Raw Chicken

A Dadaist, Cabaret Voltaire-inspired retelling of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

Step into the surreal with Raw Chicken—a live performance by Éabha Campbell and Indigo Azidahaka, with sound and light design by Cameron Clarke.

Using handmade puppets, nonsensical narration, and evolving costumes, Campbell and  Azidahaka slowly transform themselves into their own puppet characters – blurring the boundaries between object, subject, and performer. Clarke’s contributions include live manipulation of field recordings, filmic elements, and an improvised harmonium set—evoking a dense, uncanny soundscape.

Kafka’s Metamorphosis is often read as a parable of bodily estrangement and social rejection—what happens when identity or circumstance shifts so far outside the norm that even those closest to us turn away. Raw Chicken responds to this theme with a riotous, Dadaist reimagining, exploring transformation not as tragedy, but as resistance—playful, absurd, and defiantly unruly.

Performed live on Saturday 8 November, this participatory work is anything but passive.

Exhibition continues from Thur 9 Oct – Thur 13 Nov, 10am – 5pm.

About the Artists

Indigo Azidahaka is a multi-disciplinary visual and performance artist based in Belfast. Their zero-waste practice is informed by queer identity, disabled bodies, ritual, and displacement.

Éabha Campbell is a queer Irish artist from County Down. They specialise in oil painting as well as an expanded practice that includes taxidermy and sound-based performance. Campbell’s work explores the abject, and the intersection of abjection and queer identity.

Cameron Clarke is a multi-disciplinary sound artist from Belfast whose work revolves around playful creative interaction with the urban environment. This interaction takes the form of sound walks, field recording and interventionist performances in urban spaces. Cameron is a PhD researcher at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast and also a member of Vault Artist Studios.