Vivid Projects + Ikon

Performance Art Laboratory

Vivid Projects + Ikon is a performance art laboratory curated by Vivid Projects. The laboratory involves four artists who present new performance work made in response to Ikon’s previous performance art laboratory Presence to Present.

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

All performances and events are free, donations welcome.

Schedule:

Thursday 10 August, 2.20-3pm
Emily Scarrott with Ikon Youth Programme
Live performance
Second Floor Galleries

Thursday 10 August, 4-8pm
melissandre varin
Live performance
Events Room, First Floor

Saturday 12 August, 11am-1pm
Rosa Postlethwaite
Live performance
Second Floor Galleries
*Content warning. The artist shakes their body to create a tremor.

Sunday 13 August, 12.30-2.30pm
Samiir Saunders
Live performance
Second Floor Galleries
*Content warning. This performance references adult themes.

Sunday 13 August, 3-5pm
Vivid Projects + Ikon performance artists
Informal discussions
Second Floor Galleries

Melati Suryodramo’s exhibition is supported by Bagri Foundation, British Council through the Connections Through Culture grants programme, Birmingham City University, University of Leeds, and the Melati Suryodarmo Exhibition Circle: A.I. Gallery; ShanghART, 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.

Event Details

Thursday 10 – Sunday 13 August

Free entry, donations welcome.

No need to book, just drop in.

Seating available.

Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here.

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

This event is being photographed and filmed. Please speak to the photographer or filmmaker if you prefer not to be included.

VENUE

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS

Image Credits

1. Emily Scarrott, Arrival Performance, Atacama Desert (2022) 2. Melissandre Varin, Who's gonna clean the mess of/in your garden?, expandable dimension (2021) installation with black synthetic hair and Melissandre's hair, Grand Union. Photo Credit: Ayesha Jones. 3. Rosa Postletwaite Green Scream (2020) 4. Samiir Saunders Supernormal Festival. Photo Credit: Antonio Roberts (2022)

Exhibition 17.05.2023–03.09.2023

MELATI SURYODARMO

Passionate Pilgrim

In summer 2023, Ikon transforms its galleries into a platform for performance art, with the first UK exhibition by acclaimed Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo (b.1969).  

Events/Performance 22.06.2023–31.08.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

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.

Vivid Projects + Ikon

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