Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies
- Dates and Opening times
Thu 20 June, 6pm – 10pm
Travel information and event booking details available from May.
- Venue
Lenzie Moss
Lenzie
East Dunbartonshire
Glasgow
G66 4DB- Participants
- Rabindranth X Bhose Belladonna Paloma Oren Shoesmith
- Presented by
Rabindranth X Bhose, Belladonna Paloma & Oren Shoesmith
- Supported by
Supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government’s Festivals EXPO Fund. With special thanks to East Dunbartonshire Council.
- Accessiblity
Limited Access: Wheelchair accessible bog with a boardwalk
Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies is a performance playing with the connections between trans bodies, boglands and the ancient Celtic rituals honouring them. Emerging from the research of three artists living across Glasgow and the Shetland Islands with a shared devotion to wetlands, this solstice ritual performance explores what boglands can teach us about commitment to deep time and resistance to the tyranny of productivity. Belladonna Paloma, Oren Shoesmith, and Rabindranath X Bhose will lead audience members on a walk through Lenzie Moss, a peatland north of Glasgow. During the walk, visitors will witness a boggy dance inspired by ancient rituals to mark the season’s change. Votive sculptures will be exhibited within Lenzie Moss for the duration of Glasgow International, enabling a self-guided bog walk.
Tacitus called the preserved bodies found in bogs ‘corpores infames’, or ‘disreputable bodies’, referencing his belief that they were killed and buried by Celtic tribes for their homosexuality. The work reclaims this derogatory moniker and finds its reparative power, considering trans people as the ‘disreputable bodies’ of our current moment. Corpores Infames: Disreputable Bodies expands the idea of disreputable bog bodies to the bog as a whole ecosystem, as well as to trans bodies, proving both are resistant to capitalist frameworks.