SUNCUT by Chloe Chignell

SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary

DATE
SUNDAY 25 JANUARY 2026
5PM–7:30PM

DURATION: 2.5 hrs
Please note the audience are welcome to enter and exit throughout the duration.

LOCATION
THE DRILL HALL, CRITICAL PATH
1C NEW BEACH ROAD, DARLING POINT, NSW, 2027
GADIGAL & BIRRABIRRAGAL COUNTRY

TICKET PRICE: $15

SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary is a lexicon of 366 gestures that attempts to embody the 366 entries in Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary written by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig (1979). In an act of speculative reanimation SUNCUT is an anticipatory document remembering a future yet to arrive. The work unfurls word by word, body by body. Each iteration of the performance progresses through the dictionary: gathering bodies, gestures, dances. It resists linguistic fixity in order to embrace language as a site of transformation, refusal, and reinvention. Inverting the status of printed material in archival practices SUNCUT asks how the body can be both a site and means of preservation.

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This work is supported by: Critical Path Sydney, Artspace Sydney, Dancehouse Melbourne, GC De Maalbeek, n22 Brussels, Kunstendecreet, Cité des arts, Paris.

This work has been presented at: Pride Museum, MIMA, Brussels, Summer University, Performing Arts Forum, St Erme, France and PACT Zollverein, Essen.
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Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.
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IMAGE CREDIT: Chloe Chignell, SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary, photo by Stine Sampers, June 2025.

IMAGE ID: An image of a person performing. They are standing and looking up with one arm bent at a right angle and hand behind their head, and the other arm stretched down behind them. Their fingers are reaching out, almost like stars.