image in 4 pieces and NEW WORK at Casa de Brujas

OPEN STUDIOS

SAT 12 Feb doors 7pm

SUN 13 Feb doors 5pm

FREE

Casa de Brujas, 124 Duke Street, Liverpool

Exhibition opening: Live music, open studios, bar.

BOCANEGRA of Casa de Brujas exhibits her work created during her three year stay in Liverpool - a vast series of ink & coffee on paper.

'The line as the unique honest witness of a movement'.

I'm creating a new photographic installation, ink choreo grafik in response to Bocanegra's work during a residency at CdB and will also present a site-specific version of image in 4 pieces (Saturday), and possibly possibly the beginning of a new performance work (Sunday).

Also on the night:

REBECCA WHITING & JEWELLY MARTIN

project dan haag

performance installation

LEE ISSEROW

video projection

LAURA POWERS

live piano performance

Also featuring the work of resident artists

DR. SPARTACULA (Laura Spark)- Sparkreature, animation, still & active

PARABHEN LAD

LIVE MUSIC on SATURDAY:

BABADUB, THE ELFIN SPURS,

LOVE FINGER BANDITS, THE FLAMING MAMIES

+ LIVE SET by MASSSIVE

Image in 4 pieces - at Brickbox, Brixton Market

On Thursday 15th Dec I showed a variation of Image in 4 pieces in Brixton, London, invited by Brickbox - an arts hub and cafe bar in a part of Brixton Village market with many creative, small enterprises - Brickbox being one of them. Lovely people, thank you Eleanor and Alex.

More impromptu than anything else, this showing gave me the wonderful recognition of having identified some performance elements which are mine - uniquely mine - which can be stretched, jumbled and remixed within the context of each other and through this find new meanings.

The fluffy paper head/cloud, the paper dress, the paper eye mask, the wearing of the different objects - and latest addition are the helium balloons which I found in the installation I made for the last Fresh from the oven.

The environment seemed challenging - around zero degrees in a semi-outdoor pre-christmas market arcade... but after my initial fret (which lasted till an hour before taking the train to London) the situation turned invigorating - I had not told anyone to come and the cold, openness and roughness of the space took the pressure off to make something very polished and 'perfect' (which i too often get stuck on) and instead I allowed myself to play with what I had brought with me, and with the space.

Looking at the images, I really like the fact that my actions are framed with evening-lit shopfronts. Feels pretty right for the season....

Photography: Alex Dermatis, editing Sara Popowa

Image in 4 pieces - at September Fresh from the oven

Video documentation of Sara Popowa's 'Image in 4 pieces' at Fresh from the oven at Coachwerks, Brighton, 25 September 2010. Work in development, kindly supported by The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.

Camera Andy Towers

Image in 4 pieces

Documentation of performance at 'Wall into pieces', Phoenix Gallery Studios, Brighton, 4th Sep 2010.

The following photos were taken during the performance, as part of it, marking the key points of my choreographed actions.

.. See the full performance + images here ..