“WARM ARCHIVE”
Stacey Collee, Andrea Illés and Alice Tsiavos
22 Apr → 21 May 2023

Stacey Collee, Andrea Illés, Alice Tsiavos, WARM ARCHIVE, 2023, multimedia performance. Photography by Aras Petrasiunas.

WARM ARCHIVE emerges from an aspiration to uncover alternative methods for processing contested language. Conscious of the futility of responding to language of this kind, artists Stacey Collee, Andrea Illés, and Alice Tsiavos intend to explore digestion as an approach to consuming texts that are critical of their bodies.

They inhabit the West Space Window for a period of three weeks, a site that frames them within a place of public scrutiny and institutional surveillance. During this time, Stacey, Andrea and Alice consume and disarrange the words found in texts that seek to limit or erase transness, finding poetry and choreography in reformation and recontextualisation.

The forth and final week acts as a post-script period, with the artists materialising their research into a body of work in the Window.

We welcome you to spend time with Stacey, Andrea and Alice as they complete their residency and share their findings.