Psychic Communities –_ Drift Fright
19 - 24th November 2019
Programme:
New Noveta
Elena Bushueva
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
Performance and Live Installation
Saturday 23rd November 2019, 7pm – late
Admission*: £2 - unwaged / £5 - low on funds / £10 - waged & general admission
*includes 'Psychic Communities' publication featuring an essay commission by Philomena Epps
Drift Fright – Reading salon with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
Atlantis Bookshop, Tuesday 19th November 2019, 7pm – 9pm
Admission: £2 - unwaged / £5 - low on funds / £10 - waged & general admission
Drift Fright – Spatial Augmented Reality workshop led by Elena Bushueva
Wednesday 20th November 2019, 11am – 2pm
A workshop for Cockpit Wednesday Studio Project artists from Action Space a visual arts organisation dedicated to artists with learning disabilities.
Trapped in Drift Fright
Around the walls, the bed * We cutting, find the flow***Flee, but while fleeing, pick up a weapon Now, levels will be layered for the love of disruption***The head, wrangles
Crossing over crossing***makes drills see the person***Opening new lines of panic and joy.
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.
Disturbing the construction of the real: through projection, and digital avatars, temporal zones within and without the Horse Hospital, give time, presence and technology a life of its own. The Drift Fright is a current that carries this panic, sinister currents of city: but also a galvanising weapon.
Psychic Communities is a programme of exhibitions and events curated by Letitia Calin and Sholto Dobie at The Horse Hospital, looking at community-forming mechanisms that operate beyond verbal and visual transmission through sensual, spiritual, embodied or tacit forms of connection.
As part of the programme, The Horse Hospital will host Drift Fright a one-week residency for artists New Noveta, Elena Bushueva and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson to consider how anxiety and other invisible disabilities can be made perceivable and explore their mediation through sensory performance practices, bodies and audio-visual technology.
The residency features a newly commissioned collaborative live performance, a reading salon at Atlantis Bookshop with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, and a Spatial Augmented Reality workshop led by Elena Bushueva for Cockpit Wednesday Studio Project artists from Action Space, a visual arts organisation dedicated to artists with learning disabilities.
Supported by Arts Council England.
