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If you didn't receive the last edition of You've Got Mail! in your mailbox, check out artist Daria Blum's contribution via the link in our bio.

This month, Daria Blum (@dariabl) shares with us her reflections and ruminations on remakes and originals, software instruments and hardware gear, fake feelings and authentic emotion.

Daria Blum is a London-based Swiss Canadian visual artist, performer and musician. She interweaves personal history with common experiences, choreographing voice, music, live performance and moving image in order to examine contemporary value systems, focussing on archetypal emotions and the politics surrounding their expression and reception in contemporary culture and media. Both her studio and her flat are undergoing renovations, and she is currently covered in white dust.

You've Got Mail! is a monthly newsletter that offers a platform to artists, thinkers, curators and practitioners active in the field of performance to share their current research, thoughts and practice through text, written words, moving images and images.

📨 If you don't want to miss out, please subscribe via the link in bio to receive monthly new works sent by artists directly into your mailbox.

#BlockUniverse #PerformanceArt #YOUVEGOTMAIL! #Performance #Art #ContemporaryArt #Artedition #newsletter #dariablum

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Throw back to @senabasoz 's performance 'Slalom' at the @wellcomecollection last May.

Slalom was possible thanks to the generous support of the @delfinafdn , @sahadernegi and the Wellcome Collection.

It was a real pleasure to see this work finally come to life!

#blockuniverse #WellcomeCollection #DelfinaFoundation #SAHA #SenaBasoz #Slalom #healing #climatechange #london #performanceart #contemporaryart #artlondon

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Last few tickets available for Slalom, a new performance by Sena Başöz (@senabasoz), premiering tomorrow night at the Wellcome Collection (@wellcomecollection)!

Block Universe presents Slalom by Sena Başöz

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW VIA THE LINK IN BIO!

Thursday 26th May, 7pm //SOLD OUT!//
Friday 27th May, 1pm
Saturday 28th May, 3pm and 4pm

The performance will take place in the Reading Room.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE.

Come and watch performers metaphorically slalom towards a future affected by climate change, as artist Sena Başöz investigates how reconsidering the past can be a healing act. Slalom uses movement, sound and Wellcome’s Collection to explore the role of archives in practising ‘care’ and regenerating the future.

UK premiere, commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with Delfina Foundation (@delfinafdn) and SAHA Association (@sahadernegi).

Accessibility:
There will be a printed script available for each performance.
The performance on Friday 27 at 1pm and Saturday 28 May at 3pm will be relaxed events.

Concept and Direction: Sena Başöz
Choreography: Sena Başöz, Sedef Gökçe (@sedefgokcedance), Canan Yücel Pekiçten (@cypekicten)
Performance and Dance artists: Sena Başöz, Sedef Gökçe, Canan Yücel Pekiçten
Original soundtrack: Semih Firincioğlu (@semihfirincioglu)

@Nazlı Meriç Çukurova

#blockuniverse #WellcomeCollection #DelfinaFoundation #SAHA #SenaBasoz #Slalom #healing #climatechange #london #performanceart #contemporaryart #artlondon

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“I am back at Delfina Foundation after two years of delay due to the pandemic to realize Slalom. When I arrived at the beginning of May, I first felt like the city had changed but later on understood that it was me who had changed. The piece was initially inspired by the fact that the world as we know it is coming to an end due to the climate crisis, asking questions on how to take care of and put into use the accumulated knowledge kept in archives in a short amount of time. The conditions of the pandemic brought our lives to a stand still. We could not predict the future. Revisiting Slalom with that actual experience has widened my perspective. I feel I am more in my body and more open.”

Words from the artist Sena Başöz (@senabasoz)

Join us to see her performance ‘Slalom’ at the Wellcome Collection (@wellcomecollection) on:
🗓Thurs 26 May at 19.00 - SOLD OUT!
🗓Fri 27 May at 13.00
🗓Sat 28 May at 15.00 & 16.00

Click on the link in BIO to book your ticket!

📍 Reading Room (Level 2), Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London

📝 Access information can be found via the event page on Wellcome Collection's website

🙏 UK premiere, commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with Delfina Foundation (@delfinafdn) and SAHA Association (@sahadernegi).

📷 Credit Block Universe

Image description: The first image is a photograph taken during the talk organised by Block Universe and Delfina Foundation. We can see the artist Başöz and Dr Davina Quinlivan sitting and talking.

#BlockUniverse #BlockUniverse2022 #PerformanceArt #Performance #Art #ContemporaryArt #Slalom #SenaBaşöz #DelfinaFoundation #WellcomeCollection #TurkishArtist #Healing #Trauma #SAHA #ArtistTalk

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Block Universe presents SLALOM by Sena Başöz at the Wellcome Collection!

Come and watch performers metaphorically slalom towards a future affected by climate change, as artist Sena Başöz (@senabasoz) investigates how reconsidering the past can be a healing act. Slalom uses movement, sound and Wellcome’s Collection (@Wellcomecollection) to explore the role of archives in practising ‘care’ and regenerating the future.

🗓️ BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS NOW via the link in our bio or on @wellcomecollection s website

Thursday 26th May, 19.00-19.30
Friday 27th May, 13.00-13.30
Saturday 28th May, 15.00-15.30 and 16.00-16.30

UK premiere, commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with Delfina Foundation (@delfinafdn) and SAHA (@sahadernegi).

There will be a printed script available for each performance.
The performances on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 May at 15.00 will be relaxed events.

Concept and Direction: Sena Başöz
Choreography: Sena Başöz, Sedef Gökçe (@sedegokcedance), Canan Yücel Pekiçten (@cypekicten)
Performance and Dance Artists: Sena Başöz, Sedef Gökçe, Canan Yücel Pekiçten
Original Soundtrack: Semih Fırıncıoğlu (@semihfirincioglu)

Sena Başöz (Turkey) is an artist and filmmaker based in Istanbul. Her work investigates healing processes after cases of trauma focusing on regeneration possibilities of what is frozen, dead, stale or lost. The organism’s self-repair and the balance nature obtains in the long run constitute the backbone of the narratives she employs in her works. Her recent work delves into what can be preserved in the face of flux.

Image description: The first image shows a dancer in a room wearing a pink and purple sportswear outfit bending forward, arms backwards as if skiing. In the second image, two dancers are in a corner of the photo lying on the ground, both are wearing sports gear. One pink and purple as in the first image the other blue.

Image credits: 1) Dimitris Parthimos for TAVROS. 2) Nazlı Meriç Çukurova

#blockuniverse #WellcomeCollection #DelfinaFoundation #SAHA #SenaBasoz #Slalom #healing #climatechange #london #performanceart #contemporaryart #artlondon

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Only 6 days left to get one of these 3 exclusive posters and support Ukraine!

Block Universe decided to redirect all the proceeds of every exclusive poster print by Keiken (@_keiken_), Jade Montserrat (@DR.JADEDJADED) and Zadie Xa (@zadiexa) purchase towards supporting The Voices of Children Foundation in Ukraine.

The Voices of Children Foundation is a charity providing emergency psychological assistance and aiding the evacuation process in Ukraine for children and families.

The posters are limited editions, limited by time and available only until the 16th March. Order your now via the link in bio!

#BlockUniverse #PerformanceArt #visualart #ukraine #supportforukraine #supportukraine #TheVoicesOfChildrenFoundation #exclusiveedition

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🙏🏻🕺We’re delighted to announce that Block Universe has been awarded the government’s Culture Recovery Fund! 🕺🙏🏻

This fund will enable us to continue supporting performance artists in all their diversity, providing them with a platform to showcase their amazing work 🙃!

A massive thank you to the Arts Council (@aceagrams) and DCMS (@dcmsgovuk) for helping us to be #HereForCulture

#CultureRecoveryFund #BlockUniverse #Culture #ArtsCouncilEngland #DCMS #Lockdown

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During the 2018 edition of the Block Universe festival, Jamila Johnson-Small (@lastyerzinterestingnegro) and Sara Sassanelli (@sara.sassanelli) hosted HOTLINE. An itinerant space for provocations & opinions, beyond your bedroom, books, bad journalism and your social media feed, HOTLINE sought to be a critical space for discussion and disagreements, not an artist talk. This particular edition presented Season Butler (@season_butler), Evan Ifekoya (@evan_ife) and Harun Morrison (@theyarehereyeah ).

In an informal and inclusive discussion people were invited to reflect on why we do what we do, how the particular logics are formed that drive and direct decisions/actions/tastes and art-making. The event explored shifting needs provoked by the contemporary condition and sought for ways to collectively re-organise and think through conversation, to encourage generative exchange and live encounters that can serve to activate bold creative action.

This special project was hosted at Protein Studios (@proteinstudios) in Shoreditch.

#BlockUniverse #BlockUniversefestival #Performanceart #Artistsoninstagram #artfestival #HOTLINE #JamilaJohnsonSmall #SaraSassanelli #SeasonButler #EvanIfekoya #HarunMorrison

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✨Block Universe Highlights✨: In 2017 Young In Hong (@youngin_hong_) premiered her performance ‘5100: Pentagon’ at The Royal Academy of Arts (@royalacademyarts)!

The choreographed movements of ‘5100: Pentagon’ were inspired by collected archival images relating to the Gwangju uprising on 18 May 1980, and were set to an adapted version of the 1980s demonstration song, ‘A Song of May’.

Each performance is constructed based on a web-tutorial that can be accessed by any participants with no restrictions on age, gender or performing experience. This project brought to light an unexplored period in history as an intensive moment, performed repetitively yet differently by voluntary participants in every new iteration.

5100: Pentagon is a project by Young In Hong in collaboration with choreographers Ann So-Hee Mannik Kristiansen and Sarah Louise Kristiansen (@sarahlouisebk), this piece was made possible with the support of Bath Spa University (@bathspauni) and Gaia Art Foundation (@gaiaartfoundation).

Image credit: Arron Leppard (@leppardco).

#BlockUniverse #BlockUniversefestival #youngin_hong_ #royalacademyarts #Performanceart #Artistsoninstagram #artfestival #gaiaartfoundation

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✨Block Universe Highlights✨: In the 2018 edition of the Block Universe festival, Hanne Lippard performed ‘Reading’- a piece commissioned in partnership with Somerset House (@somersethouse) and supported by Goethe Institute (@goetheinstitute). In addition to the performance, we also hosted a talk with Hanne Lippard (@Hanoi_Lizard) and curator Vanessa Boni. Hanne Lippard is a British Norwegian artist based in Berlin who focuses on the production of language solely through the use of voice. In performances, installations, videos and audio pieces, she arranges, composes and combines her own wordplays with words by others. Fragments from everyday speech, sourced from various online platforms were used in this piece and then constantly reworked through the use of repetition, pronunciation and rhythm. Phrases and images associated with contemporary topics such as work, success, and lifestyles were evoked. By merging content and form and through a gentle rhyme, her vivid words began to lose their prescribed value and modify to take on new meanings. With an almost hypnotic, cleansing approach, the vocal sequences sink into the listener’s mind and create a free-form, associative pattern of melodic, linguistic formulas.

#BlockUniverseHighlights #HanneLippard #Reading #Performanceart #Performanceartfestival #BlockUniverse2018 #VanessaBoni

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✨Block Universe Highlights✨: Following an international programme marking half a decade of curating and commissioning, spanning Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom in 2019, Block Universe announced that 2020’s programme would begin in the United Arab Emirates. In Dubai, Block Universe were invited to curate a programme of performances at Quoz Arts Fest (@quozartsfest), hosted by Alserkal. Included in this programme was Alex Mirutziu’s (@alexmirutziu) ‘Doing Sub Thinking’ a riveting exploration of the fringes of what can be seen or represented within a complex systems of ascriptions, presumptions and fictionalisations or within larger political structures such as the backdrop of Communism. Commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with the Delfina foundation (@delfinafdn) and European Art East Foundation (@europeanarteast), 2018. The piece was performed by @ekinbernay, @rowdy_ss, @jenn_the_human.

#BlockUniverseHighlights #AlexMirutziu #Performanceart #Quozartsfest #Alserkal #Performanceartfestival #BlockUniverse2020

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