Credit Gabjoo Ahn
Schedule:
All artists perform each night:
6:15 - 6:45pm / Gobbling Market Femme Castratrice (Limited Capacity* sign up in person at CCA box office from 18:00)
7 - 8pm / Cabaret: Craig Manson, Jersey the Devil (Jess Paris) & Lillian Ross-Millard
8.10 - 8.40pm / Gobbling Market Femme Castratrice (Limited Capacity* sign up in person at CCA box office from 18:00)
8:45 - 9:45pm / An Evening With, Alex Franz Zehetbauer
10 - 11pm / DJs (Third Eye Bar)
1st // 2nd // 3rd APRIL 2025
@ Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
18+
Access: BSL Interpreted on 3rd April by Yvonne Strain. If you have difficulty with queuing please let front of house know who can support early entry and/or access to a temporary seating area. Content Notes: Evening With; audience are offered alcohol. Craig Manson; (humorous) descriptions of violence.
* Gobbling Market is a limited capacity performance and not everyone will get in. We expect the 20:10 - 20:40 to be busiest, so come to the earlier slot if you are keen to experience the work. Sign ups for both performances will open at 18:00 at the CCA box office (in person only).
Alex Franz Zehetbauer transports you to a fantastical piano bar in An Evening with.
Ear-worm melodies and trickster humour keeps audiences teetering between the earnest and absurd, as Zehetbauer’s repertoire traverses eclectic moods and registers – from poetic lullaby to folk songs and pop renditions.
An Evening with, explores the cultural meanings, roles, and impacts of songs; creating an enchanted atmosphere as they are stretched into various choreographic postures. With music breaking forth from the body, the throat, the chest, and sometimes the leathery fingers of an absurd “tabi” boot, a sense of closeness at once strange and familiar takes shape amongst the gathered guests.
Image credit Diana Dumi
Craig Manson - Bunny
Craig Manson’s Bunny offers a darkly comic new take on the tropes of the ‘critically acclaimed solo show’. Combining live art and musical theatre it tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who’s relegated to a background extra in his own life. He finds solace in creating the persona of Bunny, an aspiring theatre starlet – and serial killer cutting her way through the talent pool of Scotland to increase her chances. But once she does away with the country’s performance artists, emerging theatre companies, and even the whole of Creative Scotland, she finds herself alone and no closer to achieving her dreams. Maybe it’s something to do with her after all?
In this DIY cabaret show, Bunny tells, yells, and sings her story against the backdrop of a collapsing arts industry.
JERSEY THE DEVIL (aka Jess Paris)
Jersey is the girl you meet in the club toilets who gives you a tampon and tells you you’re better without him. She’s the last to arrive and the first to leave but the one everyone remembers. Jersey holds on to all your secrets, all your grudges, all your gross exes and evil thoughts. Jersey is the devil.
Exploring the power of pop personas and interplay between performer, persona and audience, Jess Paris performs original music as Jersey The Devil.
Femme Castratrice - Gobbling Market
Gobbling Market takes its namesake from the Goblin Market of Christina Rosetti’s Victorian Britain, set against the backdrop of the Opium Wars and China’s century of humiliation. Sweeter than honey and stronger than wine, this new work reflects on geopolitical and immigrant stories of consumption, desire, alienation - and the exotic temptations from the motherland.
Lillian Ross-Millard - Halifax 1749 / 2014
A young woman sells apples to pay for school. Stuck in a wine-sad snow globe, she navigates unnaturally irrigated swamps, wayward bloody figures and her own glassy insomnia in order to get to work by 5:30 am.
Halifax 1749 / 2014 braids autobiography, fairy tale logic, Ovidian twists of metamorphic fate, a Commonwealth iconography and the peculiar violence of Canada.
DJs in THIRD EYE BAR - 10-11pm
Tue 1 April - Emma Diamond & DJ Table Table
A perfect pairing - one makes ambient music, the other meditates through life. A set from these 2 Glasgow institutions can take you anywhere from the lotus position to kicking your height.
@emmadiamondhair @ewanno1 @curlach @healthym8
Wed 2 April - Phil Healthy & Rochelle Jolley
Frequent collaborators perfecting their recipe for sonic soup - a Healthy broth embellished with crunchy croutons.
@rochellejolleyhair @curlach @healthym8
Thu 3 April - LuckyBabe & V3NUSIAN
V3NUSIAN and LuckyBabe are just two of the creative forces behind gullygully — a love letter to the black diaspora and the expression of such identities through sound. Born from late-night conversations with fellow Black creatives, gullygully is silky, intense, high-brow, and always ready to make you move. After a dreamy launch last month, the two will be highlighting elements of gullygully — expect fluid rhythms and deep vibes.
@luckybabedj @dianakirundi @gullygullygullygullygully
about the artists
Alex Franz Zehetbauer (*1990 in Brooklyn) creates performances, sonic choreographies, and songs. Critics have called him: an angel, a swamp monster, and a red-eyed demon. He studied vocal performance, choreography, acting and composition at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. Alex has collaborated with artists such as Phillip Gehmacher, Jen Rosenblit, Taylor Mac, Marta Navaridas and Alix Eynaudi. Recent performances include: C-Mine, Genk, Belgium (2024); Austrian Pavillion / Gwangju Bienniale, South Korea (2024); Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024); Gessneralle Zürich, Switzerland (2024); Theater Rampe, Stuttgart, Germany (2024); Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland (2023); Wien Modern / brut Wien, Austria (2023); The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY (2023); fjk3 – Contemporary Art Space, Vienna, Austria (2023); FFT Düsseldorf, Germany (2023); Theater aan Zee, Oostende, Belgium (2022); La Strada Graz, Austria (2022); Šiauliai Art Gallery, Lithuania (2021) among others. www.alexfranzzehetbauer.com / @afranzz
Craig Manson is an artist who works across theatre, live art and cabaret performance. His performances are joyful, surreal and queer, often using humour to poke fun at the structures we create for ourselves. His work has been featured in Made in Scotland, Dance International Glasgow, The Southbank Centre and Actoral Festival.
Jess Paris is a London born artist creating dance, film, and live performances. She has worked across Glasgow as a choreographer, director, producer and movement director. Her work is informed by her experiences as a pole dancer and a childhood growing up with 2000s MTV and her practice utilises from commercial and pop semiotics to examine the politics of performer / audience / client relationships.
Chao-Ying Rao (Femme Castratrice) is an East Asian visual artist based in Glasgow who primarily works with performance, photography, and moving image. Her practice involves negotiating the complexities around objectification and narcissism, often using humour to disarm and charm the viewer. Rao is interested in the absurdity of desire, excessive consumption, racial and bodily fetishisation, and abject femininity. Her background in dance comes from years of working as a stripper in Edinburgh and London. Rao is inspired by vintage Playboy centrefolds and misogynistic pop culture truisms. Working with Kristeva’s theory of abjection and Creed’s monstrous feminine, her work plays with that very fine line between attraction and repulsion.
Lillian Ross-Millard makes performance-for-video amongst other things. Her toolkit includes writing, choreography, storytelling, painting, games, being playful and other people. Lillian was raised by two theatre professionals, and had one grandmother and one great-grandmother who made their living in the performing arts. Her practice navigates performance as something inherited, an inevitability, and a key to survival.
Taking on the family business, so-to-speak, Lillian began her training at an early age, and went on to train in the pedagogical lineage of Jacques Lecoq and Jerzy Grotowski (via Zuppa Theatre Co., Mario Biagini, Bad New Days, and Company of Wolves). Lillian has a BAH in Theatre Studies and Contemporary Philosophy, as well as an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. She is currently engaged in a year-long residency with her friends and collaborators Anne White and Miranda Jones at LA SERRE – ART VIVANTS in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where they are developing Harmony Needs More Than One, an installation and durational performance.
Credits & Support:
Alex Franz Zehetbauer: An Evening with
Concept, songs, and performance Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Text collaboration Jen Rosenblit, Dez Miller. Dramaturgical advice Jen Rosenblit, Outside ear & recording Christian Schröder, Performance doula Claire Lefèvre, Piano coaching Han-Gyeol Lie, Light design Joe Albrecht, Outside eye Liv Schellander, Documentation Ipek Hamzaoglu, Production management mollusca productions A co-production by Verein Wilhelmina and brut Wien/FREISCHWIMMEN Network in collaboration with Wien Modern.
With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs, FREISCHWIMMEN, die Produktionsplattform für Performance und Theater, represented by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zurich, HochX Theater und Live Art Munich, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin and Theater Rampe Stuttgart, managed by SOPHIENSÆLE GmbH. FREISCHWIMMEN is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media via the „Verbindungen fördern“ programme of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. FREISCHWIMMEN is further supported by Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung and the Canton of Zurich’s Department of Cultural Affairs, supported by German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, The Brick Theater, ACT OUT, a project of IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs, and Kunstraum Eindorf.
This presentation is supported by European Festival Fund for Emerging Artists, Warehouse 9, & Austrian Cultural Forum
Craig Manson - Bunny
Created and performed by Craig Manson
Jersey the Devil aka Jess Paris
Music writing and producing: Jess Paris, Performance: Jess Paris, Nathan Barr Film: Dale Williamson, Editing: Jess Paris, Styling: Romi Sarfaty
