Modern Panic IV
Live Art
Francesca Fini [Italy]
Francesca Fini is an Italian artist working with mixed media, video and performance art. Her live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices, live audio and video. She hacks and cracks everyday objects such as surveillance cameras, wii-mote sensors and therapeutic electrodes, mostly used to give to her work an ironic flavor. “Technology is interesting, but rather than call your smartphone I prefer to twist your stomach talking to you through plastic cups connected with string”. In december 2012 she has been invited to take part to the first “Venice International Performance Art Week”, curated by VestAndPage, featuring artists such as Yoko Ono, Jan Fabre, Valie Export, Boris Nieslony and Hermann Nitsch. She recently won the “Fonlad Performance Art Residency” to prepare a new performance in Coimbra, Portugal, with the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura. She is exhibiting her work in galleries and museums worldwide.
"I am basically a performer. The action of a body, generally mine, in space and time is essential in my work. My Videos and my tangible works are as the chapters of a never-ending story of which I am the protagonist. I’m looking for something, I do not know what it is exactly, but this research is the main stimulus that animates me as an artist. Sometimes I meet someone to share some of the way, sometimes I’m alone, but in the course of this trip I leave on my way artifacts that become the cornerstones of this great adventure. Performative objects, relics of my live actions that become totemic elements to be assembled into works of mixed media, video frames to manipulate and transform into paintings. My body, the ship on which I make this long exploration, has always been a battlefield. Former anorexic, eternal feminist, still and always a lone wolf in search of the moon between the branches of the trees."
francescafini.com
PERFORMING : WITH AN HELMET
Can Art regain his place in society? Can make a difference through its intrinsically non-violent instruments and its language that speaks directly to the unconscious rejecting the banality of contingency and inviting reflection on a more extensive and comprehensive dimension?
WITH AN HELMET (with a helmet) , by Francesca Fini is a performance project conceived as a work-in-progress. The original idea comes from a reflection on the state in which the country is. We are prey to an and soporific resignation. Our dull sight accompanies the degenerative process that poisons the political world and civil society. The crisis and its “cure” are killing us. The surreal world of accounting is grotesquely lost in numbers, light years away from our lives, unable to include in the calculations the coefficient of flesh and blood, the sufferings of real people.
withanhelmet.blogspot.it
"I am basically a performer. The action of a body, generally mine, in space and time is essential in my work. My Videos and my tangible works are as the chapters of a never-ending story of which I am the protagonist. I’m looking for something, I do not know what it is exactly, but this research is the main stimulus that animates me as an artist. Sometimes I meet someone to share some of the way, sometimes I’m alone, but in the course of this trip I leave on my way artifacts that become the cornerstones of this great adventure. Performative objects, relics of my live actions that become totemic elements to be assembled into works of mixed media, video frames to manipulate and transform into paintings. My body, the ship on which I make this long exploration, has always been a battlefield. Former anorexic, eternal feminist, still and always a lone wolf in search of the moon between the branches of the trees."
francescafini.com
PERFORMING : WITH AN HELMET
Can Art regain his place in society? Can make a difference through its intrinsically non-violent instruments and its language that speaks directly to the unconscious rejecting the banality of contingency and inviting reflection on a more extensive and comprehensive dimension?
WITH AN HELMET (with a helmet) , by Francesca Fini is a performance project conceived as a work-in-progress. The original idea comes from a reflection on the state in which the country is. We are prey to an and soporific resignation. Our dull sight accompanies the degenerative process that poisons the political world and civil society. The crisis and its “cure” are killing us. The surreal world of accounting is grotesquely lost in numbers, light years away from our lives, unable to include in the calculations the coefficient of flesh and blood, the sufferings of real people.
withanhelmet.blogspot.it
Amy Kingsmill [UK]
Since moving to London in 2009 to study Amy has been exploring its underground scene in tandem with feeding her artistic practice. Here she has been able to cross fertilise queer imagery with fine art aesthetics to create arresting endurance works which solicit the body as a platform and often use dressing as a form of three dimensional surrealist collage. As a recent graduate in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins Amy has performed at Franko B's Untouchables at Mori and Stien gallery and at Peep Anatomy at Edinburgh Fringe. She has performed at the infamous Torture Garden Club and presented her paper, Pervarts along side Annie Sprinkle at the Performing Porn symposium at Performance Space.
facebook.com/aekingsmillartist
The motionless stance conjures the sense that “ this is art”, the onlooker’s gaze drawn towards the mesmerising gravitas of the still figure...Using objects for new purposes and juxtaposing specific components all help to dictate the end result.' - Mark Milligan, 1Granary.
'Amy Kingsmill, is an artist who, through incorporating her love of all things surreal and fetishistic into her performance work, creates looks that viewers have described as disturbing and arresting, but also empowering. ' -Rachel Hardwick, Skin Two.
PERFORMING : DISCARDED
Amy Kingsmill's Discarded uses endurance and costume to create a disconcerting, uneasy experience for the viewer. Interlacing references to toys, violence and sexuality- there is something undoubtedly disturbing about this piece which echoes with the viewer long after the initial encounter.
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The motionless stance conjures the sense that “ this is art”, the onlooker’s gaze drawn towards the mesmerising gravitas of the still figure...Using objects for new purposes and juxtaposing specific components all help to dictate the end result.' - Mark Milligan, 1Granary.
'Amy Kingsmill, is an artist who, through incorporating her love of all things surreal and fetishistic into her performance work, creates looks that viewers have described as disturbing and arresting, but also empowering. ' -Rachel Hardwick, Skin Two.
PERFORMING : DISCARDED
Amy Kingsmill's Discarded uses endurance and costume to create a disconcerting, uneasy experience for the viewer. Interlacing references to toys, violence and sexuality- there is something undoubtedly disturbing about this piece which echoes with the viewer long after the initial encounter.
Harrie Skully [UK]
“On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards. The primers of my culture.” (Julia Kristeva The Powers of Horror)
Harrie Skully finds a great problem in being a human... “and what a word in itself...'hu-man'. Furthermore, as the boundaries of 'hu-man' become narrower and narrower. Through pretty sparkly adverts and TV and all those things we (humans) call media – more individuals spill out of the human 'containment' in a glorious liquid overflow!”
She finds agonized fascination in this overflow, with those who dwell in the borderlands of human existence, even push this border to its disintegration. In the process becoming more and more animal, more alien, more abject. Experimenting along these lines, through performances of various kinds she pursues what she describes as those beasts and critters that dwell in the wonderful caverns of our selves...and the point where we break down.
Having studied Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths College, London, she is currently embarking upon a Masters in Contemporary Art Theory, at that same place, whilst continuing her practice concentrated on performance and video art,
Harrie's performance work involves howling, for her it is a process which pushes past the language of humans, to an audial intensity, something primal, hysterical, penetrating the very essence of that animal which she becomes. She looks also at the allegory of animals within society, particularly the urban fox – who she takes as allegory for those abjected from society; “A city dweller whose instincts are sharpened, hyper stimulated! >>> there are predators everywhere, predators and prey! Eyes dart, something moves in the shadows, lightning reactions! A silent scurry of pad-foot paws….green eyes glow, two luminescent orbs reflecting car headlights from a dark alley, rummaging through bins for a scrap to eat>>> Urban here is a matter of intensity, Live fast and die young! Thin and mangy, crawling with hordes of parasites……”
Her work looks at serious issues; social isolation and the dissolution of identity with an anti-humanist air, but it is not without laughter... “for laughter is as fierce as intensity as any, it is a convulsion or spasms that fragments the tranquil order of human conduct...making it absurd, and such is the power of understated absurdity – as the insects wing”
becomingurbanfox.com
PERFORMING :
"This performance piece looks at the way we regard those imprisoned because their way of being doesn't operate within the coding of society. I shall be contained in a metal cage, covered and 'put to one side'. Taking the imperceptible element of the caged animal, left forgotten,
punished for not being human, yet prevented from being animal. During the performance I shall behave as this creature, using the instinct of
that beast that lurks with in all to inform my performance, at times expressing the anger and frustration that boils, before once again subsiding
into a state of forgotten-ness."
Harrie Skully finds a great problem in being a human... “and what a word in itself...'hu-man'. Furthermore, as the boundaries of 'hu-man' become narrower and narrower. Through pretty sparkly adverts and TV and all those things we (humans) call media – more individuals spill out of the human 'containment' in a glorious liquid overflow!”
She finds agonized fascination in this overflow, with those who dwell in the borderlands of human existence, even push this border to its disintegration. In the process becoming more and more animal, more alien, more abject. Experimenting along these lines, through performances of various kinds she pursues what she describes as those beasts and critters that dwell in the wonderful caverns of our selves...and the point where we break down.
Having studied Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths College, London, she is currently embarking upon a Masters in Contemporary Art Theory, at that same place, whilst continuing her practice concentrated on performance and video art,
Harrie's performance work involves howling, for her it is a process which pushes past the language of humans, to an audial intensity, something primal, hysterical, penetrating the very essence of that animal which she becomes. She looks also at the allegory of animals within society, particularly the urban fox – who she takes as allegory for those abjected from society; “A city dweller whose instincts are sharpened, hyper stimulated! >>> there are predators everywhere, predators and prey! Eyes dart, something moves in the shadows, lightning reactions! A silent scurry of pad-foot paws….green eyes glow, two luminescent orbs reflecting car headlights from a dark alley, rummaging through bins for a scrap to eat>>> Urban here is a matter of intensity, Live fast and die young! Thin and mangy, crawling with hordes of parasites……”
Her work looks at serious issues; social isolation and the dissolution of identity with an anti-humanist air, but it is not without laughter... “for laughter is as fierce as intensity as any, it is a convulsion or spasms that fragments the tranquil order of human conduct...making it absurd, and such is the power of understated absurdity – as the insects wing”
becomingurbanfox.com
PERFORMING :
"This performance piece looks at the way we regard those imprisoned because their way of being doesn't operate within the coding of society. I shall be contained in a metal cage, covered and 'put to one side'. Taking the imperceptible element of the caged animal, left forgotten,
punished for not being human, yet prevented from being animal. During the performance I shall behave as this creature, using the instinct of
that beast that lurks with in all to inform my performance, at times expressing the anger and frustration that boils, before once again subsiding
into a state of forgotten-ness."
Jack Cole [UK]
Dumblove Encounters are in the habit of making theatre / writing / art installations. We tell stories about magick. We prefer to see you one-on-one.
Dumblove have had sell-out sensations at the BAC with The Fabulists (where we prescribed bespoke fables), the V & A with The Saint-Makers (where we prescribed bespoke saints) and Glastonbury, Latitude and The Secret Garden Party with The Alter-Egotists (where we prescribed, yes you guessed it, alter-egos).
Dumblove specialise in creating an experiential story that is personalised but also owned entirely by the recipient alone. The writing is automatic and forgotten by the artist once it is completed, so only the participant will ever really know it.
Our work has been featured on BBC 6 music, The Butcher’s Apron Podcast and in various publications. We have also worked closely with DIY Taxidermist Charlie Tuesday Gates and internationally acclaimed improviser Chris Johnston.
Dumblove is Jack Howson and Jack Coal.
dumblove.co.uk
PERFORMING :
This performance piece shall look at the way we regard those imprisoned because their way of being doesn't operate within the coding of society.
I shall be contained in a metal cage, covered and 'put to one side'. Taking the imperceptible element of the caged animal, left forgotten,
punished for not being human, yet prevented from being animal. During the performance I shall behave as this creature, using the instinct of
that beast that lurks with in all to inform my performance, at times expressing the anger and frustration that boils, before once again subsiding
into a state of forgotten-ness.
Dumblove have had sell-out sensations at the BAC with The Fabulists (where we prescribed bespoke fables), the V & A with The Saint-Makers (where we prescribed bespoke saints) and Glastonbury, Latitude and The Secret Garden Party with The Alter-Egotists (where we prescribed, yes you guessed it, alter-egos).
Dumblove specialise in creating an experiential story that is personalised but also owned entirely by the recipient alone. The writing is automatic and forgotten by the artist once it is completed, so only the participant will ever really know it.
Our work has been featured on BBC 6 music, The Butcher’s Apron Podcast and in various publications. We have also worked closely with DIY Taxidermist Charlie Tuesday Gates and internationally acclaimed improviser Chris Johnston.
Dumblove is Jack Howson and Jack Coal.
dumblove.co.uk
PERFORMING :
This performance piece shall look at the way we regard those imprisoned because their way of being doesn't operate within the coding of society.
I shall be contained in a metal cage, covered and 'put to one side'. Taking the imperceptible element of the caged animal, left forgotten,
punished for not being human, yet prevented from being animal. During the performance I shall behave as this creature, using the instinct of
that beast that lurks with in all to inform my performance, at times expressing the anger and frustration that boils, before once again subsiding
into a state of forgotten-ness.
Livy Levingos [UK]
Levingos makes street interventions, sculptures and performances. Levingos plays with authorship. Levingos uses materials which otherwise would have been overlooked. Levingos manipulates invisible processes and power structures. Levingos' most current work is round ideas of otherness, indifference and attitudes to dirtiness and taboo.
Levingos will be collaborating with Greg Carter : Greg Carter is the result of growing up in the fens, 80s Japanese animation, 8 bit consoles, cheap gore films, discarded pornography, Sunday school and thrash metal. When these ingredients are mixed in the right quantities the outcome is a disgusting cake of animation, illustration, video editing and horrible noise. Its like Charlie Manson leading the girl guides and all the members are fairy's with cancer.
PERFORMING : Pig Skin Black Thread
The performance will be a live art duration piece working with a tattoo artist collaborator on pigskin.
Levingos will be collaborating with Greg Carter : Greg Carter is the result of growing up in the fens, 80s Japanese animation, 8 bit consoles, cheap gore films, discarded pornography, Sunday school and thrash metal. When these ingredients are mixed in the right quantities the outcome is a disgusting cake of animation, illustration, video editing and horrible noise. Its like Charlie Manson leading the girl guides and all the members are fairy's with cancer.
PERFORMING : Pig Skin Black Thread
The performance will be a live art duration piece working with a tattoo artist collaborator on pigskin.
Tom Bresolin [UK]
"I am a artist and activist based in London. My artistic practice focuses on violent and confrontational performances which interact with political activities. Both visually and physically this can lead me to perform in a wide verity of locations and has taken me from mainstream galleries to illegal protests. Instead of repetition I prefer to develop and evolve my artwork approaching every exhibition as an opportunity to create new artworks while maintaining my artistic focus. Increasing the power and effectiveness or my artwork. "
tombresolin.wordpress.com
PERFORMING : Theatre of Brutality
A performance based on development of a performance p.a.a.u from an exhibition earlier this year at tempting failure in bristol.The performance would be based on the interaction between myself and co-performer felicia kronlof. Violent political imagery will be projected onto the performers. Combining my work Riot Act SE6 (work based on london riots) with my more transgressive performance paau. Attempting to reposition Artaud work theatre of cruelty within a modern political context.
tombresolin.wordpress.com
PERFORMING : Theatre of Brutality
A performance based on development of a performance p.a.a.u from an exhibition earlier this year at tempting failure in bristol.The performance would be based on the interaction between myself and co-performer felicia kronlof. Violent political imagery will be projected onto the performers. Combining my work Riot Act SE6 (work based on london riots) with my more transgressive performance paau. Attempting to reposition Artaud work theatre of cruelty within a modern political context.
Victor Ivanov [Russia]
Victor Ivanov is a London based artist who concentrates mainly on the role of the body as a carrier of identity and its place in the new technological terrain. He is fascinated the performance of body and identity in the virtual space and how it is affected by the body of the technology that mediates it.
Most recently, Victor has been producing collaborative projects seeking with other artists synthesis in each others practices through performance and experimentation. Most recently these collaborative projects became part of Black Metal Chicken Vol.3 -exhibition, while continuing their own life online.
ivanovvictor.wordpress.com
Most recently, Victor has been producing collaborative projects seeking with other artists synthesis in each others practices through performance and experimentation. Most recently these collaborative projects became part of Black Metal Chicken Vol.3 -exhibition, while continuing their own life online.
ivanovvictor.wordpress.com
Andie Macario [Brazil]
Andie Macario is a London based artist working with performance, video and installation. Her work delves into the depths of the scopophiliac audience, exploring the boundaries of the voyeuristic gaze, the ways in which the subject is objectified and how this can affect the spectator. The subjugation of the audience whilst viewing the videos and live performances are key to the outcome of the work, implicating an active role between the viewer and the viewing. Within the subject of the gaze, placing emphasis on performing the body, performing a character, creating a glamorous and seductive façade of femininity is central to the aesthetics of the work.
Most recently. Andie has been involved with a series of collaborative performances for Black Metal chicken. Experimenting with gender stereotypes social interaction between the performer and spectator as well as the environment in which it sits.
andiepandyland.wordpress.com
PERFORMING : Meat Slap
A collaborative experiment between Victor Ivanov and Andie Macario. The experiment was based on the sexualisation of violence and the objectification of the human body within media. Using the human body as an object or a resource. Once the experiment was posted online, it attracted a huge audience and went viral (reaching almost 200,000 views in one week). This was supplemented with two Reddit posts, totaling around 500 comments. Building on the response to the experiment, our proposal is to turn the piece into a durational performance, lasting for a few hours.
Most recently. Andie has been involved with a series of collaborative performances for Black Metal chicken. Experimenting with gender stereotypes social interaction between the performer and spectator as well as the environment in which it sits.
andiepandyland.wordpress.com
PERFORMING : Meat Slap
A collaborative experiment between Victor Ivanov and Andie Macario. The experiment was based on the sexualisation of violence and the objectification of the human body within media. Using the human body as an object or a resource. Once the experiment was posted online, it attracted a huge audience and went viral (reaching almost 200,000 views in one week). This was supplemented with two Reddit posts, totaling around 500 comments. Building on the response to the experiment, our proposal is to turn the piece into a durational performance, lasting for a few hours.
Panic Sermons
Live Art Evenings
featuring
Andrea Meneses Guerrero [Colombia]
"I make my journey the infinite possibilities of movement, I enjoy work, search for spontaneity, defy gravity and swing in between realities"
Andrea started studying theatre back in 1995 in Colombia with Teatro R-101, and then moved to London to study at the International School of Corporeal Mime following a Post-graduate in teaching and directing. She worked for many years at the now derelict Area 10 Project Space where she co-founded Psychological Art Circus, Mime Terrorists, Sawmill collective and The Purple Ladies. Andrea has also specialised in aerial circus arts (rope, trapeze, silks) at the circus space and through empiric training. Her work focuses on the creation of strong visual and physical journeys that through symbols, archetypes, forms and rhythms create a bridge between the performer/s and the audience, a bridge with the potential of construction or de-construction of a thought, a memory or a feeling. With Psychological Art circus she explored physically the workings of the psyche during severe illness, the connection with the dead and the quality of mediumship and with The Mime Terrorist the world of dreams and daydreams, the fragmentation of the self and the search for identity.
Performing : The Woman Who Lost Her Head
An electrifying physical theatre piece about a woman whose monotonous day to day "reality" collapses into a surreal nightmare. Her job, house and status in society are nothing more than illusions.... she is trapped in a paper world, paralysed and unable to move forward. Memories and lucid dreams start falling like an avalanche from her subconscious mind, breaking everything she had given for truth. She is sleep but awake, she is awake but sleep, her life dissolves and takes a new form...
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Andrea started studying theatre back in 1995 in Colombia with Teatro R-101, and then moved to London to study at the International School of Corporeal Mime following a Post-graduate in teaching and directing. She worked for many years at the now derelict Area 10 Project Space where she co-founded Psychological Art Circus, Mime Terrorists, Sawmill collective and The Purple Ladies. Andrea has also specialised in aerial circus arts (rope, trapeze, silks) at the circus space and through empiric training. Her work focuses on the creation of strong visual and physical journeys that through symbols, archetypes, forms and rhythms create a bridge between the performer/s and the audience, a bridge with the potential of construction or de-construction of a thought, a memory or a feeling. With Psychological Art circus she explored physically the workings of the psyche during severe illness, the connection with the dead and the quality of mediumship and with The Mime Terrorist the world of dreams and daydreams, the fragmentation of the self and the search for identity.
Performing : The Woman Who Lost Her Head
An electrifying physical theatre piece about a woman whose monotonous day to day "reality" collapses into a surreal nightmare. Her job, house and status in society are nothing more than illusions.... she is trapped in a paper world, paralysed and unable to move forward. Memories and lucid dreams start falling like an avalanche from her subconscious mind, breaking everything she had given for truth. She is sleep but awake, she is awake but sleep, her life dissolves and takes a new form...
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Eve Bonneau [France]
Eve Bonneau begins to work with what is already there, physically and materially present. There is no rule but senses( and directions) which she deepens and develops little by little.
In her first works, she was focused on the possibilities of empathic transmission between the performance artist and the public, the bare body being at the same time the object and the subject of the performative act. More and more she let increase flows of an internal rhythm to widen it in the collective sphere. From an intimate sphere to a public one, from a physical body to a social organism. She seeks to connect experience and Performance, short-lived and compound events, reality and sign, practice and public actions.
Performing : Infiltration
This performance is the last chapter of this evolutive project answering to the question of the being here. Eve proposes a fragile presence evaluating intimate meetings in public, cultivating contigency and unbalance provoking movement, birth and death. She plays with space and time until the limit of the possible through the use of glasses of water, framing what is alive.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
In her first works, she was focused on the possibilities of empathic transmission between the performance artist and the public, the bare body being at the same time the object and the subject of the performative act. More and more she let increase flows of an internal rhythm to widen it in the collective sphere. From an intimate sphere to a public one, from a physical body to a social organism. She seeks to connect experience and Performance, short-lived and compound events, reality and sign, practice and public actions.
Performing : Infiltration
This performance is the last chapter of this evolutive project answering to the question of the being here. Eve proposes a fragile presence evaluating intimate meetings in public, cultivating contigency and unbalance provoking movement, birth and death. She plays with space and time until the limit of the possible through the use of glasses of water, framing what is alive.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Beatrice Schleyer & Sto Len [USA]
Beatrice Schleyer began performing as a gogo dancer/ clubkid at age 15 in NYC nightclubs. Since 2002, she has worked internationally as a fire dancer and self-styled costumed entertainer. She is currently presenting her own blend of avant garde dance performance; permutations of confrontation, aggression, eroticism, grotesquery, and sublimation. Her work incorporates Ankoku Butoh - 暗黒舞踏 - The dance of total darkness. She has performed with the Vangeline theater since 2012, and has primarily been training in Butoh with Vangeline. She has studied with other Butoh luminaries such as Natsu Nakajima, Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, and Tetsuro Fukuhara.
Beatrice has also cultivated a vocabulary of street/social dances (house, hip hop, vogue, and whacking) with legends such as Archie Burnett, Sekou Heru, Kim Holmes, Marjory Smarth, Brian Green, and Tweet Boogie.
BeatriceVonRagueSchleyer.com
Sto Len is a painter, sculptor, sound and performance artist based in NY. He has exhibited his paintings and sculptures internationally, including exhibitions in NY, Japan, London, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Mexico City. In 2004, Sto founded the alternative arts space Cinders Gallery in NY which held exhibitions for 7 years and has since become a project-based non profit arts organization.
In 2009, Sto performed as Lupus Yonderboy in an 8 hour piece entitled CASE along with avant composer Tony Conrad and porn star Sasha Grey in an adaptation of William Gibson's sci-fi novel Neuromancer at the New Museum in New York. In 2011, Sto completed the Time Synch Residency at the Clocktower Gallery in NY with his sound and performance work. He has performed at MOMA PS1, New Museum, St. Marks Church, Ontological Theater, Ramiken Crucible Silent Barn, and Roulette in New York, as well as Latelier Kunst Spiel Raum and the English Theater in Berlin.
www.stoishere.com
Performing : JUJU MECHANIX
JUJU MECHANIX is a collaborative performance with Beatrice Schleyer and Sto Len. A post apocalyptic sadomasochistic noise / dance ritual. Through sound, vision, and touch JUJU MECHANIX explore the interplay of yin and yang, expansion and action, aggression and sublimation. JUJU MECHANIX offer shocks to your system, beckoning you to a state of synesthesiac trance. JUJU MECHANIX is kinetic and sonic soul resonance.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Beatrice has also cultivated a vocabulary of street/social dances (house, hip hop, vogue, and whacking) with legends such as Archie Burnett, Sekou Heru, Kim Holmes, Marjory Smarth, Brian Green, and Tweet Boogie.
BeatriceVonRagueSchleyer.com
Sto Len is a painter, sculptor, sound and performance artist based in NY. He has exhibited his paintings and sculptures internationally, including exhibitions in NY, Japan, London, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Mexico City. In 2004, Sto founded the alternative arts space Cinders Gallery in NY which held exhibitions for 7 years and has since become a project-based non profit arts organization.
In 2009, Sto performed as Lupus Yonderboy in an 8 hour piece entitled CASE along with avant composer Tony Conrad and porn star Sasha Grey in an adaptation of William Gibson's sci-fi novel Neuromancer at the New Museum in New York. In 2011, Sto completed the Time Synch Residency at the Clocktower Gallery in NY with his sound and performance work. He has performed at MOMA PS1, New Museum, St. Marks Church, Ontological Theater, Ramiken Crucible Silent Barn, and Roulette in New York, as well as Latelier Kunst Spiel Raum and the English Theater in Berlin.
www.stoishere.com
Performing : JUJU MECHANIX
JUJU MECHANIX is a collaborative performance with Beatrice Schleyer and Sto Len. A post apocalyptic sadomasochistic noise / dance ritual. Through sound, vision, and touch JUJU MECHANIX explore the interplay of yin and yang, expansion and action, aggression and sublimation. JUJU MECHANIX offer shocks to your system, beckoning you to a state of synesthesiac trance. JUJU MECHANIX is kinetic and sonic soul resonance.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Charlie Buckitt & Apple Tart [UK]
MisSa Blue [Germany]
MisSa Blue is a german Performance Artist specialised in Neo-Cabaret. Infamous for a unique mixture of styles and cutting edge themed acts she uses a crossover of modern and classical show elements. In her acts MisSa mimes and lip-syncs herself through a broad range of themes. Comedy, political or gender sometimes mixed with Candlewax or Latexpaint and dressed in lace or Rubber. It's sexual adult sartiric entertainment that combines the best of all worlds in just one act. MisSa Blue is a regular performer at Club Torture Garden London and will be featured at this years Wasteland in Amsterdam. She has been nominated for the Erotic Award 2013 in the category 'Best Performer'.
missablue.de
Performing : Untitled
Playing with the concept of pleasure and pain - Candlewax as fetish and self-torture. By using candles to create a high sexual tension but also enduring high pain threshold, MisSa will be freely expressing her feelings. Is its pleasure, pain, fear, boredom, restlessness, fun, or something else. This performance keeps the audience hooked in trying to figure out what emotions she is feeling and lets them explore their own fear of pain.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
missablue.de
Performing : Untitled
Playing with the concept of pleasure and pain - Candlewax as fetish and self-torture. By using candles to create a high sexual tension but also enduring high pain threshold, MisSa will be freely expressing her feelings. Is its pleasure, pain, fear, boredom, restlessness, fun, or something else. This performance keeps the audience hooked in trying to figure out what emotions she is feeling and lets them explore their own fear of pain.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 1 - SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Phil Bedwell & Hellen Burrough [UK]
Phil Bedwell - Following an extensive career as a professional wrestler Philip has taken his skills and physicality and has begun using them in other forms of art. He has performed in Marisa Carnesky's Tarot Drome and Tempting Failure 2013. Philip has interests in using his body and the audiences gaze to confront beliefs about strength, frailty, ageing and passion
Hellen Burrough creates live art and performance work under the name Traumata, using body ritual and physical trauma to explore themes of femininity, romance, transformation and transgression. Hellen has performed across Europe and the UK and collaborated with Polish artists Suka Off for several years. Most recently she has performed at Tempting Failure in Bristol, London Wonderground on the South Bank and at Chelsea Theatre with Dominic Johnson.
traumata.org
Phil and Hellen began collaborating last year when they worked on Marisa Carnesky's Tarot Drome, their work together has combined Phil's background in wrestling and martial arts with Hellen's experience in live art to create highly physical pieces examining themes of loving and fighting and the parallels between them.
Performing : Untitled
An intense exploration of the intimacies of lust and aggression, utilising ju jitsu techniques and the text of A Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine De Saint-Point. This new performance has developed from a workshop run by Kira O'Reilly as part of DIY10. over the three days of 'Combative Manifestos' they learnt techniques for both grappling and writing, and this performance evolved from those experiments with words and their bodies.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Hellen Burrough creates live art and performance work under the name Traumata, using body ritual and physical trauma to explore themes of femininity, romance, transformation and transgression. Hellen has performed across Europe and the UK and collaborated with Polish artists Suka Off for several years. Most recently she has performed at Tempting Failure in Bristol, London Wonderground on the South Bank and at Chelsea Theatre with Dominic Johnson.
traumata.org
Phil and Hellen began collaborating last year when they worked on Marisa Carnesky's Tarot Drome, their work together has combined Phil's background in wrestling and martial arts with Hellen's experience in live art to create highly physical pieces examining themes of loving and fighting and the parallels between them.
Performing : Untitled
An intense exploration of the intimacies of lust and aggression, utilising ju jitsu techniques and the text of A Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine De Saint-Point. This new performance has developed from a workshop run by Kira O'Reilly as part of DIY10. over the three days of 'Combative Manifestos' they learnt techniques for both grappling and writing, and this performance evolved from those experiments with words and their bodies.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Victoria Gugenheim [UK]
There is no such thing as artifice when it comes to us. Our adorment of ourselves comes from a quest to understand who we are, what we can become and the world we live in. It is entirely natural. For Victoria, she lives to create these beautiful transformations from human to the sublime, the ultimate transcendental experience without the need for religious dogma and its concomitant atrocities.
She is passionate about science and how it can help us understand the world through stringent experimentation and observation, the discipline utilising both creativity and logic. Bodyart, this art form once so ritualistic and primitive, is now getting its ultimate revival. It has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, has its own dedicated TV channels from everywhere from the US to South Korea, and there are festivals worldwide which attract up to 70,000 visitors every year from all over the globe. This is the most exciting time to be alive as a body artist. During this resurgence Victoria has been lucky enough to work with some amazing clients, such as Nokia, The Black Eyed Peas, Robosteel and London Fashion Week to name a few.
"I strive for excellence, and currently I’m joint 3rd in the world for my UV Body art, with Wolf’s Bodymagic, am a member of The World Bodypainting Association and The World Photography Organization. I also take the health and safety aspect seriously and through stringent research and my previous experience as a piercer, came up with a new health and safety workshop for artists worldwide. It’s my aim to educate, enlighten and make bodyart the safest and most enjoyable experience it can be."
Performing : Blind Faith
How faith rids people of reason and rational thought and corrupts sexual instinct.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
She is passionate about science and how it can help us understand the world through stringent experimentation and observation, the discipline utilising both creativity and logic. Bodyart, this art form once so ritualistic and primitive, is now getting its ultimate revival. It has been featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world, has its own dedicated TV channels from everywhere from the US to South Korea, and there are festivals worldwide which attract up to 70,000 visitors every year from all over the globe. This is the most exciting time to be alive as a body artist. During this resurgence Victoria has been lucky enough to work with some amazing clients, such as Nokia, The Black Eyed Peas, Robosteel and London Fashion Week to name a few.
"I strive for excellence, and currently I’m joint 3rd in the world for my UV Body art, with Wolf’s Bodymagic, am a member of The World Bodypainting Association and The World Photography Organization. I also take the health and safety aspect seriously and through stringent research and my previous experience as a piercer, came up with a new health and safety workshop for artists worldwide. It’s my aim to educate, enlighten and make bodyart the safest and most enjoyable experience it can be."
Performing : Blind Faith
How faith rids people of reason and rational thought and corrupts sexual instinct.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Nina Davies [Canada]
Nina Davies is a London based performance artist from Vancouver, Canada. Her work explores the relationship between movement and sound, using the body as the primary instrument for creating music. She has previously performed her work at Modern Panic III and worked with artists such as Marisa Carnesky, Lauren Jane Williams and Manuel Vason. Nina is currently studying at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Performing : TBA
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Performing : TBA
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Francois-Xavier Touzard [South Korea]
“I would like people to feel vital and raw emotions of life in my paintings and photos. Feel the pulse of an instant.”
For FX, art is an expression of the essence of a moment, the quest to reach the absoluteness of a particular emotion at a point in time. Through art he can express the wonder and the curiosity he feels about the world in which we live. FX;S work is an intuitive improvisation of the impressions of everyday life. Through a process of psychological realism, visual elements are restructured into an abstraction of the figure.
Born in South Korea, FX has lived in France from the age of two. During this period he studied art and was inspired by the raw beauty of nature and landscapes. He was introduced to contemporary painting by international artists in the capital of art, Pont Avens, in Britanny, France, and also in Paris. Since then, he has been deeply inspired by the abstract expressionism and lyrical abstract movements, especially De Kooning, Leon Zack, Zao Wou Ki and Henri Michaux.
FX moved to east London in 2004 and loved the energy and vibrant buzz, which stimulates his creativity. Through the relationship of colours, forms, and marks, through rhythm and balance, and the physical and psychological work of painting, each picture develops into a unique expression. Using visual suggestions, he draws the viewer into an imagined figure, into a colourful, dynamic world that hovers between the abstract and the representational.
"I am increasingly sharing my art through performances with live audience and these exchanges with the people give me some much energy and inspiration." Francois-Xavier Touzard aka MAAD FX Fran.K
maadart.co.uk
Performing : LIVE ART
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
For FX, art is an expression of the essence of a moment, the quest to reach the absoluteness of a particular emotion at a point in time. Through art he can express the wonder and the curiosity he feels about the world in which we live. FX;S work is an intuitive improvisation of the impressions of everyday life. Through a process of psychological realism, visual elements are restructured into an abstraction of the figure.
Born in South Korea, FX has lived in France from the age of two. During this period he studied art and was inspired by the raw beauty of nature and landscapes. He was introduced to contemporary painting by international artists in the capital of art, Pont Avens, in Britanny, France, and also in Paris. Since then, he has been deeply inspired by the abstract expressionism and lyrical abstract movements, especially De Kooning, Leon Zack, Zao Wou Ki and Henri Michaux.
FX moved to east London in 2004 and loved the energy and vibrant buzz, which stimulates his creativity. Through the relationship of colours, forms, and marks, through rhythm and balance, and the physical and psychological work of painting, each picture develops into a unique expression. Using visual suggestions, he draws the viewer into an imagined figure, into a colourful, dynamic world that hovers between the abstract and the representational.
"I am increasingly sharing my art through performances with live audience and these exchanges with the people give me some much energy and inspiration." Francois-Xavier Touzard aka MAAD FX Fran.K
maadart.co.uk
Performing : LIVE ART
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Dima Amabsout [Lebanon]
A Lebanese artist who flew to London searching for creative catharsis. Currently completing her final year as a fine art student at Central Saint Martins, she has explored a variety of mediums such as painting, installation, performance arts, film, and music while always revealing the artistic evolution of her pieces before they take on their final form. In January 2013, she founded the social project "Naked Wagon"; a mobile platform that encourages artists of all sorts to perform to sidewalk audiences in London, Glasgow and Lebanon
dimamabsout.com
Performing : THE BOX In collaboration with Victor Fischl
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
dimamabsout.com
Performing : THE BOX In collaboration with Victor Fischl
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Ant Earls & Beatrice Schleyer [France & USA]
Ant Earls is a Nantes based multimedia artist born English in a French environment. After getting a BA in Graphic Design she then passed her BFA at the Bordeaux School of Art in June 2012. She is now living and working in Nantes both pursuing her Masters and creating collectively with groups of LGBTQ creatives, event & party organizers, young French artists and Djs. Her work brings together video, words, painting, sculpture, writing, collage and couture in fragmented visual ensembles. These image/media compositions aim to deconstruct subcultural and mainstream language forms through Installation pieces or series of word/image collages.
She uses form and art making as a hybrid experience, an assemblage of raw elements (images, actions, rhythms, words, and decors) so as to create impure, unsafe, chaotic and hybrid sensual experiences and environments. These fiction pieces attempt to unhinge surreal perceptions of objects and subjects, and question how one connects to art content through ambiguous virtual/non virtual "montages".
Beatrice Von Rague Schleyer began performing as a gogo dancer/ clubkid at age 15 in NYC nightclubs. Since 2002, she has worked internationally as a fire dancer and self-styled costumed entertainer. She is currently presenting her own blend of avant garde dance performance; permutations of confrontation, aggression, eroticism, grotesquery, and sublimation. Her work incorporates Ankoku Butoh - 暗黒舞踏 - The dance of total darkness. She has performed with the Vangeline theater since 2012, and has primarily been training in Butoh with Vangeline. She has studied with other Butoh luminaries such as Natsu Nakajima, Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, and Tetsuro Fukuhara. Beatrice has also cultivated a vocabulary of street/social dances (house, hip hop, vogue, and whacking) with legends such as Archie Burnett, Sekou Heru, Kim Holmes, Marjory Smarth, Brian Green, and Tweet Boogie.
BeatriceVonRagueSchleyer.com
Performing : Sur la Plage
Sur la Plage is a collaboration between the vision and video witness of Ant Earls and the butoh and body of Beatrice von Rague Schleyer. In presenting this work, Beatrice will dance with projections of Ant 's impressionist arrangement of footage from a day they shared this summer by the ocean in France. Their collaborative offering deconstructs the standard boundaries of documentation, using video memory to transform and transcend the signal of the original experience. Using art as an antennae, Schleyer and Earls have tuned in to one another's frequencies. Sur la Plage is the live broadcast of theirrelease from the seduction of superficiality and excavation of a deeper, more universal expression.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
She uses form and art making as a hybrid experience, an assemblage of raw elements (images, actions, rhythms, words, and decors) so as to create impure, unsafe, chaotic and hybrid sensual experiences and environments. These fiction pieces attempt to unhinge surreal perceptions of objects and subjects, and question how one connects to art content through ambiguous virtual/non virtual "montages".
Beatrice Von Rague Schleyer began performing as a gogo dancer/ clubkid at age 15 in NYC nightclubs. Since 2002, she has worked internationally as a fire dancer and self-styled costumed entertainer. She is currently presenting her own blend of avant garde dance performance; permutations of confrontation, aggression, eroticism, grotesquery, and sublimation. Her work incorporates Ankoku Butoh - 暗黒舞踏 - The dance of total darkness. She has performed with the Vangeline theater since 2012, and has primarily been training in Butoh with Vangeline. She has studied with other Butoh luminaries such as Natsu Nakajima, Yumiko Yoshioka, Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, and Tetsuro Fukuhara. Beatrice has also cultivated a vocabulary of street/social dances (house, hip hop, vogue, and whacking) with legends such as Archie Burnett, Sekou Heru, Kim Holmes, Marjory Smarth, Brian Green, and Tweet Boogie.
BeatriceVonRagueSchleyer.com
Performing : Sur la Plage
Sur la Plage is a collaboration between the vision and video witness of Ant Earls and the butoh and body of Beatrice von Rague Schleyer. In presenting this work, Beatrice will dance with projections of Ant 's impressionist arrangement of footage from a day they shared this summer by the ocean in France. Their collaborative offering deconstructs the standard boundaries of documentation, using video memory to transform and transcend the signal of the original experience. Using art as an antennae, Schleyer and Earls have tuned in to one another's frequencies. Sur la Plage is the live broadcast of theirrelease from the seduction of superficiality and excavation of a deeper, more universal expression.
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
Henrik Heinonen [Finland]
Henrik Heinonen is a London-based artist and a facilitator of social interventions. Most recently he has been organising ongoing series of social interventions called Black Metal Chicken, where artists, writers and other lost souls can experiment with the limitations of their practice and find new possibilities for failure.
As an artist he is interested in language, social interaction and the presumably social media as a sites of production of identity and subjectivity, and finding ways to hack these utterances of power to find their inner mechanics. Often this requires loud noises.
henrikheinonen.tumblr.com
Performing : TV Head
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
As an artist he is interested in language, social interaction and the presumably social media as a sites of production of identity and subjectivity, and finding ways to hack these utterances of power to find their inner mechanics. Often this requires loud noises.
henrikheinonen.tumblr.com
Performing : TV Head
@ PANIC SERMONS ACT 2 - SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
