Friday 4 August 2017, 7.30pm
Two nights based around the themes of depression and hysteria curated by Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood.
Shana Moulton works in video and performance. Moulton studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where she received her MFA. Moulton has also recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and studied at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Her video work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at The Armory Show Art Fair, New York; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Loop '05 Video Festival, Barcelona; Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris; Aurora, Edinburgh; Dark Light Festival, Dublin; Impakt Festival, Utrecht; Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen; Canada Gallery, New York; and Bellwether, New York. Moulton currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Beth Collar was born in Cambridge. She works in performance, sculpture, installation and video. Recent projects and performances have been at the Kunstverein München, Munich 2017, Kunstraum, London, 2017 Standpoint, London, 2017, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, 2016, Hester, New York, 2016, KW, Berlin, 2016, Fig 2, ICA, London, 2015, Cubitt, London, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2015, Raven Row, London, 2015, the Serpentine Galleries, London, 2015 and Flat Time House, London, 2014. She was recipient of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2016/17.
Lia Mazzari is a sound artist and researcher working with open-source sound transmission technologies in environmental research as unique tools for alternative ‘live’ models of listening, responding to, and composing with more-than-human environments. Her solo and collaborative works span activist radio labs, cryospheric sound transmissions, whip cracking performances and experimental cello concerts. Winner of an Oram Award in 2022, Lia has developed works for Tate Modern/Britain (UK), Biennale Gherdeina (IT), Zone2Source Gallery (NL), South London Gallery (UK), V&A Dundee (UK), Q-02 (BE), and Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts (IN). She is currently an AHRC/Techne-funded PhD candidate at the Centre for GeoHumanities/Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Collaborators Vindicatrix, New Noveta and Louis Backhouse present a new piece 'Penanggalan' involving costumes and processed recitations.
Second live collaboration from Mark Harwood (Astor, Penultimate Press) and Nell Peto (Oxford).
