Niplash

Niplash is a highly physical, visual performance blending memoir and cultural commentary to explore the pressures and contradictions surrounding infant feeding, featuring a guest appearance from Bristol’s BYOB (Bring Your Own Baby) Choir.

Niplash is painful, absurd, heartbreaking, heartwarming, and full of love, a lot like feeding. It’s a highly physical and visual lactivist call to arms. Expect to see milk.

Part memoir, part cultural commentary, Niplash explores the mixed messages, societal pressures, and emotional contradictions around infant feeding. It gives voice to mothers whose stories are rarely told, from those shamed for feeding in public to those struggling in private.

At its heart is a collection of real feeding paraphernalia and personal stories donated by mothers across the UK, a living archive of care, chaos, and resistance.

With a guest appearance from Bristol’s own BYOB (Bring Your Own Baby) Choir.

About the artist: Karla Shacklock is a Bristol-based performer, choreographer, movement director, lecturer, writer and mentor. Her work is driven by truth, connection, and collective action.

Date: 20 Oct 2026