I am very happy to announce that on Friday September 26th, I will be taking part in this year’s Sono-Electro- a festival dedicated to sound art, in St Leonards on Sea. This year, I will be debuting a performance-art piece inspired by the hours spent singing to my young baby to lull him to sleep. One particular song, Row Row Row Your Boat, became an outlet for an intense period of shifting emotions, marked by the ever-changing landscape of new motherhood and ongoing atrocities in Palestine. In simple terms, the performance involves me sitting in a boat, inside a gallery, singing the same song on repeat for two hours.

Partly inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson and the National’s “A Lot of Sorrow,” the performance will aim to reflect the resilience of solo parenting, while testing the limits of a well known nursery rhyme.

Audience participation is neither discouraged nor encouraged.

Tickets here

Image of a white woman wearing a baggy navy jumper, wide black trousers and cream trainers, standing with her eyes closed and arms in a carrying pose, in front of a large fishing boat named GRATITUDE RX53. — STILL FROM SWAY, 2023 - A VIDEO AND ART PERFORMANCE BY GEORGINA COOK

Black text on pink with prose including "Me, sighing, laughing, crying, singing to the baby." — EXTRACT FROM DIARY, 2023, PART OF SHIT SHOW

FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCE AT SONO-ELECTRO