[neighbourHOOD] was a 10 day residency followed by public performance and exhibition, devised in collaboration with Marcel Sparman of PAS (Performance Art Studies). [neighbourHOOD] explored how performance practices can be seen as a translation of social and economic states through dialogues between the body and architecture, artist and community.
The location of the project in Hackney Wick was both a physical site and a point of departure, as both place and artistic discipline are considered fringe. This coupling of the transitional work sites of Olympic space(s) with the live presentation of ephemeral actions constructs a narrative of liminality.
[neighbourHOOD] explored place as beyond land and structures to encompass the daily actions and life that embody and create community. Considering the artists body as an extension of this or foreign object; participants became migrant workers forging temporary relationships through the personification of architecture and questioning of labour, and performance as a transformative act.
ARTISTS - Benjamin Sebastian, Tine Voeks, Maria Lucia, Isik met Knutsdotter, Liam Yeates and Kimbal Bumbstead