Narcisse Empoté-Ose
I have two distinct practices.
One of them is drag. I use performance and storytelling to offer a perspective on free and liberative expression. My approach is non-competitive, centered around joy and political. I co-created a drag show in Edinburgh, called “What If?”, for people who find themselves underrepresented in the mainstream current of drag. At this show, anything can happen.
My other practice is writing, more specifically play-writing, and then directing said plays. The themes I explore are often linked to finding community in a changing and challenging world. Both my practices are unapologetically queer, trans, neurodivergent, political and centered around the triumph we can find in building communities. They also are very correlated to crafting, because I need to invent props, sets, puppets…
My practice is survival. It is a cry for a flamboyant way of existing