Katy Baird steht breitbeinig vor einer Leinwand, rechts neben ihr stehen ein Laptop und ein Mikrofon auf dem Boden. Sie ist halbnackt und nur mit buntem Klebetape bedeckt.

Get Off

Performance by
Katy Baird | CAMPO

Relaxed Performance

20.11.

20:00

21.11.

20:00

Ages 18+

Pricing

Solidarity price system:
€8 / €12 / €18 ( free choice)
Bremen Pass: €3
Children and young people aged 5-17: €5

Culture semester ticket: free of charge

Advance booking online only. Remaining tickets from 1 hour before the start of the event at the box office (phone: (tel: 0421 520 80 70)).

Reservation

Alternatively, you can reserve tickets by phone or email:
0421 520 80 70 (Mon, Wed—Fri 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., also answering machine) or ticket@schwankhalle.de

Please note: Our ticket hotline is not operated on weekends or in the evenings. We therefore ask you to make your reservations in advance.

Reserved tickets must be picked up at the box office at least 30 minutes before the start of the performance—after that, the reservation will expire.
The box office can be reached by phone 1 hour before the start of the event at 0421 520 80 70.

Relaxed Performance

The performance will take place
as a relaxed performance. This means:

You can leave the hall and
re-enter at any time.

There is a supervised quiet space
available if you need a break.

The hall will never be completely
dark at any point.

You are allowed to make noise and react
to what you’re experiencing during the performance.

Content notes

This production thematizes distraction, excess, hedonism, consumption, power and class dynamics, exploring how these forces shape individual and collective experiences.

This production features interaction with the audience, including one-on-one engagement, at different points in the show. Participation is entirely optional.

The performance contains nudity and visual depictions of drug use, defecation and faeces.

Queer performance legend Katy Baird has spent the last decade chasing pleasure and trying to make sense of the chaos.

Fusing pounding techno, personal footage and razor-sharp humour, »Get Off« rips into what we crave, what we hide and the lengths we’ll go to feel something in a world that won’t slow down.

This isn’t theatre for the faint-hearted. It’s a confession booth with a bassline. A party at the edge of collapse. A raw, funny, painfully honest trip through desire, distraction and survival.

»Get Off will make its audience squirm, cringe, and laugh out loud like they never have before.« Abundant Art UK Review

About the artist

Katy Baird is an artist and activist who frequently finds herself in bizarre situations of her own making. Her practice is centred around a desire to create a shared space that can be both welcoming and radical.

She has performed at live art festivals and venues as well as squat parties, clubs and raves. Her debut studio-based performance Workshy, a show about work and the things we do for money, was a smash hit and toured internationally to over 30 cities. Since 2016 she has been artist in residence at London queer nightclub Knickerbocker. Her most recent performance, Get Off, premiered in October 2023 as part of Transform Festival. The work is her first collaboration with arts centre CAMPO.

Katy proudly identifies as an ‘old, queer, fat, femme deviant’ and is currently based in Hastings, East Sussex. Her most favourite review of her work is from Vice Magazine: »Sat there half drunk in the musty-dark theatre room of an Edinburgh Fringe art-show, watching someone piss in a wine glass then drink it, I can honestly say that… I’ve… never… felt… more… alive.«

katybaird.com ↗

About CAMPO

The Ghent based arts centre CAMPO presents a diverse program, ranging from theatre, dance and performance to festivals, neighbourhood kitchens and debates. We create performances which tour internationally, and support artists throughout their artistic process. CAMPO has two sites in Ghent to work and present: CAMPO nieuwpoort and CAMPO victoria.

More information on campo.nu ↗
Instagram @campo.nu ↗

Credits

devised, directed & performed by Katy Baird
co-director: Kim Noble
dramaturgy: Pol Heyvaert
choreographer: Lisi Esteras
technical team: Anne Meeusen & Piet Depoortere
lighting designer: Joe Hornsby
costume: Lambdog1066
video design: Kim Noble & Pol Heyvaert
sound design: Nicol Parkinson
additional music: Brecht Hayen & Ely Muff
produced by CAMPO
further artistic support from Darragh O’Leary, Lucy Hutson, Eirini Kartsaki, Jordan Mckenzie, Eve Stainton, Ivor Macaskill, Kharn Roberts, Mitch & Zeroh

co-commissioned by CAMPO, Battersea Arts Centre & Transform
further funding support from Arts Council England, Artsadmin, Tramway, Cambridge Junction, Horizon & Old Diorama Arts Centre

special thanks to Sex Music & Serge Nicholson