Performances 

FRANKENDIVA! is a high-voltage, feminist performance where identity is built, broken, and remade in public. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it reimagines the “diva” as a collective creation—shaped by the audience through voice, body, and story.

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Performed at Haphazard 25, Manchester, FRANKENDIVA! is playful, political, and participatory—celebrating fluidity, rejecting binaries, and asking: what if we all got to build the icon?

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Matrimonial Anarchy (2024) is a feminist performance art piece that challenges traditional notions of femininity and marriage. Developed through a Solo Performance-Making course led by Hannah Ballou and performed at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), this piece utilises literal tools to demonstrate an alternative mode of constructing femininity.

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Through a series of confrontational performance actions, Matrimonial Anarchy invites the audience to reconsider the roles and identities imposed upon women within the institution of marriage, advocating for autonomy and self-definition.

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Matrimonial Anarchy was performed at:

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– The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

– Commissioned by Word of Warning and hÅb for Emergency 24, Manchester 

– Scrapyard Lab, TATE

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Review

'Shannon's happenings are vibrant bursts of energy: loud, brash, and irresistibly captivating. Unforgettable!'—Paul Haworth, Pop Daddy Parties.

A riotous exultation to the deities who give us the strength to become warriors.

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Curated Pleasure is a Sisters of Eden performance made with Jorja James. 

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Curated Pleasure was performed at

—DRIP at Constellations, Liverpool 

—Femmes Uncut, Glasgow

— Anatomy Festival, Edinburgh 

— Clout! Festival, Dagenham

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This show won a prize for “Most Popular Show at the Fringe” at Sprungturm Festival, Germany (2019). 

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Review

‘It’s like an onslaught of poetry, emotion and punk-filled, riotous passion. You want to experience it over and over again but also wonder what you’ve just witnessed. In the blink of

an eye you’ve had an awakening’—Andrew Simpson,  Anatomy Festival, Edinburgh

This show is an explosive celebration of identity. 

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The Sisters transform the space into a battleground whereby we are all permitted to break free from social and political prisons and birth a new form of revolution.

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Presented by the Sisters of Eden at: 

—Propaganda Festival at The Others

—TUFF Festival at The Artworks Elephant

—Theatre Utopia

—Camden Peoples Theatre

—Fragility in collaboration with Wandsworth Fringe Festival

 

At Camden People’s Theatre we completed a sell-out run and at Wandsworth Fringe we were recipients of the best show award (2017)

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Review

'Watching The Sisters of Eden feels as though you are tracing history to an era of joyful, Feminist Performance Art. Nobody watching will feel anything but admiration and a desire to participate.'

- Rebecca Pollock, Artistic Director of Shady Dolls Theatre Company 

This performance intervention draws on the Happenings movement and 1970s feminist performance art, using an autobiographical narrative to explore a womxn's experience within contemporary culture. In this show, drag serves as a critical tool to challenge gender norms and disrupt conventional identity constructs, creating space for subversion, empowerment, and self-expression.

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This show was performed at:

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—Messy, The Oak and Pastor

—I Don’t Need to See That Fair, Grow Warehouse Tottenham

—Live Art Club VFD, in association with the Live Art Development Agency

— The Bussey Building, Peckham

'The Anarchist Feminist Party is a punk performance rave. A fairground of anarchy where performance, music, and art intertwine in a revolutionary community of rebellion. Audiences are encouraged to take the lead on their journey through The Anarchist Feminist Party.'

 

I curated and hosted The Anarchist Feminist Party, ‘a feminist punk performance playground’, at Ugly Duck warehouse in London Bridge. The event had contributions from feminist punk bands, performance artists, poets, aerial performers, fine artists and zine makers. Over 300 attendees joined us for the evening. 

 

For this project, I was awarded the University of Kent Vice Chancellors Project Fund.

I facilitated a live art workshop that culminated in the creation of a film exploring the definitions of the collective and collective identity as a means of protest.

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The film "Hierophants 5.0" premiered at the Arcana exhibition, hosted at The Crypt Gallery in King's Cross. This project was commissioned by the Crypt Gallery Young Artists Programme. The experience provided an invaluable opportunity for participants to engage with and reflect on the themes of identity and community through their artistic contributions.

A public performance intervention in collaboration with Tanja Ostojić and Elena Marchevska. Supported and produced by the Live Art Development Agency, Hackney Wick.

 

As part of Marchevska’s Restock Rethink Reflect Four residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to the experiences of the displaced. Artists interrogated some of the realities of displacement such as travelling, identity, illegality, security, and the private/public through the unpacking of a suitcase in a resonant public place.

 

Please click the link below for further reading on this project:​​

https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/uploads/documents/ELENA_STUDY_GUIDE_WEB.pdf

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