Performances taking place at Proposition Bethnal Green

Additional performance 9 August 2025, 3 - 4pm

Limited spaces. RSVP essential

Please email rsvp@propositionstudios.com

There is so much stuff that is here already - corporeal, ideological, energetic stuff. So many years of time past, such a breadth of time present that it can feel absurd to be making yet another thing.

I think of my ‘self’ as a reorganisation of stuff that was already here. Call it growth. My body, my thoughts, the atmosphere in the room…a rearrangement of fragments.

I think about embodiment as a state of possession - hosting, haunted. Not in the way of a spirit trapped in flesh or a ghost operating a machine but in the sense of being the physical mouthpiece of many beings. Each existing on varying timelines. Body as chorus.

Engaging in automatic dancing is a process that I believe can allow many of these voices to speak (and be heard) at once. I also invite you to join the constellation and to speak through my body. Both an intimate and mundane invitation to listen back to these multiple voices, to hear the chorus to receive what it (we, I) may propose as some kind of oracular reading. 

Concept & Performance SERAFINE1369 / Sound Score Vivienne Griffin & Billy Easter 

This work has been developed with support from performance, possession + automation, a three-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

SERAFINE1369 is a dancer, artist and body-focused researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. They work with/in the context of the hostile architectures of the metropolis towards moments and states of transcendence and transmutation. Dancing is a kind of ghost work, a work of cycles and fragmentary returns that speaks to meditative, divinatory and devotional practices.