With Blood Thirsty, Ira Melkonyan continues her research into the performativity of liquids from a transnational feminist perspective, venturing into what is probably the most metaphorically loaded bodily fluid. Centering blood and other biological substances as performative agents, this transdisciplinary performance explores fantasy and mysticism surrounding leaking bodies, political borders and a sense of connection.

In 2021 Grima researched the topic of explosions after discovering various stories that deserved further contemplation on the Island, one of the most bombarded places on Earth during World War II, with a turbulent political history in the ’70s and 80’s and more recently with a series of car-bombs and several incidents in firework factories, which brought numerous tragedies and deaths over the past century.

KEROGEN VOICES starts out as research into man-made earthquakes and, with it, the question of what happens to human identity in a world where ominous events such as earthquakes and floods are no longer natural hazards reserved exclusively for superhuman forces, but also calculated risks of capitalist production. What used to be read as an ‘act of God’ beyond human control and possibly feared as an act of geo-planetary self-defence and anti-human revenge, is now humanly reproduced and integrated into a set of predictable side-effects of advanced engineering.

Nassaba: Song of A Bird, is a portrait of a
disappearing practise – a way of being in nature and a game in which parent and child forge a generational bond. Jimmy Grima followed his father with a camera to the fields on the Maltese rocky coasts, where until recently he went to catch migratory birds. In a one-hour performance, Jimmy incorporated the video material to present the emotional world of the Maltese bird catchers and their bird-learned songs

(UPG) is a continuous commitment to performative manifestations on, with and about Liquids.

A theatrical universe, a cosmology created through the use of thickened and coloured water, ropes, pumps, and soundscapes in constellation with gravity, various weather conditions, sunlight, snow, rain and sometimes people.

UPG is an attempt to de-centralise humans in performance.