About this Event
Annie Nicholson, The Fandangoe Kid and Carly Attridge, The Loss Project invite you to join us over drinks and live music from Romboyd Music, Linett Kamala and Passa Productions to celebrate the opening of the FANDANGOE DISCOTECA.
The Fandangoe DISCOTECA wants to take people to the very last dancefloor of their European dreams, imagining a space where you can shake out your anxiety and grief, unravel your political and climate angst and exist alone but together, bound by the beauty of the dance space. It is an ode to all that’s been lost and retrieved and the unspoken force of the dancefloor, with the unbelievable blessing of Saša himself, who still likes to dance at 81 years old.
Similarly to both the Fandangoe Whip and the Skip installations, the team integrate a diverse and nuanced programme into the installation itself, encouraging audiences to reflect upon questions of both intimacy and release that a good dance space will cultivate, bringing us home to safety and forming inevitable bonds between dancing and our individual and collective mental health. We truly encourage visitors to shake out their day, their week, their lives, freely, in a safe space, with no judgement, underscored by good dose of Italo Disco.
The Fandangoe DISCOTECA will be preceded by a series of ‘Grief Raves’ in early 2023, following their success this year. A Grief Rave brings people together via music, inviting the public to come and play songs that remind them of those they have loved and lost.
‘The Grief Raves were phenomenally powerful at World Trade Center in October and at Canary Wharf this Summer,’ says Nicholson. ‘Our team of professionals were able to create a feeling of safety and warmth for collective grief on the dancefloor, bringing people from all walks of life together to share memories of their loved ones over music.’
The team, following a year of successful collaboration and many strategic conversations, are looking for London and Berlin based sites to bring their disco joy.
About The Fandangoe Kid
The Fandangoe Kid (Annie Nicholson) is a multidisciplinary artist, who makes work predominantly for the public realm. Her practice seeks to create platforms for dialogue on the complexities of life, death and the human condition. Her practice has been documented for the past year by BBC World Service in a broadcast released last week.
The artist has recently developed The Hope Exchange as part of London Design Festival's 20th anniversary, a permanent space for Londoners to escape their hectic lives. She runs a regular radio show called The Grief Mixtape on Soho Radio and her book Tender Hearted Bold Moves is available to buy, published by Rough Trade Books. She has several permanent installations in London and her work has been documented by Channel 4, BBC, and Creative Review. Her made to wear pieces have appeared at the BAFTAs and inside Vogue Italia and her debut film Into Your Light was screened at Tate Modern and on Manhattan Bridge.
Website: www.thefandangoekid.com
Instagram: @fandangoekid
Twitter: @fandangoekid
About K67 Berlin
Kiosk K67 is a modular space system by the Slovenian architect and designer Saša J. Mächtig.
K67 was designed as a flexible multi-purpose structure that can be used in manifold variations and configurations and can almost be expanded endlessly.
With its smooth plastic shell, mostly in bright primary colors, the kiosk has shaped the streetscape of many urban centers in Eastern European countries since the 1960s. In the 1970s, a first-generation K67 was added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. In 2018, MOMA included a K67 kiosk in the exhibition “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980”. In the same year, we were able to place our first completely restored K67 kiosk in Berlin Kreuzberg. Under the name KIOSKI, it is quite popular as a café and snack bar but also as a design attraction in the city centre of Berlin.
K67 Berlin aims to track down historical K67 kiosks, renovate them and bring them back to city life.
Website: https://k67.berlin/
Instagram: @k67.berlin
About The Loss Project
Loss is a universal experience that will affect us all at some point in our lives. We have never lived through such a pertinent time where loss has been propelled to the forefront of our minds. Many communities are still facing significant and multiple losses of loved ones, income, connections and community to the detriment of mental health and wellbeing. Our vision is to use creativity and the arts to explore grief and loss in that enables us all to accept grief and loss as a part of life so that we can support ourselves and each other better.
We put people with lived experience first, whilst building capacity, awareness, and confidence in these complex human experiences. Through training, workshops, and bespoke creative community programmes, we aim to support communities to become more open and connected.
Website: www.thelossproject.com
Instagram: @thelossproject1
Twitter: @thelossproject1
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wren Landing Square Canary Wharf, Wren Landing, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00