A event held at Cloak on Thursday 5th September. The event starts at 20:00.
The second instalment of an event series focussing on creating a space for people who use performance and movement in their artistic practice.
We are inviting a different selection of visual artists each month to explore new or old work in an intimate space and engage afterwards in constructive feedback on each other’s craft. Practitioners of all skill levels and experience are invited to join us and duly stew.
Expect performances from Rachael Clerke, Emergency Chorus, Buoys Buoys Buoys and more TBA!
Rachael Clerke is a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. They make generous artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life 'should' look like. Rachael likes: making things, mending things, taking things apart & putting them back together again, and the moment where everything falls into place and works after a long struggle. They have recently discovered push-fit plumbing. Rachael is CEO of Art Business Ltd, an art business and performance running across the 2024-25 financial year; and a member of Interval, a collective of artists sharing space, knowledge and resources above St Nick's market.
Emergency Chorus is Ben Kulvichit (he/him) and Clara Potter-Sweet (they/she). Based in Bristol, they make performances which straddle experimental theatre, live art and dance, often colliding disparate source materials to create collages of text, choreography, music and image. Recently they have created a dance piece which predicts the future, a choir of town criers, and a scratch night for ‘old’ work.
They will be presenting Reading and Writing, an improvised text-based performance. Reading too much into a simple sentence, two performers turn a few select words into a strange game of sense and nonsense. Musical phraseology. Preposition salad. Shapes and actions. Words and worlds.
Buoys Buoys Buoys is a multidisciplinary artist and folklorist producing community-oriented live art experiences. Using performance, sculpture, sound art, and installation they work to engage different communities in the retelling of Celtic folktales through absurd storytelling and public play; finding new ways to explore and understand themes of Queer masculinity, contemporary ritual magic, and working class Welsh folk culture. With a strong focus on developing collaborative projects, they aim to bridge the worlds of interactive installation, historical reenactment, community activism, and education. Over the last 2 years Buoys Buoys Buoys has performed and exhibited at the Soho Theatre, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2022, 2023), Theatr y Sherman (Cardiff), RWA, and Bristol Museum, with upcoming projects at ArtHouse Jersey, Chapter Art Centre (Cardiff), Kit Form Gallery (Bristol), and Mission Gallery (Swansea).
Entry requirements: 18+
We are inviting a different selection of visual artists each month to explore new or old work in an intimate space and engage afterwards in constructive feedback on each other’s craft. Practitioners of all skill levels and experience are invited to join us and duly stew.
Expect performances from Rachael Clerke, Emergency Chorus, Buoys Buoys Buoys and more TBA!
Rachael Clerke is a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. They make generous artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life 'should' look like. Rachael likes: making things, mending things, taking things apart & putting them back together again, and the moment where everything falls into place and works after a long struggle. They have recently discovered push-fit plumbing. Rachael is CEO of Art Business Ltd, an art business and performance running across the 2024-25 financial year; and a member of Interval, a collective of artists sharing space, knowledge and resources above St Nick's market.
Emergency Chorus is Ben Kulvichit (he/him) and Clara Potter-Sweet (they/she). Based in Bristol, they make performances which straddle experimental theatre, live art and dance, often colliding disparate source materials to create collages of text, choreography, music and image. Recently they have created a dance piece which predicts the future, a choir of town criers, and a scratch night for ‘old’ work.
They will be presenting Reading and Writing, an improvised text-based performance. Reading too much into a simple sentence, two performers turn a few select words into a strange game of sense and nonsense. Musical phraseology. Preposition salad. Shapes and actions. Words and worlds.
Buoys Buoys Buoys is a multidisciplinary artist and folklorist producing community-oriented live art experiences. Using performance, sculpture, sound art, and installation they work to engage different communities in the retelling of Celtic folktales through absurd storytelling and public play; finding new ways to explore and understand themes of Queer masculinity, contemporary ritual magic, and working class Welsh folk culture. With a strong focus on developing collaborative projects, they aim to bridge the worlds of interactive installation, historical reenactment, community activism, and education. Over the last 2 years Buoys Buoys Buoys has performed and exhibited at the Soho Theatre, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2022, 2023), Theatr y Sherman (Cardiff), RWA, and Bristol Museum, with upcoming projects at ArtHouse Jersey, Chapter Art Centre (Cardiff), Kit Form Gallery (Bristol), and Mission Gallery (Swansea).
Entry requirements: 18+
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