Enter a haunting world with this performance exploring belief and queer afterlives
What the Serpent Told Me in the Misty Gloom is a new performance by Martin O’Brien, an artist living in ‘zombie time’. Born with a life shortening disease, his work explores death, dying and the philosophical implications of living longer than expected.
This performance blends religious imagery with stories of paranormal encounters. With humour and intensity, O’Brien imagines an other world populated by queer and ghastly figures. Conjuring a parade of ghosts, devils and demons, the performance asks: what would it be to see a figure of death?
Staging visions of death that are vivid, absurd, painful and ridiculous, O'Brien attempts to understand his mortality through a queer, mythic register.
This performance is offered as part of Other Worlds, a season responding to the Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun exhibitions.
For ages 18+
