Performance Art Faction
2014/15
]performance s p a c e [ (Deptford, London)
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ABOUT:
“We’re not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.”
- Red Army Faction.
]performance s p a c e [ (Deptford, London)
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ABOUT:
“We’re not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous.”
- Red Army Faction.
“There have always been discordant voices. Factions. Alternative currents of thought, feeling and action not willing to be swept along with mass consensus. In every geography, across time, such alternatives to now have persistently carved out space (via what ever means possible) where a change in direction and other ways of being have been enacted. L i v e d. Yet those factions, by definition; small, organised dissenting groups within a larger whole, need not be understood as in opposition to, yet could be rather acknowledged as interruptions of overarching narratives. Interruption is not opposition. It does not act in the binary relation to other. Interruption is not an outside to an inside, it works precisely from within to crack open, explode and create voids that may be occupied (or not) in other ways - with something else.”x
Performance Art Faction (P.A.F.) was a nine month, holistic project exploring the intersections of contemporary performance art, socio-political representation - with the aim of reawakening the innate political potential of our bodies. The project consisted of four strands: S.O.S. (Self Organising Space), Soap Box Sessions, prAxis & P.A.F. Occupations.
ARTISTS:
Hugh O’Donnell + Kris Grey + Amber Hawk Swanson + Carlos Salazar + Aliza Shvarts + Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. + Burmester & Feigl + Panoply Lab + Owen Parry + Jade Montserrat + Fabiola Paz + Arianna Ferarri + María José Ajorna + prAxis Artist + S.O.S. Artists
Hugh O’Donnell + Kris Grey + Amber Hawk Swanson + Carlos Salazar + Aliza Shvarts + Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. + Burmester & Feigl + Panoply Lab + Owen Parry + Jade Montserrat + Fabiola Paz + Arianna Ferarri + María José Ajorna + prAxis Artist + S.O.S. Artists
CREDITS:
Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Bean. Photographic and video documentation courtesy of ]performance s p a c e [. Funded by Arts Counicl England and the Legacy List with support from Live Art U.K. and the Live Art Development Agency.
Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Bean. Photographic and video documentation courtesy of ]performance s p a c e [. Funded by Arts Counicl England and the Legacy List with support from Live Art U.K. and the Live Art Development Agency.
