2011
]ps[+++ArtEvict
2011
FRIDAY 4th FEB 7pm onwards - Helena Hamilton + Maria dos Milagres + Stephanie Hurst + Jamie Lewis Hadley + Roberto Sanchez-Camus + Victoria Gray + Johannes Blomqvist + Greestone Group + Hugh O'Donnell - SATURDAY 5th FEB 7pm onwards - Htein Lin + Mark Greenwood + Nathan Walker + Scarlet Lassoff + Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro + Bean + Leibniz + Group Action with; Jenna Finch + Jamie Lewis Hadley + Lyn Lu + Benjamin Sebastian + Kiki Taira + Agnes Yit
(original copy from the ]ps[ open event in collaboration with ArtEvict)
“London is giving birth. On the 4th and 5th of February 2011, ]performance s p a c e [ opens its doors for the first time and in collaboration with ArtEvict, draws the attention of the UK's art scene to the exciting talent that is performance action, now. Partake in this moment as we witness a rejuvenating mix of emergent and established artists - lone and group actions - champagne, glitter and hard labour. ]performancespace[ and ArtEvict want to celebrate a renewed and integral interest in community and collaboration NOW and we want to do it with you.
Unit 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN TRANSPORT: Overground to Hackney Wick, Bus 276, 488, UL1, 26, 388 ]performancespace[ is an artist led non-profit organisation that seeks to provide studio and event space specifically for performance art. www.performancespace.org ArtEvict is a critical yet open platform for both emerging and established artists wishing to explore, question and experiment with various subject matters across a broad spectrum of methodologies. As the number of bodies that come into contact with ArtEvict grows, so does the critical engagement of the peer base, along with the network of support available to each and every individual.”
Unit 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN TRANSPORT: Overground to Hackney Wick, Bus 276, 488, UL1, 26, 388 ]performancespace[ is an artist led non-profit organisation that seeks to provide studio and event space specifically for performance art. www.performancespace.org ArtEvict is a critical yet open platform for both emerging and established artists wishing to explore, question and experiment with various subject matters across a broad spectrum of methodologies. As the number of bodies that come into contact with ArtEvict grows, so does the critical engagement of the peer base, along with the network of support available to each and every individual.”
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2011
Beyond Necessity
2011
Alastair MacLennan + Mary Babcock + Paul Hurley + Dominic Thorpe+ Martin O'Brien + Michael Mayhew + Klara Schilliger & Valerian Maly + Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kamierczak + Kira O'Reilly + Helena Hunter + Julie Tolentino + Oreet Ashery + Melville Mitchel + Tim Bromage + Lee Adams + Poshya Kakl & Tania Bruguera + Mark Greenwood + Ron Athey + Julie Tolentino + Lisa Newman + Mary Babcock + Dominic Johnson
︎︎︎ original programme blog
(original copy)
“Radical and challenging work needs a community; a community needs radical and challenging work -This is B E Y O N D N E C E S S I T Y [Wed 22 Sat 25 June]. A week long programme showcasing some of the most radical, contemporary and influential makers of live work to date. Performance, film and discussion will form a supporting action, between generations and geographies; presenting, acknowledging and celebrating a cross-section of artists investigating performance process, Live and body based fine art practice. The program includes: New Live Work by Alastair MacLennan, Mary Babcock, Paul Hurley, Dominic Thorpe, Martin O'Brien, Michael Mayhew, Klara Schilliger and Valerian Maly, along with Ewa Rybska and Wladyslaw Kamierczak. Film Screenings from Kira O'Reilly, Helena Hunter and Julie Tolentino. Video Screenings from Oreet Ashery, Melville Mitchel, Tim Bromage, Lee Adams, Poshya Kakl and Tania Bruguera. Live Writing from Mark Greenwood. Panel Discussion chaired by Ron Athey with Julie Tolentino (via skype), Lisa Newman, Mary Babcock and Dominic Johnson and contributions from all artists involved. An after party event will conclude BEYONDNECESSITY on Sat 25th from 10pm until late, organised by DANZSHAG with Filastine as a headliner mixing DJing/art/politics plus the London based DJs Shibby Shitegeist and Bunni Splanchnik B E Y O N D N E C E S S I T Y is a fundraising event. Our aim is the sustainability of ]performance s p a c e [ as a environment dedicated to the cultivation and dissemination of both emergent and established practitioners. For more information you can check the blog: http://beyond-necessity.blogspot.com/ ]performance s p a c e[ Unit 6, Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane London, E9 5EN Google Maps Transport: Overground: Hackney Wick Bus:26.30.236.276.388.488.UL1http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/ Tube: Bethnal Green, then take a bus 388 to Hackney Wick From Liverpool St Station, then take bus 26 or 388 to Hackney Wick W:www.performancespace.org E:info@performancespace.org T: 020 353 82 474”
image credits pending.
Alastair MacLennan photographed by Marco Berardi.
2011
Trashing Performance Fringe (Performance Matters)
2011
Elizabeth Short (performing as Nick Kilby) & Krris Canavan, Sinead O'Donnell, Jordan McKenzie, Hugh O'Donnell, Nadia Salom + Benjamin Sebastian + Bean + Group Action
︎︎︎ performance matters: trashing performance site
(original copy)
“Performance Matters: Trashing Performance FRINGE
MAINSTREAM/ UNDERGROUND
Sunday 30th October 9pm till late
Performance Matters is a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, Roehampton University, and the Live Art Development Agency. This October ]performance s p a c e [ associate artists’ Bean Benjamin Sebastian will participate in Performance Matters: Trashing Performance symposium. They will discuss the position(s) of both ArtEvict and ]performance s p a c e [ within the current landscape of Performance/ Live Art praxis and how they are located within the dialectics of mainstream and underground culture. In addition to this, a fringe event will occur on Sunday the 30th of October, to coincide with the close of this year’s Trashing Performance programme. A night of primarily site specific performance art in respond to/conflict with concepts of: the fringe, outsider(s), mainstream/underground, Queer, Trans, nomadism, boundaries/borders, and Hackney Wick (as site).”
MAINSTREAM/ UNDERGROUND
Sunday 30th October 9pm till late
Performance Matters is a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, Roehampton University, and the Live Art Development Agency. This October ]performance s p a c e [ associate artists’ Bean Benjamin Sebastian will participate in Performance Matters: Trashing Performance symposium. They will discuss the position(s) of both ArtEvict and ]performance s p a c e [ within the current landscape of Performance/ Live Art praxis and how they are located within the dialectics of mainstream and underground culture. In addition to this, a fringe event will occur on Sunday the 30th of October, to coincide with the close of this year’s Trashing Performance programme. A night of primarily site specific performance art in respond to/conflict with concepts of: the fringe, outsider(s), mainstream/underground, Queer, Trans, nomadism, boundaries/borders, and Hackney Wick (as site).”
image credits pending.
Hugh O’Donnell photographed by Marco Berardi.
Nathan Walker photographed by Marco Berardi.
Jordan McKenzie photographed by Marco Berardi.
Kris Canavan & Elizabeth Short (performing as Nick Kilby) photographed by Marco Berardi.
Bean photographed by Marco Berardi.
Sinéad O’Donnell photographed by Marco Berardi.
Poppy Jackson photographed by Marco Berardi.
Benjamin Sebastian photographed by Marco Berardi.
Mainstream vs Underground (Performance Matters)
2011
Neil Bartlett + Bean + Bruce Benderson + Dominic Johnson + Keith Khan + Benjamin Sebastian + Mara Vujic (City of Women) + Lois Keidan
︎︎︎ Mainstream vs Underground (trashing Performance) page
(original copy)
“Over the past half century or so performers and audience members alike have grown accustomed to thinking of themselves as of, or opposed to, the mainstream. But what does this vexed, though seemingly transparent, word mean in the 21st century? Is it a set of values? Is it associated with particular artists, venues, or publics? And what of the related idea of an underground? Famed since at least the 1960s as a cultural space outside of, or ‘underneath’, the mainstream, is it now defunct? If so, how – if at all – do contemporary performance artists think of themselves in critical relation to the mainstream? The contributors to this event addressed these questions with reference to performance history and the artistic and curatorial production of contemporary performance spaces.”
Bean & Benjamin Sebastian took shots from a bottle of whiskey until it was empty during the panel - they them dismantled the a panel and began a performance intrevention/lecture in place of a sit-down panel contribution.
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Benjamin Sebastian & Bean at Mainstream vs Underground (Trashing Performance) panel discussion. Arts Admin. Photographers credit pending.
Bean & Benjamin Sebastian took shots from a bottle of whiskey until it was empty during the panel - they them dismantled the a panel and began a performance intrevention/lecture in place of a sit-down panel contribution.
Benjamin Sebastian & Bean at Mainstream vs Underground (Trashing Performance) panel discussion. Arts Admin. Photographers credit pending.
2011
A Queer (Dis)position
A Queer (Dis)position
2011
Richard Hancock + Liz Rosenfeld + Owen Parry + Joana Cifre-Cerd + Ernst Fischer + Jamie Lewis Hadley + Rachel Parry + Jenna Finch + Nicola Canavan + Otelo Fabiao + Benjamin Sebastian
(original copy)
“A two-day performance art event showcasing the work of 11 queer(ed) contemporary performance artists.”
Image credits pending.
Video by Vago Tedosio.
Video by Vago Tedosio.
Video by Vago Tedosio.
Video by Vago Tedosio.
2011
neighbour[HOOD]
neighbour[HOOD]
2011
Tine Voeks + Maria Lucia Cruz Correia + Benjamin Sebastian + Kimbal Quist Bumbstead + Liam Yeates & isik met knutsdotter
(original copy)
“Saturday 3rd December 11am - 11pm - Following a 10 day intensive research residency the [neighbourHOOD] artists will draw together an exhibition and evening of performance art and film. Artists: Tine Voeks, Maria Lucia, Benjamin Sebastian, Kimbal Quist Bumbstead, Liam Yeates and isik met knutsdotter.
Exhibition: 11am - 11pm - Developed and led by the artists, the exhibition is anticipated to grow out of the research-lab, through install-action and the exhibition of research material. Constructed throughout the day, the exhibition will both lay bare artistic process and weave together loose ends to form a live archival document of Hackney Wick now. The exhibition will also include performance-for-camera photographic prints from each artist, produced site-specifically in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ photographer Marco Berardi.
Performances: 7 - 9 pm (TBC) - New performances made in response to the [neighbourHOOD] residency in Hackney Wick.
Film: 9pm - 'DEFAULT THE BRUTAL' - by Enrico Masi, produced by CAUCASO FACTORY (10' UK, 2011, color/B-w, 16mm/Full HD). 'Discovering a new space in east London, after the negative stigma of the 80's, Stratford will now present himself as a thrilling new urban device for people to move, work, shop and travel. The increasingly spectacular Olympic park, with Anish Kapoor's monumental red panoramic tower growing in his middle and a special toilet only for the queen. 'Default the Brutal' is like forecasting on weather conditions'. CAUCASO FACTORY have worked in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ and PAS throughout [neighbourbourHOOD] to document the activity unfolding. The collective's current area of research has focused on the regeneration and development of Olympic boroughs and the current socio-economic climate across Europe. [neighbourHOOD] is a free event. Beer, gin and bagels will be served all day!!”
image credit pending.
Maria Lucia Cruz Correia photographed by Marco Berardi.
Kimbal Quist Bumbstead photographed by Marco Berardi.
Liam Yeates photographed by Marco Berardi.
Benjamin Sebastian photographed by Marco Berardi.
Benjamin Sebastian photographed by Marco Berardi.
Tina Voeks photographed by Marco Berardi.
2011
2 gyrlz
2 gyrlz
2011
Soriah + Mark Greenwood + Luci Fiction + Sam Sweeting & Lynn Lu + Liz Clarke + Elizabeth Short (performing as Nick Kilby) & Holly Johnson + Try My Cabbage
(original copy)
“2Nights with 2Gyrlz – ]performance s p a c e [, London, UK – 14-15 Oct 2011. Event of experimental sound and actions where artists were invited to explore related work over 2 nights.”
