A person dressed in Frankenstein-esq prosthetics and chunky boots is standing on stage drinking a Monster energy drink. Behind them a green leather chair and teal curtains.

No Bodies Here: Deleting the Body from Live Performance

Ocean Stefan

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Time: 4:30pm

Tickets: Free – Booking Required

Running Time: 1 hour (no interval)

Age Recommendation: all ages welcome

This event takes place in person in our Members Bar

Photo credit: Stephen Daly

Join Ocean Stefan for an artist talk sharing their experience experimenting in performance, and exploring what happens to liveness when bodies are removed, deleted or obscured.

Referencing their work The Extinction Trilogy, a collection of shows exploring these themes (Monster Show, Blood Show and Nature Show), Ocean will talk on how their experience of transness is central in making work which thinks through extinction, monsters and the posthuman.

 

This event is part of Bloom, a programme of cutting edge performance developed at BAC. Bloom is curated by BAC’s Programme Producer Ella Gamble.

 

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Biographies

Ocean Stefan

Ocean Stefan (they/them) makes work which runs across performance, installation, text and film. Their practice is one of inbetweenness and overlap, which celebrates liveness and slippage. They are interested in the grey areas in life, and their work is committed to undoing things which claim to be fixed. Blood Show, part 2 in their large performance project The Extinction Trilogy, won the 2025 OFFIE for Best Production.

Ocean is currently undertaking a PhD in Posthuman Performance, in the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts and Media (CREAM), at University of Westminster, on a Quintin Hogg Trust Studentship.

Previous roles include: Fellow of The Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre; Thinker-in-Residence at the Live Art Development Agency; Jerwood New Playwright at The Royal Court Theatre; Creative Producer (Participation) for Forced Entertainment; Lecturer in Drama and Contemporary Performance at Manchester Metropolitan University; and Artistic Director of GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN performance company.

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PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in our Members Bar. This space is on the first floor, with step-free access via a lift.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.

This event will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the event at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

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