DANCEHALL 11
Edition of journal staged across objects and performances at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2015
DANCEHALL 11 installation view (Brief things in foreground)I am part of the collaborative project Psykick Dancehall, that produced a journal, DANCEHALL, from 2010-2017. DANCEHALL explored affinities between diverse artists working with sound, the voice and performance in different fields.
This edition was staged as an exhibition addressing the politics of listening, informed by an attentiveness to forms of communication and cohabitation that escape normative models. The exhibition also explored the relationship between the page, the gallery space and live event.
Artists were invited to present work across different media, with performance, moving image, sound, physical installations and other interventions from Katherine Macbride, Giuseppe Mistretta, Rebecca Wilcox and Amelia Bywater, Tom White and HELLO magazine (Rosalie Schweiker & David Morris) with Louise Hobson.
Pages and pages (Editorial). Performance and risograph edition produced for DANCEHALL 11, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2015.
Within this, Psykick Dancehall also made two contributions. Pages and pages was a text for publication and performance. This was conceived of as an ‘editorial’ that reflected upon the shared preoccupation that brought the artists of the show together, with how sound inflects our relationship to our surroundings and to each other—and upon our role within the show and the DANCEHALL project more generally. The text was published in a risograph edition and formed the basis for a performance during the exhibition.
Brief things. Modular platforms, plywood, dimensions variable. Installed as part of DANCEHALL 11, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2015Brief things were modular, reconfigurable platforms within the gallery, that hosted performances: like the journal itself, they were an invitation to others and a meeting point, encouraging new kinds of collaboration between the artists involved. Their presence also served as a reminder of the links between exhibited works and performances.
Read Pages and pages (Editorial) here.