ANTICLONE TAKEOVER III
Black Light Theater
THE MANDRAKE - LONDON
Anticlone Takeover III
Anticlone Gallery Presents ‘Black + Light Theater,The Takeover III ’, In partnership with Mandrake for Frieze Week London, from 9th-October - 15th October 2023. Anticlone presents a week-long program of events that showcases multidisciplinary Avant-garde Artists specialist in sound, performance, moving images and installations. The Takeover III, invites you to an overall Anticlone immersive experience, inspired by the Anticlone concept that has evolved to become a movement and gallery which holds an unparalleled selection of unique, non-conformist Artists and creatives.
DAILY PERFORMANCES // THE TAKEOVER SCHEDULE INSTALL AND PERFORMANCES
8PM MONDAY 9th - Othello De'Souza Hartley
TUESDAY 10th - WEDNESDAY 11th - Krissie Marie Helioder (All day Installation)
7:30PM THURSDAY 12th - Chad Curry
8PM FRIDAY 13th - Alban Adam
8PM SATURDAY 14th - Tia Yoon
8PM SUNDAY 15th - Nalehs
Anticlone founding Director, Artist, and Curator Sade English invites her guest first co-curator Maria Abramenko, since launching in November 2020. ‘Black Light Theatre, The Takeover III’ for the first time invites and welcomes external Artists to quite literally take over The Mandrake Theater as well as showcase alongside the Anticlone collection and archive curated by Sade and Maria. Each Artist involved is unique in their own right, and collectively powerfully aligned through embodying the Anticlone non-conformist concept. Alongside the theater programme, there will be a new curation of artworks installed within the walls of The Mandrake; Exploring both Black, Light, and Identity within their works, The title, takes homage to ‘Black light theater’; from French avant-garde directors from the 1950s; Artists will explore the use of black box theater augmented by white light and black light illusions.
TAKEOVER III,'Black Light Theatre' x MANDRAKE FULL SCHEDULE
09.10| OTHELLO DE SOUZA HARTLEY, ‘What is the reflection you want to get back to?’
A performance piece and artwork centred on the theme of self-reflection, and how we are perceived by others in relationships, racial profiling, and the challenges to mental health.
10.10 - 11.10| KRISSIE MARIE HELIODORE, ‘Her body without bounds’
An Installation which features sound and textile which documents Krissies’s relationship with her aunt, who is diagnosed as a bariatric patient suffering from chronic pain. Krissie draws on all the facets of her mental and physical state and how it transpired up until the present. Working with and alongside (Pauline Auguste) in her intimate project. Krissie engages in open and fluid conversation about her struggles with her eating disorder, generational trauma and the taboos within mental health. which utilizes manipulated fabric through stretching and pulling to represent her subjects, body. Using her physicality to play with the theme of colonial ideologies, mental health and disability, Krissie draws parallels between the invisible and visible realm by extending her body out of its confines and beyond the places she cannot go.
12.10 - CHAD CURRY, ‘I am that I am’.
The dismemberment of immortality and the exploration of the selves, an extended performance which incorporates installation, movement, video, written text and spoken word. Projecting a story of rebirth, transformation, self acceptance and the perpetual stages of blossoming.
13.10 ALBAN ADAM, ‘Talons of Creed’.
At the crossroads of subculture, pagan rituals and post industrial symbolism, Talons of Creed is a multimedia site specific installation exploring the mystic of dark rituals and their trance inducing actions. Losing yourself in repetition, with a physical action or chanting, from pagan to Magick, from a system of belief to an old grandmother’s tale, symbolic ritournelle as a path to go above and below, to lose yourself and all sense of meaning into the void of creed.
Talons of Creed looks at the folklore tradition of the nail tree, a popular occurrence in central europe within the dark middle ages, where the significance of the ritualistic endeavor is now lost in the mist of times, symbols without referents, allowing a new wave of meaning to crash over us. The repetitive nailing of a log or tree trunk, trance inducing action reminisce of the passage of time and dedication to one's beliefs and superstition, adding a strong overtone to an otherwise common act.
Assembling different rituals, architecture and system of belief, the installation and action of Talons of Creed present a personal take on the overlap between pagan, superstition and organized religion.
14.10 TIA YOON, 'But I know what you mean: I wish I don’t'
Tia’s approach explores the concept of post-humanism as reclamation of alienation in relation to biopolitics. It is a live form of biopolitics resistance waving a web of intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race and class. There is always a sense of radical tenderness in their works and insanity in strict structures.
Tia Yoon wishes to create and occupy secure spaces, framed by broken narratives, through which they can communicate with their audience via theatrical performance, installations paintings and writingsTia Yoon confronts society audiences through presenting bodies and collected voices of individual personal stories from the Asian queer community, whilst living in the West.
15.10 - NALEHS, 'Creature Beggard Kin'
Nalehs emerges as the inaugural persona of iel.cene. Nalehs attempts to navigate the nuances of masculinity, blending aggression with grace. This persona elegantly manoeuvres through the complexities of life, immersing itself in the crystalline clarity of electronic music while harmonizing with the rhythms of both familiar tunes and uncharted melodies.
Nalehs stands as a testament, embodying the essence of a new epoch where fluidity and grace reign supreme. This performance is a celebration not confined to the realm of gender but expanding its tendrils into every facet of existence. It encapsulates a paradigm shift—a jubilant ode to the new, the unbounded, and the non-binary.
ART INSTALLATION: Edoardo Dionea Cicconi, Joshua Woolord, Krissie Marie heliodore, Lulu Wang, Parma Ham and Sade English, Curated by Sade English.