Katy Baird + ALTHEA YOUNG + Kirstin halliday
7PM | 17th APRIL 2025 | £5 / £6.50 / £9
@ Platform, The Bridge
1000 Westerhouse Road,
Easterhouse, Glasgow G34 9JW
Transport: Return coach from Glasgow South & Glasgow Central. Book here.
18+
Access: BSL interpreted, Strobe Warning. Content notes below.
Katy Baird - Get Off
“The average life expectancy of a woman in London is 83 years old. The average life expectancy of a woman in Glasgow is 78 years old. This means, when I go home to visit my mum next month, I’ll be 5 years closer to my death…”
Self-proclaimed hedonist and queer performance artist Katy Baird has spent the last decade documenting her pursuit of pleasure. She’s been trying to understand what she does with her time, and what she’s going to do with the time she has left.
Through trademark humour and an existential haze of home videos, last night’s pounding gabber track, and sessions with her life coach, Stephen – Get Off offers a raw, unfiltered glimpse into the human need for distraction; exploring the depths of our desires and what truly gets us off.
“GET OFF will make you squirm, cringe, and laugh out loud like never before” - Eva Mateos Rodriguez, Abundant Art
“Messy, anarchic and very funny” ★★★★ The Stage
ALTHEA YOUNG – THE DREAMING
As dreams of babies invade the waking world of Althea Young, she struggles to understand not only what she wants, but why?
A work of auto-fictional performance, this work-in-progress flicks through dream-worlds consisting of lyrical text, responsive sound, and visceral choreography. In a complex interrogation of reproductive desire and resistance.
As she explores her own ambivalence to parenthood within our state of perma-crisis, she must ask; What makes our lives meaningful? What are we willing to sacrifice? And what is it all for?
Kirstin Halliday
Will be presenting an extract of a new work, more info coming soon!
Content notes:
Katy Baird - Get Off
Haze, blackout, loud music, strobe lighting, imagery of perceived drug use, and nudity.
Althea Young - The Dreaming
Descriptions of body-horror, depictions of pregnancy, references to death and suicidal ideation, strong language, sexual content, fake blood/fluids, allusions to invasive procedures, pregnancy trauma, and non-consent.
ARTIST BIOS
Katy Baird is an artist who frequently finds herself in bizarre situations of her own making. Her practice is centred around a desire to create a shared space that can be both welcoming and radical. She has performed at Live Art festivals and venues across the UK and internationally as well as squat parties, clubs and raves. Katy proudly identifies as an ‘old, queer, fat, femme deviant’ and is currently based in Hastings, East Sussex, UK.
Althea Young (she/they) is a performance maker based in Glasgow. Disguising experimental performance art within traditional theatre and dance, her work is imaginative and otherworldly, drawing from a wealth of fem writers who explore the grotesque and erotic within autobiography. She is inspired by feminist body-horror cinema and her practice intersects performance text, choreography, technology and social practice.
Althea grew up in San Francisco, California as a lifelong circus performer. She graduated B.A.(Hons) Contemporary Performance Practice 1st class from Royal Conservatoire Scotland, winning the Avrom Player’s Award for Direction 2021 and went on to attended the S+V Professional Development Programme. She was the 2023 Present Futures Associate Artist and the 2023/24 Surge/Manipulate Associate Artist.
Kirstin Halliday (they/them) is a dance artist and performer based in Glasgow who has choreographed, facilitated and performed in diverse contexts including; visual arts, music videos, club nights & community dance workshops. Grounded by their research background in Geography, their movement practice is motivated by the co-generative relation between moving bodies, social space, & interpersonal relations & identities. Their research at University of Glasgow & University of Iceland focused on emotional geographies, the geographies of the body, gender & movement. This research ignited questions relating to bodily agency, identity & resistance through movement, questions that drive their work to date, as they consider the dancing body as a site of queer potentiality & gender fluidity.
CREDITS AND SUPPORT
KATY BRAID - GET OFF
Devised, Directed & Performed by Katy Baird, Co-Director Kim Noble, Producer Michael Kitchin, Dramaturgy Pol Heyvaert, Choreographer Lisi Estaras, Production Manager James Dawson, Stage Manager Florian Lim, Sound Design Nicol Parkinson, Additional Music Brecht Hayen and Ely Muff, Lighting Designer Joe Hornsby, Costume Designer Lambdog1066, Video Design Kim Noble and Pol Heyvaert, Further artistic support from Darragh O’Leary, Lucy Hutson, Eirini Kartsaki, Jordan Mckenzie, Eve Stainton, Ivor Macaskill, Kharn Roberts, Mitch and Zeroh. Special thanks to Sex Music and Serge Nicholson.
Co-commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, CAMPO, and Transform, with further support from Artsadmin, Tramway, Cambridge Junction, Horizon and Old Diorama Arts Centre. Using public funding through the National Lottery from Arts Council England.
ALTHEA YOUNG - THE DREAMING
Lead Artist and performer - Althea Young, Insta @althea_later_alligator, Produced Annie Lowry-Thomas as part of Hacks - Insta @producedbyhacks , Sound Design and operation - Isaac Orson-Wells, Scenography and Design - Bex Anson, Lighting Design - Laurie Loads, Dramaturgy - Laura Bissell, Choreographic Outside Eye - Collette Sadler.
The Dreaming is work-in-progress originally developed and shown as part of the Present Futures 2023 associate artist bursary, further evolved as part of a WorkRoom residency and is now in the final stages with support from the Creative Scotland Open Fund.