COLLABORATION WITH EVE STAINTON

APPARITION APPARITION

Performance part of Meetings on Art, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019

Photo Credit: Riccardo Banfi. Courtesy Delfina Foundation and Arts Council England.

Digital collage film, Eve Stainton

Ceramics, Florence Peake

Sound score by Beatrice Dillon featuring Cassiel

Lighting design by Sorcha Stott-Strzala

Produced by Bosse & Baum Gallery

A presence in the peripheral

Sustained in the gloaming.

Climbing into the sex appeal of materialising,

I collected something for you, a frequency, a rubble.

Arrangements are peculiar under here.

As extinction is immanent Apparition and Apparition take centre stage; A queer Actant, mistaken for a sci-fi horror, but lingering for intimate potential/prospects. Held in the spectacle of being, both in this moment right now, but mainly in the vacuum between avalanche and landslide.

Dissolving planetary mass. Eve Stainton and Florence Peake explore notions of materiality and simultaneous the energetic transparent nature of our physical selves/bodies within the frame of ecological devastation.

Photos by Elijah Harris

SLUG HORIZONS/KNEADING PARADISE

Photos by Anne Tetzlaff

Florence Peake and Eve Stainton's on-going project Slug Horizons explores the expressive potentialities of queer bodies through intimacy, touch and collective reclaiming. Promoting an emotional landscape of bravery in response to restrictive attitudes to the sensual and visceral body, Slug Horizons elevates the marginalised affection, sexuality, power and energies within non-normative relationships.

Using the work as a metaphor for non-monogamy, they pull on the absurd management of their relationship. A continuous physical and psychological negotiation unfolds to transverse complex relational terrain.

The duet Slug Horizons is being developed into an expansive body of work, Kneading Paradise, to include a group performance work, workshops, talks, queer lesbian focused club night.

Resisting hypothetical, futuristic longings, a liberated future lands now in our bodies. The present is kneading.

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