Sick in the City combines elements of socially engaged practice with audio-visual technologies for a live performance reclaiming public space in Belfast city centre. The performance uses audio-reactive visuals and live broadcasting methods to shift between levels of contemporary culture, disability justice, abstraction, written word, hedonism, revolt, political-response, nonsense, life-experience, emotions, emojis, and absurdity. Explore a tense vulnerability between the analogue and accidental, and witness the varied and acutely plethoric range of interpretations between audience and artist.

Sick in the City was developed by artists Husk Bennett (Belfast) and Chris Yohei Tokunaga (Berlin), in partnership with University of Atypical and COVEN Berlin, following a series of community co-creation and consultation workshops, and residencies in Belfast and Berlin as part of the 2025-26 Cultural Bridge programme.

This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the United Kingdom and Germany, through  collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.

If you are interested in learning more about our Cultural Bridge project and the relationship of queer and disabled communities in the arts, you can also book for our free talk on Sunday 5 October at 11:30 am in Accidental Theatre and online: From Berlin to Belfast: International Perspectives on Disabled-Led Co-Creation.