Len Goetzee – Red Peter
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
Made in response to Paul B Preciado’s book; ‘Can The Monster Speak’, Len offer’s a musing on the nature of becoming and unbecoming through the tale of Red Peter, a captured ape learning to behave humanlike as a method of survival then sharing the account of his transformation at a scientific conference in Franz Kafka’s short story; ‘A Report to the Academy’. With song fragmented by intimate pondering and supported by a musical score to reflect these changing states, Len uses his trans voice to build and then un-build an existence in duality.
Len Goetzee is a queer artist living and working in Glasgow. Through a trans methodology of collapse and dispossession they excavate a past enmeshed with the non-human and the more than human. Binaries breakdown and temporalities become twisted; an anti-propulsive practise reversing into queer resistance and into old futures.