# Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive

Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive at Performance Space 122, Thursday 5 November 2026, until 7 Nov.

- Venue: Performance Space 122, 1st Avenue 150, 10009
- Get tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283991
- Go to page: https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive/

![Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive](https://noky.io/images/1a61500cefb709a9417d77508430a09aec9d3614a028e75c41adb87723879973-1200.webp)

A performance presented by grunt gallery at Performance Space 122. Curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton commissioned a new work by Vance Wright, the gallery's 2026 curatorial fellow, drawing on the gallery's archive and its history with Indigenous performance art. Using actions, natural materials, oration, and sound, Wright's piece explores sacred sexuality, decolonial kink, trust, consent, and the body and the land as archive, grounded in Indigenous queer ways of being.

## Dates

- Thursday 5 November until 7 Nov — Performance Space 122

Written by a model, sources: [performancespacenewyork.org](https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive/)

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