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Alex Eisenberg is a performer, filmmaker and facilitator. Since 2016, Alex has performed in videos and live performances as Gaye Rimmer, the mother of the drag family The Rimmers, who host the queer club night Buttmitzvah (London/New York). The Rimmers’ short film, Personal Shopping, premiered in late 2019 and won first prize at the Courtsmaistrash Queer Film Festival in Brussels in 2020.
His video and film work explores artists’ archives, unseen histories, and the documentation of live work—asking how performance can be activated through video and new visual narratives.
He has an ongoing collaboration with Anne Bean, with whom he has created multiple films and video works including The Light of Day (2021), Sparks and Spells (2022), and In Search of the Miraculous (2023). Alex’s latest film, Maps of Other Possibilities (2025), premiered at Tate Britain and explores the archive of the Bow Gamelan Ensemble.
He worked with Liz Rosenfeld on White Sands Crystal Foxes, a film made for the Zeiss Großplanetarium in Berlin that premiered at the 2022 Berlinale and recently screened at BAM, Brooklyn in 2025.
Alex worked at the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) between 2012 and 2020 as curator of digital and special projects. He set up and curated LADA Screens, a screening programme showcasing artists’ moving image work. He also curated Performance Magazine Online (2017) and Edge of an Era (2019), two projects engaging with archives of performance art from the 1980s and ’90s.
He has worked with Tate Modern, the Barbican, Google Arts and Culture, the British Library, and Hull City of Culture, as well as many independent artists and grassroots organisations. In 2019, Alex was Associate Programmer at Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Alex’s background is in collaborative performance-making and he holds an MA in Contemporary Performance Practice from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He trained in group and community facilitation with Processwork UK between 2017 and 2020.
He was a core member of the collectives Present Attempt (2006–12) and Kings of England (2011–2016). He also co-founded Showtime, a platform for performance which ran across three editions between 2010 and 2013.
Alex lives and works in London.