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The performance featured Claire Zakiewicz painting on canvas accompanied by composer and musician Kuljit Bhamra, playing the world’s first electronic tabla of his own invention. The music and painting was improvised, with the artists collaborating in real time. |
Saturday, 26 February, 5-6.30pm
(booking required, free of charge)
Sophie Seita, photo by Christa Holka
Sophie Seita presented a lecture performance, Reading the Rock, in response to her sound installation My Contact Aureoles (2020/2022), which was included in the show.
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Family art workshop for Hackney residents
Sunday, 20 February, 3-4pm
(booking required, free of charge)
Claire Zakiewicz 2019, photo by Mark Edward Smith
In this workshop for families, participants explored relationships between sound, words and drawing. Topics included:
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This was the first workshop connected to the exhibition currently on display at HOXTON 253, titled There’s no way I can know it, the object, or the body. It was led by the artist Claire Zakiewicz. Who is this workshop for?
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Queer writing and performance workshop for Hackney residents
Thursday, 24 February, 7-8pm
(booking required, free of charge)
Workshop Rupert Vilnius, 2021, photo by Violetta Pilecka
In this workshop, we took inspiration from queer, trans, and non-binary thinkers, writers, and artists, in guiding us towards a number of creative experiments, using:
This was the second workshop in the context of the exhibition There’s no way I can know it, the object, or the body which was led by the artist and writer Sophie Seita. |
‘There’s no way I can know it, the object, or the body, beyond what’s graspable. I read and write to seek comprehension, to solicit unravelling. Seize what seems pliable to that action, that attention’' - Sophie Seita, after the cooling, the igneous, which sets, has the potential to ignite, my contact aureoles (2020-2021) |
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Performance is Alive
Satellite Art Show, Miami
1655 Meridian Avenue. Miami Beach,FL 33139
VIDEO SCREENING
7:30pm daily: Claire Zakiewicz (NYC, USA/ London, UK), Itinerant
November 30 - December 4, 2021
Performance conceived and directed: Claire Zakiewicz |
Satellite Art Show and Performance Is Alive continue their 5-year collaboration by exclusively spotlighting contemporary performance art and time-based media at this year’s Miami Art Week. Unlike any other fair, Satellite serves as a home to performers and offers guests a rare opportunity to engage directly with the artists. Performance artists return to live actions, some choosing to engage virtually and others performing at an interactive distance. As the week progresses, the fair installation evolves not only through the performances presented, but the performance artifacts that remain. Alongside a robust daytime program, SATELLITE will also host invigorating and curated experiences with musical performances, drag shows and revitalizing classic underground performative parties. SATELLITE will be located just three blocks from Art Basel at the corner of Meridian and Lincoln Road. Returning to the curatorial team is Quinn Dukes of Performance is Alive and Satellite founder, Brian Andrew Whiteley. TICKETS: Day Pass $20 | Week Pass $40 Visitors are encouraged to purchase a week pass to experience the ever changing activations within the fair
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Image: Claire Zakiewicz and Gerald Curtis, Writing the Future. Photograph by Cristina Schek
Writing the Future Screening
Watermans Art Centre
40 High Street, Brentford
London TW8 0DS
November 10, 2021
Claire Zakiewicz is an interdisciplinary artist living in London and NYC. She has a background in improvised and experimental music, which she incorporates into her performance drawing and painting practice. She was named in the New York’s top ten artists list in Art511 magazine in 2019. Zakiewicz has written a number of articles and essays on performing drawing. She contributed a chapter for The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (Bloomsbury), 2020. Her works have been shown at galleries, performance venues and institutions including Tate Tanks and Tate Britain, for the exhibitions Tweet Me Up (2011) and Label (2012), at Landmark, Bergen for the performance Engastromyths Quakers and Shamans (commissioned by Ny Musikk, 2009) and most recently she produced a collaborative performance painting titled Writing the Future for Future Visions, Hounslow (2021), funded by the Arts Council, England. Past residencies have included Bill Young’s Dance Studio (New York), USF Bergen, (Norway), The Mothership (New York), Point B Worklodge (New York) and Cill Rialaig (Ireland). Zakiewicz studied at Chelsea College of Art, Anglia Ruskin University and London Metropolitan University. website: www.clairezakiewicz.com |
Gerald Curtis has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally including Revolve Festival, Sweden and Lublin Performance Festival, Poland. His first solo show, Regeneration on Hounslow Heath (2019), was selected by Hounslow Creative People and Places to become part of their touring library programme. The exhibition incorporated a collection of photography, painting, video and performances. Most recently, he has collaborated with artist Claire Zakiewicz and Habib William Kherbek of the band Dirtagnan to produce a video performance, Writing the Future (2021) (forthcoming). Gerald Curtis is a recipient of the Time Space Money bursary from A-N and the Farnham Maltings No Strings Attached fund. Gerald graduated from the UCA, Canterbury with a BA (hons) Fine Art, 2009 and Royal College of Art, MA Painting (Performance Pathway), 2017. website: www.geraldcurtisstudio.com
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Assembly #3: October 13, 2021
Some Loose Assemblies IV
Hundred Years Gallery
13 Pearson Street
London E2 8JD
Assembly #4: Ocotber 13, 2021
The live-art event series Some Loose Assemblies continues at Hundred Years Gallery on October 13 with performances featuring Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall, and Claire Zakiewicz. Each artist will present new works that explore the drawn line and drawing’s relation to the human body, time and space. The performances will draw on practices that prioritise the act of creation over the final results of those actions. Performance drawing has historically encompassed visual art, theatre, dance and music and all the artists incorporate interdisciplinary collaborations and crossovers in their practices. The three individual works will highlight the highly flexible emerging field of performance drawing, which is not confined to any one definition. There will be music by celebrated musicians in the international improvised music scene; Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Isadora Edwards, Caroline Kraabel and Keisuke Matsui. Hosea and McCall recently co-authored Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Zakiewicz contributed to The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (Bloomsbury, 2020). The authors will be available to sign books at the event and a few copies will be available to buy on request. We ask audience members to please wear masks downstairs. The full programme will be presented twice, at 7:00pm and 8:30pm. There will be maximum capacity of 10 people for each time slot. Audiences are invited to sign up for one of these two slots. |
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Birgitta Hosea is a time-based media artist working with experimental drawing, performance and expanded animation to create durational images, live events, experiential installations and short films that expand the concept of the moving image out of the screen and into the present moment. Recent exhibitions include National Gallery X; Venice & Karachi Biennales; Oaxaca & Chengdu Museums of Contemporary Art; InspiralLondon and Hanmi Gallery, Seoul. Included in the Tate Britain and Centre d’Arte Contemporain archives, she has received an Adobe Impact Award, a MAMA Award for Holographic Arts and an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society of the Arts. Currently Professor of Moving Image at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, she was previously Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art and prior to that at Central Saint Martins, where she completed a practice-based PhD in animation as a form of performance. She has written a number of publications on performance drawing and experimental animation, is co-author (with Foá, Grisewood and McCall) of Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2020) and co-curator of Performance Drawing 2021 (Centre for Recent Drawing, London, 2021). Website: www.birgittahosea.co.uk Instagram: @birgittahosea |
Carali McCall is a London based artist whose practice is engaged in drawing and performance; awarded her MFA at Slade School of Art, UCL and PhD at Central Saint Martins UAL, McCall is co-author of the Bloomsbury publication ‘Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945’ (2020) and author of the upcoming publication ‘The Body in Landscape’ (2022); she is currently participating in the inaugural Turps Banana MASS Correspondence course 20/21, and undergoing a residency at The Centre for Recent Drawing (London UK) with fellow co-authors of Performance Drawing. McCall’s work is in private and public collections and recently had a solo exhibition with Gryder Gallery (New Orleans USA), where she performed a live endurance-based performance drawing. McCall has been awarded Arts Council England funding for the artwork, Run Vertical (Running up the side of a Building) and is involved in rigorous academic research, affiliated with research groups such as Land2, Sensingsite and The Landscape Research Group. Website: www.caralimccall.com Instagram: @caralimccall
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Photo: Mark Edward Smith
Claire Zakiewicz is an interdisciplinary artist living in London and NYC. She has a background in improvised and experimental music, which she incorporates into her performance drawing and painting practice. She was named in the New York’s top ten artists list in Art511 magazine in 2019. Zakiewicz has written a number of articles and essays on performing drawing. She contributed a chapter for The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (Bloomsbury), 2020. Her works have been shown at galleries, performance venues and institutions including Tate Tanks and Tate Britain, for the exhibitions Tweet Me Up (2011) and Label (2012), at Landmark, Bergen for the performance Engastromyths Quakers and Shamans (commissioned by Ny Musikk, 2009) and most recently she produced a collaborative performance painting titled Writing the Future for Future Visions, Hounslow (2021), funded by the Arts Council, England. Past residencies have included Bill Young’s Dance Studio (New York), USF Bergen, (Norway), The Mothership (New York), Point B Worklodge (New York) and Cill Rialaig (Ireland). Zakiewicz studied at Chelsea College of Art, Anglia Ruskin University and London Metropolitan University. Website: www.clairezakiewicz.com Instagram: @clairezakiewicz |
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Hundred Years Gallery is delighted to present a collaboration between the live, interdisciplinary art organisations, Mellifera and Some Loose Assemblies. Curators Emily Suzanne Shapiro and Claire Zakiewicz will convene prominent figures in the British art and new music worlds to perform collaborative new works focusing on communication between modes of perception through improvisation and experimentation. This event will feature new works by Aurelie Freoua, Gerald Curtis and Claire Zakiewicz who will be performing live drawing and painting in collaboration with dancer Jess Lea and legendary experimental musicians Steve Beresford, Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Douglas Benford, Megan Steinberg and Peter Nagle. The cycle of three 20 minute performances will be presented twice for two different audiences, at 7:00pm and 8:30pm. The venue ask audiences to respect social distancing and mask wearing. There will be a capacity of 10 tickets per time slot. Audiences are invited to sign up for one of these two slots. |
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Claire Zakiewicz is an interdisciplinary artist living in London and NYC. Her practice explores the (meta)physical relationships between sound and drawing and the processes that underlie our emotional relationship with art. She has a background in improvised and experimental music, which she incorporates into her contemporary art practice. Often working collaboratively, she explores performance, dance and acting methods as part of her drawing and painting process. She was named in the New York’s top ten artists list in Art511 magazine in 2019. Zakiewicz has written a number of articles and essays on performing drawing. She contributed a chapter for The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (Bloomsbury), 2020.Her works have been shown at galleries, performance venues and institutions including Tate Tanks and Tate Britain, for the exhibitions Tweet Me Up (2011) and Label (2012), at Landmark, Bergen for the performance Engastromyths Quakers and Shamans (commissioned by Ny Musikk, 2009) and most recently she produced a collaborative performance painting titled Writing the Future for Future Visions, Hounslow (2021), funded by the Arts Council, England. Past residencies have included Bill Young’s Dance Studio (New York), USF Bergen, (Norway), The Mothership (New York), Point B Worklodge (New York) and Cill Rialaig (Ireland). Zakiewicz studied at Chelsea College of Art, Anglia Ruskin University and London Metropolitan University. website: www.clairezakiewicz.com
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Photo: Fabio Lugaro
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack). He has written songs, written for large and small ensembles, and scored short films, feature films, TV shows and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics and Collusion magazines, writes about music in various contexts and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca Regina, he is part of Unpredictable Series, which produces events and sound and video recordings of experimental music and art. Steve has worked with Christian Marclay on numerous Marclay mixed media pieces. He has also worked with The Slits, Najma Akhtar, Stewart Lee, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Tania Chen, Ray Davies, Mandhira de Saram, The Flying Lizards, Zeena Parkins, Helen Petts, Satoko Fukuda, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Hyelim Kim, Ilan Volkov, Rachel Musson, Vic Reeves, Sarah Gail Brand, Lore Lixenberg and many others. Beresford has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, free-improviser, composer and producer, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012. In 2021, Bloomsbury published a book by Andy Hamilton: ‘Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’. |
Aurelie Freoua is a French artist and performer living and working in London. She originally studied Mathematics and Economics in Paris but went on to study art and completed an MA in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, London 2016. She also participated in the Slade Summer School. Since then, her paintings have been exhibited in several group shows in London, New York, Miami, Paris and the South of France. Aurelie had several solo shows in London, including ‘Symphony of Colours’ in Mayfair (2017). Her artworks have featured in poetry collections including ‘Echoing’ published by Ampersand. She created a work specially for the Bonhams’ auction in support of the Grenfell Tower victims (2018). She has taken part in workshops organised by the Digital Maker Collective at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern. Over the past four years, Aurelie collaborated more and more with the Vortex Jazz Club and improvising musicians, creating music and art simultaneously with the musicians and artists using similar sonic and visual approach. She has improvised live painting in response to music during The London Jazz Festival in 2017 and 2019; she curates and performs in multidisciplinary, experimental and immersive live performances called ‘Resonances’, merging visual art, musical performances, poetry and dance. Aurelie has designed covers for albums by Raphael Clarkson, Paulo Duarte and Henrik Jensen, released on Babel Label in 2019 and 2020. She has recently worked on set designs and costumes for several theatre plays at Theatro Technis alongside her acting performances. She created a mural painting ‘Misterioso’ (7m20 x 5m50) in Shoreditch, which was the backdrop for ‘The Dancing Wall’ performance. Aurelie is currently developing projects with musicians, poets and dancers for upcoming events. Through her work, Aurelie aims to explore and transcend such notions as the invisible, movement, ephemerality and the intangibility of emotion through vivid colours and harmonious compositions of form, line and light. Throughout her practice she values authentic representation and intensity in a process of ‘making visible’. website: www./aureliefreoua.com
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Emily Suzanne Shapiro is a Canadian bass clarinetist and clarinetist dedicated to exploring and creating new music. Emily has a special love for the sound and scope of bass instruments and constantly pushes the limits of what she can do on bass clarinet. Alongside performing contemporary music on bass clarinet, Emily is involved in many other musical endeavours. Composing and improvising are central to her career, and she has been an active performer of Balinese gamelan for 10 years and has also explored jazz, klezmer, rock and electroacoustics. She is always seeking out new artistic experiences to enrich and motivate her work. She is a proud member of Les Feuillus, the London Improviser’s Orchestra, the Corner Quartet and Lila Cita and has performed all over London, including iklectik, Cafe Oto, Hundred Years Gallery, LSO St Luke’s, the Vaults festival, the Barbican and many more. She founded and manages the Mellifera arts platform, a monthly interdisciplinary arts performance event, and the Lonely Impulse Collective, a daily solo improvisation project. Outside of music, Emily loves gardening, running, whisky and making friends with animals. website: www.emilysuzanneshapiro.com |
Douglas Benford has been involved in various audio genres since the late 1980s, performing at many institutions and venues in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Cafe Oto, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), as a composer and sound artist. He has performed at festivals worldwide and has installation work in numerous UK art spaces. website: https://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
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Photo: Sam Walton
Megan Steinberg is an experimental composer and abstract turntablist based in London. She works with found sound, chance procedures, graphic scores, quietness and microtonality. Originally a jazz guitarist, Megan studied Composition at Brunel University where she fell into experimental music. After discovering free improv using objects, violin and cello, in 2016 she began performing free improv and experimental music for single-deck, analogue turntable. Megan is studying a PhD at Royal Northern College of Music, where she has been appointed the Lucy Hale Doctoral Composer in Association with Drake Music. Her project is focused on the creation of works for Disabled musicians, new instruments and AI. She has composed for incredible performers including Heather Roche, Juice Vocal Ensemble, Distractfold, Apartment House and Lore Lixenberg. In 2016, she was awarded the FI Williams Prize for Composition for her piece The Dying Sakura Tree. Her music has been performed at Kings Place and IKLECTIK in London, Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, and Arts by the Sea Festival in Bournemouth, as well as on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM and Threads Radio. Megan is a dedicated advocate for accessibility and representation in new music. website: www.megansteinberg.com
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Peter Nagle is a composer, cellist and sound artist working with drones, loops, electronica and field recordings. As well as extensive solo work he has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, artists and choreographers including Douglas Benford, Laura Cioffi, Dave Clarkson, Angharad Davies, Peter Falcolner, Irene Fiordilino, Steve Gisby, Rahel Kraft, Anthony Osborne, Misha Penton, Alwynne Pritchard, Carla Rees, Richard Sanderson, Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Tansy Spinks and Rahel Vanmoos.
Peter is a PhD candidate at Trinity Laban, researching drone as an agent of sonic identity and transformation. website: www.peternagle.co.uk
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Gerald Curtis has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally including Revolve Festival, Sweden and Lublin Performance Festival, Poland. His first solo show, Regeneration on Hounslow Heath (2019), was selected by Hounslow Creative People and Places to become part of their touring library programme. The exhibition incorporated a collection of photography, painting, video and performances. Most recently, he has collaborated with artist Claire Zakiewicz and Habib William Kherbek of the band Dirtagnan to produce a video performance, Writing the Future (2021) (forthcoming). Gerald Curtis is a recipient of the Time Space Money bursary from A-N and the Farnham Maltings No Strings Attached fund. Gerald graduated from the UCA, Canterbury with a BA (hons) Fine Art, 2009 and Royal College of Art, MA Painting (Performance Pathway), 2017. website: www.geraldcurtisstudio.com
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Hundred Years Gallery is hosting a series of Performance Art and Digital/Video Art screenings titled Some Loose Assemblies. For the second event an assembly of visual artists, dancers and musicians will perform three new live-art works by Gerald Curtis, Gwendolyn Kassenaar and Claire Zakiewicz. This event hopes to develop our collective understanding of the term Performance Drawing and address new directions of this applied interdisciplinary process. The artists will explore the relationship between bodily gesture and visual traces. While embedded in both ephemerality and abstraction, the theme encompasses immediacy, energy, time, motion, light, space. The works will be performed alongside and in conversation with Mary Lemley's archival project My Life in Hackney, which will be exhibited throughout the gallery during the whole of July. Visual artist Gwendolyn Kassenaar will be creating live-art performed with contemporary dancer Petra Haller and musical trio Loz Speyer, Andrew Lisle and Thodoris Ziarkas. Their performance will be inspired by the poem ‘Steps’ by Herman Hesse (‘Stufen’ in German). Merging visual art and dance they will embody its main message: to always be ready for change and embrace life! While central to Gwendolyn’s work, this is highly relevant to our current times as everyone in society faces profound uncertainties due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Gerald Curtis will be presenting a short performance titled Tracing the Fragmented. This piece continues his exploration into using movement to create a series of drawn traces to a fragmented choreography. Maintaining a tension between improvisation and intention, Gerald is pursuing an intuitive language of mark making focusing on the present that is unique to the situation. Identifying as an artist with Dyspraxia, the performance is an attempt to create a form of expression of making with the disability. By pushing the body, the artist hopes to reveal spaces between the dyspraxic and non-dyspraxic. Claire Zakiewicz will perform a live painting alongside musical trio Keisuke Matsui, Alan Wilkinson and Douglas Benford. For this performance the painter and musicians will explore the aesthetics of imperfection in performance drawing - particularly the tension between failure and resolution and the balance between control and surrender within a cross-disciplinary collaboration. Following government guidelines, the venue asks audiences to follow social distancing and mask wearing. There will be reduced capacity with 10 people per time slot. Each 20 min. performance will be presented twice for two different audiences, at 7pm and 8:30pm. Audiences are invited to sign up for one of these two slots. |
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Claire Zakiewicz is an interdisciplinary artist working in both London and NYC. She is interested in the (meta)physical relationships between sound, drawing, movement, how we read drawings and the processes that underlie our emotional relationship with art. Mostly working with performance painting, Zakiewicz often works collaboratively and uses dance and acting methods as part of her drawing and painting practice. She has a background in improvised music and drawing as well as composition and inter-disciplinary scores. She contributed a chapter describing her drawing practice for the volume Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (Bloomsbury), 2020. website: www.clairezakiewicz.com
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Gwendolyn Kassenaar is a Dutch visual artist based in London. A graduate from Chelsea College of Art, she carried out further studies at the Royal Drawing School. She engages in both painting and drawing, which lies at the heart of her practice. website: www.gwendolynkassenaar.com
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Gerald Curtis has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally including Revolve Festival, Sweden and Lublin Performance Festival, Poland. His first solo show, Regeneration on Hounslow Heath (2019), was selected by Hounslow Creative People and Places to become part of their touring library programme. The exhibition incorporated a collection of photography, painting, video and performances. Most recently, he has collaborated with artist Claire Zakiewicz and Habib William Kherbek of the band Dirtagnan to produce a video performance, Writing the Future (2021) (forthcoming). Gerald Curtis is a recipient of the Time Space Money bursary from A-N and the Farnham Maltings No Strings Attached fund. Gerald graduated from the UCA, Canterbury with a BA (hons) Fine Art, 2009 and Royal College of Art, MA Painting (Performance Pathway), 2017. website: www.geraldcurtisstudio.com
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Petra Haller is an independent dance artist and tap dancer based in London. She started her career as a freelance dancer working on BBC1, The One Show: SKY1, Luie Spence's Show Business; Ellen Kent Production, Aida, as well as various music videos and live events. After several years of solely working for other people she started creating, producing and performing her own work as well. Her first outings as a creator, dancer, producer include: "Charlie: My Message to Humanity", Lake Studios, Berlin and the Solo Theatre Showcase "Solo Roulette" at the Blue Elephant Theatre in November 2018 Performing "Deliver Me" a theatre and dance piece which combines spoken word and contemporary dance. She is currently the resident dancer ad Resonances Performances, an interdisciplinary collaboration of improvised music, poetry, digital art and live painting led by Aurelie Freoua and supported by the Vortex Jazz Club. Petra has been the first tap dancer named in Jazzwise Magazine's rising jazz artists section in: Who to look out for in 2020. She has mainly studied tap under Jason Samuels Smith and Derick Grant, who not only taught her the dance style but also inspired her to study the roots fo this African-American art form in jazz music and African American history. She was introduced to free improvisation by Cleveland Watkiss at the Freedom of Art Loft Jam and immediately found herself at home. Petra is committed to honor the lineage and history of tap dance while finding her place in improvised music and jazz, constantly hungry to learn and collaborate with other art forms and instrumentalists. Recent performances include 1/Resilience/Memories: Vortex Jazz Club 2020 Jazz Connective; Vortex Jazz Club 2020 Tap Dance and Piano Duo with Richard Adam Lewis: Vortex Jazz Club 2020 Resonances 3 Reves: Vortex Jazz Club, London Jazz Festival 2019 Exctasies; Artwalk Wakefield 2019
website: www.petrahaller.net/home
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Loz Speyer is a trumpeter, composer, improviser and teacher - who for some years now has been coordinating groups ranging from the 11-piece composers’ collective Rare Mix to freely improvising trios. His own bands, Cuban-Jazz six-piece Time Zone, and Free Jazz quintet Inner Space, have toured to Jazz festivals and clubs all around the UK, and released several critically acclaimed albums of original music. His recent lockdown project Spherical Improv brought together musicians and artists to improvise together online, producing a series of videos that seek to express the interaction.
website: www.lozspeyer.com
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Andrew Lisle is a drummer working in the field of jazz and improvised music. He strives to create music within the avant-garde, pushing the limits of what is possible on the drums (technically and musically) while drawing influence from the jazz tradition.
website:www.andrewlisle.com/biography.html
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Thodoris Ziarkas is an improviser, double bassist and composer from Greece. website: http://www.thodorisziarkas.co.uk
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Keisuke Matsui was born in Kyoto, Japan and now lives and works in London, he has performed electric guitar, electronics, objects on albums with The London Experimental Ensemble, who share a fascination with old and new forms of experimental and improvised music. Matusi has also performed with and released numerous albums with other prominent artists. website: https://hundredyearsgallery.bandcamp.com/album/tommy-rot-trio
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Douglas Benford has been involved in various audio genres since the late 1980s, performing at many institutions and venues in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Cafe Oto, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), as a composer and sound artist. He has performed at festivals worldwide and has installation work in numerous UK art spaces. website: https://dbenford.bandcamp.com/
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Alan Wilkinson (alto, baritone saxophones, bass clarinet) has for many years been a leading figure in the British Improvised Music Community. His reputation of a full blast, take no prisoners approach was cast in the Leeds based trio Hession/Wilkinson/Fell. Based in London since 1990, his current groups include a long standing trio with John Edwards and Steve Noble, the quartet The Founder Effect with John Coxon, Pat Thomas and Noble, and many collaborations past and present with among others Derek Bailey, Peter Brotzmann, Thurston Moore, J.Spaceman, Chris Corsano, Konstrukt and Talibam! website: www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/alan-wilkinson/
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Assembly #1: 9th June, 2021
Hundred Years Gallery will be hosting a series of three Performance Art and Digital/Video Art screenings titled Some Loose Assemblies, organised by Claire Zakiewicz and Sophie Seita. For the first event, five artists will present new works. Pearl and Theory are two artistic personas created by Kate Clayton and Sophie Seita during a lockdown project of remote composting. Compost is their metaphor for intergenerational dialogue, for transformation. The compost-bed is tended by Pearl and fed digitally by Theory who contributes worm-arias from afar. In this video, Pearl and Theory share their pearls of wisdom, moving liberally through ideas likewormsthroughsoil. What’s the worm’s symbolic power? To quote Rebecca Solnit, marble lasts, but compost feeds. Libby Heaney will screen Figures in Limbo (2020), an audio-visual animation exploring representations of the body in computer vision and parallels in (mostly western) art history. The work investigates how cultural and historical biases are now being translated into code and what this means. As the piece progresses, Heaney proposes an alternative (quantum) conceptualisation of the body, as boundary-less and form-less, and able to evade the machine gaze. Claire Zakiewicz and Gerald Curtis will be performing a live collaborative drawing with music written for the duo by Ditagnan. Following government guidelines, the venue asks audiences to follow social distancing and mask wearing. There will be reduced capacity with 10 people per time slot. Each 15 min. performance / screening will be presented twice for two different audiences, at 7pm and 8pm. Audiences are invited to sign up for one of these two slots. |
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Sophie Seita is a London-based European writer, artist, and educator who often thinks about how text and the act of reading can be visualised and translated into movement, sound, space, costume, and performative objects. She’s shown her work at La MaMa Galleria, Printed Matter (both NYC), JNU (Delhi), [ SPACE ], Bold Tendencies, the Royal Academy, Queer Art Projects, Raven Row, Parasol Unit, Art Night (all London), Kunsthalle Darmstadt (Germany), the Arnolfini (Bristol), and elsewhere. She’s the author of a number of books, most recently, My Little Enlightenment Plays (Pamenar, 2020), The Gracious Ones (Earthbound Press, 2020), and Provisional Avant-Gardes (Stanford University Press, 2019). She is an Assistant Professor at Boston University, co-organises the Sound/Text seminar at Harvard, and is a tutor on both the Alternative Education Programme at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the MSt in Writing for Performance at Cambridge University. At the moment, she’s working on:The Gracious Ones, a philosophical ballet for women on imaginary running machines supported by the Dover Prize Fund at Darlington; and a public art and speculative research project with Naomi Woo in the form of The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, funded by the British Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Farnham Maltings. website: www.sophieseita.com/
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Claire Zakiewicz is an inter-disciplinary artist working in both London and NYC. She is interested in the (meta)physical relationships between sound, drawing, movement, how we read drawings and the processes that underlie our emotional relationship with art. Mostly working with performance painting, Zakiewicz often works collaboratively and uses dance and acting methods as part of her drawing and painting practice. She has a background in improvised music and drawing as well as composition and inter-disciplinary scores. She contributed a chapter describing her drawing practice for the volume Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished (Bloomsbury), 2020. website: www.clairezakiewicz.com
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Libby Heaney's post-disciplinary art practice includes moving image works, performances and participatory & interactive experiences that span quantum computing, virtual reality, AI and installation.Heaney's practice uses humour, surrealism and nonsense to subvert the capitalist appropriation of technology. Heaney uses tools like machine learning and quantum computing against their 'proper' use, to undo biases and to forge new expressions of collective identity and belonging with each other and the world. website: www.libbyheaney.co.uk
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Gerald Curtis works across performance, painting and photography to produce multi-faceted bodies of work rooted in explorations of urban and rural environments. Gerald is interested in cross disciplinary research-based practices and the potentially new dynamic social spaces that these processes can inhabit. Primarily taking ideas of flux and flow as starting points, his practice can be described as being grounded in tactile material-based media while looking into connections between the landscape and memory. website: www.geraldcurtisstudio.com
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Kate Clayton is a performance artist based in Glasgow. Within her practice Clayton works collaboratively, collectively and individually. Her main focus is on the visibility of older women, in what is, in part, an attempt to claim agency for the over-60s (and now over-70s). Other themes include intergenerational friendship, and the collaborative process. Creative Scotland funded ‘Timefield’, a collaboration with four other ‘older’ artists who met while on a residency together at Cove Park. For Glasgow International, 2018, Creative Scotland also funded performances and workshops by XSEXCENTENARY, a collective of women artists, of which Kate and Katherine Araniello were two of the founding members. website: www.kateclayton.co.uk
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Future Visions
A reimagined future for Hounslow's community
Writing the Future 29 May - 13 June 2021 Gerald Curtis, Claire Zakiewicz and Dirtagnan This work has been commissioned by Creative People and Places Hounslow for Future Visions, an exhibition of works that signal a positive future for Hounslow High Street and its communities. This piece will be exhibited as photographic and video documentation (by videographer Cristina Schek) as part of Future Visions. |
Future Visions is a new and ambitious project led by CPP Hounslow brings together Hounslow’s local artists to send a message that imagination, hope, and kindness are not cancelled, even in difficult times. Future Visions will be on display on Hounslow High Street, starting at Bell Square from 29 May - 13 June 2021. It will also tour London Borough of Hounslow Libraries and Hounslow’s other High Streets later in the year, and throughout 2022. The exhibition will also be online from 14 June 2021. Creative People & Places Hounslow is part of the Arts Council England’s major investment in increasing arts capacity in underserved areas, working in Feltham, Heston and Cranford, Brentford and central Hounslow. CPP Hounslow is a consortium led by Watermans. Watermans is West London’s leading arts centre. It attracts over 250,000 visits a year to its thriving and inclusive programme of independent cinema, theatre, exhibitions and courses. Watermans runs a year-round programme of cutting-edge digital arts for which it receives National Portfolio Organisation funding from Arts Council England. Twitter: @CPPHounslow
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*rsvp required due to social distancing
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Claire Zakiewicz is an inter-disciplinary artist working in both London and NYC. Zakiewicz’s main area of research has been the physical and metaphorical relationships between drawing and sound. Painting is the central part of her practice, but she also works with film, performance and sound. Zakiewicz examines the differences between internal and outward observation in painting. Her projects explore patterns with the starting point of the body, perception, intuition and attention. In her improvisational work, Zakiewicz uses the tensions between failure and resolution, using mistakes as material. Her work has been presented at international institutions such as Tate Tanks and Tate Britain (London), NOoSPHERE (NYC) and in offsite projects during the 57th and 58th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (respectively in 2017 and 2019) and the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2018. She currently writes for Creatrix Magazine, Hypocrite Readerand Art511 Magazine, and her essay The Aesthetics of Failure is due to be published by Bloomsbury in Andy Hamilton's book The Aesthetics of Imperfection, in September, 2020. Zakiewicz was named one of New York's "Top Ten Artists Working Today" in an article by Art511 Magazine in January 2019.
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Gerald Curtis is a London based artist working with performance, painting and photography. His projects are based on themes of failure, control and endurance. Graduating from the Performance Pathway at the Royal College of Art in 2017, Gerald has created a practice centred around public spaces, their use and importance. Recently, Gerald has been working with London Creative Network and Photofusion to develop projects using photography as a means to document works that have extended durations beyond conventional exhibition time frames. In particular, he is interested in looking at the process of walking and its uses in public space.
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Habib William Kherbek is a writer, poet, journalist and artist. His novels include ‘Ecology of secrets’ (2013), ‘Ultralife’ (2016), ‘New Adventures’ (2020), and the forthcoming ‘Best Practices’ (2021). Kherbek’s journalism has been included in several publications including Flash Art, Berlin Artlink, Aqnb and Map Magazine. In his project ‘Retrodiction’ (released in 2016 by left gallery, Berlin), Kherbek created video poems based on images of ‘second-hand’ language that he encountered in Berlin, over the course of three months. Other poetry collections include Everyday Luxuries (2018) and 26 Ideologies for Aspiring Ideologists (2018). His essay “Technofeudalism and the Tragedy of the Commons” (2016) appeared in the first issue of Doggerland’s journal, and he has contributed essays to the “Intersubjectivity” series from Sternberg Press. His journalism has appeared in the award-winning Block Magazine, Rhizome.org, Berlin Art Link, MAP, Flash Art, Spike Magazine, Sleek, Samizdat, AQNB and other publications. Kherbek is presently completing a research fellowship at the Critical Studies Department of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
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Libby Heaneyis a British artist, based in London, who’s practice seeks to subvert the capitalist appropriation of technology, through image works, performances and virtual reality experiences. She uses tools like machine learning and quantum computing against their 'proper' use, to undo biases and to forge new expressions of collective identity. In her projects Heaney uses diverse media and modes like blurring, combining, remixing and weaving (derived from quantum physics) to unsettle or 'diffract' standard conceptions of 'truth'. From these modes emerge new forms that question the distinction between fake / real, visible / invisible, private / public, the individual / the collective, especially where those categories are mediated by technology. The works draw on a wide range of source material, spanning pop culture, politics, literature and beyond. Her projects speak to the entanglement of personal and machine agency. Heaney has exhibited her artwork in galleries and institutions in the UK (Tate Modern, ICA, V&A, Barbican, Somerset in London) and internationally in Aarhus (Denmark), Dublin, Barcelona and Lima. Heaney is currently a resident of Somerset House Studios.
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Sophie Seita is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator who works with text, sound and translation. Her practice is imbedded in queer-feminist politics and spans different media such as performance, poetry, installation and video. Seita is the author of Provisional Avant-Gardes(Stanford University Press, 2019) and most recently, My Little Enlightenment Plays (Pamenar Press, 2020), which she will present at the open studio event. My Little Enlightenment Plays(2020) is a mix of historical material with contemporary queer affect theory, the psychology of colour-symbolism and experimental dance, challenging the Enlightenment’s opposition of sentiment and rationality. Seita works internationally on various projects and has performed and presented her work in several places including New York, London, New Delhi, Chile and Amsterdam. She currently is an Assistant Professor at Boston University, co-organises the Sound/Text seminar at Harvard, and is on the faculty for a new MSt in Writing for Performance at Cambridge. Seita is also among the cohort of this year’s Constellations artist development programme organised by UP Projects and Flat Time House.
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March 5 - 12, 2020
Dun Geagan, Ballinskelligs
County Kerry, Ireland
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PERSPECTIVES IN MOTION
Written and Directed by Claire Zakiewicz
Performers in Alphabetical order:
Mariana Alviarez
Laura Colomban
Claire Zakiewicz
Filmed in Venice, 2018
Produced for Time and Timelessness Festival, Aldeburgh, 2020
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January 1, 2020
7:30 - 8:30pm
Concert with cellist and vocalist Lenna Pierce
January 2 - 7
Open by appointment
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th Street, New York, 10018
Studio 314
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December 28, 2019
4:30 - 8:30pm
Park Church Co-Op, Brooklyn, New York
Art as Spiritual Practice, Art as Activism
60 minute panel discussion + Q&A
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Signs and Symbols Gallery, New York
October/November 2019
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September 21, 2019
6:30 - 10:00pm
The Park Church Co-Op
129 Russell Street
Greenpoint, New York, USA
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2-Day Series of Film Projections and Exhibitions
September 21 - 22, 2019
Regatta Quay
12 Key St, Ipswich IP4 1FH
England
We are excited to announce that Claire Zakiewicz’s series of animated drawings will be featured in the two-day visual art and street food ART EAT Festival, located at the Ipswich Waterfront, England, from September 21-22, 2019. The festival will include a multi-disciplinary vocabulary of artists, working across all creative mediums, with a focus on primary sensations such as sight, sound and taste.
For additional information contact info@clairezakiewicz.com and the view this series of works visit www.clairezakiewicz.com
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Resimage, stop-motion, 2017
3-Day Series of Performances, Film Projections & Drawings Performances: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
ARTI3160 is excited to present SPHERICAL SYMMETRY, a three-day series of performances, video projections and an exhibition of drawings during the opening of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. Curated by Claire Zakiewicz and Laura Vattovaz, each performance will feature an inter-disciplinary dialogue and exchange between an international collective of artists; Jana Astanov (Poland), Katie Cercone (USA), Anita Cerpelloni (Italy), David Jason Williams (USA) and Claire Zakiewicz (UK).
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Jana Astanov is a multidisciplinary artist, living in New York. Born in Poland she studied anthropology, philosophy and linguistics in France, and arts in the UK. Her work includes photography, poetry, performance, new media and installation. She describes her performance art practice as “mythology vs ideology” referring to her two main interests the political & economic foundations of our civilisation and mythological/ religious values. In her work she utilizes shamanic techniques, spiritual beliefs, dance movement derived from the Grotowski technique, she also merges poetry with performance practice and sound art. She published four collections of poetry: Antidivine (Undergroundbooks.org), Grimoire, Sublunar, and Birds of Equinox (Red Temple Press). She is a founder of Creatrix Magazine.
Katie Cercone “High Prieztezz Or Nah”is a visionary artist, scribe, prieztezz and spiritual gangsta hailing from the blessed coast. Cercone has performed or shown work in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Momenta Art, C24 Gallery, Changjiang Museum China, Dodge Gallery and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. With her collective Go! Push Pops she was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice in 2014. Her work has been featured in Dazed, MILK, Interview, Japan Times, Huffington Post, ART 21, Hyperallergic, PAPER, Art Fag City, Washington Post, and Art Net TV among others. Cercone has curated shows for Momenta Art, KARST (UK), Cue Art Foundation and NurtureArt. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo (JUSFC).
Incroci di leggerezze, ink on Japanese paper, 70cm x 80cm, 2019
Anita Cerpelloni is an architect-artist-designer and the founder of ART3160, Venice. Cerpelloni studied traditional and experimental techniques including, printmaking, calligraphy, drawing techniques, engraving and painting. She further developed her skills while travelling in Japan where she absorbed ancient Japanese techniques giving new life to her artworks as well as sharing her knowledge through workshops in Venice. As a designer she was selected to exhibit her geometric paper lamps during the Venetian design week in 2018 and collaborated with glass artisans for the glass museum in Murano in 2016. Anita has been running Paper Project Venice since 2012, which puts 'nature' as a total reference to her professional and artistic activities.
For over twenty years, David Jason Williams a.k.a. U.N.D.A.K.O.V.A. (Universe. Naturally. Delivers. All. Knowledge. Of. Vitality. Automatically) has been awakening audiences with his special brand of insightful & knowledge infused hip hop. Urban monk and teaching artist, his seasoned background in yoga and meditation has allowed him to develop a yoga hip hop curriculum for urban youth through the non-profit BEAT GLOBAL. UNDAKOVA believes self-love and artistic expression are the ultimate tools for empowering communities.
Photo: Mark Edward Smith
Claire Zakiewicz is a British inter-disciplinary artist working across drawing, film, sound and performance. Zakiewicz’s practice explores the physical and metaphorical relationships between sound and drawing. It is a scientific and philosophical practice-based enquiry - thinking through making. Zakiewicz re-examines the pictorialization of space and the intimacy of exchange. Her animated films have been shown at Alive In the Universe for the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019 and at Tate Tanks and Tate Modern (London) in the exhibitions Tweet Me Up, and Label, 2012. Zakiewicz has exhibited regularly throughout the UK, USA, Italy and Norway and has produced and performed in numerous productions and international institutions including Resonance FM (UK); ARTI3160 (Venice, Italy); USF (Norway); Bill Young's Dance Studio (NYC); Mothership NYC; Last Frontier NYC and Itinerant Performance Arts Festival (NYC). Zakiewicz lives and works in London, UK and New York, United States. Zakiewicz writes for the publications Creatrix Magazine, Art511 Magazine and Hypocrite Reader.
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Open House Claire Zakiewicz has been invited to undertake a one-week intensive residency at the Aldeburgh Beach “Lookout,” from July 22 - 28, 2019. Located in the English seaside town in Suffolk, the isolated tower provides a unique opportunity to engage with the iconic cultural landscape and surrounding waters. Film Projections: The Primacy of Movement "One, two, three, four’ the beats of Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach measure out time. Time is the heart beat of the universe, towards death, the nemesis of creativity." Caroline Wiseman
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May 10 - 30, 2019 Schedule of Events: Preview and Performance Opening Reception and Performance Japanese Calligraphy Workshop Performance Closing Reception and Performance ARTI3160
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It comes as a surprise at first that visual artist, Claire Zakiewicz, does not make art. She prefers to label her creative work as a practice in listening, learning and observing. Claire and her art reside in a world called spatialised time - a wonderful place where shapes of sound, dance and drawing are related back to the material world we live in. This world exists in the crossroad between two chief species of time. Intellectual time is a purposeful sequencing of parts or events and is, therefore, affiliated with ideas composition and product. Real time, familial to ideas of improvisation and process, is the experience of these sequenced parts. So in the land of spatialised time, Claire’s artistic house is located in a town called ‘perspectives in motion’ where the artistic system adopts a temporal focus attributable to Claire’s interest in the philosophy of the two species of time mentioned above. In the course of one prickly affair, Claire found that the paintbrushes she was using were far to bristly and produced scanty lines - this effect was far from what she had envisaged. What does a relationship with failure look like? There are different shades of failure. Technical failure, like the brushes malfunctioning, and feeling of failure - a sense of dissatisfaction. Nonetheless, like all relationships, this one is creative. One create’s a space wherein to exist with the failure which, according to Murphy’s law, will inevitably happen. What is worth mentioning is that failure has an important role in the element of duration. Claire resolved to refer to the whiskery brushstrokes - the technical failure - as a symbol of her emotions to the corporate shells of skyscrapers that characterised her first few weeks in New York. Overthinking is dangerous. Claire’s approach to colour is spontaneous and usually involves picking quickly, or even asking friends to pick. Improvisation is a means of surrender, and energy is reserved for the act of becoming a character - becoming a paintbrush, for example. Performing brush strokes is a humanistic act - it is rooted in the body. “Follow a set of patterns, rather than have expectations”, says Claire. She finds pleasure in the surprise outcome and this is reinforced by experiments such as painting in the dark with a cellist playing in the room, or painting blindfolded among dancers and improvising poets, or painting her bear feet and dancing on paper. Perhaps the wall between life and art crumbles when you don’t think too much. This involves a level of trust in the idea that the body knows more than the brain. Maybe this is the big question of process : where is the end? Then follows, when is it? What is it? Is there an end? Or must we accept the perpetual motion in life and art? Surely, we must all take note from Leonardo Di Vinci’s view that a work of art is never finished, it is abandoned. Claire values the creative process rather than product; however, product - which connotes "finished” – is an essential part of the process. I think it is about realising the symbiosis between process and product - that the product is not the be all and end all, the process is not a smooth ride altogether. Failure must become a friend if the artist wishes to make beauty alive and tangible in the moment.
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Preview Reception & Performance
Friday September 14, 2018
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Performance by Assembly
Off-site Project, 16th International Architecture Biennale
September 15 - 27, 2018
ARTism3160
San Marco
3209/A - 3160
Venice, Italy
an exhibition of drawing and painting by Claire Zakiewicz and perormances by Assembly
Performances every day at 7pm
ARTism 3160 is pleased to present Perspectives in Motion by Claire Zakiewicz to be opened on September 15, 2018. The exhibition will re-address ideas of “failure” and the conceptions of “the imperfect” within the discipline of drawing. |
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Assembly
Mothership August Salon
Tuesday, August 14, 7:30 pm
Mothership NYC
252 Green Street
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC
a collaborative live act organized by Claire Zakiewicz featuring the following artists:
Mariana Alviarez - Dance
Marcus Cummins - Saxophone
Aaron Moore - Percussion
Lenna M Pierce - Cello and Voice
Claire Zakiewicz - Live Drawing
Venezuelan artist, Mariana Alviarez is based between New York and Buenos Aires. She is a dancer, actress, performer, dance educator, choreographer and researcher. She has been working with several dance and drama companies, in both multimedia projects and films. With a BA in International Studies, she aims to create spaces for the development of the performing arts, facilitating exchanges between anthropology, folklore, international culture and social studies. She has performed her own projects in Venezuela, USA, Argentina, Chile, Perú, Ecuador, and Spain. |
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Exhibition in Venice, Italy
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"Find in yourself those human things which are universal."
Sanford Meisner Out of the Mothership is an exhibition that presents British born artist Claire Zakiewicz’s ongoing research into the physical and metaphorical relationships between sound and drawing. This research has been a scientific and philosophical practice based enquiry - thinking through making. |
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Upcoming Exhibition in Italy
Don’t invent, don’t create, don’t make Art... |
Claire Zakiewicz, Resonance, stop-motion clip, 2016
"Find in yourself those human things which are universal." - Sanford Meisner
Out of the Mothership is an exhibition that presents British born artist Claire Zakiewicz’s ongoing research into the phenomenology of drawing. Over the past five years Zakiewicz has undertaken numerous residencies in New York, Norway and London, where she has been collaborating with composers, physicists and other thinkers and makers to produce a series of performances and drawings. This particular series will re-examine the pictorialization of space and the intimacy of exchange - whether through gesture, sound or drawing. Zakiewicz asks how “performing drawing,” affects the body and our experience of the tangible and intangible objects in time and space. This is Zakiewicz’s first solo show in Italy, which will take place during La Biennale di Venzia. Her previous exhibitions and performances include Tate Tanks (UK), Tate Modern (UK), Resonance FM (UK), USF (Norway), Bill Young’s Dance Studio (NYC). |
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Studio view, 100 Grand Street, Soho, New York, 2016
Photo: Isaac Rosenthall
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Collaborative Control with Dance and Drawing
Created during Bill Young Dance residency, 2016
The performative aspect of my work, where I explore intuition, improvisation, spontaneous gesture, chance and many other things is possibly more physiological than conceptual.
As part of Zakiewicz's residency at Bill Young Dance studios in New York, she collaborated with well-known dancers and musicians including Anna Chirescu, who was trained in classical dance at the Conservatory of Paris before joining the Conservatoire National superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), Pierre Guilbault, who has a background in ballet and contemporary dance and New York based singer and cellist Lenna Pierce.
Lenna Pierce - Cello and Voice
Anna Chirescu - dance
Pierre Guilbault - dance
Claire Zakiewicz - drawing
This particular series titled Collaborative Control examines the spatialization of time, body memory and colour theory. The temporal aspect of these works, performed in real time, as one continuous motion, exposed the various distinctions between conceptual time and real time.
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Claire Zakiewicz - live drawing
Meaner Pencil - cello & voice
Michael Hart - curation
PointB Worklodge, New York, USA, 2016
This particular series was performed in complete darkness/blackness. Each movement was made in response to particular sounds, a cello and voice, played by Meaner Pencil.
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Sept 2016 - Jan 2017
Bill Young Dance
100 Grand St, SoHo, New York, USA
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Tourette Syndrome is a series of drawings inspired by Zakiewicz's interest in exploring the brain's response to stimuli and exploring the various filters or lack of filters and control we have over our actions
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Tourette Syndrome, 2014
Pastel on paper
Dimensions TBC
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Luna Studio at PointB Worklodge, Brooklyn, USA
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
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Things to Remember is a film of subtly threaded scenes, using moments and perspectives from the writer’s life. The film acts as a reminder that one tiny moment in time can represent truth and lies, tenderness and abuse, connection and genuine misunderstandings, determining who we ultimately become in order to make sense and survive. Dannie- Lu Carr - director and producer
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In 2011 I worked with poet Jason Shelley and created a visual piece for his poem
'Writing with your eyes closed'
The wind is so strong outside.
The sun is shining. The wind is blowing.
Three sheets of writing paper on the bench, held down by a phone, are blown away.
The phone hits the ground.
I make chase for the paper stapled together at the corners.
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Claire Zakiewicz works with the Norwegian-based British composer and vocalist Alwynne Pritchard
In these performances, Zakiewicz worked with the Norwegian-based British composer and vocalist Alwynne Pritchard to explore possible relationships between extended vocalised sounds and drawing in live performance.
Over extended periods Zakiewicz works into the drawing using various methods relating to the spacialization of time.
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The Foundry, Great Eastern Street (downstairs)
Ron Briefel; keyboard and home made instruments, Claire Zakiewicz; live drawing and animated film
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March 2010
The Foundry, Great Eastern Street
Ron Briefel; keyboard and home made instruments, Claire Zakiewicz; live drawing
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Fat Battery Summer School,
USF, Bergen, Norway, August, 2008
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