Excerpts from DEMO OFFICE BPB-312

DEMO BITTER MEETING ROOM  
Claire Makhlouf Carter 

Opening Event: 6-9pm Thursday 16th January 2025 

With a BITTER LUCKY BAR until drinks run out and BITTER LUCKY DIP at 7.30pm 
Exhibition runs until Sunday 16th February 2025 

Future event: BITTER LUCKY DINNER PARTY: Date TBC

Claire’s performance events, which highlight the problems of labour relations and power dynamics in social situations, have employed precarious workers such as sniffer dogs, cloakroom attendants, military mercenar- ies, fairground workers, mafrish owners, forensic psycho-physiologists and carpet pickers.

Claire has performed in a range of sites from art openings, cross-channel ferries, seminar and conferences and a welding tent in a chili festival. Methods are performed and made apparent in her scripts which play with the form of pedagogic events.

Claire’s recent work has been shown in DEMO PHOENIX at the Phoenix Art Space, Brighton (2022); DEMO NOTHERE at Kelder Projects and; DEMO HORSE HOSPITAL at The Horse Hospital, London (2020). Claire’s writing DEMO CHELSEA is published in, ‘Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedago- gies in Art & Design Education’ (2020) and she gave a performative lecture at the London Conference in Critical Thought, ‘Disruptions, Interventions, Liminalities: Critical Performative Pedagogies’ (2018).

Script edited by Bridget Penney

Supported by Goldsmiths College (UoL)