New Noveta (the Taskers) are trapped in Drift Fright, a sinister force that prevents their leaving and is the current that transmits them, where co-performers Elena Bushueva (the Judge) and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (Remote Viewer) mediate and weaponise their Drift in the Horse Hospital.
Held in the Gardner Room at Atlantis Bookshop, a portal in City channels, The Reading Salon will use Caliban & the Witch by Silvia Federici as a springboard to examine the female body and valence of heretical and occult practice in early Capitalism and its concurrent weaponization and usurpation as a commodity.
A one-week residency for artists New Noveta, Elena Bushueva and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, culminating in newly commissioned collaborative live performance.
screening of Steven Arnold's only film, 'Luminous Procuress', a selection of underground shorts from The Horse Hospital's archives and impromptu performances from special guests including the last chanteuse Anne Pigalle!
Excessive: Performance, Confrontation, and the 1970s -- Dominic Johnson and David J. Getsy in Conversation
Curated by David J. Getsy, the exhibition brings to light the work of performance artist Stephen Varble (1946–1984) through the photographs taken by Greg Day (b.1944) of his costumes, performances, and collaborations.
The Horse Hospital presents OBLIVION INDUSTRY, an installation by Jenkin van Zyl which will result out of a residency filming with pieces from the archive of The Contemporary Wardrobe, initiating a new body of filmic work.
