“A breath of fresh air” – Audience Member

“A breath of fresh air” – Audience Member

SPILL YER TEA #1 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Strange Loop is a psychoanalyst’s wet-dream. An autobiographical fantasy. It’s a postmodern p**s-take. It’s a closed circuit, baby. We find ourselves lost in a dark, mythopoetic labyrinth; a twisted warren of pop-culture reference; a kaleidoscopic cavern of queerness and the uncanny. This interdisciplinary work loops ceaselessly through spoken word, lip-sync, 80’s synthwave, Expressionist horror, and other… Stranger Things. Pretentious Dross is Liverpool’s Art House Queen and the Co-Director of @eatmeclub.

Image: Andrew AB

A performance looking at how women constrict their bodies to fit in with society’s ideal body types; exploring shape wear, celebrity work out dvd’s and tit tape that is placed over nipples to both cover and repress their form. Exploring the themes of todays beauty standards and body positivity.

Image: Andrew Wilson

A performance delving into the world of the posthuman, exploring the affect of technology and gender in a contemporary and futuristic society. Laura Much and Francess Gannon are both alumni of the MA Performance programme at Liverpool Hope University.

Image: Andrew AB

The Circle Performance is a physical representation of the comfort and behaviour of Benjamin’s body within any given public setting. The performance also represents a bank of PTSD memories that Benjamin has had to deal with in his daily life. Every mark on the canvas is performed through the prism of Benjamin’s mental health needs, working-class upbringing and traumatic childhood. He calls this process ‘Auto-Traumatic Drawing and it stands to represent healing, release and understanding.

Image: Andrew AB

Alasdair Ambrose is a multi-media artist who actively uses the self as a vessel for art making. Alasdair has developed a series of performative works which utilise the ritual of shaving in protest against social trauma. Alasdair’s physical involvement in the work reflects the impact that collective injustices also have in the individual. The work offers to take you out of the realms of reality, with immersive sensory environments.

Image: Andrew AB

In “Solve and Coagula 22” Rah puts the world of tattooing and tarot into communication. Tarot cards are used as a way to look inside, blood can be understood as the essence of our deep and tattooing as an action of transformation.

Image: Andrew AB

Kajoli Ilojak is a Bangladeshi artists based in London. Her art engages with the cultural expectations and ideological restrictions that she confronts as a woman, as an artist and as an immigrant. Negotiating barriers of language – as well as the staging of ‘otherness’ – she communicate through her body, gestural mark making, painting and voice.

Image: Andrew AB

Within Equilibrium, the participants become co-creators. As a collective, the performer and the participants must aim to create ‘balance’. SPILL YER TEA. Kelly Swift is an alumni of the MA Performance programme at Liverpool Hope University.

Image: Marcin Sz

Gemma Jones is a live durational performance artist based between the West Midlands and Glasgow. Influenced by Hyperfemininty and Gender performativity she aims to respond to the the rise of pictorial based performance art. Working primarily in the present moment, Jones explores the relationship between material and object by blending methods of thought in motion, prepared actions from the studio and the re-use of performance actions from previous altered states to challenge the dialogue of performance art, sculpture and installation. Influenced by Tate performance curator Catherine woods writing on ‘Cinematic modes of staging the body’ relating to the 1990’s New York new performance wave, she aims to push concepts of performed photography within current durational performance.

Image: Andrew Wilson

‘This body art performance presents the performers reaction to Brexit Britain through the artist’s identity journey. The piece not only explores the feelings of the performer through obvious life-based story-telling and verse, but also holds a suitable message regarding the current uncertain future of the artists due to the unknown effects of Brexit. Wearing a union jack dress the performer tells a story of how the dress relates to different ages and events in her life.

Image: Andrew Wilson

‘This body art performance presents the performers reaction to Brexit Britain through the artist’s identity journey. The piece not only explores the feelings of the performer through obvious life-based story-telling and verse, but also holds a suitable message regarding the current uncertain future of the artists due to the unknown effects of Brexit. Wearing a union jack dress the performer tells a story of how the dress relates to different ages and events in her life.

Image: Andrew Wilson

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