In ‘Rage Reactor', artist zack mennell invites audiences to enter a strange world where memories of the artist's childhood react with the infrastructure and visual culture of the civil nuclear industry. The work is accessible as an installation, which will be activated and transformed by three performances across the weekend. Explorations of personal childhood trauma are poetically entangled with the damage inflicted upon communities and ecologies by nuclear power. With humour and intense physical action, mennell considers lineage and generational cycles of trauma and asks broad questions such as: What does this leave us with? Where does this leave us? Where can we go from here?
Live Activations
Saturday 22nd: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Sunday 23rd: 12.00pm – 1.00pm & 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Access: BSL interpretation and Audio Description will be provided at this event.
Age Guidance: 16+ Contains nudity and adult themes
Booking info:Booking va eventbrite for thes live activations is essential.
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Please book a ticket for one of the following times:
- Sat 22nd Mar: 12.00 - 1.00pm
- Sun 23rd Mar: 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Sun 23rd Mar: 3:30pm- 4:30pm
NB: To allow time for our artists and team to attend the ‘Crips Against Cuts’ National Day of Action protest on Saturday 22nd March, we are moving the time of the first Rage Reactor activation on Saturday to 12.00pm – 1.00pm
About Zack Mennell
zackmennell (b. 1994, UK) is an emerging self-taught artist whose lived experiences shape their multidisciplinary practice. Using performance, photography, and writing, they explore queerness and neurodivergence in relation to presence and visibility. Their photographic work is strictly analogue, employing 35mm film to document performance and live events.
In 2022, zack was commissioned to create their first solo work as part of Tidechangers, a development programme for early career artists by Totally Thames/The Thames Festival Trust. They frequently collaborate with performance artist MarO'Brienrien, integrating care with artistic co-performance and photographic documentation. Their partnership has led to performances at notable institutions and festivals across the UK and Europe, including Whitechapel Gallery, SPILL Festival (2016), and ICA London (2021).
They are a member of the Bethlem Artist Collective, Liberty Advisory Group, The Other MA (TOMA) 24/25 cohort and a studio holder at Triangle LGBTQ+ Cultural Centre. They were part of the 2021 cohort of "The Sunday Skool for Misfits, Experimenters and Dissenters" at VSSL studio.
About DDFI40:
DaDaFest International returns 8th-31st March 2025 to celebrate DaDa's 40th Anniversary and this time we are coming with ‘RAGE: A Quiet Riot’.
DDFI40 will showcase work by disabled artists that captures all shapes and sides of rage. From the internal quiet frustrations and righteous rage, to overt injustice and activism, DDFI40 will explore disability rights, disability arts, access, ableism and ‘Rage’ in an explosion of creativity.