Performance is present in many – maybe even all – artworks in some way, given that making is itself a performance. Here are three performative works I’ve liked recently:
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Mimetic food: how Heather Sincavage exposes trauma, and heals from it
Read my interview with Heather Sincavage. The performace artists employs food metaphoric properties (both symbolically and visually) to explore and explode trauma.
Continue Reading...Marroni-Ouanely playful performances teach us to fail, at PUBLIC Gallery
The Italian-French duo Marroni-Ouanely’s debut UK solo exhibition at PUBLIC Gallery is full of unorthodox imperfections. Sit back, smile, and enjoy.
Continue Reading...UPCOMING: The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice
The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice is an international group exhibition, curated by Ashley Middleton, featuring works from emerging and established artists.
Continue Reading...The art of dreaming, or how art can shape dreams
Last week Allegra Shorto launched a new program dedicated to the exploration of dreams through the lense of a wide range of artistic practices. The Freud Museum hosted the first experiment on May 25th
Continue Reading...LIMINALITY 2 (THE UNKNOWN) exploring new cross-disciplinary works in visual-sound-performance.
The second instalment in the LIMINALITY series, exploring new cross-disciplinary works in visual-sound-performance. Focusing on ‘the Unknown’ as a central theme, Liminality 2 includes artists and performers working across diverse practises, from film, installation, sculpture, live performance, drawing and printmaking.
Continue Reading...What’s Wrong With Art: Art Itself
Tabish Khan loves art and visits hundreds of exhibitions a year. But every now and then he comes across something in the art world that doesn’t meet his approval.
Continue Reading...FUCK YOU WHERES MY SUGER? – 4-5 August, Cafe Oto, London
Artists Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood have fomented a technique of combative curation that militates against against the normal pleasantries of social events.
Continue Reading...The Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
Peformance, bling, escapism, wooden assemblages, figures, colours, rococo, a headless policeman and colourful screens.
Continue Reading...Participate in Monica Ross’s Act of Memory at Venice Biennale
Venice Agendas is inviting visitors to participate in the recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of Monica Ross’ work Act of Memory. The performance will take place at 13:00h on Thursday 11 May at Scuola dei Calegheri, Campo San Toma, Venice this week at the opening of the 57th International Art Exhibition, […]
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