Making Performance at Home: A Workshop by Elana Binysh
- Date
- Thursday 18 Sep 2025
- Venue
Online
- Timings
11am-2pm (inclusive of 20-minute break)
- Price
- Pay What You Can (£0/£4/£8)
Making performance at home: Imagination and the domestic space is a 3-hour online workshop by Elana Binysh for people who spend a lot of time at home.
The workshop will explore performance methods for engaging with a domestic space in unusual ways and from new angles.
We will use psychogeographic prompts for free writing. Laptop and phone cameras will frame domestic objects in order to think about the scenography of homes. Elana will set tasks that lean into the beauty of the hyper-mundane.
This workshop builds on methods Elana developed during the making of her work I think it was a feeling, an intimate headphone piece exploring shame, freedom and incontinence for people to experience at home alone.
Biography
Elana Binysh is a live artist who creates sensory environments for audiences to be swallowed up by. She uses warmth, silliness and experimental form to explore transgression, shame, presence and Disability. Her work has been described as intimate, giddy, melancholic and all consuming. Elana lives and works in London and on the internet. She also works as an access consultant, and is an organiser for Queer Yeshiva’s Queer Talmud project.
Elana’s current work includes מחלקת לשם שמים [Arguments for the sake of Heaven], a dreamy ritual for unassimilating using the somatic archives of our religion, and Never made sense in the first place, a chaotic reperformance of Talking Heads’ seminal concert film Stop making sense.
Access Information
Event information:
This is an interactive online workshop held on Zoom. Closed captioning will be on throughout. You are welcome to be off camera/on mute as much as you like and to bring a support worker.
Structure:
The workshop structure will be sent ahead of time. Tasks can be sent out ahead of time, and will be designed to be responded to in multiple ways. The workshop includes a 20 minute break, with the option for additional breaks if required by the participants.
Content notes:
The event includes the possible discussions of disability, medical trauma and bodily waste. Please email Willy if you would like more information on what to expect.
Banner image credit:
Elana Binysh. Image by Ella Frost.
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