Summercamp Symposia - Two feet to the left

• LocationEast
• Type
• Salary
• Artformdance, interdisciplinary arts, music, visual arts
• ContactLou Greenwell info@wysingartscentre.org

Description

Two steps to the Left… 
Saturday 3 September, 2 - 9.45pm

For the third and final event in our Summercamp series, artist Sonia Boyce has developed the day-long symposium and music event Two steps to the Left… in collaboration with current artist-in-residence Evan Ifekoya. The event sits within Wysing’s over-arching programme for 2016 Wysing Poly, which explores the legacy of the Polytechnic as a site of radical art practice in the UK in the 1970s and 80s.

In keeping with the theme of the radical art practice of the 1970s and 80s, Two steps to the Left… takes US artist Adrian Piper’s groundbreaking interactive performanceFunk Lessons (1982-85) as a point of departure, to explore dance and movement as a political act; asking what role does dance and music play in the creation of momentary communities, of dissent and assent.

Two steps to the Left… will include presentations, workshops and discussions including contributions from Ain Bailey, Adelaide Bannerman, Sonia Boyce, Yassmin V Foster, Evan Ifekoya, Melika Ngombe Kolongo and Zinzi Minott, and live music performances from Ain Bailey, Oretha, and Nkisi. Food will be available as part of the event.

The day will interrogate what societal codes and structures are either deliberately put in place or unconsciously adopted that both bond and exclude by:

Looking at experimental sonic electronica.
Inviting a space to feel and freeform with the body, rather than be choreographed.
Asking, who, how and if one might feel free to dance.
Taking into account the legacies of conceptual art in current art practices.

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Summercamp Symposia - Two feet to the left