Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Dyke Just Do It

A performer wearing a shiny metallic vest sits on stage in a dark perfromance space. Beside them is an upturned storage tray stacked with layers of cans.

Two performers arm wrestle over a heavily marked black table in a black-box performance space. The performer on the left has long black curly hair, while the performer on the right has short blonde hair, a snake tattoo on their arm, and wears a white vest.

Five dyke-identifying peformers restrain and tought another performer lying on a table; only the performer's legs and crotch in jeans are visible. The scene is lit by red wash lighting in a dark space.

Five dyke-identifying perfomers sit closely together on a weightlifting bench. To the right is a table covered with AV equipment and a camera on a tripod, while to the left a large projection shows another perfomer's head looking back at the group. Audience members sit on the wooden floor around them.

Dates and Opening times

Fri 5 Jun, 6pm

Booking information to follow

Venue

The Warehouse SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place, G3 8QG

Participants
Sweatmother
Presented by

Sweatmother; Produced by Alex Misick

Supported by

SWG3 and ICA. Additionally supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government's Festival EXPO Fund.

Accessiblity
Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors

Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet

Gender Neutral Toilets: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex

Bike Rack: There is cycle parking at the venue

Sweatmother performs Dyke Just Do It, a live, expanded cinema performance that explores dyke counternarratives, anti-assimilation, and queer desire. Sweatmother will perform alongside collaborator emilyn claid.

Dyke Just Do It unapologetically addresses capitalist (mis)representations of dykes by reclaiming advertising’s linguistic codes through eroticism and embodied performance.

By repurposing found footage, reworking archival text, and referencing queer protest actions such as “kiss-ins”, the piece questions how dyke culture can transform itself and resist heteronormative representation and censorship. First presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2023, Sweatmother brings a new in the round version of Dyke Just Do It for Glasgow International at SWG3’s Warehouse with the audience and performers on equal footing.

Sweatmother is an artist and filmmaker whose moving image work blends performance, self-recorded documentation, internet, and archival footage to explore queer lived experiences. He creates art for his community, developing practices, collaborations, and Otherness Archive, an open-access online library, as “interventions against forgetting”.

Dyke Just Do It (2023) was originally developed with: Amani, An(dre)a Spisto, Cris Volpe, Dylan McDonnell, emilyn claid, Eve Stainton, Eve Veglio-Hüner, Frank Belcourt, Guia Bertorello, Jennifer Walton, Jetsün Shenkyong-ma, Josie Long, Kamila Serkebaeva, KVL, Lola Trifunovic, Natasha Chubbuck, Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Sey, Adelekun, Spirit Doll, starlows, Sweatmother

Film Producer: Kamila Serkebaeva