London Gallery Weekend has announced the artists who will take part in this year’s performance art programme.
The new orders will be presented free of charge at three locations across the city: Friday June 2 in Piccadilly, central London, Saturday June 3 in Peckham, south London, and Sunday June 4 in Hoxton, east of London. They were organized with UP Projects, an organization that organizes and commissions public art.
Swiss artist Nicole Bachmann will present not a center, but a mesh, a spoken performance written, produced and performed by the artist. London-based Chinese artist Li Hei Di will present willow in which the artist and three other performers will wear custom-made funnels as hats, through which liquid will squirt onto paper, creating a “self-determined composition”. The Franco-Vietnamese artist based in London Minh-Lan Tran will present Heat Generation (Prayer) in collaboration with choreographer Lena Hetzel, who “considers the infliction and internalization of violence”.
Artists were chosen from a list of nominations from participating galleries. The selection jury included Bengi Ünsal, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), who explained: “we were thinking about whether a public audience – including those who do not normally look at performance art – would enjoy and wish to see”.
There will also be a performance in Peckham Square in south London, created by young locals working with artist Lesley Asare, as well as a program of public talks with the artists.
London Gallery Weekend (June 2-4) celebrates the city’s many and varied galleries and their artists. This is the second time the event has included a performance program, after Mandy El-Sayegh was commissioned to do work last year.
