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I would like to invite you to Kaleid on 9th March, where I will be showing my Hairpiece as part of scripturacontinua.
Don’t fret if you can’t make it to the performance, but do come along to see my hairy web during the week (10th-14th).
Please find more information below.

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KALEID
23-25 Redchurch Street
Shoreditch E2 7DJ

www.kaleideditions.com

scripturacontinua
2-28 March 2010

KALEID is proud to announce scripturacontinua, a season of performance art featuring Sheila Ghelani, Jordan McKenzie, Helen Schoene and Francis Elliott curated by Katharine Fry.

Helen Schoene
9-14 March
Performance, Tuesday 9th March 2010, 6-9pm

Helen Schoene’s frustration comes with separation from her mother tongue. Her diligent reading calls for ever increasing scrutiny as she grasps for meaning, trying to unpick each word. At her wit’s end, she turns back on herself, clutching at straws, searching through split ends.

Scanning, printing, reprinting, repeating, Schoene transforms the gallery into a site of production, as tresses, clumps and strands creep across the walls. Finding herself at the centre of an irrational web, the snake hair of Medusa emerging from her head, Schoene invites you to unpick the tangled mass with limited edition leporello booklets and jigsaw puzzles.

Scriptura Continua refers to the writing of late antiquity in which no inter-word spacing or punctuation was used, with no distinction made between cases. As such, the task of interpreting the text fell to the reader, forced to divide the written string of letters into words. Meaning was only recovered through oralisation as the texts were recited over and over again.

scripturacontinua considers parallels with performance art in terms of ritual, repetition and shared experience. At the invitation of Live Art practitioner and KALEID curator, Katharine Fry, each week a different artist responds to the theme with a live performance and the creation of limited edition residua, inviting the audience to share a realm of private acts and sacred texts.

scripturacontinua
2-28 March 2010

Sheila Ghelani, 2nd-7th March 2010
Helen Schoene, 9th-14th March 2010
Francis Elliott, 16th-21st March 2010
Jordan McKenzie, 23rd-27th March 2010

Performances: Every Tuesday, 6-9pm, free, no booking required

Are you looking for something unexpected
for someone exceptional?

Gift for Lovers is an exciting surprise for the person you love
or a unique gift for friends who are mad about each other

An affordable set of original artworks in a limited edition of 99
commissioned and curated by Switch Performance

Three exquisitely playful pieces created by
Tim Jeeves with Britt Jurgensen, The McCarricks
and Helen Schoene

Find out more on

www.switchperformance.co.uk/lovers/

an exhibition of stills, slides and moving image comprising ideas of performance, play and portraiture.

Physically rooted, but slipping in and out of reality.

Opening times:

15th - 24th September     5-9 pm

Private view:

Thursday 17th September

7 till late

LIVE MUSIC by:

Gwen Zayac and Hawker

@ Art’s

25a Camberwell Church Street

SE5 8TR

London

Where to find Art’s

What I Wish For at Fantasmarama!

http://fantasmarama.wordpress.com

Images © Bill Knight www.knightsight.co.uk

MEDEA/MEDEA at the Gate Theatre Notting Hill

18 June 2009 - 18 July 2009

Box Office: 020 7229 0706

or go to : www.gatetheatre.co.uk

Maggie Tran & Resistance Gallery presents

in association with performance company Switch
An adhoc live performancey, vaudevilley, circusy, musically, cabareteski, burlesqski, thingymajig kind of night - showcasing and celebratory of local talent, amateur enthusiasm, small things and the unspectacular. Combining alternative dance, theatre, video, live art, poetry, food and music, producer Maggie Tran weaves a magical and bizarre evening celebrating the extraordinary, the extra-exotic and the downright dark and leery.

Just what is the secret behind The Great Orchidaceous Travesty?

Different acts each night, including Helen Schoene, Rachel Parry, Katie O’Brien and Maggie Tran

Produced by Maggie Tran
in association with performance company Switch

For full details and ticket info please visit http://www.thegreatot.co.uk

Red Shoe Films Presents:
LIFE IS ANIMATED
A PROJECTOR-LIT EVENING OF LIVE and INTERACTIVE ANIMATION, PERFORMANCE AND EXPANDED CINEMA
05 Feb (First Thursday) 2009
7pm Onwards

Featuring :

Helen Schoene “What I wish for”  9pm and 10pm
Pia Borg “Palimpsest” 7pm+
Harriet Poole “Private View” 8pm-10.30
Siobahn McAuley “Faster Faster” 7pm+
New Eakapong Rungruangkul 7pm+

+ Camera Obscura, Dj Walter

Music, food and drink throughout the evening.

Unit 73a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews
London E8 4QN

www.redshoefilms.com

In late 2008 Mark Butcher, Robin Dingemans and myself became Associate Artists of Performance Company Switch.

To find out more about Switch and upcoming events and past projects please visit:

http://www.switchperformance.co.uk

We most recently worked together on “5 Easy Pieces” -  a limited-edition set of 5 original pieces of art, created by the artists of performance company Switch.  The works include a chilling ghost story to be performed on a wintry night, a shroud to a mysterious Christmas cult and an alarmingly lifelike skin.

And here’s some pictures of my site/in space 3 on Battersea Barge, July 2008 and my interactive installation  Preparations.

1. Wear the costume (if it fits you).
2. Make the necessary preparations using anything you find in the green area.
3. Stop whenever you like.
4. Return the costume.

photos: Andy Eaton

Sometimes you just can’t escape…. unrelenting truth. Disillusionment.

I’d shrug if I had it in me.