Poppy makes action-based works using sticks, blood, earth, flags and birdsong. Her live performances portray celebratory rites of transition that incite an embodiment of transformative threshold states.Monoprints, drawings and gouache paintings also expand upon these themes in ways that are not possible physically in live performance.
Jeremis Iron Arts Collective is a group of four female theatre practitioners based in London, who first met and worked together in 2008.
Through their different approaches to performance, they have developed a collaborative vision that takes as its inspiration the complex relationship between the individual and his/her surroundings in order to develop innovative, physical, and collaborative practice-based research projects.
Verena Langloh The performances of Verena Langloh create space with simple movements by using banal objects. A playful surreality in the grip of absurdity is created. The pieces associate with the repetitiousness of the 'everyday', so as to create a link between the everyday and art, encapsulating many 'self created utopian moments' (Foucault).
Verena Langloh lives and works in London, England. She studied in Great Britain and got a BA (honours) in Fine Art (Sound and Image) at Bath Spa University College and an MA in Fine Art at University of the Arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design. She is internationally active and performs on a regular basis in London.
Adi trained at Camera Obscura Film School in Tel Aviv and at Arts Ed school of Acting in London. Her work gravitates towards devised, visual, and experimental performance with non-linear narratives. She incorporates original text, movement, autobiographical references, object manipulation and projection.
Lightning Ensemble Was founded 13 years ago as a theatre ensemble and it produced a show annually in various fringe venues throughout London. In 2006 it ended its collective status, and founder Marie McCarthy, an actor-turned director, and Sarah Weatherall, one of its writers, became artistic directors. Recently it has produced a raft of commissions in informal settings; including an improvised daily radio soap-opera in Harlesden, street performance for National Poetry Day, a site-specific play in a working pub in Leeds, and last week, a play entitled SE1 presented as a community party.
Linda Lencovic
Born in Canada, Linda Lencovic completed her MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2006 and is currently living in London. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Lencovic's practice explores loss, memory, desire and anxiety. She is interested in contemporary western society's shared symptoms of loss.
Her work expresses her personal unease and projects a sense of searching for the intangible and unattainable.
Rob Logan The drawings of Rob Logan are part planned, and part improvised using techniques similar to frottage (a practice made famous by surrealist artists, used as a way to access the subconscious). The works are neither abstract nor figurative, but probably best described realist images of abstract/ unnameable things. What could be fragments of body parts, internal organs, genitals or bones morph and shift into one another, and there is a strong sense of explosion/ implosion. Although the works are not intended to have a single clear meaning, themes of embodiment, body politics, abjection, techno paranoia and apocalypse arise within them.
Kate Lyddon “I sometimes imagine how it would be if all the things that scare me happened in one moment. When I start a new work I might have an idea, a memory of something I saw or that happened. Or an image of something that might happen in the future. Each figure then takes on it's own identity and then I let it develop and make a relationship with the other objects or figures. At first I don't know what the relationship is, but it starts to become clearer. Sometimes the relationship I create isn't intended and I might not even like it. But I let it be anyway. Sometimes the place is imagined, sometimes it's remembered, sometimes it's a place I'd rather not be. Sometimes the people are imagined, sometimes they are remembered, sometimes they are people I'd rather not meet.”
Lois (of the Lane) Alter ego extraordinaire. Keeper of a seemingly bottomless pit of facial expressions and fond of a good tune, Ms of the Lane specialises in bite-sized chunks of the sublimely ridiculous. Lois has worked with us on many events including Lust, Lies and Lunacy.
Genetic Moo are a South London based art group and have presented work at numerous venues across London and at international festivals, since 2006. Genetic Moo members, Nicola Schauermann and Tim Pickup, have created a series of interactive video pieces, which involve fantastical creatures, both repulsive and beguiling. Referencing sea-life and insects, we stitch video clips of our own bodies into monstrous collages. The creatures respond in a variety of life-like ways to the audience’s motion, touch or changes in light and sound.
Gwen Ramsay It is a dirty thing to do, rummage through Art Histories waste. Transgressing fashion and taste to explore dead zones. The work of Gwen Ramsay searches for why certain symbols are trivialized or why a recurrent motif is ignored. Creating collections of the marginalized. Inventing a new life from the deaths of painting past. Worlds are imagined in which the once familiar become poetically unfamiliar. The pieces are constructed with economy, using light to create works that are neither dead nor alive; transcendental illusions.
Alexa Reid Alexa Reid is a cross-disciplinary artist whose practice fuses installation, performance and video/animation. Alexa’s work is characterised by her use of site–specificity and found objects to develop unique immersive experiences. The interrogation of cycles of degeneration and regeneration, through resynthesised mythologies underpin Alexa’s creative and conceptual methodologies.
Alexa trained at The Oxford School of Drama, Goldsmiths College, London and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. In 2006 Alexa co-founded Lotos Collective (www.lotoscollective.co.uk), a London based Live Art Company of which she is Co-Director. Recent projects have included: Fish Under Fire (Wuppertal, Germany, 2008). L’amaro credo del mago Cotrone (Gibellina, Sicily, 2008). Napoli Scorticata (Naples, Italy 2007). The Coelicoloe (London 2006). Gods Heroes Man Chaos (London, 2006). Tumor Foderato d’Infanzia (Palermo, Sicily, 2006). Anomalous Perturbation (Salzburg, Austria 2006), Seki La La (Prague, Czech Republic, 2006). Drabina Jakuba (Krakow, Poland, 2006). Homebound (London, 2006). lithopedion allotment dirt-nap tattoo (London/Nottingham 2005).
Linda Lencovic
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