a staged slumber

Infectious musicality, slapstick humour, jester philosophy, and bizarre costuming combine in the works of artists Caz Egelie and Jesse Strikwerda, whose collaborative practice is formed around a shared desire for character- and world building. Previously, with their work A bunch of red herrings (2022), they assembled an askew world of mediaeval caricatures who were adorned in tea-towel chainmail, smoked cigarettes, and hit the treadmills rather than the flour mills. Their exhibition A Staged Slumber is presented as an installation that can be experienced as an index of characters in slumber, awaiting their moment of being awoken in order to activate the space. The installation itself consists of drawings, videos, and sculptures ruminating on the ideas of storytelling and the reshaping of identities and histories, through performativity and characterisation.