Thursday, 6th June, 6 - 8pm, Free and open to all
The evening begins with projections and sound from Rose Nordin’s project Malay Magic Enchantment, a work that plays with languages of spirits and folk stories native to Malaysia, considering points of exchange between designer/publisher and animanistic shaman. Ibrahim Azab will perform EV3RY(TH1NG’5)MOV1NG: BUT_I’M(STILL)H3RE, a new, site-specific performance exploring ideology and the subconscious via movement and positioning of the self, delivered whilst the artist manoeuvres around the audience within the Lavery Studio. Folium will present Sometimes Making Nothing Leads to Something, an homage to and inverse of Francis Alÿs’ Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes making something leads to nothing)*, in which spectators are invited to become participants in the exploration and recording of the space using graphite rubbing, leading to the production of a live-printed collaborative publication to be distributed on the night. The piece starts with the artists Harry Gammer-Flitcroft and Stewart Hardie recording the space by taking a graphite rubbing of a texture within the room each, before walking over to a Risograph printer and duplicating the rubbing multiple times. Participants are then invited to do the same by being offered a piece of graphite and a piece of paper. Each of the rubbings will be duplicated on the Risograph printer, and the artists will then collate the printed sheets, add a cover and staple the sheets together to produce a site-specific publication, a copy of which is given to each participant.
* An artwork in which the artist pushed a block of ice through Mexico City until it melted. This workshop relates to Alÿs’ work through a notion of physical touch/labour but unlike his seminal work, the artists and audience start with nothing and end with a physical publication/artwork.