9 May 2022 | In Other Words 2

Release: 9 May 2022

Through prose, poetry, drawing and photography In Other Words 2 is a continuation of a collection of urgent reflections, created by artists exploring their hopes and fears at a time of global crisis. It is a clarion call for change from a group rich in wisdom, shared experience, and what it means to be marginalised in 2022. 

In 2020 Metal and artist-researcher Kate Marsh curated In Other Words, a collection of urgent artistic reflections in response to the global pandemic. The first book invited 49 artists to think about the ‘New Normal’ and their hopes and fears for the future as we were thrown into a landscape of change and precarity. You can find out more about our first edition of In Other Words here. 

Following numerous lockdowns and continued questions about the future of the arts, it felt even more important to create a second iteration of In Other Words, asking “How are you now?”

In Other Words 2 has been co-curated by Kate Marsh, Xavier de Sousa and Harold Offeh. Kate Marsh explains that: 

‘We were always keen to invite other artists into our process, extend our networks and to keep questioning notions of power and curatorial control. More than ever, marginalised artists seem more collectivised, whilst at the same time experiencing extreme isolation: from the world, from each other and from the systems that must be navigated in the arts.’

Kate continues: 

‘In Other Words 2 was curated without expectation. We did not want this collection to fix a broken world or even a broken art world. We wanted contributing artists to take up space with their thoughts and experiences of this moment.’

The result for this iteration is a collection of beautiful works responding to the question “How are you now?”. Commissioned by Metal and financially supported by Necessity, it brings together artists working across the performing, literary and visual arts to share their experiences and perceptions of artists re-building their lives and their practice in unchartered territory.  

Contributors explore longing, gender identity, racism, family bonds, government guidelines, mental health, and ableism amongst many others.

The participating artists are: Aby Watson, Amy Pennington, Ashleigh Williams, Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana, Darren Pritchard, David Sheppeard, Dinis Machado, Dominic Johnson, Emilyn Claid, Estabrak, Fado Bicha, Funmi Adewole, Gabriella Davies, Greg Wohead, Istanbul Queer Art Collective, Jack Ky Tan, Jess Thom, Kat Hawkins, Lynn Lu, Marikiscrycrycry, Monique Jackson, Oozing Gloop, Pankaj Tiwari, Paul Kindersley, Ren Neoh, Ricardo Guimarães, Rieko Whitfield, Robert Softley Gale, Sam Metz, Samra Mayanja, SERAFINE1369, Simone Yasmin, Subira Joy, Sulaiman R. Khan, Symoné, Syowia Kyambi, Tara Fatehi, Tia-Monique Uzor, Toke Broni Strandby, Valerie Asiimwe Amani, Veronica Cordova de la Rosa, Welly O’Brien  

It is available now and includes a free audio described version of the book here. There’s also free PDF to accompany the Audio Description.

https://www.metalculture.com/projects/in-other-words-2/...

2 April 2022 | TIDING

TIDING: A Day of Performance Art at Historic Sites in Folkestone and Romney Marsh

20 April, 11.30am to 10pm

Tiding is a day-long festival of performance art taking place between two historic churches in Folkestone and Romney Marsh.

The day begins with a welcome (vegan) picnic at the Romney Marsh site, where artists Lynn Lu, Sandra Johnston, and James Jordan Johnson will present performances across the afternoon.

Tiding continues into the evening in Folkestone, with more food and a further three performances by Monstera Delicsiosa, Léann Herlihy and Kelvin Atmadibrata.

Tiding is a celebration, marking the coming of spring and the possibilities of gathering together again. It also marks a significant transition for ]performance s p a c e[, as this will be our final public programming in Folkestone.

Further information on the partcipating artists and schedule for the day can be found on our website at:

www.performancespace.org/Tiding

• Credits •

Tiding is curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Joseph Morgan Schofield, and produced by ]performance s p a c e[. The project is supported by Ash McNaughton and Marcin Gawin.

The project is funded by ]performance s p a c e[, Kent County Council, Creative Folkestone & Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, and Kent Wildlife Trust.

19 Mar 2022 | Raisins in the Audience Dough: Final Movement

Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw. Raisins in the Audience Dough: Final Movement, 2022. Film stills: Ana de Matos, Jootz.

Premiere: 19 March 2022

Presented in conjunction with the Gallery’s special exhibition 𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸, the third and final movement of 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 sees artists Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw performing a series of scores to a video camera. These scores were written by participants who previously took part in the second movement of this work.

Filmed separately in London and Singapore, Lu and Lauw subject a variety of everyday objects to “creative misuse” in the deadpan delivery style of Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman. The resulting footage—alongside documentation of participants responding to their prompts in the second movement—is combined to draw out gestural synchronicities and serendipitous occurrences that connect the two artists and the participants, as well as Paik and Moorman's exploits across the vast expanse of time and space.

This performance on film will premiere on the Gallery’s Facebook and YouTube pages on 19 March 2022.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝:

𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 is a three-part project by artists Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw referencing the shared artistic history of long-time collaborators Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman. The first movement of Raisins In The Audience Dough is available for viewing at the Gallery as part of 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦-𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦: 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬. Click here for screening information: http://tiny.cc/AfterludePreludeBooklet

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:

𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸 is a large-scale institutional exhibition of the visionary artist which surveys five decades of his pioneering work in the use of television and video in art. A key figure in the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, he was also one of the first international superstars in the art world. Find out more here: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/namjunepaik/.

15 Feb 2022 | Maternal Performance: Feminist Relation

Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations online book launch and panel discussion

Tuesday 15 Feb, 19:00 GMT

Join authors Lena Simic and Emily Underwood-Lee as they launch their new co-authored book Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations. Lena and Emily will be joined by Lynn Lu, Catriona James, Hannah Ballou, and Nanna Lysholt Hansen, artists whose work is featured in the book, and Elaine Aston, series editor of Contemporary Performance InterActions at Palgrave Macmillan.

Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations bridges the fields of performance, feminism, maternal studies, and ethics. It loosely follows the life course with chapters on maternal loss, pregnancy, birth, aftermath, maintenance, generations, and futures. Performance and the maternal have an affinity as both are lived through the body of the mother/artist, are played out in real time, and are concerned with creating ethical relationships with an other – be that other the child, the theatrical audience, or our wider communities. The authors contend that maternal performance takes the largely hidden, private and domestic work of mothering and makes it worthy of consideration and contemplation within the public sphere.

Motherhood is lived in the moment and in all of time’ state Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee in their dazzling book on maternal performance that defies categorisation. Putting into conversation the complex histories of feminist theorising about motherhood, and an array of contemporary maternal performance, this extraordinary work is inventive, personal, strident, scholarly, political and profound in equal measure, and quietly moving in unexpected ways.

-Lisa Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London

What a joy to read a text that so fully embodies the idea of maternal performance, not only through extensive scholarly inquiry but also through conversational, relational, and epistolary engagement between the authors. Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee offer an important model of feminist maternal scholarship alongside nuanced understandings of what maternal performance can entail.

-Rachel Epp Buller, Associate Professor in Visual Arts and Design, Bethel College, US

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80226-4#about

https://performanceandthematernal.com/

20 - 23 Jan 2022 | Raisins in the Audience Dough: Second Movement

Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw. Raisins in the Audience Dough: Second Movement, 2022. Film stills: Ana de Matos.

Raisins in the Audience Dough: Second Movement

20 to 23 Jan, 10am to 7pm

Presented in conjunction with National Gallery Singapore’s latest special exhibition 𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸, the second movement of this three-part project will see artists Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw present a participatory in situ performance within the Gallery’s public spaces.

56 participants will be guided, one at a time, through a bespoke series of sequences designed by the artists. This movement draws from scores Paik wrote specifically for long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman, Moorman and Paik's shared interest in inclusivity and engaging their audiences’ active participation, Paik’s prophetic conflations of tech and the body, including the mediation of intimacy through tech, and Paik’s signature “salt and pepper” strategy of injecting a surprise into what would otherwise be banal.

Registration closes on 2 Jan 2022 and selected participants will be notified by 4 Jan 2022.

This programme is recommended for participants aged 16 and above.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸 is a large-scale institutional exhibition of the visionary artist which surveys five decades of his pioneering work in the use of television and video in art. A key figure in the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, he was also one of the first international superstars in the art world. Find out more here: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/namjunepaik

14 Dec 2021 | performingborders annual performance to camera commission

Lynn Lu. Amnion, 2021. Film still: Ana de Matos.

performingborders annual performance to camera commission

Premiere: 14 December 2021

This work thinks through water as a medium that literally connects all watery bodies – all living creatures to each other, as well as to hydrogeological and meteorological bodies, the significant water loss in menopausal bodies, our human affinity to whales – the only other species that undergoes the climacteric and lives a long post-reproductive life, and the enduring biological enigma that is the menopause.

Layered voices narrate text excerpts from philosopher Astrida Neimanis’ and writer Darcey Steinke’s ideas exploring the leakiness of borders between our bodies and our environment, and between human and cetacean, as well as the fallacies and fears that continue to surround bodies transitioning from a state of fertility to one of barrenness that affects more than half the world’s population.

Conceived, narrated & performed by: Lynn Lu
Directed, filmed, edited by: Ana de Matos
Second performer: Satsuki Lu-Sharpe
Commissioned by: performingborders

View film here.

29 Sept 2021 | Southbank Centre: Arts & Health Collaborations

Lynn Lu and Carmine Pariante. For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been', 2017. Photo credit: Vestal McIntyre.

Dr Carmine Pariante (Professor of Biological Psychiatry and Head of the Stress at King’s College London) and I will be presenting our collaborative projects at Arts & Health Collaborations – a creative workshop part of the Art by Post exhibition – and discussing our working process.

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Southbank Centre

The Southbank Centre and Arts and Health Hub invite you to be part of a collaborative creative workshop, designed to connect people working at the intersection of the arts, healthcare, medical research and tech sectors, to ignite fresh ideas and responses to creative challenges.

Listen to a candid conversation between artist Lynn Lu and healthcare professional Prof Carmine Pariante about the challenges and possibilities of their creative collaboration, and what it takes to nurture a long-term partnership.

Explore some of the tensions surrounding partnership working, including power discrepancies, privilege, access and knowledge justice, and respond to some of the most pressing creative challenges today.

Build new connections with other artists and healthcare professionals, and pathways for future collaborations.

17 – 19 Sept 2021 | AFTERLUDE-PRELUDE : RESPONSES TO NAM JUNE PAIK

Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw. Raisins in the Audience Dough: Opening Movement, 2021. Image co-created by Lynn Lu and Manuel Vason. Photo credit: Manuel Vason.

AFTERLUDE-PRELUDE : RESPONSES TO NAM JUNE PAIK

17 to 19 Sep, 11am to 6pm

Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw are delighted to present their new single-channel video, Raisins in the Audience Dough: First Movement, at “AFTERLUDE-PRELUDE : RESPONSES TO NAM JUNE PAIK”. This landmark event, jointly organised by the National Gallery Singapore and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), brings together unique contributions from over 20 artists around the globe, responding to and inspired by the legacy of Paik’s words and texts through performances, readings, and artistic interventions.

Inspired by Nam June Paik’s transnational art practice and experimentations in global satellite broadcast — as well as the present impact of the pandemic on remote communication — Afterlude/Prelude: Artists Respond to Nam June Paik brings together contemporary artists from around the world via webcast. Hosted by artist Julia Scher and SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling, the multiple-hour presentation will feature over twenty artists responding to Paik’s thinking and writing through readings, performances, music, video, and more.

Audiences worldwide can tune in to the free webcast, first streamed here by SFMOMA. Bay Area audiences are invited to witness the closing segment, a piano performance of Paik’s Fluxus score DO IT YOURSELF, live onsite at SFMOMA (RSVP to attend). Once the San Francisco–based stream concludes on Friday evening, our co-organizers at the National Gallery Singapore will stream the program again from the beginning at noon Singapore Time (SGT), one day ahead.

Participating artists

Aki Onda (Tokyo, New York)

Autumn Knight (New York)

Ayumi Paul (Berlin)

Bani Haykal (Singapore)

Candice Brietz and Alex Fahl (Berlin)

Chris Kallmyer (Los Angeles) and Zoe Aja Moore (Los Angeles)

Christian Marclay (New York)

Geumhyung Jeong (Seoul)

Lynn Lu (London, Singapore) and Melinda Lauw (Singapore)

Michael Rauter (Berlin)

Nam June Paik, with performers Hewen Ma (Shanghai) and Sophia (Shuhui) Zhou (San Francisco)

Sue Kim and Kim Jae Hoon with Diveline Ensemble (Seoul)

Song-Ming Ang (Berlin)

Tad Ermitaño (Manila)

Tini Aliman (Singapore)

weish (Singapore)

Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore)

Afterlude/Prelude: Artists Respond to Nam June Paik is jointly organized by SFMOMA and the National Gallery Singapore. The performance DO IT YOURSELF is presented in collaboration with Chronus Art Center.

The exhibition Nam June Paik is co-organized by Tate Modern and SFMOMA, co-curated by Sook-kyung Lee and Rudolf Frieling.