Nando Messias
Nando Messias' work straddles performance art, dance and theatre. Their performances combine beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. Nando has performed at prestigious venues such as the Royal Court, The Gate, Hayward Gallery, V&A, Tate Britain, Roundhouse, Royal Vauxhall Tavern and ICA, among other spaces across the UK and internationally.
They/Them
Photo by Holly Revell
Cardion Nights: Queer Performance in aid of akt, 2026
Two gender freaks and a shopping trolley, getting trollied. Brother/sister from another mother/mister. It always starts with the shoes. Being mothers, and lovers, and friends and boys and girls… We’ve been called so many names, sometimes we don’t know what to call ourselves - but Nancy says that's the whole point - to be confusing. Glamour on the edge of sanity. f*cking consuming, f*cking and consuming. Filling all the empty holes. Purge and spit, gagging on our anger. Gagging for it. What a gag! We eat and eat, repeat and repeat until the soft animal of our bodies love what it loves. When it falls apart we spill in the joint imagination. Fabulous projection or fleshy insistence. Thank you for making me exhale. Here is your princess, here is the horizon. This is a prayer for failure.
Wet Mess and Nando Messias. Developed whilst in residency at Somerset House Studios. Photo by Anne Tetzlaff
