Body as Archive

Slade Research Centre, London
20th April, 2018

Curated by Rowland Hill, Amy Steel and Taylor Doyle

Body as Archive was a 5-hour programme of 18 live performance works and 10 films exploring gesture as both a communicative and performative act. The event was staged in promenade across five gallery spaces, prompting an audience to explore the space physically to experience the work. Props, materials and floor markings for each performance were left on display, making visible the mechanics of the event and creating a map with which the audience could use to navigate themselves. The works ranged between new music, wrestling, speech, kinetic sculpture, Japanese butoh, Rwandan ballet, and a performance disseminated via Instagram.

Solo for Conductor (world premiere) Anton Lukoszevieze, performed by Mark Knoop
Breath Depth Breadth Maddie Wheeler

THERE IS MORE TO PERFECT Taylor Doyle & June Lam


Past Present Ioana Marinesco

THIS IS WHY PEOPLE OD ON PILLS Jennifer Walshe performed by Otto Willberg

Artist Portrait Gabriella Hirst

Tape Piece Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak performed by June Lam and Rowland Hill

Intore Diana Tap-F

Flaming Flamingos Amy Steel

Full of Grace Jessye Curtis

Excess Ardor Cristina Planas

Untitled Eloise Lawson 



TUCH (digest) Amy Lawrence

Absence makes the heart grow fonder Jasmine Lee

Performance programme

THIS IS WHY PEOPLE OD ON PILLS
Jennifer Walshe

TUCH
Amy Lawrence

Artist Portrait
Gabriella Hirst

Tape Piece
Andy Ingamells & Maya Verlaak

Compression Series, Work Number 1
Dori Deng

FULL OF GRACE
Jessye Curtis

Breath Depth Breadth
Maddie Wheeler

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Jasmine Lee

Excess Ardor
Cristina Planas

THERE IS MORE TO PERFECT
Taylor Doyle & June Lam

Into the Inner Ear
Karolina Stellaki

INTORE
Diana Tap-F

Past Present
Ioana Marinesco

Flaming Flamingos
Amy Steel

Solo for Conductor (world premiere)
Anton Lukoszevieze

Untitled
Juliet Davis-Dufayard

Untitled
Eloise Lawson 

The Economy of Gesture
Laura Hindmarsh

Film programme

 
Interlude (2018)
Gabriella Hirst 

Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)
Martha Rosler

Water Walk (1960)
John Cage 

Her Name in My Mouth (2017)
Onyeka Igwe

Grab Your Things, I've Come to Take You Home (2017) Kimberley Beach

Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera (2013)
Sondra Perry

The Same Things Everyday (2016)
Dominic Dispirito

something good comes from repeated failures to communicate (2018)
Jo Pester 

The World Turned Upside Down (2001)
Jayne Parker and Anthony Howell 

Turtle Dreams (1983)
Meredith Monk, shot by Ping Chong