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.

Tickets: Book a free ticket
Dates and Opening times: Fri 5 Jun, 6pm

Sat 6 Jun, 1.30pm and 9pm

Booking information to follow. Performances will be free but ticketed.
Venue: The Warehouse SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place, G3 8QG
Participants: Sweatmother emilyn claid Mirabelle Haddon
Presented by: Sweatmother; Produced by Alex Misick
Supported by: The Creative Scotland Open Fund, SWG3, London Performance Studios 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 with emily claid and Mirabelle Haddon, a live, expanded cinema performance that explores dyke counternarratives, anti-assimilation, and queer desire. Sweatmother will perform alongside collaborators emilyn claid and Mirabelle Haddon (BSL).

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 iteration of Dyke Just Do It, to SWG3's Warehouse for Glasgow International. Sweatmother presents an intimate and immersive performance for the Warehouse, with audiences up close and in the round, and the new integration of a British Sign Language performer.

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”.

Ticket Info

Tickets are now available to book. Capacity is limited so please book in advance. If you can no longer attend we encourage you to return your ticket.

Access info

This performance has integrated BSL performance by Mirabelle Haddon.

If you have any specific access requirements please email in advance of the performance laurafisher_performance@outlook.com

Sensory notes

Intense Sound*
Loud Noise
Moving lights (No strobe)

*Ear Plugs and ear defenders will be available.

Content notes

Sexual Imagery & Sexual References

Entry: There will be priority entry for anyone who would prefer to access the venue earlier than the general audience, please arrive promptly.

This show embraces a relaxed and welcoming approach to audiences. You are welcome to leave and re-enter the venue at any time, and to move, tic, stim or make noise.

Seating: the performance is standing. Some chairs will be provided for those who require them, and can be reserved

SWG3 Access Information: The venue is wheelchair accessible with a lift to the warehouse on the second level. Further venue access info

Photography and filming is prohibited
Please be mindful of people's backgrounds and pronouns
There will be zero tolerance to transphobia, ableism, racism, homophobia, and ageism
Performed in English and British Sign Language with projected subtitles in English.

Credits

Lead performer: Sweatmother

Co-performer: emilyn claid

Co-performer (BSL): Mirabelle Haddon

Movement director: Eve Stainton

Costume design: Guia Bertorello

Sound design: Jennifer Walton

Producers: Alex Misick, Annie Hazelwood

Access coordinator: Laura Fisher

Audience connector: Bea Webster

Front of house: Silvie Cristofoli, Claire Mosley

BSL consultant: Anna Seymour

Technical direction and AV: Dav Bernard

Live subtitles: Libby Lobberson

Creative writing response: Nat Raha

Access support (Sweatmother): Sara Sassanelli

With thanks to the entire team at SWG3: Mutley, Meryl, Dave, Jay, Jordan and Alison

On Sunday, 7 June 11am - 1:30pm, emilyn claid will be hosting a movement based workshop, Letting Go of Things, with The Work Room which will offer further insights into Emlyn's somatic movement practice.

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