Modern Panic VII
Live Artists
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. lyingprone.wordpress.com Performing 'Defensive Wounds' on Oct 14th at Panic Sermons I A powerfully vulnerable and visceral exploration of assault. |
Jasmine Dhingra [Switzerland]
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Jasmine Dhingra was born in India, grew up in Switzerland and is currently studying in London. She uses multiple mediums including dance, performance art and film, to explore her interest in social interaction, body language and movement. She has a distinct aesthetic and her controversial performances are sculpted to provoke discussion.
Performing 'Eclipse' on Oct 21st at Panic Sermons II. A personality scrutinised through layers and cracks with a violent liberation. |
Penelope Harrall [UK]
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Born in 1994, Penelope is a recent graduate from Cambridge School of
Art with a First Class BA(hons) in Fine Art. Primarily through the media of video and live art, Harrall uses and emphasises her own body, a reoccurring motif throughout her work, whether it be obviously present or not, Exploring the possibilities of the body she addresses the desirability of the female form, the objectification we witness everyday in the media and the humiliation we have all felt due to our 'imperfections'. penelope-harrall.com Performing 'Plastic Perfection' on Oct 14th at Panic Sermon One. Statistics show that over fifty-one thousand cosmetic surgical procedures were performed last year. In this piece, Harrall's morphing human appearance offers a grotesque, twisted version of ‘perfection’. |
Campbell McConnell [UK]
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Campbell Mcconnell works in a variety of methods including mixed media and performance. His performances regularly question notions of consumerism and the relationship between art and live entertainment. Humor is an important aspect of his work, a tool that he uses to provide a different perspective on some of the more serious ideas he explores. Language, communication and absurdity are themes that run throughout his practice. Some of the works create a lie within themselves, or a false vision, these works use many different truths to create a new combined truth.
campbellmcconnell.wixsite.com/-art Performing 'Campbell Soup' on Oct 14th at Panic Sermon One. Having enjoyed the consumerism of Campbell soup before he could walk, yet again the artist would like to be blessed and anointed. |
Marnie Scarlet [UK]
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Marnie Scarlet is a unique multi media artist. Marnie creates performance pieces, wearable art and fine art pieces. Her preferred media is latex, but often recycled items and fabrics will also be used, such as hypodermic needles used in her shows or used make-up wipes. She blends Drag, Fetish, Art and Cabaret together into a heady mix, with which she has travelled the globe. She is part of Art Society Soho and also has had work on display at Cultivate, StopJectify, Modern Panic and Sweet ‘Art exhibitions, she was also featured in the Game Face art Exhibition, and Marnie will also be part of this years FemFest art exhibit.
marniescarlet.com Performing 'Birds' on Oct 12th at Panic Ephemeral. A beautiful, delicate act of violence, light as a feather. |
Skinny-Red Art [Poland]
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Since she can remember, Skinny-Red was fascinated by multiple art disciplines infused together. In her creations, she manipulates the art of Shibari and aerial to articulate something deep, primal and impulsive within herself. While harnessing a degree of control, the expression illustrates a feeling or a narrative too powerful to verbalize.
Her methods include: Physical Theatre, Shibari, Aerial and Visual Arts. One of the pioneers of UK self-suspension rope performance, Kasia 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. Recently graduated from Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice. skinny-art.co.uk Performing 99+ on Oct 21st at Panic Sermon Two A dynamic exploration of sexual abuse within a relationship, and its pernicious shockwaves though the self. |
Melanie Menard [France]
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Melanie Menard works across photography, video, digital, and performance. The interests underlying all her work are the tensions between the individual and the place and circumstances they inhabit, and the human mind in conflict with itself. In any chosen media, she designs
an aesthetic representing an individual's thought processes, using a precisely crafted audio-visual mood and rhythm to trap the audience into their subjective experience. I trained as a visual artist at Camberwell College of Art, as a jazz and cabaret singer with Paul Sand, and in extended vocal performance with Jon Stancato . www.melaniemenard.com Performing 'Tricyclic Transform' on Oct 21 at Panic Sermon Two. A questioning of gender identities and restrictive social norms through alt- drag cabaret. |
Adam Paroussos [UK]
Venus Raven and Lucius Vesperades
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dam Paroussos is an interdisciplinary sound artist and designer. Under the alter-ego 'Bamboo Mustard', he performs as half (bamboo) instrument, half human in the cracks and corners of London, embodying raw and primal audio energy. Natural material and up-cycled scrap has been scavenged and reconstructed into self-made instruments for spontaneous music making. Bamboo Mustard invites the audience to join in with the free-form music improvisation with a collection of DIY instruments to create a communal cacophony.
http://adammk25.wixsite.com/adamparoussos Performing 'Bamboo Mustard' on Oct 14th at Panic Sermon One. "I no longer need to take LSD after that performance..." - unnamed audience member (Jam in a Jar) |
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Venus Raven is a seasoned performance artist with a track record of
stunning, shocking and macabre performances. She's performed in many places and at an array of events, including Torture Garden, C O V E N, Supersatanic Saturdays, Ich Will, earlier incarnations of Modern Panic, to name but a few. Lucius Vesperades is an experimental performance artist and musician. He has performed at a number of events including C O V E N, Psycho Ward, Dirty Diana and Supersatanic Saturdays, leaving behind a trail of pitch-black blood and glitter. facebook.com/VenusRaven1/ facebook.com/VenomBlackWidow/ Performing on Oct 14th at Panic Sermon One. |
Jylle Navarro and Apple Tart [UK]
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Jylle Navarro is a London based experimental, unisex knitwear designer and artist, known for her bold and experimental use of neon colours and UV lights.
Apple Tart is a London born performance artist, neo-burlesque, drag king and mime. Forever synthesising gender and age, Tart's showgirl nature has disgraced the stage in an array of late night laser light and cabaret freak shows. Tart's skills range from contemporary dance to laser light costume and clowning and she is always ready to delight an audience with her offensive charm. www.jyllenavarro.co.uk https://www.the-s-r.com/appletart Performing 'Neon Geisha' on Oct 12th at Panic Ephemeral. A dazzling burlesque inspired performance looking at traditional geisha dress and transforming it into a futuristic aesthetic explosion of colour and light. |
Isn'tses
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Masked duo clashing harsh noise with noise folk, using a setup of DIY synths, circuit bending, processed vocals, phone apps, loops and live video hardware. Isn'tses adhere only to a mythical structure of textured sound and auditory fullness, expanded vocals and emotional valences. This audiovisual collaboration between Listen Lisse and Cementimental have recently performed at numerous festivals around Europe, and on air, and they have released numerous live and studio recordings on their own bandcamp page and as hand-crafted cassette editions.
https://www.isntses.co.uk Performing on Oct 12th at Panic Ephemeral. A provocative, roaming guerrilla style masked performance using hand made electronics, circuit bent synth boxes, wearable speakers and transportable electronic devices. |
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London born, half Italian, half Venezuelan, Syban is a fashion and costume designer/maker and international performer. Her performances consciously push the body to its limits and beyond, testing the boundary between brutality and beauty.
http://www.sybansyban.com/ Performing 'Autonomy' on Oct 21st at Panic Sermon Two. A piece exploring the relationship between the body, the self, and concepts of pain. Through ceremonial and controlled pain, the passage to somewhere else opens, using the body as a vessel. |
Twice Shy Theatre
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Twice Shy Theatre aim to produce challenging and innovative theatre and live art and to bring creative minds together in support and discussion. Zoie Kennedy is an actress, puppeteer, poet, director, artist, producer, writer and founder/Artistic Director of Twice Shy Theatre. Desmond O'Connor is an internationally renowned, award winning writer, composer, producer and performer.
http://www.twiceshytheatre.com/ Performing on Oct 12th at Panic Ephemeral. Reimagining a 13th Century myth to make sense of 21st Century madness, Twice Shy Theatre continue their use of puppetry, storytelling and music to create an unsettling platform upon which to explore an uncomfortable theme. |
Luke Jordan
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Luke Jordan's works take many forms; experimental sound, live performance, installation, sculpture, photography and video; often combining many of these elements. He works collaboratively with various artists, performers and musicians, instigating various projects and events which encourage a merging or negation of artistic disciplines, taking place in both institutional and non-institutional spaces. He speculates upon the temporality of the human as one among many decaying material forms, haunted by imagined pasts and futures, communications with the unknown, and by the vast unknowable.
http://lukerichardjordan.blogspot.co.uk/ Performing on Oct 12th at Panic Ephemeral unstill life / the malice of animate objects. A lunatic mythology, a frenzied hoard of corrupt forms, grotesque entanglements and decaying matter. Bastard materialisations and invocations of a hallucinatory world, manifested by a raging demiurge / unclean spirit / degenerate fool / demon of the irrational. The cacophony and malice of animate objects. |
Amy Statik
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Amy Statik, established costume designer and international performance artist, uses her skills in costume and design to synthesise otherworldly and freakish pieces which blur the line between costume and cabaret and are as beautiful as they are disturbing.
http://amystatik.portfoliobox.me/ Performing 'The Death of Aquarius' on Oct 21st at Panic Sermon Two. Reborn from the ashes of an old performance piece, all that remains is the dress and the body transformed and purged anew. |
