Churnings - What do you scream for?
Participatory PerformanceKOPPEL Collective, London
2026
Churnings is a participatory performance built around a single question I ask the audience, again and again: what do you scream for? They are invited to whisper their answer back to me. Refusing the spectator–spectacle relationship, it casts those present as instigators and activators, with my body as conduit. The screams arrive through me unevenly - some large, rumbling up and out of my body; others small, fragile, barely willing to pierce the surface, as though afraid of being heard. One by one they collect in the water, until what is screamed into can no longer be seen through.
We have been conditioned to look away - at reaching for the next distraction, the next dissociation, the next numbness before the feeling can land. Churnings refuses this. It asks instead that we stay with the murkiness we have made together - to remain inside the discomfort of a present we would rather not see clearly. What remains at the end is clouded water and the memory of what was screamed into it: a collective sediment and the residue of what we carry but rarely name.
