How can art transform the way we remember place? This evening coincides with Turner and Constable, offering contemporary perspectives on art and environment.
Ash McNaughton, Devika Bilimoria and n:u (melissandre varin) present three durational performances. Bringing material gathered in personally significant landscapes to Tate, the performances trace shifting senses of estrangement and belonging.
Live Art Development Agency host a screening programme and drop-in discussion space drawing on materials held in their Live Art Research Collection. Learn how artists have used performance to practice freedom and resistance in the British landscape.
What to expect
The programme is durational. This means you can move between the different spaces across the evening. You can arrive at any time during the event hours. The performances may not have definite beginnings or endings. You are invited to discover the work at your own pace. Refreshments will be available in the Djanogly Cafe.
hæg by Ash McNaughton
This performance moves across thresholds. hæg is a process of gradual transformation. Change happens through repetition, pressure, and care, as an internal landscape is slowly made external. What new knowledge is found?
Pind by Devika Bilimoria
In Sanskrit, piṇḍa means body, lump or mass. In Hinduism, piṇḍa is also the name for ground rice balls offered as nourishment to the deceased. Pind brings together biological and dislocated matter from Hindu death rituals. This performance is created in the wake of the artist’s mother’s death. Bilimoria transforms the piṇḍa with their body through accumulation, movement and decay.
with both hands·avec les deux mains by n:u (melissandre varin)
n:u creates a ceremony to honour those lost to colonial and ecological violence. Using materials such as sugar and rum, they reflect on the occupation of land and the psyche. Guided by African Indigenous knowledge systems, n:u performs a practice of spiritual freedom.
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