Join us for an evening of performance and film at Bermondsey Project Space, 183 – 185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW. Thursday 28 April 7 – 9pm.
The threat of World War Three, climate emergency, supply chain crisis, corporate malfeasance, and life contained in digital worlds. How do you make art in times like these? What does the art look like? What do relationships feel like? In an evening of audio-visual performance, spoken word and moving image, a group of international artists respond with four chairs, AI, Gas Hoods, brown paper bags and a gong.
Performances will start promptly at 7.05pm.
50% of ticket sales will be donated to IZOLYATSIA, an artist organisation in Ukraine: https://izolyatsia.org/en/help/ 🇺🇦 and 50% will support Bermondsey Project Space’s outreach fund working with local young people.
ALMA MATER – RCA Contemporary Art Practice graduates from 2021 and 2022.
Sergei Zinchuk, Adri São Bento, Heyse Ip, Sarra Grillo-Henry, Ziyi Zhu, Kevin Siwoff and Anita Marante, Weining Cai, Iona Mitchell, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Luis Tapia, Amy Wright, Catalina Correa, Louise Ørsted Jensen, Patrick O'Neill, xiaoyu1002.
Waiting Room | 12-27 November 2021
Treading tentatively across the threshold, fluorescent lights flicker overhead. A cursory glance at the address reveals that yes, you have arrived at the right location. The scene is mundane in its familiarity, not offering much in the way of amenities; a transient space identical to a thousand before it. Inside, there are others already waiting, the aseptic room betrays the collective urgency of the encounter, the unspoken risks, the apparent hope, the absolute horror. Still, nothing left to do but pull up a chair, grab a magazine, and wait for the intercom to call out your number. Do get comfortable, you might be here a while.
Waiting Room is a group exhibition featuring sculpture, moving image, performance, text and sound works by fourteen international artists. The exhibition theme is a response to the transitory nature of liminal spaces, the uncanny in-between that binds ‘what was’ to ‘what will be’.
Waiting Room artists
Amelie Mckee, Ma Baocheng, Melle Nieling, Louise Ørsted Jensen, Sergei Zinchuk, Alessandro Moroni, Elena Lo Presti, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Kevin Siwoff, Lulu Wang, Amy Wright, Iona Mitchell, Patrick O’Neill, Luis Tapia.
Take agency! We have a great opportunity! “The possibility of being transformed without being destroyed.” Reality is collapsing around us, tightening its grip on our vision and surrounding us on all sides. Now is the time.
Call it a sphere, a bubble, a biaxial ellipsoid. It is an irregular shape which both destroys and generates in equal measure and holds speculation, distortion, and prediction within it. It is total and global. Or call it a crystal ball; an orb of entrapping fascination. A threat of fixation, or the potential to emancipate. It’s translucent skin veils the illusion within, but as we polish, obsess, and peer ever deeper, our quest for transparency surprisingly turns out. The surface tension turns slack and the apparatus dissolves as our hands drop us beyond the barrier. The power of a story well told turns illusion into truth, and like an ancient sleight of hand, reality becomes elusive. But it is in the body and in the word where the final and most urgent battlefield is drawn. A human shaped hole in the fabric of our spherical universe.
Tongue of blade ‡ Ears of mud is a compilation of contemporary sound art featuring nine international artists who met during their studies at the Royal College of Art in London. A mix of spoken word and electronic music, the tracks included in this compilation explore themes of self and identity, alienation, political resistance, transgression, and the social contract. First edition released as a limited run of 50 cassettes, numbered on the double-sided 4-panel J-card. Every cassette is unique thanks to the colour variations of the recycled plastic body.
Original artwork and design by Faye Rita Robinson.Featuring tracks by Chloe Langlois, Anita Marante & Pedro Tavares, Amelie Mckee & Melle Nieling, Alessandro Moroni, Nexcyia, Louise Ørsted Jensen, Kevin Siwoff, Luis Tapia, Effy Harle & Finbar Prior.
