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19.05.
2026
CHLOE CHIGNELL
Sun Cut: a lover’s dictionary
© Stine Sampers
Sun Cut: a lover’s dictionary is a living lexicon drawing from Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig. The performance embodies the dictionary’s 366 entries moving word by word, concept by concept, body by body.
Sun Cut approaches language as an activity that happens to bodies and between them, open to exhaustion, misalignment, and renewal. Each iteration becomes an act of speculative reanimation: remembering a future yet to arrive. By inverting the role of the printed archive, the work asks how the body can function as both a site and a method of preservation. Building on Wittig and Zeig’s critique of linguistic authority, Sun Cut approaches the dictionary not only as a text, but as a practice for reorganizing relation, movement, and collective presence.
Time
20:00–22:30
Location
TQW Studios
Duration
150 Min
Price
€ 16/12 Rakete Discount – for bookings of 3 or more performances: € 12/9 per ticket
Additional Information
Come and go as you please.
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Dates
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TUE
19.05.
Chloe Chignell
Sun Cut: a lover’s dictionary
20:00 – 22:30
TQW Studios
Additional Information
Come and go as you please.
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Artist Bio
Chloe Chignell
(b. 1993) is an artist working across text, choreography, and publishing. Her work focuses on language within a choreographic frame. She invests in writing as a body building practice and in practices of experimental translation. In 2019, Chignell co-founded rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens. Her work has been presented at Beursschouwburg, Dancehouse Melbourne, NEXT Festival, Pavillon ADC, Bâtard Festival, Saal Biennale, Moving Words Norway, KAAP Bruges, Littérature etc., and the Venice Dance Biennale, among others.
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Credits
Concept, choreography, performance Chloe Chignell Sound, performance Steph Holl-Trieu Sound collaborations Steph Holl-Trieu (PACT, Essen Edition), Amina Szecsödy (PAF, Saint Erme Edition), Mara Schwerdtfeger (Critical Path, Sydney Edition)
Supported by Artspace Sydney, Critical Path Sydney, Dancehouse Melbourne, GC De Maalbeek, n22 Brussels, Kunstendecreet, Cité des arts, Paris
