Opening Performance

6:30pm

Poetry Spells: Offerings to the Wound

by Finch Lanyun Huang



The Rat Eater(Act 1) 2025

20 mins

The Rat Eater is a two-act performance derived from a semi-fictional manuscript. Using diaries and letters, the performance weaves deconstructive writing with psychoanalytic ideas, unfolding and breaking apart through desire, anxiety and taboo. Through bodily details and recurring metaphors, the artist traces shifting boundaries within relationships, identity and longing, forming a queer mental landscape between fantasy and reality, shame, secrecy and desire. The manuscript comes from a state of turbulence, where intrusive fantasies and compulsive projections slip into brief
hallucinatory scenes. In those moments, desire twists into strange forms and reality becomes sharply clear, revealing a psyche caught between obsession, neurodivergent intensity and the difficulty of speaking openly.



Photo Credits: Joy Chao 


Lanyun Huang (Finch) is a London-based queer artist. She holds an MA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. As Lanyun, she creates conceptually driven, body-based performances that often take place in everyday or disruptive settings, emphasizing temporality and sensory intervention through the body. As Finch, she makes theatrical works rooted in queer nightlife, collective energy, and folk mythology. Her practice moves live art, performance, video, installation and curation, engaging with identity, structures of desire, improvisation, and the shifting dynamics