1 year lab

invitation
we do not know what it is; we do not know what is going to happen.
i want to make the kind of works where no one understands what i am doing

 

One-year durational laboratory on ‘nothing’
.                                                                .

27 october 2012 – 28 september 2013

(pre-laboratory event on 29 september 2012 from 3pm to 11pm)

at ]performance s p a c e [

6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN

 

saturdays
27/10/2012    24/11/2012    29/12/2012
26/01/2013    23/02/2013    30/03/2013
27/04/2013    25/05/2013    29/06/2013
27/07/2013    31/08/2013    28/09/2013

an open durational laboratory for anyone who is interested in taking part – free to enter at any point during the year

.            . is a one year durational laboratory on nothing, occurring on a monthly basis for a 12 month period.
.            . begins on last saturday of every month for different periods of duration.
.            . is about giving yourself an opportunity to develop something where you have no idea what you are doing but are working only on the condition of ‘nothing’/ ‘not-knowing’.
.            . is about taking your own risks and being responsible for doing whatever you want to do.
.            . is about eating, sleeping and inventing works of your own.
.            . is about independent collaboration without limits on form, discipline and concept across the fine, performing and media arts.

.            .  has been developed from Li-E Chen's research and development project Cloud Clock Love supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Cloud Clock Love was a durational laboratory on 'nothing' held at Siobhan Davies Studios in September 2011 and has evolved into an interactive e-book I am your anti-matter published by Li-E Chen in March 2012.

participants

will have access to a free online studio space to continue to develop their work
will have access to a virtual factory on ‘nothing’
will receive digital training including publishing, design and social media.
can participate in all open post-laboratory talks
(note: some of this is conditional on a successful funding bid - no application process required – open to all)

sign up
via https://1yearlab.eventbrite.com

for more information | info@liechen.com | call +44 (0) 7946 420 467

 

hosts: Li-E Chen and ]performance s p a c e [

Li-E Chen’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary, and over the last ten years her work has examined forms, disciplines, concepts, and techniques from across the fine, performing and media arts. Chen aims to create arts and performance that lie beyond the functional, political, traditional, historical, and representational, and that make no references to self, memory, identity, or meaning.

Her work uses a diverse array of experimental approaches that include numerical art, print and digital archives, installations, gesture and movement, sound art, durational work, interactive media, video, online artwork, performance in written, spoken and performed text, dramatic forms, and scientific, mathematical and relational art forms.

]performance s p a c e [ is an artist led non-profit organisation that provides studio and project space, located (at Unit 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate) on White Post Lane by Hackney Wick Overground.

]performance s p a c e [  aims to cultivate live work that critically and physically pushes the boundaries of body and space.  It is a place where work can unfold without restraints of curation, duration or space; commit­ted to supporting challenging and difficult work that embraces performance art as an ever-evolving medium.

web links & blogs

Li-E Chen’s Website: http://www.liechen.com | One-year Lab aspaceonnothing via tumblr
]performance s p a c e [‘s Website: http://www.performancespace.org | aplaceofaction via tumblr