performingborders Screenings and Long Table Conversation
performingborders: Body, Politics & Live Art
Left: Film stills from Lynn Lu’s performance to camera ‘Amnion’ (December 2021), Right: Courtesy of Tara Fatehi Irani
Join us for a screening of performances-to-camera from the performingborders archive.
We will screen AMNION (2021) by Lynn Lu, A place to sit by Tara Fatehi (2021) & RE:seeding, in correspondence (2020) by Jade Montserrat, followed by a Long Table performance, through which we’ll unpack and discuss the work and its themes.
The Long Table is a participatory performance created by artist Lois Weaver, to help facilitate non-hierarchical conversations around a table. We will use this tool in the event to host a discussion session with all those in attendance.
BSL interpretation and refreshments will be provided.
Please note that this event is two hours long.
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Body Politics
Public Programme
Screenings
AMNION (2021) by Lynn Lu
This work thinks through hydrofeminism and reflects on water as an agent that connects all watery bodies - living, creature, hydrogeological and meteorological. In this work, Lu considers the relationship between water, life-giving, and menopause as liquid processes of change
a place to sit (2021) by Tara Fatehi
In this performative reflection, many voices speak through Tara’s movement and narration as we follow stories of borders from three Afghan women - Bibi Gol Azad, Fatema Tavasoli, Nazari - and considers the felt experience of borders, moving through time, the body and memory.
RE:seeding, in correspondence (2020) by Jade Montserrat
This performance-to-camera suggests that there is a connection between ourselves and the earth and that this line, or connection, like our communications with one another, is drawing. Developed with film-makers Webb-Ellis, Jade seeks to visualise these exchanges of energy, the lines, the communications, and with that, consider, maybe on a global scale, stewarding of our spaces.
£5 Young Barbican tickets
Artists
Lynn Lu (PhD, AFHEA) is a visual artist from Singapore, trained in the US, France, Japan, and Australia. Her multidisciplinary practice revolves around participation and collaboration, context and site specificity, and the poetics of absurdity. Engaging vigorously with the present reality of all that is here-and-now, the meaning of her works often manifests in the resonant relationships created between herself and her audience, and between the audience themselves. Lynn lives and works between Singapore and London. She is a Visiting Artist at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, Associate Lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and Associate Artist at ]performance s p a c e [.
Tara Fatehi (from Tehran, based in London) works with performance, writing, movement, video and voice. Her work engages with ambiguity, playfulness, mistranslation, disjunction, fragmentation and unfinishedness. Her recent works include Mishandled Archive, dispersing 365 fragments of family documents through dance and photography; Always Already, an 8-hour duet performance with Karen Christopher; From the Lips to the Moon, a night of experimental music and poetry in London with Pouya Ehsaei. She has recently performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, Nuffield Theatre, Chapter, Juli Danse and Montpelier Danse. Her book Mishandled Archive was published in 2020 (London, LADA). In 2021, Tara was the first ever resident artist at the United Nations Archives at Geneva.
Jade Montserrat was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship supporting her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR, UCLan, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark. Jade’s Rainbow Tribe project – a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from the perspective of the Black Diaspora is central to the ways she is producing a body of work, including No Need For Clothing and its iterations, as well as her performance work Revue. Jade was commissioned to present Revue as a 24 hour live performance at SPILL Festival of Performance, October 2018, a solo exhibition at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, (November – March 2019) which toured to Humber Street Gallery (July – September 2019) and was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover.
In 2020, Iniva and Manchester Art Gallery commissioned Jade as the first artist for the Future Collect project, with a solo exhibition Constellations: Care and Resistance at Manchester Art Gallery (2020 – 2022). In 2021, Jade participated in a group exhibition titled An Infinity of Traces at Lisson Gallery, and opened a solo exhibition titled In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens at Bosse & Baum Gallery, both in London. In 2022, Jade was included in the group exhibition Body Vessel Clay (curated by Dr. Jareh Das) at Two Temple Place, which travelled to York Art Gallery.
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