PERFORMANCES AND LIVE ART CONTRIBUTIONS 2019

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The artistic programme re-staged existing performances responding to the curatorial theme in and around Guys Campus [See programme for details] and premiered three newly commissioned works.

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COMMISSIONS

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Mother and Child Machine by artist, researcher and architect Leni Dothan, who challenges the mother's role in Christian iconography and biblical narratives as they were depicted in Renaissance art. [Commissioned by Procreate Project]

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'Giving Birth To Beauty by Himali Singh Soin. The work re-imagines the language of Diotima's speech in Plato's Symposium as one that proposes a non-dual, queer way of being. It enters into conversation with the Greek Urn from Keats' poem--a former surgeon at King's College--in order to labour away at a post-human thought process. What would the vessel think? How do we occupy the liminal even as the water breaks? [Commissioned by Birth Rites Collection] 

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' Maintaining the future' by Laura Yuile 'Once you care, you’re future is a new performance exploring the figure of the child as representative of “the future”, and the problems this representation poses for non-binary perspectives and those who cannot – or choose not to – reproduce.' [Commissioned by Birth Rites Collection] 

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* The three works have be acquired by Birth Rites Collection