DEVILS LAUNCH PARTY!
A unique event - a Performative Lecture by two artist/cultural commentators on the meaning of devils followed by party with surprise guests.
A unique event - a Performative Lecture by two artist/cultural commentators on the meaning of devils followed by party with surprise guests.
Join us to celebrate the launch of our devil sculptures with a live Performative lecture followed by a party with live music and surprise guests!
Performative lecture 6pm
Party live music 7.30 - 10pm
With music and film by FlytoWhitney moon Projected film and live devil music this promises to be a unique event at the atmospheric venue of St Pancras Old Church
DJ set by...surprise guest!
Food by Lotus Group
St Pancras Old Church
BIOS
Professor Esther Leslie
Director of A Space for Us People’s Museum and Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London, in the School of Arts.
She is passionate about local radical histories, such as the communist Unity theatre and Pan Africanism. Artist, reviewer of exhibitions, and author of books on topics as diverse as animation, milk, liquid crystals and screen devices, her work encompasses exhibitions such as at MIMA in Middlesbrough, and, recently, speaking on In Our Time, a BBC Radio 4 show on Walter Benjamin. Her local Jewish origin take in potato market workers, and others of the International African Service Bureau in Somers Town.
Melanie Jackson ArtIst RCA
https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/melanie-jackson/
Melanie was commissioned to create the devil sculptures and research into Gilbert Bayes methodology will be explored in the lecture.
Her multidisciplinary practice involves modes of non-fiction storytelling – through space/objects/text/moving image and sound.
Melanie was lives and works in London at the RCA and has recently completed a practice based PhD at the University of Reading.
In 2017/18 she published co-authored articles with Dr Esther Leslie in Parallax Journal , Effects Journal , the online journal Studies in the Maternal , and cabinet magazine. They have also co-authored a book Deeper in the Pyramid (2018), and have previously produced a comic The Ur-Phenomenon (2013) and a newspaper The Urpflanze (2010). They devised a series of performance lectures based on the book for the Delfina foundation (2016), UCL (2016), Birkbeck (2017) the Atlantic Project (2017), Lux (2017) and Primary (2018).
Solo exhibitions include Deeper in the Pyramid at Grand Union, (Birmingham), with solo exhibitionsin the UK (London) and Arnolfini (Bristol) and exhibited internationally in group exhibitions including Take Me to the River , DRF Biennale (Osaka, Japan), The Global Contemporary, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (Karlsruhe, Germany) as well as photography (Chicago, USA), Art Gallery New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), (Dublin, Ireland),(Brussels, Belgium), and Shanghai.
She has been shortlisted for the Whitechapel Max Mara Art Prize for Women and was a winner of the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
She has work in the Tate and Government Art Collections, and in Private Collections.
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