Modern Panic VII
Live Artists
In alphabetical order
Philip Bedwell
[UK]
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Philip Bedwell is a London based Performance Artist. His background is one of physicality, having an upbringing in a manual labour household and taking an interest in the Martial Arts. Bedwell then took to Professional Wrestling which he turned into a now twenty year career, wrestling throughout Europe and America. As injuries began to take their toll, he has explored other avenues to express his artistry. To disassemble what he knew about how to entertain and emote. To take singular movements from a whole and explore individual actions and their implications.
He has also explored the realms of cabaret with Marisa Carnesky's Tarot Drome and burlesque with the Double R Club and the regular show Boylexe. However, since meeting his partner Hellen Burrough, Bedwell has started to work in Performance Art to explore themes which are significant to him. lyingprone.wordpress.com Performing: Adaptation Using brick, stone and building debris, Bedwell will place his body on these surfaces. Bedwell will crush and twist against them for a duration whilst the spectators can watch his struggle and his adaptation. Adaptation is a call to action, a call to adapt and transform. A realisation that you don't ever have to accept a state of discomfort and you can rise above it, become stronger than it. Panic Ephemeral : Thursday, October 6th Performing: Reconciliation A partner piece to the durational work "Adaption", Reconciliation shows how we are marked by experiences. A meditation on how we find peace within ourselves and wear our achievements and failings. Reconciliation is a piece combining body, breathwork, yoga, stone and charcoal. Panic Sermons Act II : Wednesday, October 12th |
Esther Bunting
[UK]
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Esther Bunting is a performance and movement artist, writer, event organiser and life model. She has been evolving her signature Girl in Suitcase performance since 2009, recently exploring the life cycle of woman, ancient Goddess culture, and reclaiming menstrual rites. In 2010 she created Spirited Bodies to provide a platform for women to try life modelling in a safe environment, and gain a new sense of embodiment. This project has developed to include men on occasion, and is very much a healing and model-centred event.
She is a physical artist who is passionate about feminism, and enjoys creating Temporary Autonomous Zones, particularly with like-minded souls, in order to transcend the every day. These may involve unplanned public nudity, display of menstrual blood, and connection with natural sites. estherbunting.com Performing: Girl in Suitcase Girl in Suitcase is an ever-evolving performance that uses interactive theatre, the naked body, movement, and life art to engage an audience in the investigation of feminist concerns. Violence against women is confronted directly, aligned with objectification of women, juxtaposed with the potential empowerment available to women now. The show includes autobiographical aspects of my own life; my relationship to my body, men, live menstrual blood, and wider feminist issues. Structured around the journey of woman’s life. The performance has two parts: objectification and reclamation of the body. Panic Sermons Act I : Sunday, October 9th |
Georg Bütow
[Germany]
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Bütow was born in Berlin and worked in German theatre since 2008. He works for SIGNA, Vegard Vinge, Thomas Bo Nilsson ,and travels a lot around Europe working. Bütow directs and execute sperformance and live art as well. IHe has been in London for two years (with interruptions working at big places in Germany), and has an MA degree from Cenral Saint Martins, UAL. The latest piece CULT was shown on a festival in Germany and tours London, Portugal and Berlin in fall. Bütow mixes matters of love, art, opera, dance, video, theatre.
thereasonthatyouca.wix.com/geebuetow Performing: CULT CULT is a mixture of performance painting, sound installation and dance. Audience and performers find themselves in an enclosed space, and the performance goes on until audience rips apart the set and leaves. The piece shows contemporary society as a religious cult for money. After announcing a new society of brotherhood, with a speech by a Mexican medicine man, and the thoughts of the speech are brought into physical movement by dancers, they get slaughtered by an occult archaic masked priest. As the story evolves the mechanism runs until the audience emancipates themselves and leave the system. |
FoolishPeople
[UK]
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John Harrigan is a writer, director and performer. He is a founder of FoolishPeople http://www.foolishpeople.com and is one of the earliest pioneers of immersive theatre.
FoolishPeople's work centres on the creation of film, ritual theatre, and installation art with an aim to raise a numinous experience within the witness. His first feature film ‘Strange Factories’ was released in 2013, touring around independent cinemas across the UK, and is available via VHX.com. His theatre work has been commissioned by the BBC, ICA and Secret Cinema and produced across conventional theatres like Arcola Theatre, galleries and other site-specific venues. FoolishPeople's latest successful project was headlining theatre at Wilderness Festival in August '15 with an original site-specific project 'Woods Trapped at the Edge of Midnight'. He also wrote a piece for the book 'The Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies' entitled ‘The Sacred Theatre of Summarise’, looking at the ritual life of the inhabitants of 'The Wicker Man'’s Summerisle from the perspective of the form of theatre they practice. John Harrigan founded FoolishPeople in 1989. Over a number of years, FoolishPeople has developed ‘Theatre of Manifestation’, a form of ritual theatre that combines mythology, shamanism, drama therapy, strategic forecasting and open source collaboration. They create dreamlike worlds that living characters inhabit, allowing for an intimate interaction with art that can be a powerful, compelling and liberating experience. Harrigan's work explores the inherent truth that each life holds, exploring our relationship with the numinous that haunts the liminal spaces of humanity and culture. foolishpeople.com Performing: S E X A N G E L Candidates are asked to complete a questionnaire exploring their sexual boundaries and participate in a summoning ritual. Panic Sermons Act I : Sunday, October 9th |
Dunja Kuhn
[Germany]
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German born artist Kuhn is a Guinness World Record holding hula hoopist, cabaret performer and actress. She has performed on stages in Germany, UK, Italy, Turkey, Spain, India, Poland, and France. Her performances are a mixture of dark comedy, surrealism, a touch of burlesque, hula hoops and are quite often fuelled with blood.
dunjakuhn.com Performing: Jesus Rising A gruesome and chilling side-show act, full of blaspehmy in which Dunja performs with a barbed wired hula hoop. The only hula hoop performer world wide to do this. Panic Sermons Act I : Sunday, October 9th |
Lyndsey Lupe
[UK]
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Lyndsey Lupe is a musician & multi-disciplinary artist based in London, UK.
After studying Photography, Art & Political Sciences in Greater Manchester, Lupe relocated to London nine years ago in pursuit of creative endeavours. After spending four years performing vocals and guitar for art-punk band Arrows of Love (Debut LP 'Everything's Fucked' was released 2014 on London DIY label 1-2-3-4 Records), Lupe relocated to Berlin, before returning to London in early 2015. A staunch socialist and vegan, political themes often appear in Lupe's work, perhaps the notable being a short film about the UK Housing Crisis for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign last year. More political films are in the pipeline for 2017. Her directorial debut 'GAG' (a no-wave experimental short with regular collaborator Katia Ganfield) was recently shortlisted for the first annual 'EYE WANT CHANGE' Awards. This September saw Lupe's musical collaboration with EUANWHOSARMY aka Massive Attack's Robert '3D' Del Naja and Euan Dickinson, which features on the new Tricky record - 'The Obia EP', a collection of tracks curated by Tricky to provide a platform for emerging artists. A regular performer at London artist Conrad Armstrong's Sunday Service events, Lupe has spent the last year developing herself as a performance artist with the use of mixed-media, incorporating film, performance and live music composition. Performing: Exit Wound Symphony (with Venus Raven + Belle Atrix) Panic Sermons Act II : Wednesday, October 12th |
James Edward Marks
[UK]
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Psy.ch.Fi [ Si-k-Fi ] - The Finest Pop Culture Reference (Sci-Fi, Sci-Fact, Psych & Cyberdelia) Art Experiences. We're an Alt. breed of immersive interactive tech creators. Exploring beyond the traditional frame & sensory boundaries, experimenting with human communication, engagement, perception, empathy & space, through visual-sonic hacks: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Holograms & 360 Social Video.
psychfi.com Performing: Hackstock #HackThePlanet VR & R.I.S.E. Robots In Search Of Ecstasy VR Inspired by Alt, counter culture, psychedelia, sci-fi & sci-fact, including artists Simon Boswell, Revenge of Calculon, Harald Grosskopf, counter culture guru Timothy Leary, claysplotation wizard Lee Hardcastle. Panic Ephemeral : Thursday, October 6th |
Jim Racine
[UK]
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Racine’s work exists mainly as bronze sculpture, drawing and etching. The bronzes are entirely made by himself. Subjects are varied, often hinging around a 'grand theme' or original stimulus, locating a key creative point between creation and destruction where complex but balanced compositions culminate in the exquisite cultural fetish called art. It is increasingly hermetic and challenging, from the sublime to the ludicrous. The artist strives to make good sculpture outside or ahead of fashion, as current is already past in his estimation and sculpture is its own specialized field of study, not simply a 3D art object placed in an oversubscribed context but something far more exacting and demanding of the artist and viewer.
Racon studied at Byam Shaw and the renowned De Ateliers in the Nederlands in 1991 and a specialised study of bronze making under Richard Rome at the Royal College of Art in London UK graduating in 2001, a national prize winning artist, he has lectured art in UK colleges and shown internationally. He is currently setting up a new ceramic shell bronze casting studio at the superlative artist foundry of Butley Mill Studios in Suffolk. Racine specializes in casting the 'uncastable' and takes on casting, fabrication and restoration project for artists and designers. hkbronzestudio.wix.com/jim-racine-bronzes Performing: Aherm Aherm is a ‘herm’ a clearing of the throat in embarrassment or a Hermes figure of ancient lore, a ‘green man or knight. a figure of forested myth and literature, a deep seated icon not only in the western human crepuscular psyche. it is an expression of creativity, an ambiguous disquiet of light and dark and always thankfully of subversion. Panic Ephemeral : Thursday, October 6th |
Natalie Ramus
[UK]
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Natalie Ramus was born in 1984 and grew up in Nelson, South Wales but now lives in Hay on Wye. Natalie graduated from Hereford College of Art and Design in 2015 where she achieved first class Fine Art BA (hons) and was awarded the Meadow Arts Graduate Prize. She has since completed MFA at Cardiff School of Art and Design, (Sept 2016).
Ramus has exhibited and performed both in Wales and in London, with her most recent performance at Tempting Failure CIC in July 2016. Natalie has also been selected for New Art West Midlands which will see her work displayed in Birmingham in 2017. natalieramus.com Performing: It Doesn't Fit Anymore ‘It Doesn’t Fit Anymore’ is a response to the various roles Ramus plays in her life as mother, wife and artist; and the boundaries and tension that exists between them. The wedding dress: a symbol of the domestic goddess and subservient wife that she grew up to idolise through role play as a child. It is ironic that herwedding dress that I wore in 2007 is now two sizes too small; not only does the dress not fit, but she don't fit into the role that the cumbersome restrictive dress symbolises. A tumble dryer: the tool of the domestic goddess. A sledge hammer: the man's tool, weighing 7lb - the weight of an average British baby. Panic Sermons Act II : Wednesday, Ocrober 12th |
Venus Raven
[Greece]
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Venus Raven is a multidisciplinary artist, working in theatre, film, photography and music. Performance art credits include Panic Sermons/Modern
Panic III & IV (Apiary Studios), Untouchable Casa Nostra & Purgatory Flesh (Flying Dutchman), Project Alpha Omega Alpha Parts I & II (The Unicorn & the Islington), Fantasia (Resistance Gallery), and Eros Autopsy (Etcetra Theatre). Performing: Exit Wound Symphony The performance will be exploring themes of togetherness and separation and the nature of creator as both a parental figure and potential annihilator through the extremes of fear and faith brutally and precariously intertwined. The three performers will be using their bodies and numerous tools as musical instruments that can give birth to a haunting polyphony of intentions, both benevolent and malevolent, exploring the nature of torture and how it can become a path to unison. Two of the performers will be bound to each other with needles attached to ribbons and guitar strings. A third performer will act as the force choreographing the duet, the Torturer Orchestrator, a sadistic maestro utilizing the lovers’ bodies to create eerie soundscapes. Through the use of contact microphones, needles, guitar strings, wind chimes, handsaws and other objects, she will be creating sounds by turning flesh into a bleeding instrument, enduring and fueling a transfiguring suffering. With plastic bags placed around their heads, the lovers’ induced asphyxiation will give birth to hope in the aftermath of desperation, forming a dance of trust and power that will unfold through syncopated breaths merged into the sonic tapestry, a lullaby sang in a prolonged insidious whisper, a shared prayer to soothe the inevitable separation that will ensue when the needles eventually leave the flesh to reveal the blood flow. The music recorded during the session will be played in a loop, becoming the only remnant of what has transpired, the bodies eventually left to trace the past through the flesh born soundscapes, writhing in a polyphony of sounds and their exit wounds. Panic Sermons Act II : Wednesday, October 12th |
Robert Reynolds
[UK]
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The retail industry has had a huge impact on Reynolds' life and his creative outlook. Selling products to customers, for him, is my way of giving back to the public within a capitalist world. Reynolds has spent a lot of time searching a perfect niche between having a socialist outlook in a capitalist world. His work goes along this narrative and brings to life these experiences within his life and mind. Reynolds explores this theme by using visual arts as his medium as it allows him to open up to the public and shows where he stands within his life.
honestlyanartist.com Performing: ZONING It is an intense confrontation between the artist and their capitalist alter ego who are constantly berating themselves with condescending, business, work related questions. The artist replies to the alter ego with roboticized single word phrases, which are a kin to the idea of the purpose, built white-collar worker. The repetition of questions and answers is meditative and, ‘ZONING’ indicates to a trance-like state of which the worker has now become ‘zoned’ in his mind and his business. Panic Sermons Act II : Wednesday, October 12th |
Sakurako
[France]
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Although Sakurako was trained as a conceptual & visual artist, she also has been practicing martial arts and various dance and movement techniques after the graduation from the Fine Arts. She studied a contemporary Japanese dance Butoh and the traditional Noh theatre with various masters around the Europe and in Japan: Noh theatre with Naohiko Umewaka & butoh with Yumiko Yoshioka, Ko Murobushi, Masaki Iwana, Yukio Waguri, Atsushi Takenouchi, Natsu Nakajima, etc.
Sakurako creates live performances balancing on the edge between performance art, theatre and dance. Since 2011 her main practice remains Butoh & dance theatre, although she also works with photography, video ad installations. The works are conceptual with strong visual elements where the main focus is on presence and the authenticity of movements and gestures. The human condition is the main subject matter of her works as an ongoing investigation of the body/mind/spirit phenomena. sakurakoparis.wix.com/sakurako Performing: Corsonor “Corsonor” is a solo by Sakurako with music by Phil Von. The piece is exposing something what is normally left unseen, although it is a regular occurrence within every human being. “Corsonor” presents an exaggeration of an internal struggle of every individual between one’s mental constructions and the emotional responses to that, balancing at the edge of sanity. Do our deepest emotions of fear, despair or euphoric joy have anything to do with reality as it is or external stimuli? What are the voices we have ongoing silent dialogues with? Is insanity just an intensified manifestation of our daily condition? Panic Sermons Act I : Sunday, October 9th |
Olivia Frances Stagg
[UK]
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Stagg has just completed her Masters in Fine Art in June at University of Reading where she hadmy BA as well.
She has done small shows at the Horse Hospital in London and Beaconsfield as well as a venue in Reading like the Rising Sun and The Takeaway Gallery. In Stagg's live performances, she explores restrictions of the human body. Using the skeletons of everyday objects, she thinks about ways in which her body can get inside it, which prevents sight and human movement. Stagg performs usually from instinct and allow the performance to grow within the restraints she creates herself. oliviafrancesstagg.wordpress.com Performing: Secondhand Panic Ephemeral : Thursday, October 6th |
Syban
[UK]
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Syban is a performance artist from hell. Born in London but having bled and created allover the globe, from such diverse places as London to Dubai, Tokyo to Berlin, and America to Amsterdam. She creates chaos on a global scale. Trained in ballet and costume and the art of sharp things. Using Performance art, wrapped up in ballet shoes and exquisite costumes and medical aspects, as a mean of exorcism and transformation is a core essential part of the SYBAN performance experience. A storm of ritualistic dark magic, avant-garde costume, exorcisms, blood and despair. A blend of beautiful surgery and horrifying dance, Syban will presents pieces that to tap into your inner chaos and wake up your inner demons.
Performing: The exorcism of M. This piece uses the body as object and through ritual, uses blood and pain as manifestation of power. It is a visual emotional and dramatic representation showing how our dark sides come from with in us, chain us down, debilitate us and we drown in our sadnessess but then use them to paint new powerful images of ourselves, translating our trauma, and through exorcism turning it into something powerful and beautiful. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. And she who does it in public will draw you in and drown you in her chaos. Panic Sermons Act II : Wednesday, October 12th |
Apple Tart
[UK]
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Elizabeth Sandford Richardson, other wise know as Apple Tart is a Performance artist working with a cross range of mediums, including experimental darkroom photography ‘Performergrams,’ Lenticulars, Digital Holography and Live Performance. The performance captures the idea of photography, subsequently refining a visual and conceptual vocabulary that emerged through the focus on using holography and lenticulars performativity. Challenging the notion of what can be seen as a performance space.
the-s-r.com Performing: Granny Smith, Make tea, not love. Panic Ephemeral : Thursday, October 6th |
Twice Shy Theatre
[UK]
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“The closer you get to the light, the darker the shadow becomes.” Plato
In a world filled with darkness, Twice Shy Theatre delve into the shadows in search of light. Mixing shadow puppetry, improvised narrative and dark, live electronic music, Travelling Through Shadows aims to shift and unsettle the consciousness by taking verbatim fears and neuroses from audience members and weaving them into a hypnotic fable, steeped in archetypal imagery and designed to deepen understanding and offer resolution where discord and confusion exist. Zoie Kennedy is an actress and story-teller on a pioneering quest to explore the healing power of story. Desmond O’Connor is a multi-award winning composer and musician. Drew Colby is an internationally renowned shadow puppeteer who has been thrilling audiences with his work for over 30 years. Together they will take the Modern Panic audience on a shared journey whose route and destination will only be discovered with every step that is taken. facebook.com/TwiceShyTheatre Performing: In Umbra Panic Sermons Act I : Sunday, October 9th |
Hannah Whittaker
[UK]
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Whittaker is a London-based performance maker, creating interactive installations, one on one encounters and digital performances. The form of her work may fluctuate from high-tech digital installations to very basic one to one encounters, but her focus is always on creating an experience for an audience member. She concentrates on interactivity, between an audience member and either an interface or herself.
hannahwhittaker.com Performing: Natal (Idea in Gestation) Panic Sermons Act I : Sunday, October 9th |
