Performances
Matrimonial Anarchy
Matrimonial Anarchy (2024) is a feminist performance art piece that challenges traditional notions of femininity and marriage. Developed through a Solo Performance-Making course led by Hannah Ballou and performed at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), this piece utilises literal tools to demonstrate an alternative mode of constructing femininity.
Through a series of confrontational performance actions, Matrimonial Anarchy invites the audience to reconsider the roles and identities imposed upon women within the institution of marriage, advocating for autonomy and self-definition.
Matrimonial Anarchy was performed at:
– The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
– Commissioned by Word of Warning and hÅb for Emergency 24, Manchester
– Scrapyard Lab, TATE
Review
'Shannon's happenings are vibrant bursts of energy: loud, brash, and irresistibly captivating. Unforgettable!'—Paul Haworth, the esteemed maestro of Pop Daddy Parties.
Curated Pleasure
A riotous exultation to the deities who give us the strength to become warriors.
Curated Pleasure is a Sisters of Eden performance made with Jorja James.
Curated Pleasure was performed at
—DRIP at Constellations, Liverpool
—Femmes Uncut, Glasgow
— Anatomy Festival, Edinburgh
— Clout! Festival, Dagenham
This show won a prize for “Most Popular Show at the Fringe” at Sprungturm Festival, Germany (2019).
Review
‘It’s like an onslaught of poetry, emotion and punk-filled, riotous passion. You want to experience it over and over again but also wonder what you’ve just witnessed. In the blink of
an eye you’ve had an awakening’—Andrew Simpson at Anatomy Festival, Edinburgh
Volume I: Blood
This show is an explosive celebration of identity.
The Sisters transform the space into a battleground whereby we are all permitted to break free from social and political prisons and birth a new form of revolution.
Presented by the Sisters of Eden at:
—Propaganda Festival at The Others
—TUFF Festival at The Artworks Elephant
—Theatre Utopia
—Camden Peoples Theatre
—Fragility in collaboration with Wandsworth Fringe Festival
At Camden People’s Theatre we completed a sell-out run and at Wandsworth Fringe we were recipients of the best show award (2017)
Review
'Watching The Sisters of Eden feels as though you are tracing history to an era of joyful, Feminist Performance Art. Nobody watching will feel anything but admiration and a desire to participate.'
- Rebecca Pollock, Artistic Director of Shady Dolls Theatre Company
Joe the Drag King Spectacular!
This performance intervention draws on the Happenings movement and 1970s feminist performance art, using an autobiographical narrative to explore a womxn's experience within contemporary culture. In this show, drag serves as a critical tool to challenge gender norms and disrupt conventional identity constructs, creating space for subversion, empowerment, and self-expression.
This show was performed at:
—Messy, The Oak and Pastor
—I Don’t Need to See That Fair, Grow Warehouse Tottenham
—Live Art Club VFD, in association with the Live Art Development Agency
— The Bussey Building, Peckham
The Anarchist Feminist Party
'The Anarchist Feminist Party is a punk performance rave. A fairground of anarchy where performance, music, and art intertwine in a revolutionary community of rebellion. Audiences are encouraged to take the lead on their journey through The Anarchist Feminist Party.'
I curated and hosted The Anarchist Feminist Party, ‘a feminist punk performance playground’, at Ugly Duck warehouse in London Bridge. The event had contributions from feminist punk bands, performance artists, poets, aerial performers, fine artists and zine makers. Over 300 attendees joined us for the evening.
For this project, I was awarded the University of Kent “Vice Chancellors Project Fund”.
Hierophants 5.0
I facilitated a live art workshop that culminated in the creation of a film exploring the definitions of the collective and collective identity as a means of protest.
The film "Hierophants 5.0" premiered at the Arcana exhibition, hosted at The Crypt Gallery in King's Cross. This project was commissioned by the Crypt Gallery Young Artists Programme. The experience provided an invaluable opportunity for participants to engage with and reflect on the themes of identity and community through their artistic contributions.
Misplaced Women?
A public performance intervention in collaboration with Tanja Ostojić and Elena Marchevska. Supported and produced by the Live Art Development Agency, Hackney Wick.
As part of Marchevska’s Restock Rethink Reflect Four residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to the experiences of the displaced. Artists interrogated some of the realities of displacement such as travelling, identity, illegality, security, and the private/public through the unpacking of a suitcase in a resonant public place.
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