We do not speak but confine ourselves briefly to the surface (a dramaturgy of interiority)
22 June 2016
An evening programme exploring interiority as a collective experience and the affective potential of the surface. A live event that builds on the format of a film screening to create an arrangement situated between the theatre and the exhibition through an interlacing of films, objects, movement, singing and speaking. Reflecting back on the work of Betty Woodman, this evening aims to think through feminised expectations and the possibility of an event as a decorative object.
This conglomeration of disparate voices seeks to bring into focus modes of address and subject matter such as the decorative, the sentimental, the silly, the private, the irrational, the trivial or the talkative and unfold the ways in which vulnerability, intimacy and unguarded emotion can act as biopolitical gestures that recuperate their historically diminished cultural value. A transgenerational dialogue creating possibilities for relating at a distance.
Artists
Chantal Akerman, Sara Kathryn Arledge, Carys Briggs, Christina Chalmers, Susanna Davies-Crook, Lauren Godfrey, Natalie Hausler, Tamara Henderson, Quinn Latimer and Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, Laida Lertxundi, Hanne Lippard, Laura Morrison, Rose O'Gallivan, Olga Pedan, Lisa Robertson, Katie Schwab and Nina Wakeford
Curated by Letitia Calin and Ashlee Conery