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Queer artist releases BBC-supported audio project
BBC New Creatives encourages young talent to push their artistic boundaries and reflect life in Britain today.
Open to creatives aged 16 to 30, one of the most recent New Creatives is Chris Hyde, better known as 1990’s Chris.
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Chris is a queer punk poet, workshop facilitator, writer for the Neoteric Dance Company and alum of Channel 4’s Random Acts – a short film strand dedicated to the arts, founded in 2011 to escape the conventions of arts broadcasting and to expand its possibilities.
Chris Hyde is better known as 1990’s Chris. Photo by Danny Obasa
Chris’ New Creatives project, made in partnership with Arts Council England and Rural Media, was released on January 16, 2020.
Chris identifies as queer, with his New Creatives audio production, Erasure Island, exploring bisexual coming out stories.
Erasure Island is a truly collaborative project, with not only support from national organisations such as the BBC but also from Midlands-based Rural Media, who work with young people, rural communities and Gypsies Roma and Travellers.
Representing LGBTQ+ people from all sides, the illustrations accompanying Erasure Island are by London-based illustrator Wednesday Holmes, a transgender activist with almost 100,000 followers on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Q-_3wJS8d/
Featuring arts from two of the queer community’s most exciting new talent and with backing national institutions in BBC Arts and Arts Council England, Erasure Island promises a powerful and heartfelt listening experience.
Listen to Erasure Island at www.bbc.co.uk/erasureisland
Main photo by Lowie Trevena.
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