Saturday 9th December, 2023, OPEN Ealing Arts Centre
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It provides a supportive inclusive environment and encourages intergenerational dialogue by working with emergent, mid career and established artists.
It doesn’t impose curatorial themes on artists, it sees its role as facilitating and supporting artists to share their work and to develop new audiences for that work.
Performance Platform was established during the pandemic. It offered the first Covid secure performance art events in London. Performance Platform is now programming regular events to support cultural recovery and to encourage wider audience engagement.
NIYA B
‘Re: Rooted’
Something about bodies, plants and machines
Something between low tech and high tech
Something burning and something cooling
Something liquid, jelly, solid, fleshy, granular
Something unsettling and something soothing
Something lying on the ground and something coming in storms
Niya B is a multi-disciplinary artist, working at the intersections of visual art and performance on ecology, (trans)gender embodiments, class, mythology and the knowledge held in the land and the performing body.
Niya has exhibited and performed extensively; among others, at Tate Britain (London), CCA (Glasgow), Site Gallery (Sheffield), BOM (Birmingham), International Print Biennale (Newcastle), Visioni Del Sud (Salento, Italy), 5th and 8th Thessaloniki Biennale (Greece), 2023 European Capital of Culture (Greece), 5th Moscow Biennale (Russia), Goldsmiths University of London, University of Leeds. Niya has been supported by Arts Council England, the British Council, Jerwood Arts and the Cultural Institute Leeds among others. In 2023, she became an artist-in-residence at BOM Immersive Lab.
Niya is currently a candidate for a practice-as-research PhD at Kingston University, School of Art, where she is investigating the intersections of ecology and gendered embodiments.
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MADS FLOOR ANDERSEN
‘Stuck In Places #3’
The performance was a response to the venue and the site around it. Before the performance I collected objects from the surrounding streets, which then used in the performance. This was both an act of inclusion of the area into the performance, and a way for me to connect and tune-in to the area around the venue.
The action was an attempt to use the performance medium to open up new perceptions of the space and places between us, and around us. It’s intended as an opening of new directions, cracks and relations.
Mads Floor Andersen has for over over a decade, developed a performance language of recycling, risk, breakage, destruction, ruins and being ‘response-able’* to his surroundings. He particularly explores the intimate relationship between body and environment and how they shape and affect each other. He primarily engages with the local and personal processes he works and lives within. Thus each work is experimental and open-ended – creating an unfolding dialogue between his body and his surroundings. Hence each work has its own specific constellation, while simultaneously touching upon social and ecological thoughts, theories and practices.
In parallel to his solo work he also founded Nomadic Arts Festival and worked as an executive producer on Transart Communication 30. He is simultaneously an active core member of the artist-led collective Tracing the Pathway.
Mads Floor Andersen has presented his work internationally, such as at Belfast International Festival of Performance Art (BIFPA), Macau International Performance Art Festival, 20th Open Festival for Performance Art (China), Transart Communication (Hungary), Kalkota International Performance Art Festival (KIPAF), LAPSody (Helsinki), Month of Performance Art Berlin (MPA-B), International Festival of Performance Arts Copenhagen and many others.
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Photo Credits: Ian Whitford
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