Contemporary Art Show - Icarus II: The Rise

From the curators of "The Fall of Icarus" comes an exciting new show featuring films, sculpture, painting and perforamance from local Reading artists.

Free entry. Bar open throughout.

Performance Schedule:

SONYA CHENERY: SOUND PERFORMANCE - 6.30pm, upstairs
“I am interested in the ways in which we experience being in a location at a specific time, and ways to transcribe sensory experience. In my performance, I will use my adapted fingers to graphically represent the sounds present in the space at the time of the performance.”

JAKOB MILLARD: SPOKEN WORD - 7pm 
“My performances tell stories about bodies. Bodies that describe shifting meeting points, transformations, and symbiosis.”

STARKEY AND THE MOON DOCTOR: SURREAL MIME - 7.30pm, downstairs 
Through the powers of mime and music Starkey and the Moondoctor channels the cosmic energy from the edges of the solar system and topics going on planet earth to give a visual, spellbound performance.Starkey and the Moondocotor presents: "Forgiveness"

MOLLY GREEN : ‘Shiro Neko is so freaking white’ - 9.30pm, downstairs
Tea and cookies with shiro Neko to shiro Neko. Expect nauseatingly cute music with a possibility of showers.
Kawaii role play that looks at the stereotypes of Japanese pop culture in homage to cultural misappropriation

NACHAEL LARELLE - 8.30pm, upstairs 
“My practice addresses race, migration and cross cultural diversity in Britain I am particularly interested in questions centred around multiculturalism and ethnicity such as do you think one can make natural claims to culture and do we have a responsibility to enter and uphold cultural traditions. My work also makes reference to symbolism and ritual.”

HOLLY SHOESMITH – 8pm, upstairs 
“My practice explores the relationship between sound and ritual, through performance and audio art, in order to produce a liminal space for the participants.”

OLIVIA STAGG - 7.50pm
“I'm a person impersonating a person as an Object. My work tries to consider the inner desires an object has and there relationship to their owners, I question the liveliness of objects what they pick up from humans and how would I perform this!”

Artists Exhibiting:

Sarah Pritchard: film/Installation
“When we work hard so that we can play hard, is there any room for working as an act of kindness or fun? The performances and videos I currently produce are a trivial attempt to explore questions like this and the relationship between work and leisure.”

Lydia Gledhill: Sculpture 
“How does the male gaze affect women in today's society? I examine whether equality of the sexes can exist in a climate where all media is produced through the eyes of men.”

Katty Lamb: Film 
“Death, despair and sex shown in the adorable medium of claymation.”

Hannah Elizabeth: Film 
“My work looks at the relationship between the subject onscreen and the spectator. Interested in portraiture, the fragment, and the sensory, I explore what the medium of video can lend to the reconsideration of the subject - the presence of the image and the processes that take place in elements of editing and viewing.”

Daisy Hampton: Painting
“The process of art making remains most influential to my practice. I would compare my paintings to an animation. I work impulsively to divulge a language of paint, colour and form. My compositions grow from a simple drawing to a biomorphic structure and sit somewhere between being crystalline and chaotic.”

Mahlia Amatina: Painting 
“I'm an Abstract Colourist, creating intensely vibrant paintings that each have a story to tell.”

Emily Upson: Installation 
“Fascinated with art forms that directly implicate the person experiencing it.”

Hannah White: Sculpture 
“My sculptural practice links with notions of flatness, and the translation of this notion into three dimensions. By creating handmade sculptures based on historical and cultural imagery I aim to regain the physical proximity often lost through images. “

Jo Morton: Installation/film 
“Bridging the gap between philosophy and art with Hegel Karaoke and concrete”

Daisy Evans: Film 
“I explore Hagiography and the church's veneration of Saints and Sainthood through the use of video and video installation.”

Marylyn Molisso: Sculpture
“Combining ideas of the sublime and capitalism, space and cinema, my work explores the human reaction to the overwhelming, and if art can still achieve this.”

Michaela Efford : film 
“The Rebirth of Venus - Reimagining female sexuality in religious imagery”

Work by Olivia Stagg pictured.