15/03/2026, 3:00 pm,

Chloe Chignell, SUNCUT: a lover's dictionary

, Stadthausgalerie Münster

But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

SUNCUT: a lover’s dictionary is a living lexicon drawing from Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary (1979) by Monique Wittig and Sandie Zeig. The performance by Chloe Chignell unfolds the dictionary’s 366 entries moving word by word, concept by concept, body by body.

SUN CUT approaches language as an activity that happens to bodies and between them, open to exhaustion, misalignment, and renewal. Each iteration becomes an act of speculative reanimation: remembering a future yet to arrive. By inverting the role of the printed archive, the work asks how the body can function as both a site and a method of preservation. Building on Wittig and Zeig’s critique of linguistic authority, SUN CUT approaches the dictionary not only as a text, but as a practice for reorganizing relation, movement, and collective presence.

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

Concept, Choreography and Performance: Chloe Chignell; Sound and Performance: Steph Holl-Trieu; Sound Collaborations: Steph Holl-Trieu, Amina Szecsödy (PAF, Saint Erme Edition) and Mara Schwerdtfeger (Critical Path, Sydney edition); The production of the work was supported by: Artspace Sydney, Critical Path Sydney, Dancehouse Melbourne, GC De Maalbeek, n22 Brussels, Kunstendecreet, Cité des arts, Paris.

Chloe Chignell (b. 1993) is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Her work focuses on language within a choreographic frame. She invests in writing as a body building practice and in practices of experimental translation. Chloe graduated from a.pass in 2020, from the research cycle at P.A.R.T.S in 2018, and from Victorian College of the Arts in 2013. Since 2019, Chloe co-runs rile* a bookshop and project space for publication and performance with Sven Dehens. Her work has been presented across Europe and Australia including: NEXT Festival, Lille (2024), Pavillon ADC, Geneva (2024), Batard Festival, Brussels (2019) Saal Biennale, Tallinn (2021), Moving Words Festival, Oslo (2021), QL2, Canberra (2022), KAAP, Bruges (2022), Littérature etc., Paris (2022), Dancehouse, Melbourne (2016–18), The Kier Choreographic Award, Melbourne / Sydney (2018) Kottinspektionen, Stockholm (2019) and Venice Biennale of Dance, Venice (2017) among others. She has performed for and collaborated with choreographers across Europe and Australia including: James Bachelor, Angela Goh, Bryana Fritz, Stefa Govaart, Ingrid Berger Myhre, Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Phoebe Berglund, Anna Gaiotti, Clara Amaral and Gry Tingskog. In 2020 she published The Complete Text Would Be Insufferable with uhbooks, edited by Will Holder and NOT MOTHER NOT MYTH is forthcoming with Berlin based press Lesbianas Concentradas. Her writing has been published in: misted.cc, Choreography Journal, Le Chauffage, RealTime, This Container Magazine, …and then the doors open again, and Engagement Arts Zine. She also teaches choreographic and writing workshops at P.A.R.T.S., Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Chorégraphies, and the Victorian College of the Arts.

Steph Holl-Trieu (b. 1995) is an artist and writer whose work engages the social relations that condition modes of perceiving, the production of meaning, and experience—both abstract and lived. Through writing, installation, sound, performative readings, and role-playing games, she constructs frameworks to disengage from and recompose structures of sense-making. Approaching aesthetic experience as indeterminate and intractable, her work unfolds iteratively and is often situated in collaborative or collective contexts. Her work has been presented at HAU Berlin, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, Shedhalle Zürich, and Le Commun Geneva, among others.