FK Alexander and Cat Boyd
“When Everything I Love Falls from the Sky, the World will be Covered in Darkness“
tx: 12th April, from 19:00
Live performance:
Saturday, 12th April – Doors 6pm. First performance 7pm sharp.
Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9SH
Through sound, voice, incantation and the body, FK Alexander and Cat Boyd fuse their long running obsessions together to present a new live collaboration, specifically for Radiophrenia.
Compelled by repetition, chant, poetic fragments, and the materiality of inheritance, they blur the boundaries between past, present, and future; death drive, lifeblood and love.
Together they pry open a portal to our collective cosmic sorrow, mourn history and conjure a fragile, scorched hope and song.
FK Alexander is a performance artist from Fife. FK’s deathwork has been hanging on noise music, duration and medication in a gaudy attempt to briefly alleviate the trauma of living for some years now. This work has been made for graveyards, nightclubs, cassette tapes and car parks, as well as theatres, music venues and art galleries. The work is incredibly profound and entirely meaningless. More recently ,this has been taken the form of stripped back short sets and tapes of chord organ, drone and collage.‘’A vitally important artist’’ – Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre Magazine (95 words)
Cat Boyd is a Glasgow-based writer and poet, fanatical about how class, agency, and history meet the supposedly non-Political: love, grief, memory, and domestic life. Informed by her role in the trade union movement, her poetry-installations and performance pieces incorporate lullabies and collected ephemera with themes of deindustrialisation, labour, and lost landscapes. Cat asks whether rituals and poetic alchemy can open portals to help piece us back together. These works are filled with both foreboding optimism and joyful pessimism; always affectionate and bittersweet. A recent graduate of Glasgow University’s MLitt in Creative Writing, she was awarded a distinction for her work