey Gusev
"There is a social taboo on waste. It is perceived not only as worthless, but as dirty and unhygenic. Our society is used to making waste "go away", by bagging it up and putting it out of sight and out of mind. It literally disappears from our visual radar. My artworks do the opposite, shining a bright flash-light onto this taboo.
Liina Klauss, extract from Interview
A MURMUR HAS BEGUN AMONG THE TREES
THEIR GREENNESS FINALLY DULLED
SUNKEN SHAPES ETCHED INTO THEIR LEAVES
SOON TO APPEAR IN YOUR FLESH.
Extract from 'Qualified in destruction'
by Bella Pelster