Modern Panic IX
Live Artists
Linda Anne, Jasmine Dhingra and Courtney Laine [USA/CH]
Linda is a glass artist and painter. She is fascinated with the glass making process which allows raw materials to become something so different than their original form via exposure to extreme temperatures. She explores herself, her connection to the world, and seeks to find beauty through her artwork. Courtney Laine is a multidisciplinary performance designer and artist recently graduated from Central Saint Martins. Her work embraces experimentation using a wide range of techniques and materials applied to various forms of performance. Her final designs leave an impression of transformation and spectacle. Jasmine Dhingra is a London-based performer who just graduated from Central Saint Martins. Jasmine uses mediums such as dance, music, live art and film to explore her interest in societal norms and kinesics. Jasmine has a distinct aesthetic, developing and collaborating on projects sculpted to provoke discussion.
insta: @the_art_of_linda_anne courtneylaine.co.uk jasminedhingra.com Performing 'Chain Reactions' on Nov 17th at Panic Sermons Act I Chain Reactions began life as Linda’s concept for a sculpture series, before she and Courtney adapted it into a short film. Jasmine’s background in performance art will allow Chain Reactions to adapt once again - this time in front of a live audience. Chain Reactions, in all its forms, focuses on creating a dialogue around identifying and breaking our chains. These handmade glass chains represent anything that bind, hold back, or limit. The journey in this performance follows the performer as she is entangled, struggling whilst enchained, followed by a violent extraction to break free. Chain Reactions is about inspiring people to attain freedom from their chains, whatever they may be, and to use those elements to fuel their future growth. |
Philip Bedwell [UK]
Philip is a London based live artist. He is currently exploring masculinity, physicality and mutation of masculine archetypes.
lyingprone.wordpress.com Performing 'Accepting Gravity' on Nov 17th at Panic Sermons Act I Resistance or Acceptance? Self Belief or Self Delusion? The will to struggle against the inevitable. |
Black Arrows (Alice Karveli) [Greece]
Alice Karveli (originally from Athens, based in London since 2014) is an interdisciplinary mixed media artist, working with painting, drawing, collage, photography, installation, music, dance and with a focus on performance, both live and on film, with sculptural elements, hypnotic soundscapes and a visceral kinaesthetic approach, using the body and as medium and material. She is interested in the use of art as transformational tool, and the works often become rites to facilitating esoteric work: transforming psychological and physical pain into compassion, protective and creative power, exorcising fears, and integrating aspects of the shadow-self in a process of liberating the true self. In doing so, the goal is also to create transformational rites the viewer can project upon, thus potentially instigating an analogous transformational process within them-selves. She has exhibited in Greece since 2009 and England since 2014, with solo exhibitions in Athens (2013 & 2014) and in London (2017).
alice-karveli.co.uk Performing 'The Portal Wound' on Nov 18th at Panic Sermons Act II Emotionally and spiritually, the most significant things that happen to us are double-edged. The happiest experience can hold tremendous darkness on the other side of its coin, when its brightest moment passes, leaving only the memory. That pain however, can be beautiful and instructive of one's own strength and ability to endure, to heal. This piece attempts to embody the metabolic processing of an emotional and spiritual ordeal in life. Through a consciously undertaken physical ordeal, the physical pain serves as an emblem and channel of release for emotional and mental pain, which through a process of surrender and acceptance, is effectively turned into strength, wisdom and possibility for new growth. An act of letting go. |
Beatrix Carlotta [USA]
Beatrix Carlotta is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, theatre designer, writer and producer with a background in fine art and fashion from New York who then continued her art education and professional work in performance design and production in London. Her company 'Fetish Theatre' uses physical theatre plays to discuss lifestyle kink, and her cabaret and conceptual work also heavily use storytelling and costume dramatics to discuss the psychology of fetishism, fantasy, human movement and behavior.
facebook.com/Beatrix-Carlotta-220006873542 Performing 'Smile' on Nov 18th at Panic Sermons Act II ‘Smile’ is a costume drama discussing unrest and panic around female sexuality, fertility, mental illness and stigmatization, which uses surreal imagery and costume art demonstrating societal expectation and confinement of emotion. |
Miss Hernia [UK]
Artist Biography coming soon.
instagram.com/misshernia Performing “Trash Potato” and “Discharge Sandwich” on Nov 18th at Panic Sermons Act II Miss HerNia will be taking to the stage to serenade you with her hyper horrible phlegm-pop performances including “Trash Potato” and “Discharge Sandwich”. Don’t miss the flavoursome fatberg princess and friends swirl you into submission until your squirming for more! Follow her path toward enlightenment |
Victoria Karlsson [Sweden]
Victoria Karlsson is a sound artist interested in the emotional and subjective aspects of sound and art. Investigating sound as both an inner and outer experience, she explores how we think about, remember, dream about sounds, and how this influences our experiences of sounds in our everyday. She is currently undertaking a PhD Research Degree at University of the Arts, London. Her research investigates sounds in thoughts, asking if we hear sounds in our minds, what they mean to us and where they come from.
victoriakarlsson.co.uk Performing 'Aural Séance' Nov 17th at Panic Sermons Act I Join us for an Aural Séance, where we will channel and call forward the hidden sounds of our minds. Together, we will explore our subliminal inner landscapes in search of sounds. |
Jylle Navarro and Neon Naked Life Drawing [UK]
Neon Naked is an immersive UV experience creating a colourful twist on a traditional idea. It has developed over 2 years with nearly 50 classes and is now happening continuously every Monday. The life drawing class was created and taught by the then fashion designer and now artist Jylle Navarro. She graduated from her BA Fashion degree 5 years ago and since then has completed a number collections speciallising in knitwear and print design. She specialised in looking at unusual reactive materials, using a bold contrasting colour scheme. She developed her work from fashion to go into many other areas such as festival, burlesque and costume design as well as creative direction for photography and music videos. She is now studying at Central Saint Martins in an MA in Art and Science where she plans to further her work and learn more about the reactions of UV light with fluorescent and neon colours.
neonnaked.com jyllenavarro.co.uk Performing 'Neon Naked Life Drawing presents Immersive Projections' on Nov 16th at Panic Ephemeral An immersive life drawing class with a live model using UV lights and projected imagery, using neon reactive materials and body paints. |
Aepril Schaile [USA]
Aepril Schaile is an Dancer, Poet, and Performing Artist. She is an astrologer and owner of Aepril’s Arcana, producing an astrology based oracle/forecast called The Nuit Report. She is a practicing Witch and Thelemite and lives between Salem, MA, USA and Ireland. Aepril holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art.
aeprilschaile.com Performing 'Lucid Dream Chamber' on Nov 16th at Panic Ephemeral “Lucid Dream Chamber”, an interactive, intimate, contained environment creating a shared lucid dream experience. A shamanic working where the astral and physical meet. |
Austin Sherlaw-Johnson [UK]
Austin Sherlaw-Johnson Is a composer and performance artist who works in a variety of media. He has recently completed a doctoral research at Oxford Brookes University, titled “What Use is Music in an Ocean of Sound? Towards an object-orientated arts practice”.
austinsherlawjohnson.com Performing 'Monument for a Dead Poet' on Nov 16th at Panic Ephemeral |
Snake Fervor and 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.
facebook.com/snakefervor Performing 'Bloody Sundays' on Nov 17th at Panic Sermon Act I Snake Fervor and Ian the Bloody Poet combine forces to bring to life an excerpt from Ian’s book ‘Bones’ in a debut piece, tackling issues of mental health and societal pressures with the aim of challenging the audiences own perception of these issues and the effect society has on mental health. 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.
sybansyban.com/ Performing on Nov 16th at Panic Ephermeral |
Graduated from the art school of Aix en Provence, he won the first prize for artistic creation in 2009 for the french national program Envie d'agir. Then, he founded Bookobsa, performing arts company and became its artistic director. His work is based on scenography and performance using various materials and techniques such as shadow theatre, dance and sculpture. Visual artist, he considers his work on shadows as a pictorial material, non-existent and in motion. Freely inspired by artistic trends such as English Romanticism, as well as Futurism, his installations, once staged generate a visual strength and process ephemeral paintings out of any frame. Through his performances, he shows dreams, like Robertson's phantasmagoria. His luminous choreographies make it possible to explore the time of an image, all the aspects of an object in representation: opacity, transparency, and chromatic universes. He enjoys the absences and stages "The back of the scenery". Live-composed, each images, atmospheres are mixed with each other in order to create in each of the spectators sensations that are uniquely relevant to them.
Performing 'Lucifer' Nov 18th at Panic Sermon Act II Lucifer is an ambivalent work, first exhibited, then performed 1 / Visual and sound sculpture, it works alone and out of control in the middle of the audience. Autonomous, mobile and amplified mechanical machine, it needs to exist a dark room. Composed, among other things, of mirrors, irons and glasses, it uses the materials that compose it and the laws of optics. Active work with dominant tendencies, it is composed by and re-presented itself. 2 / Transfigured, the piece becomes a tool, the main character of the performance. Used as a control station by the performer (light carrier), it turns as scenographic witness from piece of art. Noisy shards, colourful parades of shadows, frescoes out of walls and intoxicating paintings, the shadows come to life from the ground to the ceiling and die at the borders of your imagination. |
Natalie Wearden [UK]
Natalie Wearden works across visual art and performance. They interested in queer intimacies and ways of being okay alone. The work is often productive or destructive and could be described as ritual, rite of passage or a space for transformation or transition. They work often collaboratively, in and through spaces with others. They work with the body and with physical materials. Natalie has exhibited and performed internationally including at The Royal Academy in London. Natalie's work was recently featured on Edinburgh Nights on BBC2.
nataliewearden.co.uk Performing 'SELKIE SKIN' on Nov 17th at Panic Sermons Act I. Felt (1) A kind of cloth made by rolling and pressing wool or another suitable textile accompanied by the application of moisture or heat, which causes the constituent fibres to mat together to create a smooth surface. - Oxford English Dictionaries (2018) Something about the sea. A general muddle of yearning and un-belonging. Heading north. A selkie is a seal creature found from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, through the Faroes and up to the high arctic of the Nordic countries. The selkie sheds their skin on land to appear in a human likeness. Only by means of the skin may they return to the water. |