WAIWAV — belpye

We are Invisible We are Visible

It is July 2nd 2022.

31 D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent artists converge on 30 galleries across Britain and Northern Ireland on the 102nd anniversary of the 1st DADA international Exhibition in Berlin.

What if the Dada movement had started in 2020, during lockdown? What would they have done? Is our modern milieux a timelier moment to resurrect the spirit and essence of Dada? We say yes!

From 12 - 6pm in the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londondderry, Bel crocheted themselves into a body-sized crochet net made of recyled tshirt yarn.

Find out more about the performance here.

Photograph of Bel crocheting blue yarn into a simple circle shape. They are sat on a navy sofa next to some over-ear headphones and a bottle of irn bru

Bel is sat on a navy blue sofa in from of three windows in a white gallery space. There are to cameras set up around them to take a time lapse of the performance. Bel is wearing blue and white sttiped pajamas and crocheting. on the floor in front of

A photograph of Bel from the other side of the gallery space, through two doorways

A bottle of irn bru, a bunch of bananas, some oranges and a pile of chocolate coins in pink foil. All objects are on the floor in front of a navy sofa.

Bels legs encased in a blue crochet net, next to a skein of blue yarn

Bel has crocheted themselves to the waist in blue yarn. around them are the crochet equipment and foodstuffs they started the performance with.

Bels hands within a blue and pink crochet pod

Bel fully cacooned in the pinka nd blue crochet pod, with their hands working around the edge of the closing hole. Around them the food has been eaten and the skins discarded.

Bel fully cacooned in the pink and blue crochet pod. Around them the food has been eaten and the skins discarded.

Performance Work