Becoming Constellation
2017
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London. UK.
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Duration: 30min
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Materials: Chrome cock cage, Black lace thong, Black lace fetish hood, tattoo kit, Dance pole, Violin, Recorded Sound.
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Live performance by Benjamin Sebastian in the frame of Becoming Constellation exhibition at Angus-Hughes Gallery, London. Live work in collaboration with Alicia Jane Turner and Desmond Byrne - with text contributions from; Fabiola Paz & Alicia Radage.
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Documentation: Andre Braga Verissimo
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Supported by Arts Council England and Angus-Hughes Gallery
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Becoming Constellation is an ever expanding, interdisciplinary and collaborative artwork lead by Benjamin Sebastian.
A working methodology to explore queer narrative production - or - what it feels like to live through queerness and make new worlds.​​ Collaboration involves sitting for a photographic portrait and co-authoring a sigil with the lead artist, which is then tattooed onto the bodies of the collaborator and lead artist. Collaborators to date include:
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Dani d'Emilia,​ Fabiola Paz,​ Jade Montserrat​, Keijaun Thomas,​ Bean,​ JD Melling,​
Ryan Burke,​ Matteo Cortés,​ Andre Braga Verissimo,​ Esther Neff​, Alicia Radage​,​ Joseph Morgan Schofield.
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