Drawn
2016
]performance s p a c e [ (Folkestone)
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ABOUT:
DRAWN was a week long exhibition of durational performance art examining place & identity. The program coupled six international artists with six hyper-local materials; stone, water, salt, wood, blood & earth, across six venues in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter. Located at the shore of the English Channel & mouth of the Channel tunnel, DRAWN invited audiences to consider how we relate to one another - across difference & beyond borders - through the environments we inhabit. Each artist explored their given material for six hours each day, for six days.
]performance s p a c e [ (Folkestone)
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ABOUT:
How does one belong to a place?
How much of oneself is bound up in another?
Where are the lines drawn?
How much of oneself is bound up in another?
Where are the lines drawn?
DRAWN was a week long exhibition of durational performance art examining place & identity. The program coupled six international artists with six hyper-local materials; stone, water, salt, wood, blood & earth, across six venues in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter. Located at the shore of the English Channel & mouth of the Channel tunnel, DRAWN invited audiences to consider how we relate to one another - across difference & beyond borders - through the environments we inhabit. Each artist explored their given material for six hours each day, for six days.
A physical & emotional exploration of the surpluses and deficits we encounter when considering identity & place - DRAWN was exercise in how we locate ourselves; physically, geographically & emotionally. DRAWN sought to problematize identity in relation to geo-specificity by employing materials both site specific & universal. Through the lens of contemporary performance art DRAWN explicitly questioned how bodies might lay claim to objects & zones as elements within the construction of identity - collapsing dialectic relationships such as here/there, self/other, now/then, object/relation.
ARTIST:
Charlotte Law + Vela Oma + Dani d’Emilia + Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro + Keijaun Thomas + Poppy Jackson.
Charlotte Law + Vela Oma + Dani d’Emilia + Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro + Keijaun Thomas + Poppy Jackson.
CREDITS:
Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Bean on behalf of ]performance s p a c e [. Photographic documentation by Manuel Vason. Video documentation courtesy of ]performance s p a c e [. Funded by Arts Council England, Creative Folkestone, Kent County Council, the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust with support from Live Art U.K. and the Live Art Development Agency.
Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Bean on behalf of ]performance s p a c e [. Photographic documentation by Manuel Vason. Video documentation courtesy of ]performance s p a c e [. Funded by Arts Council England, Creative Folkestone, Kent County Council, the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust with support from Live Art U.K. and the Live Art Development Agency.
