2023
Intersect
Kelvin Atmadibrata + in conversation with selina bonelli
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Wednesday the 29th of March,
7pm - 9pm (doors open: 6:30pm)
in-person at the Live Art Development Agency.
London. E2 6LX
FREE but booking is essential.
7pm - 9pm (doors open: 6:30pm)
in-person at the Live Art Development Agency.
London. E2 6LX
FREE but booking is essential.
︎︎︎ tickets
︎︎︎ venue website
]ps[ are delighted to be collaborating with the Live Art Development Agency as Guest Curators on the Intersect series.
This gathering will open with a short, live performance from visual artist; Kelvin Atmadibrata, followed by a short break. Audiences will return to an ‘in conversation’ led by artist-academic; selina bonelli, where the pair will discuss Kelvin’s extended creative practice and influences. The evening will conclude with a Q&A session.
This Intersect event is curated by ]performance s p a c e[ and co-produced by LADA and ]performance s p a c e[.
Organiser contact: benjamin@performancespace.org
This gathering will open with a short, live performance from visual artist; Kelvin Atmadibrata, followed by a short break. Audiences will return to an ‘in conversation’ led by artist-academic; selina bonelli, where the pair will discuss Kelvin’s extended creative practice and influences. The evening will conclude with a Q&A session.
This Intersect event is curated by ]performance s p a c e[ and co-produced by LADA and ]performance s p a c e[.
Organiser contact: benjamin@performancespace.org
Image Credits (top to bottom):
Kelvin Atmadibrata - ‘If you had been here, he wouldn't have died’. 2015. Photo by Ridzuan Rashid.
selina bonelli - photographed by Karen Goonwardene
additional info:
About the Artists:
Kelvin Atmadibrata (b.1988, Jakarta, Indonesia) recruits superpowers awakened by puberty and adolescent fantasy. Equipped by shōnen characters, kōhai hierarchy and macho ero-kawaii, he often personifies power and strength into partially canon and fan fiction antiheroes to contest the masculine meta and erotica in Southeast Asia. He works primarily with performances, often accompanied by and translated into drawings, mixed media collages and objects compiled as installations. Approached as bricolages, Kelvin translates narratives and recreates personifications based on RPGs (Role-playing video games) theories and pop mythologies. He currently studies and explores queer abstraction and minimalist erotica in his illustration of the mecha and transhumanist fantasy as well as image markings on skin as a continuation of his attraction to living sculptures, breathing mannequins and bodies as pedestals.
selina bonelli (UK/IT) - In exploring abandoned post conflict architecture through performance and sound, selina aims to develop an evidential trail of affective, sensorial and embodied witnessing of traumatic experiences from marginalised bodies & abandoned ruins. Thier work explores the weight and silence of the failed document in performance acts as a prosthesis to gestures that try and approximate an ethical sensitivity to what witnessing can be. They co-deliver SITE (a bi-monthly event that invites artists to come together to generate site responsive work in collaboration with others at locations of socio-historic, architectural, and ecological interest in rural areas across the UK and Europe), are an associate artist of ]performance s p a c e [ and a current PhD candidate at Ulster University.
About Intersect:
Intersect is a series of gatherings, making space for creative communities toshare insights into embodied practices that reflect intersectional ways ofbeing. Affirming the “liveness” of the process, each gathering is unique,allowing for the featured participant(s) to co-design how they might imaginewhat the exchange with those who attend may look like: an embodieddialogue between artists; a sharing of a new experimental work in progresswitnessed virtually and/or in-person; or an open forum where key researchquestions of interest are explored and discussed.
pricing
Tickets are are FREE but booking is essential.
venue & access
Live Art Development Agency
The Garrett Centre,
117A Mansford Street.
London. E2 6LX
British Sign Language interpretation will be available, and a small break will occur during the event. LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and provide gender inclusive bathrooms.
We strive to make events accessible in support of d/Deaf and disability communities. Should you have any particular requirements regarding access not listed or have any questions, please email us and we will be happy to offer further support.
We are continuing to implement measures in the space to ensure that our staff, visitors, and everyone who uses our building, remain safe during the ongoing pandemic and that we protect those who are disproportionately affected by it; please make sure to read our Covid Protocol before arriving at our building.
2023
Intersect
2023
SERAFINE1369 + Daniella Valz Gen
(original copy)
“SERAFINE1369 & Daniella Valz Gen: an oracular practice sharing - ]ps[ are delighted to be collaborating with the Live Art Development Agency as Guest Curators on the Intersect Series. The next Intersect event will be on Friday the 3rd of March; the first public and in-person element of the series to be held at the Live Art Development Agency in Bethnal Green. The gathering consists of a call, pause & response sharing of live, oracular practices from artists SERAFINE1369 and Daniella Valz Gen.
“Oracular practice is for me an exploration of presence, responsiveness and aform of improvisation that can be understood as live writing and editing as theact of making meaning in real time…” - Daniela Valz Gen
“[Mine is] a responsive practice of tuning into states of receiving, through the capacity a body has to ‘read’ and synthesising the information received throughmovement, without judgement or conscious agenda… allowing this movementto be witnessed.” - SERAFINE1369
Audiences are invited and encouraged to adopt a softer focus while engagingwith the embodied processes of the artists – becoming properly present and inattunement with the currents of the evening. As the event unfolds, audiencemembers will be gradually enfolded; encouraged to participate in a collectivereading, or reflection of the evening’s offerings in dialogue with the leadartists. This Intersect event is curated by ]performance s p a c e [ and co-produced with the Live Art Development Agency. Organiser contact: benjamin@performancespace.org”
“Oracular practice is for me an exploration of presence, responsiveness and aform of improvisation that can be understood as live writing and editing as theact of making meaning in real time…” - Daniela Valz Gen
“[Mine is] a responsive practice of tuning into states of receiving, through the capacity a body has to ‘read’ and synthesising the information received throughmovement, without judgement or conscious agenda… allowing this movementto be witnessed.” - SERAFINE1369
Audiences are invited and encouraged to adopt a softer focus while engagingwith the embodied processes of the artists – becoming properly present and inattunement with the currents of the evening. As the event unfolds, audiencemembers will be gradually enfolded; encouraged to participate in a collectivereading, or reflection of the evening’s offerings in dialogue with the leadartists. This Intersect event is curated by ]performance s p a c e [ and co-produced with the Live Art Development Agency. Organiser contact: benjamin@performancespace.org”
Image Credits: SERAFINE1369 - ‘I I I (something flat, something cosmic, something endless)’. 2023. PEANA, Mexico City, Feria de Arte Material. & Daniella Valz Gen - Photo by Deniz Guzel for South Kiosk.
additional info:
Friday the 3rd of March, 7pm - 9pm (doors open: 6:30pm) in-person at the Live Art Development Agency. London. E2 6LX
︎︎︎ venue website
About the Artists:
SERAFINE1369 is an independent artist, dancer and body-focused researcher,working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking and as a political projectwith ethical psycho- spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing asintimate technology. Their methodology is intuitive and many-headed,considering the interrelatedness of myriad systems. SERAFINE1369 is busy withpropositions and practices – of dancing, spatial arrangement, sonics andmodes of receiving – that counter the tendency towards bodily compression,inflammation and alienation, invited by life in the hostile architectures of themetropolis.
Daniella Valz Gen is an artist and writer born in Lima and based in London.Their work explores the interstices between languages, cultures and valuesystems with an emphasis on embodiment. Alterity, liminality and ritual comeinto play through a practice that prioritises process. Whether through anengagement with materials, writing or performance, their work is preoccupiedwith complexity and non-linear narratives. Their practice spans installation,text and live performance, both as independent outputs and combined,through collaborative and solo projects.
About Intersect:
Intersect is a series of gatherings, making space for creative communities toshare insights into embodied practices that reflect intersectional ways ofbeing. Affirming the “liveness” of the process, each gathering is unique,allowing for the featured participant(s) to co-design how they might imaginewhat the exchange with those who attend may look like: an embodieddialogue between artists; a sharing of a new experimental work in progresswitnessed virtually and/or in-person; or an open forum where key researchquestions of interest are explored and discussed.
pricing
Tickets are are FREE but booking is essential.
venue & access
Live Art Development Agency
The Garrett Centre,
117A Mansford Street.
London. E2 6LX
LADA and The Garrett Centre are wheelchair accessible by lift and providegender inclusive bathrooms.
We are continuing to implement measures in the space to ensure that ourstaff, visitors, and everyone who uses our building, remain safe during theongoing pandemic and that we protect those who are disproportionatelyaffected by it; please make sure to read our Covid Protocol before arriving atour building.