Tectonics 2026 TECTONICS: Callie Rose Petal (ⁿᵒᵗBorges)

Content warning In this performance, the artist seeks to portray the overwriting of a survivor’s pain, exploring themes relating to sexual and domestic abuse.

Callie Rose Petal is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist and semiotician from Glasgow. She is the creator of a theory-fiction field ‘Lexicomythography’ comprising language art, ritual composition and software, a critique of the exclusionary nature of academic publishing. She confronts the violence of language through the language of violence. Releasing sound/noise/durational works under the pseudonym ⁿᵒᵗBorges, her praxis engages distortive breakdown as compositional force, as a mirror of the disabled trans body. In all her works, loss, grief, otherness and survivorhood emerge as structural generators of affect and form. Released on Venalism, the label describes the performance of ‘lamb.’ as a “swirling vortex of tumultuous discord and flagrant, rapturous emotion that cleaves itself open and allows the incandescence and volatility of its intention to spill out—and fully overwhelm—the listener”.