A two-artist performance without a plot by R. Justin Hunt (198cm) and Owen G. Parry (183cm) exploring forms of queer intelligence (QUI), extra-terrestrial in-visibility, and that humming sound.

QUI is often hidden in plain sight. Partly because in order to survive it has had to shape itself within oppressive structures, inventing itself through scrambling, repurposing and smuggling its knowledge in numerous insidious ways. It’s Genet’s prison lovers in Un Chant d’amour sharing cigarette smoke through a tiny little hole in a wall; Or activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning trafficking information on the Iraq war via a CD labelled “Lady Gaga”. But it’s also communicated via unordinary gestures, telepathic glances, limp wrist sports, and theatrical tics.

R. Justin Hunt is a London based performer, curator, and lecturer. He is interested in the production and distribution of intimate knowledge. His work explores the excavation or creation of archives of queer communities and performance. This work primarily is shared through a commitment to teaching and through publication and performance. As his alter-ego, Dr Sharon Husbands, he has performed internationally since 2006. Sharon disappeared in 2020.

Owen G. Parry is a London based artist and researcher with an expanded practice in performance, installation, moving image and writing. He is interested in the subversive potentials of counter-knowledge, made-up languages and the production of unimaginable image-worlds. He has worked on/with conspiracy theory, fandom, drag, fully automated luxury communism, and Yoko Ono. His work has been included in public programmes internationally since 2005.

The event is part of the public programme around our current exhibition Desire International (until 26th of February).