DE-PRODUCTION – FIRST TRIMESTER MOURNING SICKNESS
Lyónn Wolf (formerly Emma Wolf-Haugh) with Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Linda Stupart, Raju Rage: Relational readings and time based responses
Saturday 3 August 4pm
Lyónn Wolf’s current residency with Flat Time House focuses on questions of time and trans temporality, thinking upon how the collapse of ecosystems brought about by colonial extractive logics shapes our understandings of reproduction, ageing and work.
As a way of sharing work in progress, Wolf has invited Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Linda Stupart and Raju Rage with Nad MA (Mexico) to respond to auto theoretical writing that brings states of transformation, popular science fiction and family abolition into weird communion. The presentation will also include an artist-made zine featuring a contribution from artist, academic, activist, and curator Promona Sengupta. A limited number of copies of the zine will be available by donation to a Palestinian solidarity relief fund.
The residency, a partnership with Askeaton Contemporary Arts in County Limerick, Ireland, brings about this public programme and Wolf’s first UK solo exhibition in 2025.
Over the past decade Wolf has developed an interdisciplinary practice, oscillating between installation, performance, and experimental workshop formats. Key to their approach has been an ongoing practice of DIY publishing, often done collectively, to traverse queer economies and spatial politics, the lived present and imagined futures. Incorporating auto-fiction and anecdote, Wolf engages a tradition of queer-transfeminist working class vernacular and ethics, finding forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera to pose questions about value, accumulation, and authorship that, in their own words, ‘posits the imagination as a political tool with radical potential that can exist and erupt anywhere and at any time.’
Image: still from Aliens, 1986, featuring Ripley; a trans-dyke anti-mother
Contributor Biographies
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer and the author of the free online resource Access Toolkit for Artworkers. She is an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. She has previously curated the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence of VISUAL Carlow. As a writer she has written for publications including Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and Girls Like Us. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University, Royal College of Art and Arts and Disability Ireland. She has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA Platform Commision 2025, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform 2023.
Linda Stupart is an artist, writer, and educator from Cape Town, South Africa currently living in Birmingham, UK. Stupart’s recent work thinks through climate change, embodiment, abjection and the transgression of borders. They have performed as and on top of icebergs in the Arctic Circle (2019); and are currently walking the length of the River Cole in Birmingham, dressed in natural-dyed rags; foraged plants, twine, vines, and trash collected on the river’s banks as part of Watershed (2021 - present). In 2019 they produced All Us Girls Have Been Dead For So Long with Carl Gent – a full length sci-fi musical theatre production about dolphins, aliens, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, climate change, queer bodies, Kathy Acker, and travelling to hell. This was performed at the ICA, London. In 2021 they worked with Carl Gent and Kelechi Anachua to produce and then, a harrowing - a major immersive exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre, which unearths dominant and dominating relationships between bodies and ‘land’; proposing new ways of being together within ecological crises via ghosts; horses; harrows; rivers; folk singing, and digging. They are currently making art about horses. The work is generally driven by a radical site-specificity; immersing themselves in the ecologies; histories, and fictions of the immediate environment, while unearthing and troubling straight(forward) narratives of place.
Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Born in Kenya, raised in London and living/working beyond, they explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies/beings, theory and practice, text and corporeality and aesthetics and the political substance. Their practice is expansive, often combining elements of print, sculpture, installation, text, audio-video, anti/performance, workshops, culinary arts + more They are a member of Collective Creativity arts collective and are a creative educator, and independent scholar with an interest in radical pedagogy. Raju has trained as a pastry chef and baker, worked in several corporate and community kitchens and been part of a baker’s collective.
Lyónn Wolf is a trans, working class, visual artist, educator & writer based in Berlin and Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include De Appel, Amsterdam (2022), Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2021), and Grazer Kunstverein (2020). Wolf is co-founder of The Many Headed-Hydra, an aqueous-decolonising collective since 2015 working on long term critical and poly-vocal projects across the seas that connect Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iceland, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania and beyond. They published Text in Public – Zine Performances and Rants with Scriptings Berlin and Archive Books Berlin/Milan in 2021, the first collected monograph of their writings. They were a fellow with the Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung in 2022–23.
Since 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts commission, produce and exhibit contemporary art in the locale of a small town in County Limerick, Ireland. An artist residency programme situates Irish and international artists in the midst of Askeaton each summer, while thematic exhibitions, publications and events often occur. Through these methods, over one hundred artists projects have been realised.
The research for De-production was supported by a fellowship with The Berlin Artistic Research Programme (Das Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung) 2022/23
ACCESSIBILITY
Accessibility to all spaces in Flat Time House is limited by its prior function as a small private home.
The front gallery is accessible via a portable ramp from the street which we provide. The garden can be accessed via a side entrance from the street and from there the studio, research space, and rear gallery can be accessed via ramp. The rear gallery is entered via a 77cm (30 1/4'') doorway. The kitchen area can be accessed via ramp from the street but accessibility is limited by a 68cm (26 3/4'') interior doorway.
Please call Flat Time House on +44 (0)207 207 4845 or email [email protected] in advance of your visit.