performingbordersLIVE20 and Live Art Development Agency presented a conversation: There is (No) Time livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 25 October 2020 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 2:30 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 15:30 CET (UTC +1).
Not fully emergent from the global pandemic, what have we as individuals, and the respective communities that we are part of, learnt about time? Speaking with Performing Borders Live 2020 residency recipients: Àníké Bello, Jade Foster, Istanbul Queer Art Collective, Jade Montserrat, and The White Pube, the panel will explore the question and related thoughts through the prism and reflection of each residency.
In partnership with Never Done.
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Adelaide Bannerman is a curator and currently in residence with Phytology Cultural Institute at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, London, planning a site-specific residency and public program for the site between 2021-22. She has helped manage and produce numerous exhibitions, projects and events since 1998, and facilitate professional development and mentoring opportunities for early and mid-career arts practitioners. Her independent research interests valorize performative gestures and engagements with live and visual performance, and in 2018 she initiated the research visit and residency program Never Done.
Àníké Bello is a London raised Yoruba woman with a keen interest in education, heritage, mobility, and people. She is a creative educator that curates spaces online and offline to teach about ancestry and culture linked to pre-colonial African societies through writing, interviews, videos, and workshops. Anike is also the author of the book Connecting to Self Through Ancestry, a collection of essays exploring engagements between heritage and wellbeing.
Jade Foster (b. 1996), is an artist, curator, and creative producer of Caribbean heritage based in Nottingham, UK. Current research interests include contemporary art practices exploring institutional critique, queerness, sound, and performance art. Foster is concerned with speaking, curating, and making art in the public sphere. Previously they were a speaker, guest, and panelist in public programming in the UK including Artist In Conversation: Jennifer Martin & Jade Foster, Primary; Concrete Jungle, In conversation with d’bi.young anitafrika, Nottingham Contemporary; BACKCRIT Crit Session, guest artist, Backlit Gallery; Contemporary Melanin Narratives in Sound and Music, The Tetley: an event organised by Marlo de Lara and supported by The Centre for Practice-Led Research in the Arts (CePRA), University of Leeds and Ladyz in Noyz. Alongside working independently, they currently hold positions as Assistant Curator at Primary and Creative Programme Coordinator at New Art Exchange (NAE) in Nottingham. Website.
Istanbul Queer Art Collective was founded in 2012 to engage in live art, with a view that the documentation of performance is an art form in itself. The collective is currently based in London and is comprised of its two founding members Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergul, who are firm believers in what Jack Halberstam calls the “queer art of failure” and what Renate Lorenz calls “radical drag”. Their performances range from the durational to the intimate and can morph towards other forms like sound art or installation. IQAC has performed at various art events around the world among which are: House of Wisdom Exhibition in Amsterdam and Nottingham; If Independent Film Festival and Mamut Art Fair in Istanbul, Athens Sound Acts Festival in Greece, Zürcher Theatre Spektakel and Les Belles de Nuit in Zurich and Deep Trash, Queer Migrant Takeover and NSA: Queer Salon in London. Website.
Jade Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR, UCLan, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark. Jade’s Rainbow Tribe project – a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from the perspective of the Black Diaspora is central to the ways she is producing a body of work, including No Need For Clothing and its iterations, as well as her performance work Revue. Jade was commissioned to present Revue as a 24 hour live performance at SPILL Festival of Performance, October 2018, a solo exhibition at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, (Nov—10 Mar 2019) which toured to Humber Street Gallery (July-Sept 2019) and was commissioned by Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover. Website.
The White Pube is the collaborative practice of artists Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they write criticism, exhibit, and curate. It is based at thewhitepube.com and on Instagram and Twitter at @thewhitepube. Since its launch in October 2015, The White Pube have gained an international readership and an involved social media following due to their success in diversifying the identity of the art critic and empowering two writers as working class and a woman of colour. TWP write to demand artistic quality from practitioners and institutions, decolonise and democratise gallery audiences, and encourage subjective criticism as an accessible and relevant form of art writing.
performingborders is a curatorial research-platform that explores the relations between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders. Co-run by Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa, performingborders hosts monthly interviews and guest posts, and series of related events and artist commissions under the banner of performingbordersLIVE which interrogate the practices of international performers that are responding to challenging notions of contemporary borders with their proliferating and increasingly heterogeneous natures and pervasive presence. Website.
performingbordersLIVE20 (March – November 2020) is a public programme of open calls, artist digital commissions, residencies, workshops, open conversations, and events, focusing on the exploration of experimental and exciting artistic practices happening within the UK Live Art sector around notions and lived experiences of physical, cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, and everyday borders. Curated by Xavier de Sousa and Alessandra Cianetti. Presented by performingborders and Foreign Actions Productions in partnership with Counterpoints Arts (London), Live Art Development Agency (London), Contact (Manchester), East Street Arts (Leeds), MAFWA Theatre (Leeds), The Albany/Deptford Lounge (London), Something Human/Asia-Art-Activism (London), Never Done (London), Ọ̀RỌ̀ ÀNÍKÉ (London), Queer Art Projects (London), East London Cable (London), Green Rooms Hotel (London), HowlRound Theatre Commons (Boston, US), Warehouse9 (Copenhagen, Denmark). Supported by Arts Council England. Website.
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