Join us for a performance by Sophie Huckfield – part of the public programme for Softwear, an apexart exhibition curated by Kira Wainstein.

Lady Ludd is performed on a loom that has been transformed into a musical instrument. The work explores a feminist and queer reframing of the Luddite movement, which originated in the East Midlands during the 19th Century in reaction to the automation of the textile industry. Titled after Lady Ludd, a collective and gender fluid identity used by the Luddites as an act of resistance, the performance centres the histories of women and non-binary people in activism and textiles. Lady Ludd questions how technology is implemented and for whom.

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Sophie Huckfield (she/they) is a working class artist, musician and writer. They draw on archival research and collaborative processes to produce work that explores the relationships between social histories of labour, technology, craft, class and (de)industrialisation through intersectional feminist and queer perspectives. They make sound, perform and DJ as Lady Ludd.