New Queers on the Block: Marikiscrycrycry and Adam Frost
When: Friday 20 September 2019
Time: 7 – 8.30pm
Where: The Printworks, The America Ground, 14 Claremont, Hastings, TN34 1HA
Home Live Art and New Queers on the Block presented two explosive new performances from young queer artists Marikiscrycrycry and Adam Frost on Friday 20 September 2019 at The Printworks Hastings.
He’s Dead by Marikiscrycrycry
This new work from prolific nonbinary choreographer and dancer Marikiscrycrycry uses different dance and choreographic techniques, as well as live action, and song to ask the question, ‘Was Tupac depressed?’
We will never know for sure because of his untimely death. So what are we left with?
SEND x43 by Adam Frost
Fusing together text, costume and music SEND x43 attempts to question the inner workings of our mind through a series of out-of-body experiences.
Sometimes you can’t stop. Overthinking.
More Info:
Marikiscrycrycry (Malik Nashad Sharpe (they/them) is a choreographer and dancer. Currently artist-in-residence at Tate Britain/Tate Modern, Malik is also the recipient of an ArtsAdmin Bursary and has recently worked with the English National Opera and Gate Theatre. Other work includes performances and commissions at Frieze art fair, Fierce Festival and the Marlborough Theatre to name just a few.
Marikiscrycrycry’s work excavates multiple themes of Blackness and Queerness.
He’s Dead was co-commissioned by The Yard Theatre, Block Universe, New Queers On The Block and Theatre in the Mill, Bradford with support from The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton.
Adam Frost is a multi-disciplinary performance artist working across drag, visual art, cabaret, film, music and fashion.
Based in their home-town of Hastings their work examines mental health, class precarity and queer experience through the lens of autobiographical happenings in their life such as death, depression, heartache, anxiety and the mundane.
SEND x43 was co-commissioned by Home Live Art (Hastings) and New Queers On The Block with support from The Marlborough Theatre (Brighton).
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Adam Frost image by Celine Antal
Marikiscrycrycry image by Uemura Tadayuki
Slider images by Alice Denny.
