An evening of readings, performances and sound works by three artists and writers in London, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Otamere Guobadia and Harley Yeung Kurylowski. In the event, the artists will explore new perspectives on queer culture, and politics. it will include new textual and live works authored by the artists as well as reference and research materials informing their work and research.

Readings in response to Gran Fury has been co-curated with artist Jack O’Brien and programmed in conjunction with Gran Fury’s exhibition Read My Lips.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (b. 1995, London) is an Animator/Artist that creates work centering Black Trans people. Her practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell Trans stories and build an ongoing archive of erased Trans lives for the past, present and future. She has presented works at Trans Film Festival, Berlin (2018); Barbican, London (2018), Mimosa House, London (2018); Southbank Centre, London (2018); Tate, London (2017); and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2017).

Otamere Guobadia is a multidisciplinary writer, poet and columnist. Graduating from Oxford University with a degree in Jurisprudence, Guobadia’s writing explores queerness, art, race, desire, agency, and pop culture: how these things constellate and complicate each other. Guobadia’s work has been published in publications including Dazed, i-D, Wonderland, British Vogue, Vogue Italia, Gay Times, and GQ.

Harley Yeung Kurylowski is a London based film director, editor and curator working across narrative film, experimental documentary and music videos, championing and programming queer cinema. Since mid-2015 Harley has been the head curator and founder behind KUNTINUUM, an artist-run salon which meets quarterly in London and centres self-ID’d lesbians, queer women, trans and non-binary folx.

Jack O’Brien (b. 1993, UK) is an artist and curator, currently living and working in London. Working with found objects, sculpture and image-making, O’Brien’s work explores the relationships between the built environment, material cultures, queer desire and marginalised aesthetics. He has exhibited at Raven Row, London (2016), Tank.TV, London (2017) Peres Projects, Berlin (2018), was curator in residence at Tank.TV (2015).