When does critique become content ? Our current student Tara White (DAI 2024 - 2026) will once again perform their very smart and entertaining 'when does critique become content?', this time at Humber Street Gallery (Hull, UK) as part of a new experimental live art programme titled 'Weightless ghosts / Accidental spectators' on 19th December 2025 at 19:00. The work was debuted at Centrale Fies with DAI in August 2025 as their final first year Kitchen!
when does critique become content? is a performance/video work examining how dissent, glitch, and failure are not simply accidents within the media apparatus but are its most lucrative materials. Drawing upon the viral moment when a BBC newsreader accidentally flipped her middle finger to the camera during a live broadcast, the work explores how gestures of disruption are instantly captured, circulated, and neutralised within the media form. Blunders and slips are immediately co-opted by the information economy. Viral mistakes become a site where authenticity, control, rebellion and absorption coexist.
Weightless ghosts / Accidental spectators is an experimental live performance programme interrogating the distinction between spectator and witness.
This new series for Humber Street Gallery takes Claire Bishop’s Disordered Attention as a point of departure to re-align, misinterpret, and make distorted the relationship between artist and audience. As we slip between the blurring of dance, ritual, sound, voice, and body, we’ll be exploring the meaning of performance art, its orbit in our city and how we bear witness to impermanence.
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