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Rebecca is curating an evening of intimate and yet informal performance at Jam Circus, 330-332 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2BT
Monday 2nd June 2008, 8-10pm
The evening features:
A new performance by Malin Stahl
‘I always wanted to wear white: Have a drink and a smoke with me’
www.malinstahl.se
A sculpture by Lizi Sanchez
‘International Serenade’
www.lizisanchez.com
Music and words by Fritha Jenkins and Clive Niall
‘Apopsi: Jellyfish meet problem hair in a blend of word, samples,
voice and violin’
A drawing performance by Rebecca Birch
‘The Ruby Lounge to the Venus Taverna’
You are invited to take your drinks around the bar to share a table
with each of the performers, who will interact directly with those
sitting down at their tables throughout the evening. (it’s a bit like
speed-dating, but with no bells and much less stress!)
Rebecca’s film Bristlecone, talking about the oldest trees in the world will be shown at Margate Rocks 08, a contemporary visual art festival taking place May 2nd -11th. Bristlecone will be screened on a continuous cycle for the duration of the festival. This year’s Margate Rocks has the theme of art and ecology and also includes contributions from Heather and Ivan Morison, Mark McGowan, Rob Smith, Maslen and Mehra, Dr Mark Miodownik (The Materials Library) and Billy Childish
Rebecca will be performing at
Play on Words, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
on Wednesday 16th April, 5pm-8pm
Play on Words is curated by Lee Campbell and sees various interpretations on the theme of language and text and the relevance of the spoken and visual word. Through their own bizarre obsessions into a particular realm of word play, language is exposed and highlighted, made humorous, made dark but ultimately challenges audience perception of the importance of how we communicate. Each artist has developed a particularly idiosyncratic way of working and Play on Words hopes to be a thought provoking and highly entertaining evening with some of the best UK artists working within this field.
Jenny Baines, Rebecca Birch, Sarah Bowker -Jones, Lee Campbell, Alexander Costello, Emma Hart, Kate Hawkins, Calum F. Kerr, Caroline De Lannoy, Adrian Lee, Daniel Lehan, Robert Luzar, Carali McCall, Frog Morris, Peter Reling, Dora Wade, Laura Wilson
Rebecca will be attempting a new talking and drawing performance, ‘The View from the Bathroom Window’ at Suburbia on March 1st, 6-11pm, curated by Lee Campbell at The Foreign Press Association 11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AJ http://www.foreign-press.org.uk
Rebecca is currently showing work at Wildwood, Project Space Leeds, Leeds alongside Emma Bolland, Laura Ford, Rachel Goodyear, Diane Howse, Sophie Lascelles, Kelly McCallum and Heather and Ivan Morison.
Rebecca’s first solo show will be held at the Aneks Gallery, Poznan, Poland during December. She will be showing a new drawing, talking
and video work, ‘48 days to know a mountain’ developed during her recent residency at the Banff Centre Canada.
The drawing and talking performance work based upon Rebecca’s research in Happisburgh will be included in On Time: The East Wing Collection 8, at the Courtauld Institute, opening in January.
Also in January Rebecca will be getting very cold in the Actic Circle, on a research trip funded by the Slade Duveen travel scholarship. She will be visiting the town of Invuvik, Canada, during the period of almost 24 hour darkness to attempt to make a work about the landscape without seeing the landscape.
Recent work by Rebecca Birch can be seen at the MA/MFA Fine Art Exhibition at the Slade School of Fine Art, featuring the film Bristlecone and drawing and talking performance work
Slade School of Fine Art
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
020 7679 2313, slade.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk/slade
Private View: Wednesday 6 June, 6-9pm
Exhibition open: Thursday 7, Friday 8 June, 10am-8pm
Saturday 9, Sunday 10 June, 10am-5pm
Monday 11- Wednesday 13 June, 10am-8pm