THE HYSTERICAL CHORUS LIVE | SHARON YOUNG & TRINITY LABAN PERFORMERS

Tuesday 29 April 2025 | Swedenborg House, London WC1A 2TH

Lunchtime performance from 12.00 am to 1.00 pm. Free, but please RSVP to info@swedenborg.org.uk.

A live performance as part of our daytime Influxus programme.

The Hysterical Chorus Live is a performance that grew out of Sharon Young’s art practice and PhD research. Drawing from Freud’s case studies of hysteria and other literary figures such as Madame Bovary she wrote a sound work that revisited the symptoms of these women. The Hysterical Chorus Live is an extension of this research, and opens an invitation to all who relate to the feeling of “hysteria” as a mode of communication and an expression of freedom. There is an element of mystery and of reaching into spiritual heights that unites this chorus with Swedenborg and his writings on other realms. The collective uses artistic practice, through body and voice, to vocalise a refusal of societal norms and to reach for mysteries together.

Photo: Sharon Young.

SHARON YOUNG is a Northern Irish artist based in London. She is a lecturer in fine art at Glasgow School of Art and University of the Arts, London. Her work has been presented and exhibited worldwide including The Freud Museum, London; Stroud Film Festival; Tate Exchange – Tate Liverpool // Venice; Encontros das Imagem, Braga; Goa Photo Festival; Cosmos, Arles; Peckham 24, London; The Centre of Photography, Clement-Ferrond and P3 Ambika Gallery, London.

THE COLLECTIVE began as a collaboration at Trinity Laban’s CoLab and includes dancers and singers Myrthe Helms, Lucy John, Blair Kelly, Brodie Boyle, Nina Erikson and has since expanded to include Vicky Tang and Lucille Brownrigg. We invite our audience to be self-selecting hysterics and to join in the chorus if you would like to be part of this evolving conversation.