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EVENT27.05.202331.08.2023
FREE

Kleidungsaffe

Kleidungsaffe (Clothes Ape) is a delegated durational performance, first performed and created by Melati Suryodarmo in 2006. For three hours, a performer wraps their legs and arms around a tree of clothes – a 6.2 metres high pillar wrapped in colourful garments donated by Collection 4 Clothes, a West Midlands ethical recycling organisation.  

The performance invites us to contemplate the relationship between our clothing consumption and desire to gain social status. 

Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).  

This exhibition is supported by Bagri FoundationBritish Council through the Connections Through Culture grants programmeBirmingham City University, University of Leeds, and the Melati Suryodarmo Exhibition Circle: A.I. GalleryShanghART, Tanya Michele Amador and Michiel Verhoeven; and Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson.

It is developed in collaboration with Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia.

 

FREE

Event Dates

Thursday 08.06.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Saturday 17.06.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Thursday 22.06.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Saturday 01.07.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Thursday 06.07.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Saturday 15.07.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Thursday 20.07.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Saturday 29.07.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Thursday 03.08.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Saturday 12.08.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Thursday 17.08.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Saturday 26.08.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm
Thursday 31.08.2023 / 2.00pm5.00pm

Event Details

Second Floor Galleries

Free entry, donations welcome

No need to book, just drop in

Suitable for all ages

Seating available. Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here.

For additional access enquiries please contact education@ikon-gallery.org

VENUE

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS

Image Credits

Melati Suryodarmo, Kleidungsaffe (2006). Performed at Melati Suryodarmo: Why Let the Chicken Run? exhibition, Museum MACAN (2021). Images courtesy of Museum MACAN.

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