Donuts
02 - 08 Nov 2015
DONUTS
fig-2 44/50
2 – 8 November 2015
Anthea Hamilton responds to the invitation to realise an exhibition at fig-2 by bringing forward a newly formed artist initiative. Donuts, composed of artists Zsuzsa Benke, Beverley Chapman, Rosemary Cronin, Anthea Hamilton, Ngo Chun TSE, Linda Vigdorčika, and Adam J B Walker takes part in a research residency at fig-2 for one week concentrating on mime performance as their medium of production. In the pursuit of the potential for collaboration, the group has engaged in various outdoor activities together, looking into ways in which collaboration can provide an open ground for dialogue and formation of ideas. This will be the group’s first public project and draws influences from Mario Bellini’s communal temporary living space ‘Kar-a-sutra’. Donuts will explore utopian ideals of co-existence, investigate ways of being together and forms of relating to the world at large with responses in mime language. Furthermore, the group is inviting various speakers from different disciplines to introduce them their field of research, treating themselves as vessels for different formations of knowledge, opening towards multifarious experiences generated from morning meetings with a body language expert, a dancer/choreographer, a deep sea diver, a hairdresser, a timekeeper at the British Museum, a mathematician throughout the week. Visitors are welcome to join the group at any time to participate. The week will also host a Workshop for Ideas, where the group will open the ground for a conversation, alongside a selection of screening excerpts from films that influence their practice.
fig-2 would like to thank Richard Knight for their generous support in leading the mime workshop.
fig-2 44/50
2 – 8 November 2015
Anthea Hamilton responds to the invitation to realise an exhibition at fig-2 by bringing forward a newly formed artist initiative. Donuts, composed of artists Zsuzsa Benke, Beverley Chapman, Rosemary Cronin, Anthea Hamilton, Ngo Chun TSE, Linda Vigdorčika, and Adam J B Walker takes part in a research residency at fig-2 for one week concentrating on mime performance as their medium of production. In the pursuit of the potential for collaboration, the group has engaged in various outdoor activities together, looking into ways in which collaboration can provide an open ground for dialogue and formation of ideas. This will be the group’s first public project and draws influences from Mario Bellini’s communal temporary living space ‘Kar-a-sutra’. Donuts will explore utopian ideals of co-existence, investigate ways of being together and forms of relating to the world at large with responses in mime language. Furthermore, the group is inviting various speakers from different disciplines to introduce them their field of research, treating themselves as vessels for different formations of knowledge, opening towards multifarious experiences generated from morning meetings with a body language expert, a dancer/choreographer, a deep sea diver, a hairdresser, a timekeeper at the British Museum, a mathematician throughout the week. Visitors are welcome to join the group at any time to participate. The week will also host a Workshop for Ideas, where the group will open the ground for a conversation, alongside a selection of screening excerpts from films that influence their practice.
fig-2 would like to thank Richard Knight for their generous support in leading the mime workshop.