listening/shouting is a performance-film made for The Baby Makers: Making History. The project was a National Lottery Heritage Funded project in 2024, with Stroud’s Museum in the Park. We listened to stories of birth, as told by elder women and women of the global majority in Stroud District. Out of this listening we made a performance response. The WAAS were selected for a Walking the Land residency at the Gingerbread House, Oakbrook Farm, Stroud in November 2024. We presented our work at Stroud’s Museum in the Park in February 2025. The Baby Makers: Making History – creating collective artwork to tell the stories of reproduction and maternity in Stroud. Join us at the Museum in the Park on July 16th to learn more and take part. The WAAS are conducting ongoing intermittent research at the National Gallery, pursuing our interests in matresecence, pageantry, the unseen and invisible forces and activities in the space. We are undertaking a self-directed residency at The National Gallery in London supported by an a-n bursary 2022. We began… The Milky Way is a game created by The WAAS for playing in the National Gallery. You are invited to join us on Wednesday August 2nd 2023 and play the game – celebrating World Breastfeeding Week WBFW2023 Drawing on the iconic model of the traditional Agony Aunt, we are inviting people to share their Agonies, whether related… The WAAS can be called upon to write Permission Slips for anything you need permission for PROVISOS: We don’t issue permission for anything unethical or illegal. A Visit by the Officials from the Bureau for the Validation of Art is a performance art work that playfully mimics institutional and systemic power processes.
listening/shouting
The Farmer Wants A Wife
The Baby Makers: Making History 2021
National Gallery Research
NOT ON DISPLAY
The Milky Way
Agony Arts
Permission Slip
The Bureau for the Validation of Art
