[neighbourHOOD]

We believe performance art can generate a poetic understanding of our time, ourselves and [neighbourHOOD].

[neighbourHOOD] explores how performance practices can be seen as a translation of social and economic states through dialogues between the body and architecture, artist and community.

For ten days, six artists will undertake practice-led research while immersed in the local environment, public space(s) and studio culture of ]performance s p a c e [. The artists’ work will be taking place in both public space(s) and ]performance s p a c e [. From working night shifts in fruits and vegetables warehouses in Hamlet Industrial Estate, to Olympic tours in Stratford and from Foremans Smoke House to Hackney artists’ studios.

This coupling of the transitional work sites of Olympic space(s) with the live presentation of ephemeral actions constructs a narrative of liminality.

[neighbourHOOD] explores place as beyond land and structures to encompass the daily actions and life that embody and create community. Considering the artist’s body as an extension of this or foreign object PASproject participants become migrant workers forging temporary relationships through the personification of architecture and questioning of labour and performance as a transformative act.

Through site-specific collaborative investigation and exchange, the development and presentation of live work and subsequent dialogue and documentation, [neighbourHOOD] acts as a research project and archival document of this historical period of change.

[neighbourHOOD] EVENT:

Saturday 3 December, 11am-11pm

Following a ten day intensive research residency, the [neighbourHOOD] artists will draw together an exhibition and evening of performance art and film.

Artists: Tine Voeks, Maria Lucia, Benjamin Sebastian, Kimbal Quist Bumbstead, Liam Yeates and isik met knutsdotter

Developed and led by the artists, the exhibition is anticipated to grow out of the research-lab, through install-action and the exhibition of research material. Constructed throughout the day, the exhibition will both lay bare artistic process and weave together loose ends to form a live archival document of Hackney Wick now.

The exhibition will also include performance-for-camera photographic prints from each artist, produced site-specifically in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ photographer Marco Berardi.

Performances, 7-9pm (TBC)

New performances made in response to the [neighbourHOOD] residency in Hackney Wick.

Film, 9pm

‘DEFAULT THE BRUTAL’

by Enrico Masi, produced by CAUCASO FACTORY

(10' UK, 2011, color/B-w, 16mm/Full HD)

'Discovering a new space in east London, after the negative stigma of the 80's, Stratford will now present himself as a thrilling new urban device for people to move, work, shop and travel.The increasingly spectacular Olympic park, with Anish Kapoor's monumental red panoramic tower growing in his middle and a special toilet only for the queen. ‘Default the Brutal’ is like forecasting on weather conditions.’

CAUCASO FACTORY have worked in collaboration with ]performance s p a c e [ and PAS throughout [neighbourbourHOOD] to document the activity unfolding. The collective’s current area of research has focused on the regeneration and development of Olympic boroughs and the current socio-economic climate across Europe.

[neighbourHOOD] is a free event

Beer, gin and bagels will be served all day!!

Follow the project as it unfolds via the [neighbourHOOD] tumblr

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