Fold and Stretch at SPACE

This Saturday 24 September at 4pm I am presenting Fold and Stretch at SPACE in London.

The performance was developed earlier this year for Site Gallery in Sheffield. Over four weeks (15 March – 9 April) I worked with Martha Brown, Founder and Head Baker at Forge Bakehouse in Sheffield and Leeds-based Choreographer Lucy Suggate to investigate the physicality of dough and its relationship to the body, movement and dance.

Please click here for more information and to book.

Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation

I'm really pleased to be a UK Associate Artist in residence at Delfina Foundation this summer 27/06/16 — 18/09/16.

Image: Laura Wilson, Fold and Stretch, 2016. Photo: Jules Lister.

Participants will include: Amy Franceschini (USA), Thomas Pausz (Iceland/France), Forager Collective (India), Fernando Garcia-Dory (Spain), Serkan Taycan (Turkey); Kathrin Böhm (UK), Chris Fite-Wassilak (UK/USA), Jane Levi (UK), Laura Wilson (UK) and more to be announced.

In summer 2016, Delfina Foundation’s The Politics of Food series will enter its third season. Since 2014, this programme has brought together over 70 artists, activists, anthropologists, agronomists, chefs, curators, scientists and writers from 32 countries through residencies, events and exhibitions. The first season in winter 2014 introduced a number of general environmental, economic and social concerns that have guided the overall programme, while the second season in spring 2015 specifically explored the relationship between food and three sub-themes: Sex, Diet & Disaster.
The Politics of Food: Markets and Movements will continue to deepen our investigation of this theme. Over twelve weeks, we will work with artists, curators and thinkers to investigate the production and distribution of food. We will explore complex and urgent issues including, but not limited to, agricultural labour and seasonal migration; developments in biotechnological food sciences; food sovereignty and heritage, from grains to recipes to production methods; how food features in radical collective political movements as well as the increase of individual consumer choice and its impact on the wider global food economy.

Contact: A Festival of New Experimental Film and video

I'm really pleased to be presenting a new performance next Sunday 8 May as part of Contact: A Festival of New Experimental Film and video at Apiary Studios curated by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne.

My new work entitled 800 lights in 177 years (2016) will be performed at 7.30pm.

Please find more information below and click here for the full schedule and to book tickets.

A festival of experimental film and video showing the work of over 70 UK based artists/ filmmakers, featuring single-screen films, multi-screen/performance-related works and site-specific installations..

Artists: Maria Anastassiou, Luke Aspell, Jenny Baines, Steven Ball and Martin Blažíček, Kerry Baldry, Oliver Bancroft, George Barber, Dan Brackenbury and Joe Gilmore, Ian Bourn, Savinder Bual, Marek Budzynski, Nick Collins, David Cunningham, Amy Dickson, Karel Doing, Malgorzata Drohomirecka, Louisa Fairclough, Patti Gaal-Holmes, Sally Golding and Spatial, Nicky Hamlyn, Bea Haut, Laura Hindmarsh, James Holcombe and Secluded Bronte, Riccardo Iacono, Jamie Jenkinson, Deniz Johns, Conor Kelly, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Adam Kossoff, Malcolm Le Grice, David Leister, Steve Littman, Lynn Loo, Juile Marsh, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Jennifer Nightingale, Matthew Noel-Tod, Jayne Parker and Joan Key, Simon Payne, Heather Phillipson, Gareth Polmeer, Greg Pope and Kostis Kilymis, William Raban, Karolina Raczynski and Anita Konarska, Samantha Rebello, Duncan Reekie, Lis Rhodes, Emily Richardson, Ben Rivers, Cathy Rogers, Guy Sherwin, John Smith, Vicky Smith, Mary Stark, Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith, Anna Thew, Jennet Thomas, Andrew Vallance, Mark Watson, Ian Wiblin, Laura Wilson, Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
Accompanied by a publication including discussion pieces by Luke Aspell and collectiv-iz (on collective practices), Sally Golding, James Holcombe and Cathy Rogers (on different manifestations of contemporary expanded cinema), and short essays by Maria Palacios Cruz (LUX, Deputy Director), William Fowler (BFI, curator of artists’ moving image) and Nicky Hamlyn (filmmaker and writer), plus the complete listings.
The Contact festival is programmed by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne.

Photos from Fold and Stretch at Site Gallery

Please find below a selection of images from Fold and Stretch at Site Gallery on Saturday 9 April, 4pm. Thanks to Martha Brown, Lucy Suggate, Kirsty Arnold, Hannah Buckley, the the team at Site Gallery and all who came along.

Photos: Tim Dennell

 

 

Fold and Stretch at Site Gallery

I'm in Sheffield for the next few weeks developing a new work entitled Fold and Stretch at Site Gallery, 15 March - 9 April. If you are up this way, do pop by and say hello.

For the residency I am bringing together dancers and bread bakers to investigate the physicality of dough and its relationship to the body, movement and dance. Working alongside Martha Brown, Founder and Head Baker at Forge Bakehouse in Sheffield, and Leeds-based Choreographer Lucy Suggate, I am staging a series of rehearsals in the gallery, while working towards the completion of a new video work and final performance on Saturday 9 April, 4pm (click here to book).

Images from Brick Project at RIBA

Thanks to all who came to hear me talk about bricks at RIBA London on Tuesday 8 March, please click here for some images from the evening.

 Photo: Joanna Brinton

Brick Project at RIBA

I'm looking forward to presenting Brick Project as part of the public programme for the exhibition Creation from Catastrophe at RIBA, London on Tuesday 8 March, 7pm. For more information click here.