Scratchy script

We, Louise Ashcroft and Fritha Jenkins, are writing this article together, oscillating queerly, changing its mind as it goes and talking itself into and out of forms, to reflect the way we work together. We have run frequent performance art scratch nights for more than ten years. These events are fast, creatively risky, chaotic and experimental, but the expertise from years of performing together and separately give the whole thing a rhythm that feels disciplined and formally cohesive in its own way. Louise has ADHD and Fritha is Autistic. We are both queer. We both have unique strengths and weaknesses (and queer ND pride and shame) which has led us to nurture a way of supporting one another. The scratch nights are a defiant space, unfunded and anarchically unconventional. Here we take a moment to reflect, in true Unperforming style, on our creative collaborative methodologies.