VOICINGS

Modern Art Oxford // Somerset House for Block Universe, 2015 // Love Letters to a (Post-) Europe curated by Lisa Alexander, Bios, Athens, 2015 // Steakhouse Live at latitude Festival 2016 // Serpentine Gallery ‘Mysterical Day’ 2016 // Barbican 2022 // Shoreditch Town Hall, curated by SERAFINE1369, 2024

In 1994 Florence Peake had an experience of a ‘channeller’, a phenomenon where a person embodies a spirit, entity or personality from another space-time. Interested in the theatricality and physicality of ‘channeling’, Peake embodies responses; acting as a conduit between imagined and material place. In 2015, she developed a way of channeling during performance, in collaboration with a Shaman. In Voicings, the idea of collective is held as a resource. Voicings responds with un-cynical candour to questions of authenticity, the bogus and the real, truth and trickery.

During the Voicings performance, Florence creates clay figures that are then cast and made part of the YOU, ME, US series.

Photos: Christian Kipp, Pierrick Mouton, Eftychia Vlacou, Sylvain Deleu