About this Event
Artists exhibiting in the exhibition at Hypha Studio Stratford will be hosting an experimental participatory performance involving dominoes and art collective 'Excitiable' during the final week of our exhibition on Friday the 5th of April from 13:00 - 16:00. Food and drink will be provided.
Art collective 'Excitable' will build a domino chain along a predetermined 40m course as part of an experiment and participatory performance that weaves around the MEMBRANES art exhibition at Hypha Studios Stratford. The run has been designed to reflect the physiological processes involved in the transmission of nerve impulses. The course will comprise a strip of masking tape stuck to the gallery floor, bounded by parallel strips of paper 1m wide, orange on the left side representing sodium, and purple on the right for potassium.
Gallery visitors will be invited to place dominoes on the central strip, assisted by Excitable team members. Video will be recorded of artists and consenting visitor participants assembling this experiment and performance. Visitors interested in the recorded aspect of this workshop will also be invited to participate in a short audio interview, in which a team member will pose questions about topics such as play, dominoes, nerves, barriers in life etc. At the end of the session, a visitor will push the first domino to set off the sequential collapse of the entire chain. Simultaneously, on each side, a member of the Excitable team will follow the collapsing chain with acrylic paint - purple on the orange strip and orange on the purple on the other side. Video and audio footage will be used to create a short film after the event.
COLLABORATOR BIOS
Andrew Morley (he/him) is an artist and medical doctor. He has worked at the art/science interface for many years, collaborating with poets, composers, visual artists, historians and museum curators on public engagement projects funded by the Wellcome Trust and others. Currently a student on the Art and Science MA course at Central St Martins, he is experimenting with photography and moving image, works on paper, and sculpture incorporating discarded medical equipment.
IG// @andy.morley.art
Julian Udine (they/them) is a visual artist from Manila, Philippines. She earned her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr College in the United States. She is currently immersed in her Masters program in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, and exhibits work between Manila and London. Julian primarily works in mixed media sculpture, and is interested in the negotiations that takes place between the human psyche and the natural world.
IG// @julian.udine.art
Kian Morley (he/him) is an eighteen-year-old artist currently in his last year of school before university. Working largely within the confines of portraiture and surrealism, he merges Queer Theory, and the personal experience of being a young trans person in the UK, into his art. The result primarily questions the nature of pre-transition childhood, gender, and consumerism, as well as their relationships to socialisation and the perception of the gender binary in society.
IG// @pink.bones22
Laetitia Canete (she/her) is a French born scientist and student in MA Art and Science. She completed her PhD at the university of Jyväskylä in Finland in 2019 on mass measurements for nuclear astrophysics. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the experimental nuclear physics group at the university of Surrey. She joined UAL Central St Martins in 2023 and continues in parallel scientific activity as a lecturer in physics at the Northeastern University, London. Her art experiences include music, theatre and poetry and she is now exploring sculptures, installation and performance practice.
Mariia Korneeva (she/her) is a trans-disciplinary artist based in London, UK, and studying at the MA Art and Science at UAL CSM. Mariia identifies as a disabled artist. She was born partially blind and dyslexic. She works with physicality, folklore, disability, home and intimacy, researching themes that come from within her own experience. She uses her body as an instrument for self-expression and knowledge. She works with photography, installation and performance.
IG// @korneeva_photography
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hypha Stratford, 50 Celebration Avenue, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00