Trashing Performance: This Is Not A Dream

For this documentary-performance event, Goldsmiths' Gavin Butt and TO cabaret editor Ben Walters interviewed a dozen artists and performers who use the moving image. Collectively, they trace a story, from Warhol to YouTube, about how the camera can challenge the mainstream, help freaks connect and offer fantasy spaces to explore alternative ways of being. The result is a unique documentary featuring US performers and artists from Vaginal Davis to Dara Birnbaum and Kalup Linzy to Nao Bustamante, as well as UK cabaret stars David Hoyle, Scottee, Holestar, Alp Haydar and Dickie Beau - Beau also provides brand new live work created in parallel with the film. Presented by Performance Matters and BURN, the platform for moving images by cabaret artists.