The Cruising Garden

The Cruising Garden is an immersive installation-performance where the audience becomes the viewer and the actor. In this created space, constructed reality, fictional narrative, socio-political dimension the participants can experience their preconceptions, dellusions or fantasies....
The reality of The Cruising Garden is co-created and co-transformed continuously by the presence and initiative of the spectator/actor and in response to the performers .The realities that the performance artists create will act as narratives within the narrative within the narratives within The Narrative: the flashes of stories inviting to interact, observe, reject or to deny.....

November's incarnation of The Cruising Garden will explore feelings that can disguise as stories, fantasies, narratives.....

6 ''tables'' , 7 artists

ARTISTS

SELINA BONELLI

Memory as the trace of the poetic within the words that distruct us : I look at memory and trauma -how it is processed by the body and how we make sense of it . By making images in the moment, I employ performance to explore the relationship between the incommunicable and the unspeakable. I am interested in the processing of the anxieties when one reformulates them into motions and actions as a possibility of teasing out the inadequacies of language.

https://vimeo.com/user8768152

https://selinabonelli.wordpress.com/

YANI B

Yani B's work examines the body as the central stage where the politics of identity are enacted. Experimenting with original creative processes, Yani use manual as well as digital techniques and media to explore the body, in its presence or absence, as a form of expression and manifestation of culture, ideology, gender, sexuality, social ethics and collective aspirations

http://www.yanib.org/

AURORA GAZM AND NEO FUNG

Aurora Gazm is the sensual distillation of, an energetic idealisation of, performer Alex Avery - suckling at a fog of philosophical texts, pop sirens, political theories, various body-mind practices, and the most intense of his personal experiences; he considers the tactile plane of experience as primary, creating and contributing to situations where meaning becomes ambiguous, and therefore malleable; nestled in the cosy subterranean enclosures of a relaxation obsessed death cult, moved by the apparently rhythmic fluctuations of an invasive organic fantasy.

https://vimeo.com/auroragazm

http://auroragazm.tumblr.com/

NEO FUNG

Piotr Bockowski, SF philosopher & video/body artist, curator (squatter) of performance art events in London abandoned buildings, fungi media researcher at University of London.

http://neofung.tumblr.com/

AL/ICE/EX DONAGHY

Al/ice/ex Donaghy - Is an interdisciplinary artist Working mainly in performance, sometimes incorporating Butoh dance, Photography, experimental music and writing. He creates work that aims to resist control and Interacts with social and political problems.

'Nutrient Slump' - Social guests disappear and speak to nobody. The central body looks for luxury starvation, local suppression and exhaustion necessity.

http://www.adonaghy.com/

BAHAR BORNA FARAZ

Bahar is an Iranian visual artist who has been living and working in Stockholm, Sweden, for the last seven years. Her work takes a critical and at the same time personal view on social, political and cultural issues. In her work she challenges her gender, the roles that society has been imposing on her as a woman and as an Iranian. She challenges the social norms from a female point of view.

https://vimeo.com/user12073585

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/baharbornafaraz/

During The Cruising Garden Bahar Borna Faraz will do a live streaming of her performance titled ''Authentic'' via The Cruising Garden's Instagram account http://instagram.com/thecruisinggarden


ANAÏS COMER

I tell stories. My work takes the form of writing with associated illustrations, or it manifests as readings with associated props. The reader/viewer/participant is invited to believe in my stories as art.
For The Cruising Garden Anaïs will perform PINK

http://www.anaiscomer.com/



The doors open between 7.30 and 8.00 pm only, with a prompt start

Tickets £5 on the Doors only