Gestures

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Mark your calendar with our 8pm Saturdays ‘the party is over’ programmation for mediated and IRL performances, film sharing and conversation, and on site artist conversation – there will be plenty, plenty, plenty of food for thoughts catering for different dietary requirements.

This  Saturday we welcome with both hands performances from Jade Blackstock, İzdihar Afyouni, and Sebastian H-W among other artists 

Jade (B. 1993, Birmingham) is a UK-based, British Jamaican performance artist. Her work explores questions of the body and identity in relation to historical, cultural and personal events and experiences. Her practice is particularly anchored in exploring Afro-Caribbean customs, rituals and material, and attempts to discuss how prejudices and colonial histories continue to impact the lives and current representations of Black people and people of colour. She seeks to highlight how the body, material and space have shared capabilities of holding, transferring and embodying collective pasts or memories, which bears importance in our understanding of selves and each other. Themes of race and Black identity, feminism, ownership, class and loss are present in her work.

Izdihar Afyouni (b. 1994) is an Arab multidisciplinary artist and independent curator with a background in academic figurative painting. She works with large-format painting, sculpture, text, video and immersive theatre/performance.  Her painting practice concerns itself with making the work of art a site of continued performance, a torturous self-examination, that has no resolution but a continuing consequence. It is concerned with political notions of the body and seeks to weave together multiple narrative threads that question the role of the author and interrogates the conscious and subconscious political influence of Judeo-Christian iconography in contemporary visual culture by re-examining them through a queer, decolonized lense. 

Sebastian H-W is a Live Artist (MX:UK) based between London the West Midlands whose practice explores the intersections of identity, memory, technology, participation, and bodies, through cutting-edge approaches to creating live performances, action-based interventions, immersive tours, games, and installations. He has made work across a range of sites, spaces, and places including; grand theatres, queer clubs, white cubes, black-boxes, historic watchtowers, city streets, quiet canals, the palm of your hand, and the voices inside your head.

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residency@coventry-artspace.co.uk .