Bee McQueen is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitator working at the intersection of live art, poetry, participatory performance, and socially engaged practice. Her work is rooted in embodiment, intuition, and a commitment to what Johanna Hedva calls “rituals of refusal”—gestures that carve space for the sacred within systems of exhaustion, alienation, and control.

A core concern across Bee’s practice is the exploration of duality—not as conflict, but as a site of transformation. Her past projects held space for: forgetting and remembering (Om: I Remember), performance and collapse (It’s My House), truth and authorship (Machine Meets Metaphor), public and private (Waz Here), and witness and participation (If I Show You Mine…).

Rather than seek resolution, Bee invites audiences into the space between. Her work resists linearity and mastery, favouring cycles, fragmentations, and symbolic logic. She refers to her methodology as neuroqueer sacred minimalism—an aesthetic and political strategy that foregrounds ritual, rupture, and the unseen.

Bee’s socially engaged practice is just as vital as her performance work. From 1:1 poetry workshops (What is the Stem?) to co-devised process dramas (The Land of Oz), she creates participatory spaces where care, authorship, and connection can unfold. As a facilitator, Bee draws on pedagogies by Heathcote, Freire, O’Neill, and Rogers—placing trust, presence, and co-creation at the heart of learning.

Her practice is influenced by feminist, crip, and queer theory, posthuman poetics, and a lifelong spiritual inquiry. In all things, Bee’s work asks: what do we choose to carry, and what might we finally lay down?