POSTPONED DUE TO ARTIST ILLNESS 

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Bloc Projects have opened up the gallery space as a short-term critical, experimental platform to support the work of two artists, whose practices incorporate performance and live elements in different ways and who are at different points in their careers. The assembly creates a space for the artists to present work in progress, test out new ideas in front of an audience or use the space and time in any way that benefits their work.

The events will be open to a small audience who will further be invited to participate in a round-table discussion event over dinner. During the dinner, a small number of invited provocateurs will lead a discussion that draws the artists’ work and their working processes in relation to wider questions surrounding the relationship between process and product in performative work, issues surrounding the identification of live art as a medium and genre, and the intersection of live art and performance with visual art, theatre, socially engaged practice and sound art, among other fields.

The two artists participating in the event are Faye Green and London based Ben Judd.

Ben Judd 

Ben Judd’s work examines his relationship to specific individuals and groups; recently the choreographic and the rhythmic has been used as a method of constructing temporary communities. The work explores how the ritualistic activities of marginalised groups and individuals can be extended into an action realised by actors (one that itself hovers on the border between immersion and a more self-conscious, knowing state), and how, in turn, this action can be interpreted in a moving image work. Positioning himself and the audience as both participant and observer, he engages the grey area between ritual and performance, searching for an unreachable and idealised state of community.
 
Judd has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including group exhibitions Whitstable Biennial 2014; JAM: Tokyo London, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo and The Barbican Centre, London; The Galleries Show, Royal Academy, London; Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Social Creatures, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Seeing is Believing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London. His solo exhibitions include Vilma Gold, London; Michael Janssen, Cologne; Kunstbunker, Nuremberg.
 
For more information please see www.benjudd.com

Faye Green

Faye Green (Sheffield, UK, 1989) is a live artist and writer currently based in the Newcastle. With a visual arts background, her practice draws from multiple disciplines including theatre, dance and performance studies. Central to her practice is a negotiation between discursive modes and embodied knowledge, with much of her work exploring the telling of bodily histories. Resisting discourses of disappearance and performance ontologies that position the live moment at the vanishing point, Green works with notions of mimesis, re-enactment, rehearsal and re-vision.

Green graduated from Fine Art at Newcastle University in 2013, and went on to win the Converse/Dazed Emerging Artist Award 2013. Since graduating she has performed at BALTIC, Baltic39, Vane and The Newbridge Project in Newcastle, and in 2014 will perform at the ELIA NEU/NOW Festival in Glasgow, and at Toynbee Studios, London. After taking part in a research-based residency with culturia, Berlin in 2013, she has continued to develop a relationship with Berlin, with work shown in the KW Institute of Contemporary Art, me Collectors Room, and as part of the Project Space Festival 2014.  fayepengellygreen.com

Bloc Projects

Bloc Projects is an artist-led gallery and project space in Sheffield, UK. Established in 2002, the organisation presents and commission exhibitions, events, residencies, exchange projects and educational activity in our gallery and courtyard, providing a platform for early-mid career artists and facilitating critical dialogue among artists and audiences.

Bloc Projects is based at Bloc Studios, home to a mix of creative practitioners including visual artists, crafts people, printmakers, photographers, jewellers, collectives and more. Blocprojects.co.uk