Double Entry by Hugo Hagger & Evelyn Wh-ell is a love story. Two protagonists play out two parallel storylines of self-alienation and dislocation in a tale about the queer joke that is life and its never-ending. Caught in the misfiring of causation, our protagonists face personal tragedy, missed sexual encounters, failed self-actualisation, and a scam phone call which drives them round in melodramatic circles until they lose the plot. Against the backdrop of a cast of 2-D characters, Double Entry’s duet form is a closed loop of interiority where only transformation is possible, not exit. Images and objects come back around to serve new functions in the narrative economy in which they work, changing substance but not appearance, or appearance but not substance, as they circle. In Double Entry, death is a life sentence.

Double Entry was commissioned by TACO! through Blurt - an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast

Hugo Hagger is an artist and writer living in London. He writes about narrative, assemblage, and the politics of legibility. His work has been published in Pilot Press, Sticky Fingers, Coven Magazine - Berlin, and Deleuzine, he has exhibited at Alice Black Gallery, and Arusha Collection, London.

Evelyn Wh-ell is a writer and artist. They write about disappearing acts, doom, the empty promise of self-actualisation, and deferred endings. Their work has been presented at Kaunas Artists' House, Auto Italia, Kupfer Project Space, and Kingsgate Project Space. They are the author of Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: How to Escape Yourself Without Even Trying, published in 2022 by Sticky Fingers Publishing, and their criticism has been published by Art Monthly, World Picture Journal, and Cambridge Literary Review amongst others.

Performed by Evelyn Wh-ell & Hugo Hagger. Music by Haroun Yamou.