alphie hubbard

alphie hubbard (UK) works with performance, installation, sculpture, drawing and text to explore the fluidity of relationships to the self and the body. They investigate the personal within the political, working with queer and transgender theory to explore embodiment, bodily autonomy, and the construction of identity. hubbard’s performances stitch together snippets of materials, culture, artworks and theory to create a tapestry of references that situate trans experience within a wider cultural framework.

On residency at Bergen Kunsthall’s Live Studio, they will be developing a new performance Icarus wings (working title). Icarus wings explores transformation, ambition and narrative, interrogating the process of falling and failing through a choreography of repetition. It retells the myth of Icarus through the metaphor of high jump, inspired by Gustav Parker Hibbett’s poetry book titled High Jump as Icarus Story. During the residency, they will draw on their twelve years of training for high jump to experiment and improvise with movement, sound, voice and text.

alphie hubbard’s work is supported by a grant from Bergen Kommune.