Under Different Stars
Black Hole Club’s Winter Season
Through November and December 2019, Black Hole Club programmed Under Different Stars, a constellation of events with their cohort. The season included Crit Clubs, live art installations, a residency by Kirsty Clarke that responded to and joined our activities and a day of conversations for BHC with Schüle Wampe at Nottingham Contemporary. These activities culminated in a celebration for Digbeth First Friday.
15 Nov 18:30 – 21:00
BHC Crit Club: Helen Kilby-Nelson & Dean Wellings.
Helen Kilby Nelson and Dean Wellings had been testing new work and ideas at Vivid Projects in November, and invited audiences to join them for a crit that explored the directions that work had taken and what could come next.
23 November 2019 – 11 January 2020
Residency: Kirsty Clarke The Studio Kitchen.
Inhabiting Vivid Projects to facilitate the collective sharing and gaining of knowledge – both tacit and explicit. The Studio Kitchen joined Black Hole Club’s collaborative programme of public events and workshops through the winter season.
The informal and familiar kitchen setting made room for conversation and research to fold into each other in a place where roasting tins, vegetable stock, and molasses share shelves with books, drawings and film.
Kirsty Clarke, 2019.
23 November
Black Hole Club: Do Digital Profiles Dream of Death?
Hannah Mary, Demelza Woodbridge & Emily Scarrott
Live Art Installation | Video | Robots | Plants | Rituals | Death Discussions
A co-presentation of independent research led practises; Hannah Mary, Demelza Woodbridge & Emily Scarrott provided a discursive space to encounter mutual discourses, centred around creating agency in the cleansing of our physical and digital ghosts.
Schedule
12:00 – 16:00: Death Mask ritual: 1-1 Participatory work, places bookable.
18:00 – 20:00: Performance installation
20:00 – 21:00: ‘Death Cafe’ with refreshments: Inclusive and open conversation.
Do Digital Profiles Dream of Death? This mutual research undertook a public exploration of the mass hysteria and alienation that is built within the western practises in death and burial culture. Demelza Woodbridge’s research questioned the space between the self and the world, creating potential to destabilise the narratives attached to the politicised body. Emily Scarrott sought to reclaim the tactile and a sense of nurture within masculine realism. Hannah Mary’s priority was to acknowledge the loss of ritualistic acknowledgement of trauma and grief in a capitalist death market.
6 December 18:00 – 21:00
Digbeth First Friday, Black Hole Club: Under Different Stars.
The end of the year is a time of departures and arrivals, it is also a time to consolidate and celebrate. For the December First Friday Black Hole Club welcomed the public to join them and raise the roof at the culmination of thier winter events. There were cocktails, interventions, gifs, impromptu DJ sets and karaoke as Black Hole Club sought to change the space, perform and test out new ways of making and engaging with works.
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