Knots Presents: Performer Call Out

Knots Presents their first exhibition at the ANNEX by The Koppel Project in Elephant and Castle bringing together a network of artists, organisers, and learners for Oscillations.

Alongside our programme of workshops, lectures, and panels, we will be bringing extracts of our noise nights to the ANNEX. Through an open board selection process, curated artists will decide for themselves what projects to collaborate on. We are looking for any noise, sound artists, or musicians comfortable with experimentation, to collaborate with poets, playwrights, dramaturgists, dancers, drag artists, and more to produce a short piece of 10-15 minutes.

Application deadline is October 4th.

With the rising influence of the far-right in the UK and globally, Knots recognises the importance of engaging with performance not simply as a manner to present work, but to build relationships, exchange knowledge, and work in solidarity with our communities resisting authoritarian oppression and injustice.

The tide of oppression attempts to suffocate us: the working class, immigrants, queer and trans people. Yet it also pins the faults of capitalism onto us. We believe any and all privilege in our society must be used to further the waves of resistance against this fearmongering funded by the wealthy to separate us even further.

Our noise nights at Riverside Studios invite artists to encounter one another through an exchange of ideas and collaboration which builds relationships that continue after the performance ends. Oscillations stems from this ethos and invites artists to respond through noise, sound art, and multidiscpilinary performance work that speak to collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives, and the every day.