LADA x Fringe! The Body Is a Thing in Time

Biographies

Devika Bilimoria (AUS/GB) courts an X-disciplinary practice of performance, moving image and photography to explore notions of queering, time and materiality with experiences from the South Asian diaspora through queer, feminist and ecological perspectives. Central to their practice is a concept of ‘body-ing’, where formations of matter are in perpetual movement, affecting and affected by forces of sociality, texture, pressure, light, and chance. In Australia, Devika has shown works at the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Australian Photography, and PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography. In 2025, their durational performance installation Offerings (2022-25) was selected for The London Open Live programme at Whitechapel Gallery.

Claye Bowler is an artist based in London. His practice centres on collection and documentation of experience, memory and the remnants of humanity. Claye uses sculptural practices to highlight stories that are not historically collected through institutional means, often working with narratives of queerness and disability. ​Whilst also working in museum registration, Claye often incorporates, yet questions, the ethics, administration and aesthetics of museum collecting in his work. He has a strong connection to sound and music, increasingly integrating these elements into his work, using field recordings and traditional British folk songs.

kane stonestreet is a transdisciplinary artist. Their work seeks to pervert time, dilated through altered states. By attuning to a drip from a block of ice or touching a single frond of moss, kane uncovers slower ways of being. Their actions take place in the city time but their mind is in tectonic time. kane’s practice is based in collaboration. They have established connections with strangers, friends and lovers, through which they find new entanglements. Their performances are containers for collective creation, built on an invitation for witnesses to act as interpreters. Their ritual actions are a process of survival. 

SWEATMOTHER is an artist and filmmaker based in London. His moving image work blends performance, self-recorded documentation, internet and archival materials to explore and make visible queer lived experiences. He seeks to create art for his community to share, learn from and find solace in sensitive depictions of their shared raw realities and obscured histories. He continues to develop his visual art practice alongside his collaborations and lived experiences, proposing new ways the world can interact with otherness.