Miche O’higgins (she/her) is an artist and organiser working across writing, costume design, 3D design and performance. Her interdisciplinary studio practice, Lab for Slippery Instincts, is interested in collaborative projects and processes that muddy the boundaries of the natural, forging strange and grotesque new intimacies with the synthesised ecologies of the anthropocene.
Through embodied and performative methodologies, Lab for Slippery Instincts researches the ways in which our relationship to our environment and changing climate is constructed by technology and seeks out new ways to deepen our relation to alien timescales and non-human perspectives.
Non-humans, amphibians and otherworldly entities appear frequently in these works that weave between drag, speculative histories and multisensory science fictions. Finding ways for immersive storytelling and participatory performance to open space for vulnerability and community is at the centre of this ongoing practice.
Miche is also co-initiator and organiser of Queer Futures Writing Lab.
Through embodied and performative methodologies, Lab for Slippery Instincts researches the ways in which our relationship to our environment and changing climate is constructed by technology and seeks out new ways to deepen our relation to alien timescales and non-human perspectives.
Non-humans, amphibians and otherworldly entities appear frequently in these works that weave between drag, speculative histories and multisensory science fictions. Finding ways for immersive storytelling and participatory performance to open space for vulnerability and community is at the centre of this ongoing practice.
Miche is also co-initiator and organiser of Queer Futures Writing Lab.
I am open to new collaborations and jobs. Get in touch!
michelle_oht@hotmail.com
CV
Experience
Participating Artist, Weatherscapes Lab, FIBER. January 2023
Artist in Residence,
Foreign Objekts
October - current 2022
Artist in Residence,
V2 Lab for Unstable Media
July - September 2022
Co-founder and organiser, Queer Futures, Feb 2022 - Current
Production Assistant and Researcher, Studio ANRK.
Feb 2021-current
Production Assistant, School of Machines, Making and Make Believe, Berlin.
Oct 2020-Dec 2021
Artist in Residence, Superfluous, London. April-June 2021
Artist in Residance, Cel de Nord, Remote.
March 2021
Freelance Illustration, RCKT, Berlin. Sept 2020 - current
Copywriter and Design Intern, Arvid & Marie. 2019
Studio Assistant, Output Arts, London. 2019
Set Designer, Lewisham Youth Theatre. 2018
Freelance Art Direction, Balenciaga, London. 2018
Freelance Videographer, 2018-2020
Participating Artist, Weatherscapes Lab, FIBER. January 2023
Artist in Residence,
Foreign Objekts
October - current 2022
Artist in Residence,
V2 Lab for Unstable Media
July - September 2022
Co-founder and organiser, Queer Futures, Feb 2022 - Current
Production Assistant and Researcher, Studio ANRK.
Feb 2021-current
Production Assistant, School of Machines, Making and Make Believe, Berlin.
Oct 2020-Dec 2021
Artist in Residence, Superfluous, London. April-June 2021
Artist in Residance, Cel de Nord, Remote.
March 2021
Freelance Illustration, RCKT, Berlin. Sept 2020 - current
Copywriter and Design Intern, Arvid & Marie. 2019
Studio Assistant, Output Arts, London. 2019
Set Designer, Lewisham Youth Theatre. 2018
Freelance Art Direction, Balenciaga, London. 2018
Freelance Videographer, 2018-2020
Exhibitions
Upcoming: Meditations from the Symbiocene at the Goethe Institute, Rotterdam
December 2022
Summer Sessions Test Lab,
V2 Lab for Unstable Media
September, 2022
Bodies of Work, Superfluous Gallery, London. April 2021
AnoyXCreatives, LondonAugust 2020
Hey Look, Something is Happening, BA Design Graduation Show, Online.July 2020
Themselves Warehouse Exhibition, London. April 2019
School for Civic Action with Public Works at Tate Exchange, London. 2019
Upcoming: Meditations from the Symbiocene at the Goethe Institute, Rotterdam
December 2022
Summer Sessions Test Lab,
V2 Lab for Unstable Media
September, 2022
Bodies of Work, Superfluous Gallery, London. April 2021
AnoyXCreatives, LondonAugust 2020
Hey Look, Something is Happening, BA Design Graduation Show, Online.July 2020
Themselves Warehouse Exhibition, London. April 2019
School for Civic Action with Public Works at Tate Exchange, London. 2019
Talks / Workshops / Performances / Publications
Workshop, “Spooky Writing at a Distance; Interference and Eavesdropping”
Queer Futures,
October 2022
Performance, Yearning for Hypersea, AL.Berlin
October 2022
Workshop, “Interactive Imagining”
Queer Futures,
September 2022
Online Publication,“analog/digital” /this Zine,
August 2022
Workshop, “Sculpting Time; exericises in designing alternate temporal systems”
with Alex Scobie,
Queer Futures,
July 2022
Contributor, Sticky Fingers mail-out,
“In the beginning there was nothing but karaoke”
May 2022
Workshop, “Worldbuilding through the senses”,
Queer Futures, May 2022
Performance, Deep Sea Cafe Babette, Berlin
April 2022
Host and Performer, Variety Show, Zorrow Bar, Berlin. December 2021
Contributer, The Drudgery Newsletter, “The Job Hunter” 2021
Workshop, Meme Making Workshop, Superfluous Gallery, London. June 2021
Workshop, CV Workshop, Superfluous Gallery, London. May 2021
Contributer, Sticky Fingers FDBNHLLLTTF, “Paperworks of Belonging” 2021
Workshop,The Fourth Dimension and How to Get There, Five Bells, London. April 2020
Workshop, Useless L(AI)bour, Limehouse Town Hall, London. 2019
Performer and writer, Tomorrow’s Great Pageant, Post Workers Theatre, Bedford. 2019
Speaker, Challenging the Work Society Summit by Autonomy. 2019
Workshop, “Spooky Writing at a Distance; Interference and Eavesdropping”
Queer Futures,
October 2022
Performance, Yearning for Hypersea, AL.Berlin
October 2022
Workshop, “Interactive Imagining”
Queer Futures,
September 2022
Online Publication,“analog/digital” /this Zine,
August 2022
Workshop, “Sculpting Time; exericises in designing alternate temporal systems”
with Alex Scobie,
Queer Futures,
July 2022
Contributor, Sticky Fingers mail-out,
“In the beginning there was nothing but karaoke”
May 2022
Workshop, “Worldbuilding through the senses”,
Queer Futures, May 2022
Performance, Deep Sea Cafe Babette, Berlin
April 2022
Host and Performer, Variety Show, Zorrow Bar, Berlin. December 2021
Contributer, The Drudgery Newsletter, “The Job Hunter” 2021
Workshop, Meme Making Workshop, Superfluous Gallery, London. June 2021
Workshop, CV Workshop, Superfluous Gallery, London. May 2021
Contributer, Sticky Fingers FDBNHLLLTTF, “Paperworks of Belonging” 2021
Workshop,The Fourth Dimension and How to Get There, Five Bells, London. April 2020
Workshop, Useless L(AI)bour, Limehouse Town Hall, London. 2019
Performer and writer, Tomorrow’s Great Pageant, Post Workers Theatre, Bedford. 2019
Speaker, Challenging the Work Society Summit by Autonomy. 2019
Education
BA Design, Goldsmiths University of London,
1st Class Hons 2017-2020
Art Foundation Diploma, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
Distinction 2016-2017
Other
Institute for Post-natural studies, Xenoxenoxeno, Nov - Dec 2022
Ecology of Love, Advana, participant, Nov - Dec 2022
Participant, Making Futures Schol, Raumlabour, Berlin. July 2019
Participant, School for Civic Action, Public Works, London. 2019
BA Design, Goldsmiths University of London,
1st Class Hons 2017-2020
Art Foundation Diploma, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
Distinction 2016-2017
Other
Institute for Post-natural studies, Xenoxenoxeno, Nov - Dec 2022
Ecology of Love, Advana, participant, Nov - Dec 2022
Participant, Making Futures Schol, Raumlabour, Berlin. July 2019
Participant, School for Civic Action, Public Works, London. 2019