Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
Freshly Packed: call for artists
Is your performative practice exploring notions of the biological, corporeal, food, flesh, sustenance and mortality? If that is the case, you are ready to submit your work to Something Human! The international curator-collective, in collaboration with Brockspace, is seeking artists for the live performance FRESHLY PACKED / ALWAYS CHECK THE LABEL that will take...
Milk White in London!
The Italian band Milk White is in town. Wanting to know more about it, we asked Stefania Imperatori – the solo guitarist – to answer a few questions. Who are the Milk White? Milk White is a band founded in the spring of 2007 by Erika Giuili, who started all out like a solo project....
I love ]performance s p a c e [ ! What about you?
]performance s p a c e [ is one of the most committed and bubbly London-based spaces dedicated to the live art and it is asking for our help. It's time to know more about this artist-led non-profit organisation! ]performance s p a c e [ is 'the UK’s only performance art specific studio & event...
Unknown heroine. Sanja Ivekovic’s first solo exhibition in London
For their first collaboration Calvert 22 and the South London Gallery present Unknown Heroine: the first London-based solo exhibition of Sanja Ivekovi?. Split between the two venues, the exhibition shows four decades of the Croatian artist’s work focusing on an exploration of the female identity at the SLG and on the questioning of historical amnesia...
Cut and fold. Interview with Gianluca Piaccione
We met in London in a very sunny morning while you were exploring the city’s art galleries landscape. How did you find it? What differences have you noticed in comparison with Taranto, the city where you live and work? London is a city were different tendencies cohabitate, from the architectonical tradition to the extreme structures...
It’s time for Something Human. Interview with Annie Jael Kwan
Annie. You have a theatre arts and law background and you work as freelance producer and project manager for arts projects as well as creative producer and filmmaker. On top of that, you are the director of Brockspace, a new pop-up arts venue in Southeast London. This is truly impressive! Tell me more about your...
A quill as a weapon
1806. Insane asylum. Charenton. France. The Marquis de Sade, sentenced to life, starts recording thoughts and philosophies that have scandalised the whole nation. 2012. New theatre venue at the White Rabbit Cocktail Club. London. UK. Second Skin Theatre’s fifth season opens with Doug Wright’s Obie-award winning play Quills , a re-imagining of the Marquis de Sade’s incarceration at Charenton’s insane asylum. What is...
What is Nothing? An interview with Li-E Chen
London-based independent artist and thinker Li-E Chen, is fascinated by art, performance and new media as a way to express independence, openness and incompleteness. Through her practice, she is investigating the meaning of Nothingness. In September you are going to start the One Year Durational Laboratory on ‘Nothing’. In the invitation we can read: WE...
