We are in the process of assembling our archive. As with all archives; ours is partial (double read always appropriate here relating to histories). We welcome documentation contributions from artists & audience members who have been present at ]ps[ events over the years. Please get in touch.
2013
2012
2011
Image: (re)collecting (f)ears, selina bonelli, 2019. Photo by Ana Escobar.
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
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“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.
2022
Decrypting Performance Art
Rocío Boliver
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“Decrypting Performance Art is a one day seminar led by Rocio Boliver, reflecting on key performances (via photographic and video documentation) they have created across the last 30 years of practice. For this seminar, the artist invites 25 participants to spend the day with her as she examines five recurrent themes which continue to shape the aesthetic and surrounding discourse of her work: Pain, Excretions, Sex, Old-age & Politics. In addition, Rocio will elucidate upon the three core aspects of their personal, performance art making methodologies: the Pre-performance, Performance & Post-performance moments. Rocio will share intimate details of these making processes through lively discussion with participants. Decrypting Performance Art is conceived and convened by Rocio Boliver and produced by ]performance s p a c e [ with support from the Live Art Development Agency and VSSL Studio. Organiser contact: benjamin@performancespace.org”
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“Decrypting Performance Art is a one day seminar led by Rocio Boliver, reflecting on key performances (via photographic and video documentation) they have created across the last 30 years of practice. For this seminar, the artist invites 25 participants to spend the day with her as she examines five recurrent themes which continue to shape the aesthetic and surrounding discourse of her work: Pain, Excretions, Sex, Old-age & Politics. In addition, Rocio will elucidate upon the three core aspects of their personal, performance art making methodologies: the Pre-performance, Performance & Post-performance moments. Rocio will share intimate details of these making processes through lively discussion with participants. Decrypting Performance Art is conceived and convened by Rocio Boliver and produced by ]performance s p a c e [ with support from the Live Art Development Agency and VSSL Studio. Organiser contact: benjamin@performancespace.org”
Images courtesy of the artist.
Images courtesy of the artist.
biography
“I devote myself to transgress limits. I dig into human behaviour. I disrupt accepted reality, absurd as the one I situationate. I was born a seductive Nabokov's “Lolita”. I lived censorship, scolding, fear and guilt, typical of a repressive society. I break the conventional woman scheme. My aesthetic is grotesque, in search of severity. I’m a human reaction voracious hunter, consumer and provocateur.”
- Rocio Boliver
Rocio has presented her work in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Since 2012, Rocío’s performances have focused on the ageing female body – a body, and a body of work, that she describes as ‘between menopause and old age’. She aims to aims to demystify the horror of old age in an ironical way, inventing her own deranged aesthetic and moral solutions for the problem of age. She revels in the cultural unease the ageing female body tends to provoke, and she embraces, on the one hand, shame, disgust, and embarrassment, and on the other, pleasure, laughter, and great beauty, in often dizzying and un-navigable recombination.
pricing
Tickets are offered on a sliding scale from £10 to £25. All revenue raised goes directly to the artist and we encourage those who can pay a little more than the £10 minimum to please do so as this enables us to continue making our work available to all.
]ps[ will retain a handful of FREE tickets, if you are unwaged/financially precarious please contact benjamin@performancespace.org to secure one of these limed free tickets.
venue & access
VSSL studio, Enclave, 50 Resolution Way, Deptford, London, SE8 4AL.
The studio is accessed via a raised, fenced path. Step free access can be found via the carpark on Tidemill Way.
The studio has a wide door. There is an accessible toilet within the studio block.
2022
Tiding
2022
Sandra Johnston + Lynn Lu + James Jordan Johnson + Kelvinatmadibrata + Monstera Deliciosa + Léann Herlhy
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“Tiding, meaning a communication, or an announcement, or to drift with, or as if with, the force of the waves.
Tiding was a day of performance art taking place at two historic places of worship in Folkestone and Romney Marsh. Tiding was a celebration of the spring, the return of life after the retreats of winter and lockdown. Tiding also marked the last public programming ]performance s p a c e[ organised in Folkestone.
]ps[ has made a home for performance art and artists on Tontine Street since 2016. We have organised festivals, hosted residencies, curated exhibitions, and worked in collaboration with our peers and communities. Across this time, we have remained in dialogue with the remarkable landscape of the Kent coast, and so it is fitting that Tiding occured at both the Parish Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe in Folkestone, and St Augustine’s at Snave, a remote church in Romney Marsh.
People have met to worship at St Mary and St Eanswythe since the 7th Century, and at Snave since the 13th Century. In inviting James, Kelvin, Léann, Lynn, Monstera, and Sandra to make works in dialgoue with these two old churches, we spoke about religion, and the histories of violence, exclusion and loss which these sites call in. At the same time, as we prepared the churches - negotiating space, sourcing materials, collecting dust - we thought about the spiritual funcitons of performance art - as a place for gathering, meditation, celebration and reflection. Thank you for joining us at Tiding.”
Tiding is curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Joseph Morgan Schofield, and produced by ]performance s p a c e[. The project is supported by Ash McNaughton and Marcin Gawin.
The project is funded by ]performance s p a c e [, Kent County Council, Creative Folkestone and Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, and Kent Wildlife Trust.
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“Tiding, meaning a communication, or an announcement, or to drift with, or as if with, the force of the waves.
Tiding was a day of performance art taking place at two historic places of worship in Folkestone and Romney Marsh. Tiding was a celebration of the spring, the return of life after the retreats of winter and lockdown. Tiding also marked the last public programming ]performance s p a c e[ organised in Folkestone.
]ps[ has made a home for performance art and artists on Tontine Street since 2016. We have organised festivals, hosted residencies, curated exhibitions, and worked in collaboration with our peers and communities. Across this time, we have remained in dialogue with the remarkable landscape of the Kent coast, and so it is fitting that Tiding occured at both the Parish Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe in Folkestone, and St Augustine’s at Snave, a remote church in Romney Marsh.
People have met to worship at St Mary and St Eanswythe since the 7th Century, and at Snave since the 13th Century. In inviting James, Kelvin, Léann, Lynn, Monstera, and Sandra to make works in dialgoue with these two old churches, we spoke about religion, and the histories of violence, exclusion and loss which these sites call in. At the same time, as we prepared the churches - negotiating space, sourcing materials, collecting dust - we thought about the spiritual funcitons of performance art - as a place for gathering, meditation, celebration and reflection. Thank you for joining us at Tiding.”
TIDING, 2022. Videography and editing by Marco Beradi and Baiba Sprance.
Tiding is curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Joseph Morgan Schofield, and produced by ]performance s p a c e[. The project is supported by Ash McNaughton and Marcin Gawin.
The project is funded by ]performance s p a c e [, Kent County Council, Creative Folkestone and Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, and Kent Wildlife Trust.
St Augustine at Snave
Day time session in Romney Marsh
Sandra Johnston + Lynn Lu + James Jordan Johnson
︎︎︎ About the Venue
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“The day began with a vegan picnic at St Augustine in Snave, a 13th Century Church in Romney Marsh, where artists Sandra Johnston, Lynn Lu and James Jordan Johnson presented performances across the afternoon.
Sandra Johnston photographed by Tristan Broers.
“Witnessing Johnston’s careful mastery of pace, decision-making and silent resistance makes me think of her embodied gestures as intimate knowledge she shares with the space, and the objects she is interacting with. A new constellation of relations and alliances emerges, reminding me of possibilities of porous solidarity through gesture, action and space. Watching her gestures becomes an exercise in trying to decipher the new constellations of relations in the room. Like trying to work out a mathematical equation that is closer to an exercise of the imagination, rather than a sum.”
Horizonless Hopes, Sara Sassanelli writing on works by Sandra Johnston and Monstera Deliciosa
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Likkle More: A Walk, A Plot(ting), A Land, James Jordan Johnson photographed by Manuel Vason.
“I chew.
Thinking of coconut husks
thinking on
these husks
Remnants
And those who were left behind
I chew.”
and still I, Madinah Farhannah Thompson writing on Likkle More
︎︎︎ read the full text“We Must return to the point from which we started. Diversion is not a useful plot unless it is nourishedby reversion: not a return to the longing for origins, to some immutable state of Being, but a return to thepoint of entanglement” – Glissant
Likkle More: A Walk, A Plot(ting), A Land is a multi-site-specific performance. The work is a way to think about how a (raw) material and subject becomes an art object, what process must take place so that it becomes something it was not previously? How does a desire for singularity and removing a “point of entanglement” become a necessity for the knowledge system and culture that pertains to the art object?
The work, which uses the method of walking, video, public intervention and participation begins withinLondon pertaining to three distinct areas; Stratford, Lewisham & Deptford. The route breaks away from London, a departure followed by a destination of St Augustine’s Church at Snave, Romney Marsh.
The Impossibility of Return, Lynn Lu photographed by Manuel Vason.
“held in crumpled newsprint,
i am led to an enclave at the side of the church overlooking the field - bright unfiltered light locks onto glittered greens, blissfully unaware of the phantasms that inhabit the broken cracks of these cherished objects.
(yet these are the fissures that open the space for you to come closer.)
The crack is a trace that haunts the fixed stares of absent ghosts: their spectres glow with crooked flattened halos, some dusted in gold, one dusted with brass.
(was this break too deep, too long, too much?)”
A Tiding from Lynn Lu, selina bonelli writing on The Impossibility of Return
︎︎︎ read the full text"The past 2 years have left us collectively shattered. We don’t stay broken, however, and as we put ourselves back together, this work proposes that we wear each of our distinct scars as a mark of beauty in the face of a chaotic universe."
You are invited to bring Lynn a cherished object that has been broken, and to engage in an intimate exchange. Your broken object – ideally ceramic or porcelain – might be in pieces, or simply chipped or cracked. Lynn's offering during Tiding will be a one-to-one exchange invol ving these items.
Over the next months, Lynn will resurrect these items using kintsugi*. Stanford research scientist Amy Price has described the practice of kintsugi as “radical empathy in action” (2021), representing resilience and the regaining of function with new splendour. Each restored object will be photographed then returned to their owners.
* Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the breakage with lacquer dusted with precious metals.
The Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe
Evening Session in Folkestone
Monstera Deliciosa + Kelvinatmadibrata + Léann Herlihy
︎︎︎ About the Venue
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“Tiding continued into the evening in Folkestone at the Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe, a site of worship since the 7th century, with more vegan food and a further three performances by Monstera Deliciosa, Léann Herlihy and Kelvin Atmadibrata.
Kelvin Atmadibrata photographed by Manuel Vason.
“Aporisms of un (be)longing tug on the rope on the pew.
Scissors in hand:
open, closed, pointed
with legs uncrossed
you cut a whole in your knees:
a patellar viewing platform
capped to your joint,
on the edge of the scream: does it balance the care that your hands can’t contain?
You look through shins that hold the marks left from praying too hard for the rain to stop:
the blow of silence, no. one. notices.”
A Tiding with Kelvin Atmadibrata between Ivalice and St Eanswythe, selina bonelli writing on A Knight No More
︎︎︎ read the full textA Knight No More is a site-responsive work involving a body performing a (silence-d) gesture of grass whistling. He seemingly answers a series of occasional screams but remains muted throughout the performance. Accompanying him are four stacks of paper scattered around the site with a segregated script for the prologue of Square Enix’s 2007 Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions- which the screams are also borrowed from. Adopting elements of masculine identities, death and potentially violence, the presence of the work in The Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe unintentionally echoes with the church’s Unknown Soldier.
Léann Herlihy photographed by Manuel Vason.
“It's 18:32
“We're building something here for you and me
”
“We're building something here for you and me
A platform to recline on
regal.
I'm looking at you
thinking that your recline is arresting
Could this be a love letter?
”f**gt, Madinah Farhannah Thompson writing on Léann’s work
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Monstera Deliciosa photographed by Manuel Vason and Tristan Broers.
“Watching Monstera sit at a church pew flipping through theory books - casually engaging with them, gripping and disregarding them - I am reminded of how the things I read stay with me, blend into my life or just pass through. In this context those theory books look heavy, but also comforting to think about the loud cacophony of thinking that is always going on, like a white noise.”
Horizonless Hopes, Sara Sassanelli writing on works by Sandra Johnston and Monstera Deliciosa
︎︎︎ read the full text“Hey there, Monstera here. Good on you for reading this! Since you’re here, I thought you should know that (spoiler alert) the majestic photograph exhibited is by Andrea Abbatangelo and portrays the gorgeous friend and icon Keijaun Thomas as she graced the banks of the Warren right here in Folkestone. Today we’re also taking contributions for her funding campaign for her upcoming gender affirming surgery: keep an eye out for the collection trays passed around during the performance or do approach us if you wish to make a donation otherwise. Happy to take your email address and send you a receipt of the donations transfered. Ah, to top it all of, you might also be hearing, seeing, sensating (traces of) works by ARCA, SOPHIE and Bence Magyarlaki - bring on this moment of trans and queer excellence and thank you for your soulful presence today!”
2021
PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the UK
2021
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“In 2021, after ten journeys around the sun, our bodies soaked in blood, sweat, tears, eco-glitter, ]performance s p a c e[ celebrated our 10th anniversary with a special programme looking to the past, present and future(s) of performance art in the UK.
PSX is a proudly intergenerational programme, marking both our international and local constellations, and foregrounding the contirbutions of queer, Trans*, POC & womxn artists.
You can scroll down for the full programme or use the arrow at the top to view our individual programmes of screenings, talks, performances, exhibitions, bursaries, workshops and residencies.”
“In 2021, after ten journeys around the sun, our bodies soaked in blood, sweat, tears, eco-glitter, ]performance s p a c e[ celebrated our 10th anniversary with a special programme looking to the past, present and future(s) of performance art in the UK.
PSX is a proudly intergenerational programme, marking both our international and local constellations, and foregrounding the contirbutions of queer, Trans*, POC & womxn artists.
You can scroll down for the full programme or use the arrow at the top to view our individual programmes of screenings, talks, performances, exhibitions, bursaries, workshops and residencies.”
CREDITS
PSX was curated and project managed by Benjamin Sebastian and Joseph Morgan Schofield, supported by project assistants Ash McNaughton and Lise Boucon. Anna Goodman of Abstrakt handled the press and PR.
The project was supported by VSSL studio, the Live Art Development Agency and The Ugly Duck. The project was funded by Arts Council England and Kent County Council.
10 hours
2021
live event @ Ugly Duck, 21st August 2021
︎︎︎ PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK
Anne Bean + Alastair MacLenna + Chinasa Vivian Ezugha + Elvira Santamari + Joseph Morgan Schofield + Martin O'Brien + Poppy Jackson + Rubiane Maia + selina bonelli
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“What dreaming of performance art in the UK would be complete without a durational live event? PSX culminated with a special 10 hour performance, across which 9 exceptional artists shared space and time. The event was documented by photographers Fenia Kotsopoulou and Manuel Vason, videographers Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi, and writers Daniella Valz Gen, Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson, and Zack Mennell.”
Anne Bean and selina bonelli. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
‘On live anthologies, memory and dreamscapes’ by Daniella Valz Gen:
Some of the images from PSX 10 have infiltrated my dreams, and some seem to have come out from them too. At times, I still feel in a daze when I recall the experience. What is a memory from a past experience and what is a dream? It’s hard to know when we enter a time warp.”
Filmed and edited by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.
‘PSX’ by Zack Mennell:
“4.5 hours in there's less activity, less noise but it feels more frantic. Maybe it's the sleeplessness and caffeine buzz? Stood back, taking in the landscape of this marking of the rotation of celestial bodies; feeling them slowed, disinhibited of some physical ignorance, how influenced it is by my own silly little physiology. A sparseness of words – a redaction of the power emanating. The futility of Martin trying to burn a fresh cut rose in a flame, plant singeing and dulling pffft with little effect. A chalk outline on the floor, remnants growing, stomach turning stronger faster, quicker, and my hand grows slack twitching. How do words and photos come together? Composing on top and over invoking fractal collages.”
Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
Workshop
2012
REVERIES ON VISIBLE THINKING by Julia Bardsley (28th - 30th July Folkestone)
︎︎︎ PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK
E.M. Parry + Adrian Coto + Ernst Fischer + Julia Bardsley
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“Process as Performance – Thought as Action – Reverie as Method
x1 provocateur + 3 artists over x3 days
= coexisting in a real-time process room of mulling + mapping
x1 provocateur + 3 artists over x3 days
= coexisting in a real-time process room of mulling + mapping
Images: REVERIES on VISIBLE THINKING workshop outcome, Julia Bardsley, Adrian Coto, E.M. Parry and Ernst Fischer, 2021. Photos by Manuel Vason.
Julia Bardsley is an artist working with the interplay of performance, pinhole photography, video projection, sculptural objects, psychological garments and hybrid personae. Works include: The Divine Trilogy: Trans-Acts, Almost The Same (feral rehearsals for violent acts of culture) and Aftermaths: a tear in the meat of vision (London, Glasgow, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Belgium, Italy); meta-FAMILY (Brazil, UK, Belgium, Slovenia) and Medea: dark matter events (Brazil & London). A book of her pinhole photographs, u See The Image Of Her i, was published in 2016.
In a new phase of work, under the creative umbrella The House of Wonder & Panic, she has developed a series of durational process events entitled Reading Rooms. The Reading Rooms have repurposed a political, a philosophical and an entomological text. The third of the series, An Apian Paradox, conjures an apicultural world that offers a feminine ecology of creativity, pleasure and female bee-ing and has been presented in London, Lisbon and at Fierce! Birmingham.
Her work tests coexistences and antagonisms across the nature/culture & animal/human spectrums. She is currently exploring ways of appropriating and folding rewilding principles of disturbance and succession into her creative process.
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Workshop
2012
Re:STORE (trust) by Sandra Johnston (25th - 27th August 2021, Folkestone)
︎︎︎ PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK
Monstera Deliciosa + Ash McNaughton + Helen Davison + Kajoli Ilojak + Conor Baird + Sandra Johnston
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“In the unfolding circumstances of the past year where interpersonal connections have been negatively impacted by the pandemic, how can performance art be reconfigured to address an uneasy new body-phobic social consciousness? I suggest that one of the central ideas that gives performance art agency as a discipline is the range of intimacies that can be tested and opened up through myriad acts of close witnessing. In this workshop we will explore together various ways that trust might be reconstructed, or restored between self and others, including more-than-human relationships and perspectives. Moving between a scale of viewing distance, touching distance, breathing distance, with the aim not to rupture but to respect the parameters of how we sense these sensitive borders, we will consider how intimacy might be redefined. Furthermore, can we still trust ourselves to engage through attuning practices?”
image credits pending.
Sandra Johnston’s practice involves developing strategies of performance art improvisation, as a means of engagement with imbedded issues of social trauma within selected contexts. She utilises improvised actions as a form of porous interaction with the actuality of environments, open to interference, adjustment and connective responses. The somatic physical aspects of the work develop from an ethos of attrition – consciously attempting to use a minimum of available resources, intersecting with a desire to leave no trace on the surroundings. This approach of ‘provisionality’ insists upon a speculative relationship to the emergence of narratives and meanings being formed directly, and conjointly, between the artist and audience. A key impetus for the work arises from recognition of the implications of social trauma and the ensuing cultures of silence, finding in performance methods a humble means to provide alternative forms of live testimony and mediation.
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Workshop
2012
Layers of Time by Rubiane Maia (21st-23rd May 2021, Folkestone)
︎︎︎ PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha + Pierce Starre + Sylvia Morgado + Ash McNaughton + Maria Clara + Rubinae Maia
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“The notion that the past is a vital force that moves incessantly inside and outside us, coexisting and actualising itself through our bodies continuously has been a fundamental aspect in my current artistic production. I am particularly interested in the idea that the moment a memory is actualised through an action, it ceases to be a memory and becomes perception. In this sense, we could consider the body as a channel with infinite layers of time - a primordial device that never stops to launch us towards the future. My proposal is to develop an immersive and practical study around collective and individual memories using empirical exercises of telepathy and telekinesis. Throughout the workshop we will be practicing actions that involve acuteness, permanence and physical-mental resilience.”
images: The Table, ‘Layers of Time’ workshop outcome, Rubiane Maia, 2021. Photos by Manuel Vason.
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian visual artist based in Folkestone, UK. She completed a degree in Visual Arts and a Master degree in Institutional Psychology at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her artwork is an hybrid practice across performance, video, installation and text, occasionally flirting with drawing and collage. She is attracted by states of synergy, encompassing the invisible relationships of affect and flux, and investigates the body in order to amplify the possibilities of perception beyond the habitual. More recently, she has been researching the concept of memory and its resonances in our way of existing.
In 2015, she took part at the workshop 'Cleaning the House' with Marina Abramovic and participated at the exhibition 'Terra Comunal - Marina Abramovic + MAI', at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo with the long durational performance ‘The Garden’ (2 months). In 2016, she worked on the project titled 'Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert and the Mountain' which required her to travel to high landscapes of Uyuni (Bolivia), Pico da Bandeira (Espírito Santo/Minas Gerais, BRA) and Monte Roraima (Roraima, BRA/Santa Helena de Uyarén, VEN). In the same year she completed her second short film titled 'ÁDITO'. Since 2018 she has been working on the creation of a ‘Book-Performance’, a series of actions devised in response to specific autobiographical texts particularly influenced by personal experiences of racism and misogyny.
Studio Bursaries at VSSL Studio
2012
Kelvin Atmadibrata + Adriana Disman
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In collaboration with VSSL studio, our sister-space in Deptford (London), we invited Kelvin Atmadibrata and Adriana Disman to undertake 7 month studio bursaries. Kelvin and Adriana presented performance works during the PSX photography exhibition at VSSL.
Forcing Hyacinth, Kelvin Atmadibrata, 2019. Helsinki. Photo by Julius Töyrylä.
Thresholding, Adriana Disman, 2019. Photo: Mike Zenari.
Kelvin Atmadibrata, PSX: Photography exhibition, VSSL studio, 2021. Video by Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi.
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 Southeast Asian masculine meta and erotica. 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.
Adriana Disman, PSX: Photography exhibition, VSSL studio, 2021. Video by Baiba Sprance and Marco Beradi.
Adriana Disman is a performance art maker, thinker, and writer. Her practice searches for minor modes of resistance as she seeks liberation – an interdependent and as yet un-imagined state – through refusing to adhere to the logics of power. Often engaging with self-wounding, her work is minimal, poetic, and intense.
Disman’s writing on performance can be found in both academic and arts publications, and she is currently co-editing a book entitled "50 Key Performance Artists" for Routledge with T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko. Currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London under Dominic Johnson, Disman writes on the pathologisation of self-wounding performance art.
Residencies at ]ps[
2012
Jade Blackstock + James Jordan Johnson
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“We hosted the artists Jade Blackstock and James Jordan Johnson for a shared residency month at ]performance s p a c e[ in June 2021. Jade and James’ projects are ongoing and this page will be updated with further information at a later time.”
James Jordan Johnson. Photo by Alex Gulino.
James Jordan Johnson (b. 1997, London, UK) is an artist working in performance and sculpture. He explores how personal/collective memory and mythmaking informs historical experiences within Black life (specifically Afro-Caribbean life). Through this, he uses his practice as a way to think about the embodiment and unnamable ties between objects and people within life-cycles.
Cummndazz, Jade Blackstock, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.
Jade Blackstock (B. 1993, Birmingham, UK) is a British Jamaican performance artist. Her work explores questions of the body and identity in relation to historical, cultural and personal events and experiences. Her practice is particularly anchored in exploring Afro-Caribbean customs, rituals and material, and attempts to discuss how prejudices and colonial histories continue to impact the lives and current representations of Black people and people of colour. She seeks to highlight how the body, material and space have shared capabilities of holding, transferring and embodying collective pasts or memories, which bears importance in our understanding of selves and each other. Themes of race and Black identity, feminism, ownership, class and loss are present in her work.
10 Images
2012
IMAGES: Jade Montserrat + Keijaun Thomas + Hancock&Kelly LIVE + Ron Athe + Kris Canavan & Elizabeth Short (performing as Nick Kilby) + Nicholas Tee + Bean + Benjamin Sebastian + Poppy Jackson + Nina Arsenault
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Manuel Vason + Andrea Abbatangelo + Marco Beradi + Anna Martino + Alethea Raban + Paul Samuel White
PERFORMANCE ACTIVATIONS: Ash McNaughton + Lise Boucon (Folkestone) & Kelvin Atmadibrata + Adriana Disman (London)
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“We chose 10 epochal photographs from our archive which typify the energy, attitude and ethos of the artists ]ps[ works with. Explicit, unapologetic & poetic; these images act as portals to various collaborations, geographies and moments from our past, while projecting that energy into our future(s). The exhibition took place in both Folkestone and London, and each opening was marked with live performances by Ash McNaughton and Lise Boucon (Folkestone) and PSX Studio Bursary artists Kelvin Atmadibrata and Adriana Disman (London).”
hancock & kelly. Photo by Paul Samuel White.
Jade Montserrat. Photo by Alethea Raban.
Nicholas Tee. Photo by Manuel Vason.
Benjamin Sebastian. Photo by Marco Berardi.
Bean. Photo by Marco Berardi.
Keijaun Thomas. Photo by Andrea Abbatangelo.
Ron Athey. Photo by Manuel Vason.
Nina Arsenault. Photo by Marco Berardi.
Poppy Jackson. Photo by Anna Martino.
Kris Canavan & Elizabeth Short (performing as Nick Kilby). Photo by Marco Berardi.
Kelvin Atmadibrata. PSX exhibition launch, VSSL studio, 2021. Photos by Zack Mennell.
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Adriana Disman, PSX exhibition launch, VSSL studio, 2021. Photos by Zack Mennell.
Rocío Bolíver, Fierce Festival, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.
Katy Baird, Poppers Boudoir. Image courtesy of the artist.
“]performance s p a c e [ is nothing if not its relationships; a dynamic constellation of thinkers, feelers & makers, reimagining our world(s). Throughout PSX, ]ps[ director Benjamin Sebastian hosts a series of 10 conversations with artists and culture makers from our p a s t who have influenced our ongoing work.
Links to the podcast conversations can be found here, and details of the final three conversations will be posted soon. We are working on getting transcript texts of the conversations and these will be added when available.”
Links to the podcast conversations can be found here, and details of the final three conversations will be posted soon. We are working on getting transcript texts of the conversations and these will be added when available.”
10 Films
2012
Ash McNaughton + Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro + Va-Bene E. Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT] + Leo Devlin, Benjamin Sebastian & Bean + selina bonelli + Kira O'Reilly + Keijaun Thomas + Joseph Morgan Schofield + Martin O'Brien + Carlos Martiel
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“Double bill screenings of significant ]performance s p a c e[ archival documentation, as well as more recent ]ps[ Associate Artist commissions, took place on the last Friday of each month (April through August) during Last Fridays Folkestone. The films were offered online for the month following the live screening.”
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2021
FUTURERITUAL Mythic Time
a workshop by VestAndPage and Joseph Morgan Schofield, 2021
The here-and-now is insufficient. The fog of the capitalist deadland is ossifying. We demand something more. Faced with distance, anxiety and exile, belonging feels mythic. FUTURERITUAL asks: how can the technology of ritual be deployed in the divination, manifestation and sustentation of something else - of alternative [queer] futurities, wherein states of belonging (in difference) are felt deeply and more readily.
This residential workshop explores the (re-)invention of spiritual practices, the sacred, rites and rituals through performance art.
Monday 20th to Saturday 25th September
in-person at ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone
There will be a public offering made by the workshop participants on Friday 24th September, 7pm-9pm at ]ps[ as part of Last Fridays.This residential workshop explores the (re-)invention of spiritual practices, the sacred, rites and rituals through performance art.
Monday 20th to Saturday 25th September
in-person at ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone
VestAndPage, Still from the film STRATA, Germany, 2021.
Joseph Morgan Schofield, these teeming forms, 2021. Image by Zack Mennell.2021
Kate Stonestreet and Eleanor Dalzell Jenyns
]open s p a c e[ residency, May 2021
Eleanor Dalzell Jenyns and kate stonestreet are recipients of ]open s p a c e[ and will undertake a shared residency towards the realisation of their project collective attentions, anarchist actions.
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kate stonestreet. Image courtesy of the artist.
Eleanor Dalzell Jenyns and kate stonestreet. Image courtesy of the artists.
Eleanor Jenyns. Image courtesy of the artist.
Eleanor Dalzell Jenyns is a multi-disciplinary artist working acros performance, temporary sculpture, drawing and film. Their work is an inquiry into the ways we can explode the patriarchal and colonial binaries found in rural environments and how the queer body moves through them. Their current research project is focused on the appropriation of military technologies in performance.
www.eleanordalzelljenyns.com
kate stonestreet (b. 1992, Bury, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist. Their practice is based in DIY-culture and ethos. Their work explores queer sibling-hood, radical softness and ice-time. Currently, they find performance the most urgent technology of communication and Live Art the most fitting context for their actions.
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2021
In Greek mythology, the seer Tiresias was allegedly transformed into a woman for seven years for disturbing two copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene. Niya B re-reads this myth from an eco-transfeminist lens through ritual performances, workshops and sonic explorations. The project is called ‘Ekdysis’ – the biological term referring to the process of shedding the external layer of the skin in reptiles. Counteracting the traditional, patriarchal way of manufacturing history, Niya B engages with her own autobiography to re-envision this metamorphosis as a transgender mythopoesis, which is directly affected by ecology, the feminine/Other and the non-human.
Ekdysis is an ongoing project, which is displayed through live actions, moving image and installations. In this iteration, Ekdysis manifests as a single-channel video following an autoethnographic journey in the land that holds the mythological events of metamorphosis.
This project has been made possible with support from Arts Council National Lottery Grants, Ugly Duck, ]performance s p a c e [, x-church and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest.
Ekdysis is an ongoing project, which is displayed through live actions, moving image and installations. In this iteration, Ekdysis manifests as a single-channel video following an autoethnographic journey in the land that holds the mythological events of metamorphosis.
This project has been made possible with support from Arts Council National Lottery Grants, Ugly Duck, ]performance s p a c e [, x-church and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest.
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Niya B is a transfeminist artist, working at the intersections of visual art and performance exploring themes related to ecology, (trans)gender politics and equity in mental health. Niya uses video, soundscapes, text and live acts to create a meditative space of vulnerability, affect and interdependence.
Selected shows include:
From Tomorrow (Tate Britain, London); WIP: Work in Progress/Working Process (online); Cultural Institute commission (Leeds); Futureless (Somos Art, Berlin); Ekdysis, solo (Enclave, London); NEoN digital arts festival (Dundee); Unfix (CCA, Glasgow); Eco-futures festival, Disorders, Translucent, Queer Artists Now, Fringe!, @disturbance (London); Emergency (Manchester); Trans:plant, solo (London), International Print Biennale (Newcastle); 5th Moscow Biennale; 5th Thessaloniki Biennale.
Niya was awarded with an a-n bursary and a Jerwood bursary in 2020. Ekdysis installation will feature in the publication Future Now (Aesthetica 2021).
2020
Survive & Thrive
2020
selina bonelli + Joseph Morgan Schofield + Poppy Jackson + Yejin Lee + Hollie Miller + Sandra Stanionyte + Antonio Branco & Riccardo T + Monstera Deliciosa + Chun Hua Catherine Dong + Nicholas Tee + Léann Herlihy + Alicia Radage + Ernst Fischer + Local Foreigner + Alastair MacLennan
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“In 2020 ]performance s p a c e [ were recipients of Arts Council England’s Emergency Responce Funding - a response to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this funding ]ps[ financially supported 15 artists to maintain their professional practices amidst pandemic lockdowns, via: ]ps[ Screens & ]ps[ Associate Artist Grants.”
‘these teeming forms’ - Joseph Morgan Schofield, 2021. Photo by Zack McGuinness.
2020
]ps[ Screens
2020
Yejin Lee + Hollie Miller + Sandra Stanionyte + Antonio Branco & Riccardo T + Monstera Deliciosa + Chun Hua Catherine Dong + Nicholas Tee + Léann Herlihy + Alicia Radage + Ernst Fischer + Local Foreigner + Alastair MacLennan
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“Across six months, we offered a screening programme, viewable through our gallery window and online, showing artists’ documentation and performance-to-camera.”
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2020
Associate Artist Grants
2020
selina bonelli + Joseph Morgan Schofield + Poppy Jackson
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“]performance s p a c e[ commissioned our three associate artists - Joseph Morgan Schofield, Poppy Jackson & selina bonelli - to create new digitally-facing works. selina made a performance film, races, which premiered during PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK. Joseph also produced a film work, these teeming forms, which premiered in an exhibition at VSSL studio and was shown during PSX. Poppy situated her work with a larger project entitled summit, which tackled the politics of the pregnant body at our current time.”
‘races’ - selina bonelli, 2020. Photo by Manuel Vason.
‘these teeming forms’ - Joseph Morgan Schofield, 2021. Photo by Zack McGuinness.
2019
SALVAGE Festival
SALVAGE Festival
2019
Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn + Kajoli Ilojak + Vivian Chinasa Ezugh + Vaida Tamoševičiūtė + Ro Hardaker + selina bonelli + Alicia Radage + Ash McNaughton
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“A one day festival of site specific performance art taking place on Saturday the 21st of September at various sites along Folkestone's harbour coastline. Invited artists will examine notions of reclamation, ecological sensitivity, damage control, value and care - within our current socio-political frame of late capitalism and environmental collapse. With contemporary performance art as its lens, Salvage Festival will explore what can, should and must be saved - what will end in wreckage - and how these processes will disproportionately affect minoritarian peoples and communities. Artists have not been given a materials budget and instead; have been asked to engage deeply with the site responsive, reclamation & ecologically sensitive conditions of the festival's invitation.”
Salvage Festival. Photography by Manuel Vason & Andrea Abbatangelo.
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Ro Hardaker photogrphed by Andrea Abbatangelo and Manuel Vason.
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2019
(re)collecting (f)ears
(re)collecting (f)ears
2019
︎︎︎ purchase the (re)collecting (f)ears catalogue
︎︎︎ view ]ps[ director; Benjamin Sebastian’s contribution.
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“(re)collecting (f)ears is a series of site-specific performances at fallen sound mirrors across the Kent coast. The project will culminate with a publication produced by Well Street Projects and an exhibition of photographic & film documentation, exhibited at ]performance s p a c e [ (Folkestone) and Well Street Projects (Margate). These sonic remains are physical manifestations of pre-war tensions and fears – initially built to provide defence, they are now succumbing to elemental erosive forces along the coasts of England. As relics of an early warning system that never came to fruition, their failure to serve their intended function could be seen to occupy the space of a fossilised mourning for a future that never came. This was also the time where we saw the rise of Fascism and far right ideologies that eventually became the dominant voice in Europe; a time not dissimilar to the one we are facing now. What would it look like to be accountable for our failures and carry them into the present, to discuss the eroded memories and fears that are scattered, forgotten and fallen across the south and north-eastern landscape of the UK? Could these visible fallen silenced concretions of fears and longing (for protection) help us open up the conversations around the cyclical and tidal nature of our histories and help us think about new ways of being and belonging that are built on difference and diversity? In her work Selina uses artefacts, unwanted hand me downs, worthless heirlooms that carry value through meaning, action and ‘rememberings’ (offered memories) and the language of performance to interrogate meaning, power and our collective social realities. Produced in partnership with ]performance s p a c e [, Whitstable Biennale and Well Projects, with support from Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants.”
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2019
(be)longing
(be)longing
2019
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“(Be)longing is an embodied exploration of communion with the land through the process of embedding a body in the landscape. The work stems from ecological concerns that expand to urgent socio-political issues, and proposes reflections on the questions of: Where does the migrant body belong? What does it mean to belong to more than one place? How do we forge our relationship to the land we occupy? And how do we forge belonging as an internal experience at every moment? At the heart of the project exist three landscape interventions which took place at various locations across the UK in the Summer and Autumn of 2019 in locations outside of London (Postling; Kent, Fermyn Woods; Northamptonshire & The Warren; Kent) -generating decentralised and urgent discussions surrounding migration. The first iteration of (Be)longing was funded by Arts Council England and produced by ]performance s p a c e [. The documentation of the interventions was done through 35mm slide film by Rowan Powell. These performative interventions became the genesis of further installation, text and performance; which were exhibited at CUSTOM in Folkestone, as part of Something Held In The Mouth curated by Madeline Hodge in October 2019.”
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2018
PAUSE & AFFECT
2018/2019
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“PAUSE & AFFECT is a nine month programme of curated and open call artist residencies at ]ps[ in Kent. Each set of residencies offers an holistic opportunity for research, development & platform events - for artists making time-based & performance art. Each set of residencies offers a unique package, for specific groups of artists, at varying stages of their artistic process and development. The programme consists of three strands: The Residents, The Rising & ]open s p a c e [.
Exploring the necessity of reflection as a primary route to self development, PAUSE & AFFECT fascilitates residential periods where artists are encouraged to embrace slowness as a creative methodology. Within accelerated capitalism, pause and affect become tools of resistance; strategies to take back time, make space & reconnect with what's important. In order to combat increasingly fast-paced demands on artists to 'be productive', PAUSE & AFFECT insists that the primary resources required for any creative endeavour are those of time and space; enabling artists to tune in, recalibrate, experiment and grow - in order to then contribute exceptional art to our shared cultural landscapes.”
THE RESIDENTS
The Residents
2018
Joseph Morgan Schofield + selina bonelli + Rubiane Maia + Emilio Rojas + The Uhuruverse + Dani d’Emilia + Keioui Keijaun Thomas + Gabi + Ria Righteous + Máiréad Delaney
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“Each residency affords a curated duo of artists a 4 week residency at ]ps[ in Folkestone. The residencies focus on the potentials of co-operation, difference, influence & collectivity; whilst granting the resources to slow down, recalibrate & begin to shape what comes next.”
Residency I
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Máiréad Delaney & Ria Righteous
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Residency II
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Gabi & Keioui Keijaun Thomas
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Residency III
(March 2019):
Dani d’Emilia & The Uhuruverse
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Residency IV
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Rubiane Maia & Emilio Rojas
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Residency V
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Joseph Morgan Schofield & selina bonelli
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THE RISING
The Rising
2018
Rhine Bernardino + James Jordan Johnson + Lena Chen + crazinisT artisT
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“For the 4th editions of The Rising (1st - 15th October 2018) we will be teaming up with Live Art UK’s Diverse Actions initiative again to extend & expand the opportunity available to artists. This Rising will include two week's studio residency to develop artistic practice, professional development sessions with guest lectures and a platform event.
The Rising gives selected artists the time, space and required resources to try out new work and explore the edges of their craft. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the new comers of contemporary performance art.”
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]open s p a c e [
2019
Gareth Cutter + Gemma Jones + Émilie-Christine P. Newman
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“As a D.I.Y space we are firm believers in the profound potential of co-operation. We want to continue to make space for those that need it. As such, within PAUSE & AFFECT we are running ]open s p a c e [. It’s is an opportunity for emergent artists to test concepts and bring new ideas to life. The platform will run three times throughout PAUSE & AFFECT; December 2018, February 2019 & April 2019.”
Gareth Cutter
Gemma Jones
Émilie-Christine P. Newman
2017
WAKE
2017
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“To become cognizant or aware. Roused from a tranquil or inactive state. A path or course of a thing passed or preceded. Mourning the body of the dead. Keeping watch. Holding vigil.
WAKE is ]performance s p a c e ['s curatorial project for 2017. A six month long programme of events exploring social consciousness, collectivity and division.
It is a call to action, to wake up. A vigil to remember what has gone before & a gathering to consider how we may move forward. Consisting of three strands:
The Risings: I & II, The Vigils: Black, Earth, Sex, Rites and WAKE Festival.”
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The Risings: I
2017
Viviana Druga + Joseph Morgan Schofield + Orinta Pranaityte + Collette Patterson + Matt Mahony-Page + Giulia Mattera
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“The Rising give selected artists the time, space and required resources to try out new work and explore the edges of their craft. The inaugural edition of The Rising launched the entire WAKE program and took place on the 17th of June during Folkestone’s Open Quarter weekend. See below for information on the artists platformed.”
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The Risings: II
2017
Sara Zaltash + Ria Righteous + Kajoli Ilojak
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“The second edition of The Rising we will be teaming up with Live Art UK’s Diverse Actions initiative to extend & expand the opportunity available to artists. This Rising will include one week's studio residency to develop artistic practice, a platform event (Saturday 18th November) and a culminating week of professional development with guest lectures & sessions.”
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The Vigils: Black, Earth, Sex, Rites
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The Vigils: Black, Earth, Sex, Rites
2017
BLACK: Fuck U Pay Us (Uhuru Moor, Ayotunde Osareme, Jasmine Nyende & Tianna Nicole) + Jade Montserrat + Salmoe Asega - EARTH: Maria Lucia Cruz Correia + Nowhere Kitchen (Pepe Dayaw) - SEX: John Smith + Rocío Boliver + Julie Tolentino & Pig Pen (Stosh) RITES: LEIBNIZ (Ernst Fischer & Helen Spackman)
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“The Vigils are about holding space to think, reflect and act. A series of four performance events giving platform to the urgent thematics of Black, Earth, Sex, Rites. Events will take place from 7-10pm on the advertised date with a gathering to unpack the work the following day (times to be announced closer to each event).”
Vigil - Black:
2017
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2017
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2017
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WAKE Festival
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WAKE Festival
2017
Carlos Martiel + Hancock & Kelly + Dominic Thrope + Kira O’Reilly + Esther Neff + Lala Nomada + selina bonelli + Emilio Rojas + Local Foreigner + Local Foreigner + Surya Tüchler + Rita Marhaug + Anja Ibsch + Frank Homeyer + Fausto Gracia.
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“WAKE Festival is a three day festival of contemporary time-based/performance art in Folkestone (Kent), UK. The festival consists of four site specific, durational works which unfold in and around Folkestone, across the 8th, 9th & 10th of September. In addition to the site based works, each evening (7pm-10pm) a more condense series of performances take place at ]performance s p a c e [ (62 Tontine St.) on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday evenings.”
Sites:
2017
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2017
Kira O’Reilly is a Helsinki based artist, her practice, both wilully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. But she is no longer sure if she even does that anymore. Her art practice arcs across several contexts from art, science and technology to performance, live art and movement work.
Dominic Thrope is an Irish visual artist originally from Newbridge. He has shown work widely internationally and in Irleand, including at the irish Museum of Modern Art, Bangkok Cultural Centre Thailand, Xiamen University China, SASA Gallery Adelaide Australia, Temple Bar Gallery and the Galway Arts Centre. In 2014/15 he was the first artist in residence at the humanities department of University College Dublin.
Hancock & Kelly is the collaborative project of artists Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly. Since 2001, they have collaborated on a series of works questioning and provoking the gaps between subjects. Issues of materiality, value, and embodied knowledge have been pivotal to the complex critical and aesthetic dialogues they undertake.
Carlos Martiel (born 1989, Havana). He lives and works in New York and Havana. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana, 2009. Between the years 2008-2010, he studied in the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, directed by the artist Tania Bruguera. Martiel’s works have been included in: 57th Venice Biennale, Benice, Italy; Casablanca Biennale, Casablanca, Morocco; Biennial “La Otra”, Bogotá, Colombia; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Friday Evening:
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2017
Fausto Gracia - Performance art is for me a way to have a more realistic touch to everyday life and actions that are outside the structures of conventional life. One line of research of my projects has been the violance as a generator of encounters and focus areas. I believe the practice of art has the ability to deconstruct situations hegemonic realities in different ways, I think that art in itself, aware and responsible, is a tool for social and cultural action on the current discourse.
Frank Homeyer - I develop my performance like a picture. Beginning with an idea or a subject I distribute the different elements in space and connect them with time to shape the performance. It is important for me to include autobiographical references and to leave an opening for change and improvisation in the process.
Anja Ibsch - In her work, Anja Ibsch characteristically tests her bodily limits, creating images that combine conceptual concerns with tasks of endurance or physical strength. For the audience, these images work to transform the way we view or understand the performer’s physical identity. Ibsch creates her work in response to the circumstances that present themselves, adapting to local environments and situations.
Frank Homeyer - I develop my performance like a picture. Beginning with an idea or a subject I distribute the different elements in space and connect them with time to shape the performance. It is important for me to include autobiographical references and to leave an opening for change and improvisation in the process.
Anja Ibsch - In her work, Anja Ibsch characteristically tests her bodily limits, creating images that combine conceptual concerns with tasks of endurance or physical strength. For the audience, these images work to transform the way we view or understand the performer’s physical identity. Ibsch creates her work in response to the circumstances that present themselves, adapting to local environments and situations.
Saturday Evening:
2017
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Surya Tüchler photographed by Paul Samuel White.
Saturday Evening:
2017
Rita Marhaug (1965) lives in Bergen. She holds a MA in Fine Art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design, KHIB (1989) and a BA in Art History from the University of Bergen, UiB (1996). Until July 2013 she was engaged as professor at KHIB, Department of Fine Art. Important tools of expression are printmaking, drawings, photography, artist books, video and perforamnce. Marhaug’s approach to performance is through the everyday language of the body and its physical dimensions.
Surya Tüchler develops her live performances site-specifically to the given context and focus to formal links to the environment. Materials are her starting point - covering and masking are her artistic tool. By connecting her body with natural materials she explores animalistic sides of her personality and physicality. Her way of climbing, moving and gazing communicates the quality of an unknown creature. Images emerge that oscillate between beauty and disgust.
Local Foreigner emerged in 2015 as a potential bridge across borders: between ways of being, lands and modes of relating to others. I’m interested in the potency of life, its intensity and resonance towards less oppressed and violent relationships. Merging trans-Shamanic-techno-folk, oral traditions, sounds, clothing and installation to create situations that can generate alternative views and feelings of collective life.
Emilio Rojas my most recent body of work deals with cultural hybridity, re-enactment, border trauma, tattoos as aesthetic wounds, decolonial de-linking, and survivorship. The work combines rigorous theoretical and historial inquiry, site specificity, and studio-based research practice. The work resulting from these inquiries innovatively combines performance, video, installation, stop motion, sculpture, workshops, drawing, writing and photography.
Sunday Evening:
2017
Esther Neff photographed by Paul Samuel White.
Lala Nomada photographed by Paul Samuel White.
selina bonelli photographed by Paul Samuel White.
Sunday Evening:
2017
selina bonelli - memory as the trace of the poetic within the words that distract us: I look at the memory and trauma - how it is processed by the body and how we make sense of it. By making images in the moment, I employ performance to explore the relationship between the incommunicable and the unspeakable. I am interested in the processing of anxieties where one reformulates them into motions and actions as a possibility of teasing out the inadequacies of language.
Lala Nomada’s work process is based on the creation of ephemeral sculptural during her performances, which themselves do not just focus in the construction of the figure itself, yet also in the qualities of the analyzed situation/material, transmitting to the audience not just an image but also the interest on her contition and the material qualities, its sounds, weight, flavour and textures. Lala puts all her senses into the perception of the audience.
Esther Neff is the founder of Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), a performative thinktank, collective making “operas of operations” and public site for live art in Brooklyn, NY.
2017
RCA Group Action at ]ps[
2017
Ash McNaughton + Ro Hardaker + Matt Mahony-Page + Helen Davison + selina bonelli
A group of RCA graduates were invited to occupy the ]ps[ folkestone site. They present a group action across multiple hours.
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Matt Mahony Page, photographer credit pending.
Helen Davison, photographer credit pending.
Ash McNaughton, photographer credit pending.
Ro Hardaker, photographer credit pending.
2016
Drawn
2016
Charlotte Law + Vela Oma + Dani d’Emilia + Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro + Keijaun Thomas + Poppy Jackson
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“A week long exhibition of durational performance art examining place & identity. The program couples 6 international artists with 6 hyper-local materials; Stone, Water, Salt, Wood, Blood & Earth, across 6 venues in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter. Located at the shore of the English Channel & mouth of the Channel tunnel; DRAWN invites audiences (local & International) to consider how we relate to one another - across difference & beyond borders - through the environments we inhabit. Each artist explored their given material for 6 hours each day, for 6 days.
How does one belong to a place?
How much of (one) self is bound up in (an)other?
Where are the lines drawn?
DRAWN is a physical & emotional exploration of the surpluses and deficits we encounter when considering identity & place. An exercise in how we locate ourselves; physically, geographically & emotionally. This exhibition seeks to problematize identity in relation to geo-specificity by employing materials that are both site specific & universal. Working with local & international artists, DRAWN explicitly questions how bodies lay claim to objects & zones as elements within the construction of identity by collapsing dialectic relationships such as here/there, self/other, now/then, object/relation.”
STONE
Dani d'Emilia
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A transfeminist Italo-Brazilian performance artist and pedagogue working internationally across performance, theatre and visual arts projects. She is a core member of the trans-national performance collective La Pocha Nostra (USA/MX), the art-life performance duo Proyecto Inmiscuir (ES/MX) and the immersive theatre company Living Structures (UK). Her work combines artistic strategies and physical training with discourses stemming from transfeminism, queer/cuir theory and decolonial critique, focusing on the body as a site/situation for encountering and negotiating intersecting and often contradictory notions of identity, difference and desire. She is interested in performance practice and radical tenderness as landscapes for pedagogical processes of unlearning, modes of embodied co-production of critical knowledge, radical imagination and political agency through affective alliances and languages that go beyond rational and discursive realms. Her artistic training includes a BA in Devised Theatre and Visual Arts Practices from Dartington College of Arts (Devon, UK); Diploma in Mime & Physical Theatre from the Desmond Jones School (London, UK) and independent training in Devised, Physical & Anthropological Theatre, Performance and Visual Arts practices as well as physical tecnhiques such as Suzuki, Yoga, Butoh, Acrobatics, Contemporary Dance, Authentic Movement, Martial Arts, etc. After recently teaching and studying in the MA Independent Studies Program directed by Paul B. Preciado in MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona) and furthering her research within the Literary and Cultural Studies MA program of the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Dani is now based in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Dani has taught and presented work in various institutional and autonomous spaces in Latin America, Europe, United States and Canada.
WATER
Poppy Jackson
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Poppy Jackson makes actionist work exploring the female body as an autonomous zone. Her practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and live performance. She is interested in the innate performativity of the body and explores this through presenting her own body itself as site. A graduate of Dartington College of the Arts & Goldsmiths University, Poppy has been supported by Arts Council England and the British Council and presented her work internationally. Other strands of her artistic practice include the curation of events, facilitation of professional development projects and management of artists networks, fostering community and collaboration across boundaries.
SALT
Vela Oma
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(Mexico/USA) is a practitioner of collaboration, surreal instincts and intuitive temporal distortion. He enjoys transforming & amalgamating modern and ancient energies into a new unknown universal existence. Since 1994 Vela has been actively collaborating with many artists as well as having an established curatorial and solo career both nationally, internationally and in the World Wide Web. Oma believes in magnifying the energy of time, space, objects and actions while blending subconscious with spirit and allowing the unknown to present itself.
WOOD
Keijaun Thomas
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Keijaun Thomas ( New York City/ USA) creates live performance and multimedia installations that oscillate between movement and materials that function as tools, objects and structures, as well as a visual language that can be read, observed, and repeated within spatial, temporal, and sensorial environments. Her work investigates the histories, symbols, and images that construct notions of Black identity within black personhood. Thomas examines, deconstructs, and reconstructs notions of visibility, hyper-visibility, passing, trespassing, eroticized, and marginalized representations of the black body in relation to disposable labor, domestic service, and notions of thingness amongst materials addressing blackness outside of a codependent, binary structure of existence. Thomas earned their Masters degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thomas has shown work nationally and internationally in Los Angeles, CA; Portland, OR; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Miami, FL; and Taipei, Taiwan; Paris, France; Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; Saskatchewan and Vancouver, Canada and the United Kingdom.
2014/15
PERFORMANCE ART FACTION
PERFORMANCE ART FACTION
2014/15
Hugh O’Donnell + Kris Grey + Amber Hawk Swanson + Carlos Salazar + Aliza Shvarts + Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. + Burmester & Feigl + Panoply Lab + Owen Parry + Jade Montserrat + Fabiola Paz + Arianna Ferarri + María José Ajorna + prAxis Artist + S.O.S. Artists
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“We’re not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.’ - Red Army Faction.
There have always been discordant voices. Factions. Alternative currents of thought, feeling and action not willing to be swept along with mass consensus. In every geography, across time, such alternatives to now have persistently carved out space (via what ever means possible) where a change in direction and other ways of being have been enacted. Lived. Yet those factions, by definition; small, organised dissenting groups within a larger whole, need not be understood as in opposition to, yet could be rather acknowledged as interruptions of overarching narratives. Interruption is not opposition. It does not act in the binary relation to other. Interruption is not an outside to an inside, it works precisely from within to crack open, explode and create voids that may be occupied (or not) in other ways - with something else.
Performance Art Faction (P.A.F.) was a 9 month, holistic project exploring the intersections of contemporary performance art, politics & society with the aim of reawakening the innate political potential of our bodies. The project consisted of: Self Organising Space (SOS), Soap Box Sessions, prAxis & P.A.F. Occupations.”
Self Organising Space (SOS)
2014/15
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“Self Organising Space (SOS): an open platform insisting upon cooperation in order to obtain the most beneficial outcome for all. The platform is a sign-up event designed to afford artists the opportunity to enact agency over the display of their work, while learning to navigate group dynamics in an exhibition context.”
Soap Box Sessions
2014/15
Hugh O’Donnell + Kris Grey + Amber Hawk Swanson + Carlos Salazar + Aliza Shvarts + Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. + Burmester & Feigl + Panoply Lab + Owen Parry.
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“Soap Box Sessions: a series of curated events examining contemporary performance art, what it has to say, how it is said & why. Each session, three invited artists discuss & present their work in dialogue with each other and in relation to timely thematics; Gender, Alternatives to Now & Directing Actions.”
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prAxis
2014/15
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“prAxis is a live & web based (twitter & tumblr) research laboratory at the intersections of visual-performance, critical research & political action.”
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P.A.F. Occupations
2014/15
Jade Montserrat + Fabiola Paz + Arianna Ferarri + María José Ajorna
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“PAF Occupations: The occupations are PAF’s residency element, hosting two duo’s of creatives for a period of 3 months, culminating with a programme of live exhibition. In addition, each Occupation will include a digital residency via tumblr.”
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2014
Fabiola Paz
Fabiola Paz
2014
Fabiola Paz
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“On the final evening in our Hackney Wick space - after we have fix the building up, painted the floor and walls and arranged a final inspection and key exchaneg with the land lord for the following morning - Fabiola Paz occupied the site filling an otherwise (physically) empty building with their presence, action and paper sculptures.”
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2014
PORNOTERRORISMO (Diana J. Torres) in collaboration with Martin O'Brien
PORNOTERRORISMO (Diana J. Torres) in collaboration with Martin O'Brien
2014
2014
]performance o p e n [
]performance o p e n [
2014
Swan Wharf, Hackney Wick
]performance o p e n[’s are an ‘open mic night’ for performance artists. Non-curated, artists turn up and test out new works, old works, works in progress or what ever they need to make happen...
]performance o p e n[’s are an ‘open mic night’ for performance artists. Non-curated, artists turn up and test out new works, old works, works in progress or what ever they need to make happen...
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2013
]performance e c o n o m i e s [
2013
Poppy Jackson + Nina Arsenault + Nathan Walker + Klara Schilliger +Valerian Maly + Leo Devlin + Benjamin Sebastian + Bean + Mara Vujić + Jurgen Fritz + Dominik Lipp + Valentina Chirita + Leja Jurisic + Teja Reba + Christopher Mollen + Lindsay Tunnel + Victoria Grey + Teena Lange + Owen Parry + Robin Bale + Dolanbay + Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn + Evamaria Schaller + Marita Bullmann + Brian Patterson + Brian Connolly + Laura Graham + Boris Nieslony + Dani Ploeger + and Fabiola Paz
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]performanc e x c h a n g e [ I
2013
Jurgen Fritz + Dominik Lipp + Valentina Chirita + Benjamin Sebastian & Poppy Jackson + Leja Jurisic & Teja Reba
City Of Women + ]ps[ + International Performance Association (IPA)
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Dominik Lipp photographed by Marco Berardi.
Jurgen Fritz photographed by Marco Berardi.
Valentina Chirita photographed by Marco Berardi.
Leja Jurisic & Teja Reba photographed by Marco Berardi.
Poppy Jackson & Benjamin Sebastian photographed by Marco Berardi.
]performanc e x c h a n g e [ II
2013
Evamaria Schaller + Marita Bullmann + Brian Patterson + Brian Connolly + Laura Graham + Boris Neislony + Dani Ploger + Fabiolaz Paz + Bean
PAERSCHE + Bbeyond + ]ps[
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PAERSCHE + Bbeyond + ]ps[
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]performanc e x c h a n g e [ III
2013
Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn + Christopher Mollon + Nathan Walker + Lindsay Tunkl Victoria Gray + Teena Lange + Owen Parry + Robin Bale + Dolanbay
grüntaler9 + OUI performance + ]ps[
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grüntaler9 + OUI performance + ]ps[
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In Conversation: aGender
2013
Poppy Jackson + Nina Arsenault
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“The duo of artists enagged in an online residency (tumblr; link above) for two months and then a in-person residency for 1 week at ]ps[.”
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“The duo of artists enagged in an online residency (tumblr; link above) for two months and then a in-person residency for 1 week at ]ps[.”
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2013
Draw to Perform - Ram Samocha
Draw to Perform - Ram Samocha
2013
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“The first Draw to Perform symposium curated by artist Ram Samocha took place in London on the 5, 6 and 7 of December 2013 and hosted by and Arebyte Gallery. This symposium aimed to promote the growing stream of live drawing performance, to distinguish it as a unique entity and allow it to rise from the eclectic, wider definition of performance art. The participating artists all considered their body of work to be fundamentally concerned with drawing, in that for them drawing connects elements of line, movement, space and time.
In their practice, mark-making is often a result of gesture and body movement. For some, drawing is rather conceived as installation, video, performance, painting, writing and animation. Many of the participating artists were interested in exploring idea of trace as memory and in connection to temporality. Others were focused on the physical and sensorial experience of drawing, either in relation to human body proportions or to physical exercise.”
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2013
UNTOUCHABLE at the Flying Dutchman
2013
Dani Ploeger + Kimberley Emeny +DUG (Ross Oliver, Joana Cifre-Creda and Kate Buckley)
Season Butler + Verity Combe + Laura Dee Milnes + Elenor Hellis + Lorena Lo Pena,
Valeria Tello Giusti + Bruno Humberto & Abraham Winterstein +
Fabiola Paz & Annalaura Alifuoco + Samuel Kennedy + Liz Sandford Richardson + E-SCIENCE
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“UNTOUCHABLE is a platform for performance, installation, music and art curated by Franko B and hosted by The Flying Dutchman. June’s edition of UNTOUCHABLE see’s performance/Live Art guest curated by ]performance s p a c e [ as the event acts as the conculsion to the I <3 ]ps[ fundraising campaign. In addiction to this there is a visual art curated by Franko B, live music from At Night We Cry (Italy) and Revelator (UK) and a DJ set by Franko B and DJ MU to finish the night.”
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2013
Ritually Reading & Researching
2013
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“RRR was an experimental research laboratory, where durational visual-performance processes meet critical research methodologies. Across 12 hours (8 pm - 8 am) participants moved between ]ps[ (Hamlet Industrial Estate, Hackney Wick) and the Live Art Development Agency's Study Room (White Building, Hackney Wick) - on the hour, every hour, for 12 hours - unpacking peer chosen texts (in the broadest interpretation of the term) responding through collaborative performance processes, installation, text and audio. RRR occurred 4 times across the space of 3 years in Hackney Wick).
(This project was inspired by Li E Chen's 24 hours in Dreams campaign in which ]ps[ directors Bean & Benjamin Sebastian (together with Li) worked over a 24-hour duration, discussing, making, unmaking thinking and feeling).”
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(This project was inspired by Li E Chen's 24 hours in Dreams campaign in which ]ps[ directors Bean & Benjamin Sebastian (together with Li) worked over a 24-hour duration, discussing, making, unmaking thinking and feeling).”
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2013
MayDay: VestAndPage workshops
MayDay: VestAndPage workshops
2013
Vest And Page + Participants
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“MayDay is an 8-day intensive workshop on the praxis of performance art, following performance artist duo VestAndPage's method through the process of making a performative piece. During the practical exercises, under various conditions, the participants are provided with means to conceive, develop and realize a performance, mainly only using their own body as a tool:
• To exercise and research on a changing daily basis.
• To work towards touching point zero in perception, introspection, judgement (on oneself and on others) and intention, to then rebuild a new way of authenticity-based perception and expression, for finally transforming visions and ideas into concrete artistic action.
• To take distance from merely being virtuous by establishing, evaluating, and energizing the personal action in situ.
• To free oneself from common behavioural patterns so as to create new ways of encountering, collaborating and living.
• To overcome the fragile constituent limits, may they be based on physicality, fears or social patterns.
• To touch and strengthen the most human inner sensors in order to activate personal and universal memories, for use as a germinal matter for future artistic substance.
Actions and exercises are innovative but inspired by Dynamic Breathing, Social Theatre, Living Theatre, Macro and Micro Spherology, Inner Library, Liminality, Archetypes, Rituality, Memory activation, Body-Space-Object, Time-Duration-Rhythm, Voice/Sound, Emotional Atmosphere, Inter-activity. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and artistic sensitivity to conceive a final, individual performance. Final Group Performance includes artists such as; Bean, Charlotte Wendy Law, Francesca Lisette, Ria Righteous to mention but a few.”
VESTANDPAGE: German artist and dancer Verena Stenke and Venetian artist, writer and curator Andrea Pagnes have been working together under the name of VestAndPage in Performance art, filmmaking, writing and as independent curators since 2006. They are experienced workshop leaders and facilitators for students, art professionals from different backgrounds and non-art participants, either normally endowed or differently abled, of any age. They have been invited to hold practical workshops, research lectures and teachings in institutions worldwide such as Centre for Community Cultural Development and Lingnan University (Hong Kong), UNEARTE Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes (Caracas), Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), Universidad Austral (Valdivia, Chile), University of Fine Arts and Theatre (Santiago, Chile), EMBA (Buenos Aires), Alumnos47 Foundation (Mexico City), TeaK Theatre Academy (Helsinki), Seoul Art Space (Seoul), The Substation (Singapore), BITEF Theatre (Belgrade), NYU Steinhardt School of Culture (Venice/New York), Social Theatre Academy IsoleComprese (Florence) among others.
2013
]performance s a l o n s [
2013
Zierle Carter + Daniel Lackey + AMAE +
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“]performance s a l o n s [ - was an opportunity to show documentation, performance, research & critically discuss the work and that of others. Each salon was led by an invited artist and then opened up into a general ‘show & tell’ where anyone could present work and engage a critical audience. Artists were invited to present work in any format appropriate to their practice. Salons included actions, performance lectures, film & print exhibitions and installation works. The sessions gave audiences in-depth insight into artists' methodologies & work and gave artists an opportunity to discuss their work with peers in a professional context. The ]performance s a l o n s [ ran throughout 2012 & 2013 and evolved into The Soap Box Sessions (SBS) in 2014.”
Zierle Carter photogrpahed by Marco Berardi.
Daniel Lackey photogrpahed by Marco Berardi.
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2013
I ♥️ ]ps[
2013
Benjamin Sebastian + Bean, Poppy Jackson + Paul Hurley + Colm Clarke + Soozie Roberts + Sebastian Hau-Walker
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“I ♥️ ]ps[ was a fundraising event in 2013 to enable ]performance s p a c e ['s continued rental of their 1st site at Hamlet Industrial Estate in Hackney Wick. I ♥️ ]ps[ included workshops from Julia Bardsley, Kira O'Reilly & Jamie Lewis Hadley - as well as a group performance (for donors).”
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2012
Potentials of Performance
Potentials of Performance
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“Potentials of Performance was the third themed year of Performance Matters... which culminated in P o P, a public programme of hands-on performance research across three venues in Hackney Wick (in cluding ]performance s p a c e [), London, 26-27 October 2012. Potentials of Performance centred around a series of commissioned Dialogue Projects by Associate Researchers, which were then staged during P o P through innovative workshops, chat shows, round-tables, lectures, screenings, installations, performances, and a Materials Room. P o P also included staged responses from respondents working across the creative and critical fields of performance, and an evening programme of events by special guests. Complete video documentation of the event can be viewed at the Live Art Development Agency's Study Room, and at the British Library. Following Performing Idea (2009/2010) and Trashing Performance(2010/2011), Potentials of Performance (2011/12) focused on performance's emergent and unrealised potential: what does performance hold in store in its present-day testing of the limits of the social, the cultural, the vital and the critical? What lies latent within and around performance? What is waiting to be realised, developed, and made legible?”
Plastique Fantastique. Photographer credit pending.
2012
]ps[ summer residency
]ps[ summer residency
2011
Ania Jochymek + Noëmi Lakmaier + Sergio Racanati + Marta Frank + Alicia Radage + Arianna Ferrari + Lauren Brown + Season Butler + Barnaby Lambert + Jess Rose + Ian Whitford + Sofia Misma + Karolina Kubik
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“]performance s p a c e [’s Summer Residency programme culminates with a day of performance art and time-based work created by the 13 international artists taking part. Throughout August the eclectic group of artists have been living and working together in a warehouse space in Hackney, opposite the Olympic Park. The resulting work is a mix of video, sound, installation, participatory and performance works, covering a range of social, political and aesthetic themes.”
]ps[ Summer Residency Programme Flyer, Season Butler, Ian Whitford, Karolina Kubik and Sebastian Hau-Walker & Alicia Radage. Flyer/Photographer credits pending.
Routing - summer residency performance research - Sebastian Hau-Walker, Alicia Radage & Noëmi Lakmaier. Videographer credit pending.
2012
Alastair MacLennan Workshop
Alastair MacLennan Workshop
2012
Alastair MacLennan + Andre Braga Verissimo + Charlotte Wendy Law + Robin Bale + Sebastian Hau-Walker & others
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“LIFE & ART, HERE & NOW - PERFORMANCE PLATFORM - SUNDAY 23RD SEPT. Following a week long workshop with Alastair MacLennan. Participants will present solo and open group performance”
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2012
Martin O’Brien
Regimes of Hardship: I, II & III
(Illness & the Enduring Body)
2012
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“Martin O'Brien was Artist in Residence at ]performance s p a c e [ between January and June 2012. Martin used the residency period to realise the project Regimes of Hardship: Illness & The Enduring Body.
Regimes of Hardship was a practice as research project consisting of three performance installations taking place over a three month period at ]performance s p a c e [. In the year of the London Olympic Games O’Brien uses endurance in order to examine and challenge contemporary ideologies of health and illness and how this relates to the social construction of medicine and the body. The three installation-performances will examine the ways in which self-imposed endurance could act as a personal pathological resistance to illness. Regimes of Hardship attempts to communicate, interrogate and extend discourses around the body and medicine including areas such as pain and discipline within the medical regime, health and illness, the medical and art gaze and issues of embodiment.”
Regimes of Hardship: I
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Regimes of Hardship: II
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Regimes of Hardship: III (Illness & the Enduring Body)
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“To conclude his residency Martin curated a one-day symposium addressing issues surrounding Illness and the enduring body within performance. The Symposium consisted of 3 panels of speakers followed by a final open discussion. Contributors included artists & academics from performance, sociology and medical science. The symposium considered ways in which the body has been conceived and represented within both art and medicine. Offering various perspectives on the ways in which the medicalised body and bio-scientific practices have been appropriated within performance, physical endurance and pain within art and medicine, and ethics and the human body. The speakers addressed the limits of human corporeality and how artists have worked with their own biological matter, placing their bodies under duress, in order to communicate and in doing so have challenged contemporary ideologies around the body. Illness & The Enduring Body payed particular attention to the ways in which artists have engaged with issues around medicine, illness and the enduring body.
Panel 1: Dr Gianna Bouchard (Principal lecturer in performance at Anglia Ruskin), Dr Sarah Wilson, Dani Ploeger (studio artist at ]performance s p a c e[ & Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Arts at Brunel University London)
Panel 2 (video recording above): Lois Keidan (Director Live Art Development Agency), Sheree Rose, Ron Athey, Franko B
Panel 3: Martin O'Brien & Dr. Karen Lowton (Medical sociologist senior lecturer King's College London), Rita Marcalo & Georgia Testa (Bio-Ethicist, University of Leeds), Michael Mayhew & Tuheen Huda”
“To conclude his residency Martin curated a one-day symposium addressing issues surrounding Illness and the enduring body within performance. The Symposium consisted of 3 panels of speakers followed by a final open discussion. Contributors included artists & academics from performance, sociology and medical science. The symposium considered ways in which the body has been conceived and represented within both art and medicine. Offering various perspectives on the ways in which the medicalised body and bio-scientific practices have been appropriated within performance, physical endurance and pain within art and medicine, and ethics and the human body. The speakers addressed the limits of human corporeality and how artists have worked with their own biological matter, placing their bodies under duress, in order to communicate and in doing so have challenged contemporary ideologies around the body. Illness & The Enduring Body payed particular attention to the ways in which artists have engaged with issues around medicine, illness and the enduring body.
Panel 1: Dr Gianna Bouchard (Principal lecturer in performance at Anglia Ruskin), Dr Sarah Wilson, Dani Ploeger (studio artist at ]performance s p a c e[ & Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Arts at Brunel University London)
Panel 2 (video recording above): Lois Keidan (Director Live Art Development Agency), Sheree Rose, Ron Athey, Franko B
Panel 3: Martin O'Brien & Dr. Karen Lowton (Medical sociologist senior lecturer King's College London), Rita Marcalo & Georgia Testa (Bio-Ethicist, University of Leeds), Michael Mayhew & Tuheen Huda”
2012
Aliens In New York
2012
Benjamin Sebastian + Bean + Poppy Jackson + Martin O’Brien
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“Alien(s) In New York : A 3-Day Mini Festival
Guest Curators, Bean & Benjamin Sebastian of ]performance s p a c e [ - London, will launch the 2012 Fall program of Grace Exhibition Space with a three day performance event taking place across the 7th(Fri.), 8th(Sat.) & 9th(Sun.) of September. This three day mini performance festival; Alien(s) in New York, will platform some of the most dynamic contemporary time-based and performance art practitioners from around the world.
Confirmed artists included: Bean (UK), Benjamin Sebastian (UK/AUS), Martin O’Brien (UK), Poppy Jackson (UK/IRE), & Jordan Wayne Long (USA). The event will platform both durational performance practice and Group Action work from invited artists; interrogating time, space & the body through contemporary visual performance.
Friday September 7th: 8pm-11pm - Group Action - Bean, Poppy Jackson and Benjamin Sebastian
Saturday September 8th: 6pm-11pm - Durational Performances by: Jordan Wayne Long, Benjamin Sebastian & Poppy Jackson
Sunday September 9th: 12pm onward - Showcasing durational work by Martin O'Brien and Bean.”
Poppy Jackson - WIN as part of Aliens in New York at Grace Exhibition Space. 2012.
Photographer credit pending.
“As I entered, I was forced to move through a narrow passage, between wall and counter. I instantly felt controlled and manipulated. The layout of the room channeled me towards you – naked, cornered, inverted. Supporting your body weight through your neck and shoulders, your arms flowing out across the floor. You looked to have been thrown there. Your thighs where I expected to view your shoulders, feet in place of head. Legs splayed wide apart, a tatty homemade sign was inserted into your vagina (it read WIN – a digital copy taken from documentation of the target you had worn on your chest). In one hand you held a small blade and in the other, a handful of gold leaf, spilling, floating out with air currents in the room....”
Excerpt from “a letter to Poppy (Miracle) Jackson (on the occasion of Aliens in New York)” - Benjamin Sebastian
︎︎︎ read the full essay HERE
︎︎︎ read the full essay HERE
(Excerpt) Aliens In New York - Group Performance: Benjamin Sebastian. Videographer credit pending.
2012
Labour
2012
Anne Quail + Elvira Santamaria Torres + Amanda Coogan + Pauline Cummins + Ann Maria Healy + Chrissie Cadman + Frances Mezzeti + Áine O’Dwyer + Áine Phillips + Helena Walsh + Michelle Browne
(original copy from Labour)
“LABOUR is a touring exhibition of Live Art, featuring eleven leading female artists who are resident within, or native to, Northern and Southern Ireland. LABOUR offers audiences unprecedented access to a huge body of live performance work by some of the most radical and exciting women artists emerging from an Irish cultural context. LABOUR will launch in London, on the 9th and 10th of February, then tour to Derry/Londonderry (Feb 24th and 25th). The final exhibition and surrounding events will take place in Dublin on March 9th and 10th to coincide with International Women’s Day 2012.
LABOUR interrogates the gendered representational frameworks prevalent within an Irish cultural context, that produce, limit and devalue, various forms of female labour. In each durational exhibition participating artists will perform simultaneously for eight consecutive hours, reflecting the duration of an average working day. Set within the shadows of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries, LABOUR explores current shifts in the political and economic climate within an Irish cultural context. LABOUR was curated by Chrissie Cadman, Amanda Coogan & Helena Walsh and produced by Benjamin Sebastian of ]performance s p a c e [.”
Photography by Manuel Vason & Marco Berardi.
2012
REWOLTA/REBELIA
2011
Participating artist names pending
(original copy)
“REWOLTA/REBELIA at ]performance s p a c e [ A night of performance, live and video art from emerging artists based in Warsaw, Poland and London, UK. 1st March 6pm till Late [performance s p a c e [ 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN Transport: Overground: Hackney Wick Bus:26.30.276.388.488.UL1 E: info@performancespace.org T: 020 353 82 474”
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Karolina Kubik photographed by Marco Berardi.
Karolina Kubik photographed by Marco Berardi.
Theodoulos Polyviou photographed by Marco Berardi.
Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn photographed by Marco Berardi.
Sebastian Hau-Walker photographed by Marco Berardi.
image credit pending.
Kimberley Emeny photographed by Marco Berardi.
image credit pending.
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.”
Images & video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
video credits pending.
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.”
