Screening: Like Pots and Waves Break by Yorgos Petrou

20 Jul 2023 7-9pm

Overview

Screening and discussion 7pm – 9pm with doors open from 6.30pm

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In Yorgos Petrou’s new moving image work, Like Pots and Waves Break, four queer migrants from formerly British-colonised nations in South West Asia and North Africa (Cyprus, Egypt, and Palestine) engage their bodies and voices in material, poetic and sculptural ways in proximity to a collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

The ‘Near-East’ collection at this University of Cambridge museum provides, in Petrou’s film, a point of departure for a number of reclamations, performances, recountings and utterances which develop, build upon, echo, and trouble one another. Voices mimic and respond, pages turn, dialogues extend and bodies move, in a meditation on the relationship between dislocation, queerness, and land.

The screening (70 mins) will begin at 7pm promptly, followed by a brief break before a 30-minute in-conversation with Yorgos Petrou and performers involved in the project.

This event is ticketed but with free booking.

The screening will take place in Cubitt’s gallery which is fully accessible but has some uneven floors. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about access.

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