2025, HAYSTACK
With Evelyn Wh-ell
Multimodal performance, fake bladder, water bottle, video, sculptural elements
Performed/Exhibited at The Horse Hospital, with Big Throw
It is Sunday evening on Labor Day weekend, 1997. Scott, Jeffrey, John, Alan, Clark and Ken are playing UNO at Ken’s place. Scott and Jeffrey are visiting from Raleigh Durham, where they have just moved into a fabulous new home. They are all having a swell old time, although Princess Diana has been injured, gravely, allegedly. The TV is tuned to CNN.
With Evelyn Wh-ell
Multimodal performance, sculpture
Double Entry was commissioned by TACO! through Blurt - an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast
Double Entry by Hugo Hagger & Evelyn Wh-ell is a love story. Two protagonists play out two parallel storylines of self-alienation and dislocation in a tale about the queer joke that is life and its never-ending. Caught in the misfiring of causation, our protagonists face personal tragedy, missed sexual encounters, failed self-actualisation, and a scam phone call which drives them round in melodramatic circles until they lose the plot. Against the backdrop of a cast of 2-D characters, Double Entry’s duet form is a closed loop of interiority where only transformation is possible, not exit. Images and objects come back around to serve new functions in the narrative economy in which they work, changing substance but not appearance, or appearance but not substance, as they circle. In Double Entry, death is a life sentence.
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