Who's coming to the symposium ? Performance Platform and Other London

 

OTHER

OTHER is a UK-based performance artist and organisers’ collective comprising Samm Shackleton, Pierce Starre, and performance duo Weeks & Whitford (Rebecca Weeks and Ian Whitford).. It’s members are living and working at the intersection of being Neuro-divergent, Disabled Queer survivors. Marginalised identity and experience and self-actualisation inform their work and this necessitates that they create safe, comfortable, supportive environments within which to initiate and develop, perform, tour, document, exhibit, and disseminate work. They work with mutual respect and compassion for themselves, each other, those they work with and their audiences. They understand making performance art as something they do to make sense of their experiences for themselves and others, to learn, transform, and find meaning.

Performance Platform

While its primary focus is on showcasing live work in the capital, Performance Platform also acts as a node within a national and international network of allies, collaborators, and partners — a hub for peer-to-peer learning, research, networking, and development.

We support new, experimental, and challenging Performance Art while engaging and growing wider audiences.

Performance Platform is a diversity-led organisation. Our directors and team identify as neurodivergent, disabled, and from mixed minority backgrounds. This lived experience shapes our grounded, pragmatic approach to addressing intersectional barriers to inclusion and participation.

Founded in 2020 by Rebecca Weeks and Ian Whitford in response to the impact of the pandemic on the Performance Art community, Performance Platform’s first project, D I S T A N C E D, delivered the only COVID-secure live Performance Art events in London that year.