Gushing to Perform: Deen/ø, Gaby Sahhar and Oduenyi Nwike
Curated by Gabriela Cala-Lesina at legendary lesbian bar, La Camionera
Streamed live by Montez Press Radio
Gushing to Perform is a night of live experimentation with words, poetry, performance, and reading. The event brings together three brilliant LGBTQIA+ artists—Deen/ø, Gaby Sahhar, and Oduenyi Nwike—to share new, in-progress, or experimental work. Curated by Gabriela Cala-Lesina, the series supports artists to develop and experiment with live art, performance, poetry, or spoken word. Come support your favourite Lesbian bar and enjoy some brilliant art!
Timings
Performances start promptly at 7-8pm
Drinks + chats til late
Arrive early to secure a seat and grab a drink!
Performances
Gaby Sahhar will perform in collaboration with Macy See, whose reading explores the porous nature of borders across inherited memory, gendered lenses, and sexuality. Drawing on duality in language, it seeks to reclaim abstraction as a form of self-identification, experimenting with the psychology of cultural hybridity and the shared social bonds that shape our interconnected world.
Oduenyi Nwike will perform a heartfelt movement, sound, and lyrical work that critiques desirability through the Black body. The piece explores the simultaneous hypersexualisation and hypermasculinisation imposed on Black people. Tracing how these forces shape perception, power, and pleasure. Using his body, vocalisation, and sound design. Oduenyi exposes desirability as a tool of fascism, one that disciplines, consumes, and controls. The work ultimately calls into question what the audience is drawn to, and why?
Deen/ø will present stripped-back extracts from their Acid Rave Poetry project, blending poetry and soundscape collages with fragments of new texts. The performance takes the form of an experimental sound journey reflecting on soft revolutions and allegorical stories of trans survival in a time of fascism, where chaos and vulnerability become potential sources of freedom and empowerment. Dissociation, multiplicity, and identity shifts are explored as conceptual tools for existing in hostile public spaces.
Artist bios
Deen/ø (he/they) is a french trans masc artist, curator, and writer based in London. Their multidisciplinary practice blends poetry, electronic soundscapes, performance, set design, and video projection. Moving between languages, mediums, and identities, their work explores transness, gender liberation, and the transformative potential of sound. Their current project, Acid Rave Poetry, is a developing form that merges rave-influenced electronic sound with poetic spoken word and live performance.
Alongside their artistic practice, Deen/ø is the founder and artistic director of the LGBTQIA+ platform @Disturbance and the former curator at Ugly Duck. Across all their work, they build bridges between disciplines, communities, and audiences, encouraging dialogue, experimentation, and inclusive approaches to contemporary art and music.
Deen/ø’s performances have been presented across the UK and internationally, including The Divine (London, 2025), Music Against Genocide (RARA, London, 2025), KNICKERS (London, 2025), Glastonbury Festival (2025), HYSTER (Ugly Duck, London, 2025), Oi Oi Tut Tut (Klub Gromka, Ljubljana, 2025), East Soul Train (Kolkata, India, 2025), Field Maneuvres (2024), BBASH Festival (2024), and Pretty Doomed (Ugly Duck, London, 2023).
https://deenatger.com/collaboration/deen-o/
Gaby Sahhar is a French-British-Palestinian artist. Their multidisciplinary practice is shaped by the metropolis as a site of psychological, political, and social tension. Through speculative storytelling, they explore the gap between inner life and external structures, examining how cultural and political orders are formed, disrupted, and reimagined. Working with research and visual archives, they resist fixed perspectives in favour of interconnectedness, multiplicity, and free-thinking. Drawing on queer and gender-focused lenses, migration, and immemorial remembrances, their work considers how imaginative consciousness is shaped by the images and narratives that surround us. Using the megacity as a space of unravelling, they explore hybridity, resistance, and transformation within the Palestinian psyche, generating conversations around shared vulnerability, social bonds, and the blurred peripheries of borders.
Oduenyi Nwike is a Nigerian Irish born Director, Curator, Warrior Poet and musician. They are a core member of TRIBE, an experimental community space built around survivorhood and art. Oduenyi’s work centres world building but with the awareness that world destruction must come first. Through his involvement within Tribe, his work as an artist has developed towards making home in the uncomfortable, the grief of survivorhood and reducing hierarchy. Encouraging art as a tool of empowerment and liberation for all Black Trans and Queer people.
Macy Seelochan is an actress, musician and creative from Nottingham. Recently, she can be seen on BBC One, where she plays series regular Miranda in Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women. Macy is also in the process of releasing her first single, under the stage name Macy See, in the next few months.
Venue Accessibility
The front half of our bar - including the entrance, bathroom, bar area, and several tables is wheelchair accessible, thanks to your support in helping us make that possible. Please note that access to the rear section of the venue and the garden involves three steps. A handrail is installed to assist those with limited mobility, though this area is not currently wheelchair accessible. If you have any accessibility needs, feel free to mention them when booking or email us at info@lacamionera.com and we’ll do our best to support you and make your visit comfortable.
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