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Tears and Thyroid Notch


by Davide Bugarin & Angel Cohn Castle





Performance, 15 minutes
at City Art Centre, Edinburgh
7 March 2025

“A storm erupts, and in the dark, a larynx is searched for. A wedding speech ushers in precision, examination and being shaped. A newly feminised voice is forged, competing to be heard against thunder. A falling tear is re-constructed, amplified, and guided. Shame and transformation occupy this triptych of control and loss, authenticity and artifice, shaping and being shaped. This work-in-progress performance emerges from Davide & Angel’s longer-term projects on public shaming parades, the gothic, and the gendered voice. Featuring new music made with Kalye Teresa, and a tincture made with real tears.”



Materials: Pipette, glass dropper bottles, ammunition belt, video camera, TV monitor, ‘Bebe’ hat, fake fur, crinoline
Sounds: Gothic lightning, rain and storm; ‘crying’ composition
Texts: a story of shaping and shame, voice feminisation techniques
Performers: Davide Bugarin Angel Cohn Castle Music: Kalye Teresa


CAC Late, 7 March 2025. Courtesy City Art Centre. Photography: Ian Georgeson

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