Queer East hosts a special takeover at the ICA, featuring an all-day line-up of film, performance, and practice-based workshops culminating in a club night. Chasing the dizzying ecstasy of movement in all its eclectic potential, this experimental, multidisciplinary showcase will unfold throughout the venue, concocting a sensory mixed bill of bold sounds, moving image, and haptic intimacies.

In the theatre, Hong Kong-based dance company Unlock Dancing Plaza presents a double bill by Joseph Lee and Paula Wong, examining the body politics of spectatorship through playful subversion of everyday gestures. The line-up also features shibari artist hua hua, multidisciplinary artist Riven Ratanavanh, queer collective CD3 and experimental choreographer Osamu Shikichi, with each performance engaging with the errant vitality of queerness in their own inimitable way.

A looping shorts programme will display works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Umi Ishihara, and Oat Montien, among others. Audiences can slip in and out of these scenes of filmic velocity in the cinema and witness counter-choreographic eruptions in the theatre throughout the day, traversing interconnected themes like the poetics of migration, trespassed borders, unfettered desiring and the necessity of movement for survival.

Audiences will be invited to explore shibari as a mindful and sensual practice through a workshop led by hua hua. This happens alongside a range of other cross-disciplinary workshops led by Pubis Project, Sun Park, Chiemi Shimada, Kayla Lui and Doreen Chan, spanning fantasy stamp-making, cosmotechnical filmmaking, life drawing that undermines established systems of gazing, and a dream-based cocktail mixer.

Building to a fiery, moonlit climax, we will shed skins and dance hard to the beats of Flow (海纳百川), a multidisciplinary club and performance programme curated by celebrated DJ-artist Sirui Chang (Princess Xixi).