Together with queer dance-performance artists Danni Spooner, Scarlett Turner & Nadine Knew, Mistry Investigates mental and psychotic labels ascribed to ‘women’, their bodies, sex work, periods, psychosis and hysteria, that invalidate their experiences. They deconstruct the shaky line between psycho behaviour and acceptable behaviour (Despite contrary exceptions such as the ‘depressed but genius artist’) at the polysemic borders of queer expression. Through dance, battle, vogue, raging vocals and heavy beats they perform eruptions of grief, lament, love, tribe, validity, power, instinct, take up space and asks, do we all need to be more ‘psycho’, more ‘imagined’, ‘extreme’ or shamanic to be our full selves?

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Part of

• whatsthebigmistry’s Gallery  TAKEOVER  #Destressfess.
• LAB OF PLAY & LABOUR What do artists do all day?

During these residencies Mistry  invited a variety of artist collaborators from visual, dance, socially engaged and performance arts practices to work in a live, experimentally and immediate fashion. All collaborations formed ‘Working In Process’’ which are then shared over social media and presented live and installed as ideas in their first ever iterations. Forming 2 weeks of firsts.

whatsthebigmistry is artist Priya Mistry, who works across disciplines straddling performance, live art, visual arts and dance. Mistry’s practice adds to discourse around topics explored in the work, particularly mental health, equality and feminine politics, identity, race, sex, gender and queerness, whilst making experimental, playful explorations around the all the possible choreographies and relationships between bodies, objects spaces, sound, score and voice.

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