Modern Panic X
Live Artists (in alphabetical order)
Lise Boucon (France)
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Lise Boucon in a multi-genre artist (performer and maker): theatre, dance and Live Art. In parallel of a career as a stage actress, she began to develop her own work in 2008, which slid from a mix of dance and theatre into Live Art. Over the past ten years, she’s created a repertoire of about 10 pieces, shown in France, in the UK and internationally.
She performs in non-dedicated and site-specific spaces, with a close (and often participative) relationship with the audience. This is a process to encourage an audience to withdraw out of comfort zones, and to be more engaged and active. PERFORMING "DESSINE-MOI" (body in exposure) - "Standing naked on a mirror, like a feminine and contemporary San Sebastian, I invite people to draw and write on my body. Pens and pencils are their arrows. They become the artists of an ephemeral piece of art. Impudently provocative, I offer my body in sacrifice to the desire/the imagination/the possession of others. Breaking the boundaries between who-act and who watch (& consumes!), thereby questioning the individual responsibility, this wants to be a protest against the modern society that manipulates our individual identity." @ PANIC EPHERMERAL FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Phillip Bedwell (UK)
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Philip Bedwell is a London based live artist. His work currently focuses on masculinity, cultural identity, and physicality. After performing as a professional wrestler for 22 years across Europe, Philip transitioned into live art, discovering it could lend an authenticity to his work which couldn’t be displayed in the theatricality of wrestling.
Philip has shown work for 6 years throughout England and in Berlin, collaborating with Jordan McKensie, Nicola Hunter, Hellen Burrough and Noemi Lakmaier. He performed alongside Broderick Chow for Chow’s “The Dynamic Tensions Physical Culture Show” which took place at King’s College in London, returning the following year to deliver a lecture and perform original work at Chow’s “Sport/Spectacle” event. PERFORMING "DIVISION" An examination of barriers in gender and nationality. It questions audience perceptions of the work and how those perceptions can be transcended. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Tom Cassani (UK)
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Tom Cassani is a Performance Artist and Liar. Tom's practice of deception has developed and transformed over the past four years, manifesting itself in theatre, cabaret and live art. Tom has trained in sleight of hand, misdirection and prestidigitation and now use these skills of deceit as an artistic framework to explore truth, honesty, manipulation and fabrication. Often using objects, people and his own body, Tom draws on the multiple facets found in Sideshow Stunts. Tom has begun to work with his body and how this can be a site of deception.
PERFORMING "240VOLTS" Cassani discovers an extension cable, a live lighting fixture, a lightbulb and a pair of forceps. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Bill Duffy (UK)
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Bill Duffy is a musician and performance artist based in London and the North West. He has developed work as part of collectives across Western Europe and now creates personal live art. His work uses sound and the physicality of the body to reconcile personal neuroses and to address more universal ideas.
PERFORMING "SCAR TISSUE / SYMMETRY The performance is part of an ongoing work to recreate the scars on the right side of his body on the left in order to create symmetry and rewrite traumatic memory. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Snake Fervor & Ian the Bloody Poet (UK)
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Snake Fervor is a four time Guinness World Record holder and international performance artist who combines elements of circus sideshow and dark cabaret to create provocative pieces of performance art. She trained at The Central School of Speech and Drama and since embarking on her own performance work she has become a regular on the London cabaret scene and has won awards such as Miss Twin Peaks 2017, Alice Coopers Freaks and Fire Starters winner 2011, runner up in The Sexual Freedom Awards 2014 and was nominated for a London Cabaret Award 2014.
Ian ‘The Bloody Poet’ Salmon is a surrealist writer and poet who explores themes such as mental health, politics and social structures within modern day culture in a raw, controversial and brutal fashion. Heavily influenced by immersive theatre, Ian has created his own shows transforming his poetry into live performance art. PERFORMING "THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE" Exploring the fine line between love and obsession, passion, self destruction, codependency, toxic relationships, jealousy and paranoia. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Sara Green (UK)
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Sara Green is a choreographer and movement director working across theatre, film and dance. She’s worked on projects for Radiohead, London Fashion Week, the Old Vic and RSC. Green trained at Trinity Laban and has since taught movement at drama schools such as Mountview, Rose Bruford and East 15. She is currently teaching at Micadanses in Paris.
Her latest work B U R N T | O U T premiered at the Place in January. The piece used a process of synaptic collaboration between illustration, composition and choreography to develop a creature, it’s world and species. Green often makes work from visceral stimuli; playful, energetic, sometimes violent. She’s interested in the role and responsibility of the audience and the process of architecting impactful environments. Her work regularly challenges the complacency of audiences to act; often blurring the distinction between performance and emergency. Her past work HEAVY METAL demonstrated soft torture within a euphoric dance world, requiring audience intervention. Currently her focus resides in the surreal giddiness of confrontation; working with a fight director to develop the violent languages of B U R N T | O U T towards a more elevated silly beauty. PERFORMING "B U R N T | O U T" What began as a cathartic attempt to encapsulate an extraordinary sensorial memory gained during physical trauma [spinal surgery] and translate it into a living creature; quickly developed into an ode to the suppressed mania of ‘holding it together’. Beautiful, silly, disturbingly violent, set to a heavy electronic sound score from LOW ISLAND, it’s a fast, four-hander using costume and driving music to whip up empathetic love. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Gabriella Jeans (UK)
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Gabriella Jeans is an emerging visual artist living and working in London. After a series of terrifying - and liberating - paranormal experiences from early on in her career, Jeans' art practice has become entwined with mysticism and esoteric philosophy. The viewer is posed the question of how art and magic interact, and whether they can ever be truly distinct.
PERFORMING "PORTAL" Drawing together traditional witchcraft, chaos magick and esoteric techniques, Portal blurs the boundary between live art and ceremony. Inspired by the increasing and tangible appetite for magick in contemporary society, Jeans invites the audience to participate in the beautiful, hidden world of the occult. Working in collaboration with acclaimed alchemist, scientist and mystic Dr Gregory Gregori, the artist will host a visionary performance in the 5th dimension; a ritual which oscillates between the physical, mental and spiritual realms. Acting with the belief that art is not merely an abstract noun, but also autonomous creator, the pair play in the waves of the collective unconscious. Weaving together the last strands of a spell that began over a year ago, a pyramid burns and all is not what it seems. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Jylle Navarro (UK)
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Jylle Navarro in collaboration with Sarah White, Stephanie Osztreicher and Lilith Newson.
Jylle Navarro is a London based multi-disciplinary artist, specialising in the use of bold colour and reactive materials for interactive arts and performance. Navarro’s work is constantly transforming and developing, creating new forms and experiences. she explores the manipulation of mediums, capturing visual differences in the decisive moment. Throughout her work, key iconic connections of inspiration flow throughout – light reactive, experimental, strong contrasts, artificial colour, and capturing the uncontrolled organic developments. She is now completing an MA in Art and Science this May 2019, from Central Saint Martins. PERFORMING "ECDYSIS" In collaboration with Sarah White, Stephanie Osztreicher and Lilith Newson. Ecdysis is a collaboration performance incorporating aspects of dance, movement and expression in relation to colour, light reaction and projection. Dancers evolve from an anthropodic state, shedding the exoskeleton and becoming a transformed metamorphic being. @ PANIC EPHERMERAL FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Syban (UK)
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SYBAN is an international performance artist mixing the opulent and the obscene. Dressed in otherworldly costumes and blending elements of brutal performance and ethereal movement, she creates art that provokes and creates visceral wonder.
PERFORMING "THE BEAST WITHIN" “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” - Samuel Johnson Times they are a monstrous. But deep underneath all of our human insecurities, dreams and desires, hopes and problems there is always a hum to return to the primordial monster we once were. There is absolution in returning to that state. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Karolina Urbaniak (UK) & Martin Bladh (Sweden)
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Karolina Urbaniak is a multimedia artist and co-founder of Infinity Land Press. Urbaniak’s published work includes To Putrefaction 2014, Altered Balance – A Tribute to Coil 2014 & 2015, The Void Ratio 2014, Artaud 1937 Apocalypse 2018 and Death Mort Tod - A European Book of the Dead 2018. Her recent multimedia projects include the soundtrack for Darkleaks - The Ripper Genome and the audio/visual installation On The New Revelations of Being (M.Bladh, K.Urbaniak 2018) inspired by the work of Antonin Artaud. She lives and works in London.
Martin Bladh is a Swedish-born artist of multiple mediums. His work lays bare themes of violence, obsession, fantasy, domination, submission and narcissism. Bladh is a founding member of the post-industrial band IRM, the musical avant-garde unit Skin Area and co-founder of the publishing company Infinity Land Press. His published work includes To Putrefaction, Qualis Artifex Pereo, DES, The Rorschach Text, The Hurtin’ Club, Darkleaks - The Ripper Genome and Marty Page. He lives and works in London. PERFORMING "ON THE NEW REVELATIONS OF BEING" - A multimedia work based on Antonin Artaud’s apocalyptic manifesto from 1937. It envisions the end of the world and the death of God through a series of cataclysmic occurrences of Artaudian cruelty. @ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 SATURDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Francis Wilson (USA)
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Francis Marion Moseley Wilson is an American live artist currently based in Scotland. After years working as a taxidermist's apprentice in rural Ohio, she is currently pursuing practice-based research at the University of Glasgow. Working at the intersection of taxidermy and live art, her meditative, durational performances explore the materialities and boundaries of bodies, including her own, with a consideration of the precarious and complex relationships between human and non-human animals in the Anthropocene.
Embracing anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, animal symbology, grief, and the reality of invisible animal death in daily life, she uses individual animal bodies, not as a forum for animal activism, but as a point of inquiry into understanding our individual, human, inevitable participation in biopolitics that makes us both perpetrators and victims of violence. She only uses roadkill or other 'found' or donated animal bodies. PERFORMING "FLESH ETUDE" A performance with taxidemiry incorporating consumer goods such as zoomorphic toys or sweets. Wilson tells fables relevant to the animal in the work while self-suturing or self-piercing feathers, mixing materials of the animal body onto my own. @ PANIC EPHERMERAL FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
Kasia Zawadzka (Poland)
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One of the pioneers of World self-suspension rope performance, Kasia Zawadzka was first introduced to ropes in 2011, as a model. In 2012 she started tying, attending workshops and eventually experimenting with self suspension. She has worked with some of the worlds leading rope practitioners including Kinoko Hajime, Saki Kamijoo, Garth Knight and Esinem, to name a few.
In the last 7 years she attended number of various workshops such as Aerial Dance training for nearly 3 years; General Drawing and Painting for a year; Pyrotechnics; dance and theatre workshops; Shibari Art workshops. Educating herself to help her art practice to evolve into higher levels. Recently graduated from Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice. She also has experience as a rigger and rope workshop leader and frequently models for photographic and artistic collaborative projects. Recent appearances include Torture Garden in Scotland, London and Rome. Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014/2015/2016. DIVE, BOUND, BARK, ANATOMY, MANIPULATE FESTIVAL, MODERN PANIC, as well as self-suspension performances throughout Europe including Norway, Seychelles, Germany, France, Greece, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Holland and more. Kasia's shows are provocative, empowering and always performed with clear and dynamic story PERFORMING "ILL-LIT" "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." @ PANIC EPHERMERAL FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2019 |
