TF18 - London's Biennial of International Performance Art and Noise

Biennial of International Performance Art and Noise
9 t h - 2 2 n d J u l y C r o y d o n 2 0 1 8
Find Hope
In The
Desperate
And
Fractured
t e m p t i n g f a i l u r e . c o m

The notion of “Fractured Bodies” came initially from an internal sense of personal strife that began to echo with a wider sense of
geographical, political and metaphorical separation of bodies.
My own life has gone through a lot these past 7 years. Illness and injury: physical, mental and emotional has seen my body examined
through magnetic resonance, x-ray, blood, stool, urine, and psychological tests.
My presence has fractured itself in numerous ways and through these I have grown to know and (un)know myself; repeatedly relearning,
surviving and forever becoming again.
During this, the worlds I know personally and geographically have been torn apart.
We live in fractured times.
The immediacy of relationships lost, found and forged from the fires of these experiences seem to grow with a strength of survival
and care that prior to this one could never have hoped for. This has all been resonant with the politics of our time. Somehow, within
the growth of fascism, conservatism and extremism in our lives and the mediatization and bombardment of technology upon our
selves, we find separation and othering - the familiar is estranged and made to feel different - but herein previously silenced voices
start to grow in opposition. We find, in reaction to the distance, a desire to hold one another, to support and grow.
I have found love.
I have found hope.
I feel held.
Our fragility must be nurtured.
Screaming into the void is no longer an answer. Societal bubbles must be confronted, challenged and burst.
It is my hope that as a home for difficult artwork, TF18 will provoke artists with this notion of Fractured Bodies to find a sense of
unity in universality. TF18 will not be a festering place for regret, but a catalyst to voice both personal and wider issues that affect
us all. I encouraged the obscure, the political, the lateral and challenging to apply. I hope discussion and commentary is created
through the obvious and the unexpected as we join together this July to celebrate these artists.
No matter if you feel you have an issue that you feel no one will care about or if you have something to say that evidentially affects
us all everyday, the conversation the artwork will stimulate is most welcome.
From body artists, queer artists, fetish and modification through to comedic, durational, installation, fine art and noise we cannot
wait to share TF18 with Croydon, my hometown.
TF18 is a place to inspire.
To find hope in the desperate and fractured.
Join us.
Access
- Dr Thomas John Bacon, Artistic Director.
Touch Tours
These events allow blind and visually impaired audiences to visit the performance space, and interact where possible
with artefacts ahead of a show.
Audio Description
Discreet notes are supplied during the performance. Please request this service in advance of the 9th July
via: contact@temptingfailure.com
Highly Visual Performance
These performances are highly visual with few or no words - they may also use noise or soundscapes.
Relaxed Performance
These performances are for audiences with an Autistic Spectrum Condition or a learning disability. There will be
less intensity to the performance, and a relaxed attitude to noise or moving around.
Family Friendly Performances
These artworks are suitable for all ages.
Wheelchair users can access all events except those at The Spread Eagle due to the period features of this building.
If you are a wheelchair user or have specific needs of access please email: contact@temptingfailure.com BEFORE
PURCHASING A TICKET so we can assist you.
As a guideline we suggest this festival is for those aged 16+ unless the listing clearly states otherwise. It is not
suitable for anyone of a sensitive nature. The festival may feature nudity, extreme body art, sexual content, loud
noise, smoke and strobe.

Thomas John Bacon [UK]

Shawn Escarciga [USA]
Whatever You Want
Whatever You Want is an exploration of authority and how it manifests in the body when it is willingly
stripped from an individual. Through a series of pre-generated commands along with those
elicited by a live and digital audience, Escarciga will experiment with modes of giving and taking
power as the performance plays out in real time, manipulating his body in response to lived circumstances.
Informed by a background in Butoh and survival mechanisms as a queer person living with
mental illness, Whatever You Want is glimpse into the daily life of those living on the fringe.
mONDAY 9th jULY
Mehmet Sander [TR/UK]
Mehmet Sander’s work challenges people’s habitual ideas of what a dance should be like. Associating his
pieces more closely to the fields of architecture and physics rather than performance and music, Sander’s
dance is about movement, space and time, explored through collaboration with physical forces such
as gravity, inertia and velocity. Sander’s work aims to provoke thought and push boundaries, reflecting
reality rather than offering an escape from it. We have commisioned Sander to work with NHS staff and
Mnetal Health Support Workers to create this new work for TF18.

Tuesday 10th jULY
Kieran Wakeman [UK]
Festering Under Tortured Skin
a series of photographs/photo
manipulations on show until 13th
July.
The title relates to my struggles
with Anxiety and Depression and
are all self-portraits.
Creating artwork for me has
always acted as escapism from my
depression
and it’s also been a way for me to
take these feelings that build up
inside myself
and to make them into something
tangible that I can see,
which from a young age helped by
acting as a coping mechanism.
short small performances in confined spaces - limited audience - total darkness - we
cant see them they cant see us - or each other - until strobe light bursts triggered
by noise bursts - stop start loud noise - EVERYTHING IS FRACTURED
Strobed
Clive Henry and Yol [UK]
The crystal being awakens, silenced. Shard and flesh indistinguishable, they find
their body alien and uninhabitable. Quartz pieces seemingly too familiar lie in front
of them, to be arranged indefinitely. Slowly gaining understanding; spurred by their
surrounding onlookers, the crystal being violently sheds to a soundtrack realised
through the vibrations of their own shattered body.
Nicole Murmann [CH/UK]
Crystalline
Nicole’s practice uses several media such as performance, drawings, videos,
soundtracks and writing. She/they work as an artist individually or collaboratively
in projects or in collectives (Spiegelei collective, Lausanne,
CH, Queerology, Leeds, UK).
Nicole’s current research explores the public space as a political strategy
of exchanges with a non-specific “audience”.
Mother Disorder [UK]
Coming from a place of personal contemplation, Hall uses improvisational performance
as a form of exploring a series of sensory and social gestures in relation to
questions regarding their role as Autos (Greek ‘Self’) and how they affect, and are
affected, by the world around them.
In “AUTOS/FLECTIONS”, Hall delves deeper into a series of gestures that they have
touched on over the last year, such as the recorded voice, the use of surface reflections
in glass and the intimate action of kissing as a means of exploring personal
contemplations.
Niko Raes [BE]
This Boy Needs Love
A naked white body hanging in the void…with
water dripping and penetrating its skin like a
Japanese torture … washing everything away
… revealing its true nature … waiting to be
loved… with only the sound of dripping water
and an audience walking through it, becoming
one with this boy …
‘This boy needs love’ is an endurance performance
/ installation that investigates and questions
the paradox of aesthetics and pain in the
search for a new beauty.
The duration of this piece depends on the physical
endurance of the performer’s body at the
time
AUTOS/FLECTIONS
Richard James Hall [UK]
Using the permanency of the tattoo and impermanency of scents combined in a ritualistic
practice, Rasic invites visitors to mark her skin. Each mark will connect with
another, forming a continuous line around her waist.
What is a scar? Is it an experience or a memory? Does it transform us? Trying to
capture the fragility of our memories, Rasic will examine the idea of the scar, both
physically and mentally.
Memory traces on the skin
Katarina Rasic [RS]
wed 11th jULY

Our
Fragility
Must
Be
Nurtured

Erika Bülle [MX]

Thurs 12th jULY

Ashley-Louise McNaughton
[UK]
VOLATILE DECEPTIONS
What is it to be bound and caged and yet concealed?
Its true nature ambiguous to those who can
only see the surface of its reality.
It hints its presence, it breaks the surface.
In struggle there is an attempt to reveal, to
remove, to be set free.
Breathe.
Resisting, catching, pulling, it penetrates as it
tears.
Constricted by wild nature, by memory and
loss; both of equal force and poetic trauma.
The body as site and the eyes of the skin,
pricked and punctured, wounded in process.
On the outsides looking inward, gained by the
moment, in its intensity and darkness.
In contemplation and dialogue through a delicate
yet intense action.
Discomfort yet understanding in relation to
infliction.
Proposing that we must assure the autonomy in
owning our own truths; which may break the
surface but are hidden either through oppression
or by deceit.
Enforcing resistance to the lies which mask
the truth.
Sarah Glass [UK]
13 +/-
If I say it out loud will it come true?
If I scream into a mirror will I become all I wish to be, or will I
remain a monster?
An opportunity to watch a desperate act of self-care made manifest,
reflected and refracted back.
Perhaps you will see yourself as you really are. Or perhaps you
will merely turn to stone.
Fragmented reality (+) vs. the one true narrative (-). After all, the
truth can only found in YOUR mind.
13 causes of human monsters.
13 self-affirmations.
Which will win?
Erika Bülle [MX]
Scars
Scars is a performance that talks about the fat body and the discrimination
with which it faces. The elements shown are related to the metaphor
of the empowerment of our bodies and the constant struggle
against the stereotypes of beauty to which corporal dissidents rebel.
Scars is an encounter between the pain of the fractured body
and also the joy and liberation of it, is to remove the stigma
that a dissident body is an ugly, useless and disposable body.
FRI 13TH - SUN 15TH
Dale Cornish [UK]
A unique sound work unfolds inside the Croydon Council Chamber. For 5 audience members at a time, eperience the council
rooms transformed into a space for escape, rest and contemplation with specially commissioned soundscape created by Dale Cornish,
in support of the mental health charity, SANE.

Joseph Morgan Schofield [UK]

friday 13th jULY
Natalie Wearden [FI/UK]
A performance and visual artist based between Helsinki and London. They are interested in queer
intimacies and ways of being okay alone. Their work is a millennial quest for transcendence in an age
of self obsession.
Joseph Ravens [USA]
Prepared
This interactive performance contains a series of modified
butt plugs. Always sculptural and gracefully schizophrenic,
each sex toy will embrace a different mood, from poignant
to playful. The actions and objects are designed to enrapture
rather than repel, in an effort to demystify the anus.
Joseph Morgan Schofield [UK]
L’Ariete
L’Ariete is a rite of passage, a ritual reenactment of a fevered dream.
Across a terrain of rock, earth and bone, constituted of memory and
fantasy, a solitary figure works with quiet purpose.
Marie Ségolène [CA]
The Eye of The Rib
a multidisciplinary performance, that involves projection, sound, tape
recording, butchery, live reading and ritualistic gestures.
trauma, desire and violence, tform a combination of personal narratives,
historical facts and academic quotes. The result is a fragmented dialogue,
that accompanies the viewers through states of confusion, repulsion
and attraction.
Leif Elggren [SE]
It is said that no King is a King if no one is looking.
“you know that little idiot telling truths telling me telling you that
where the sewer ends there is a pot of gold, that there is no way of
escape, that there is no electricity anymore, only just like a vague dream
of something past, of something almost forgotten and that we have no
time to bother, yes there are other basic needs that have to be taken care
of before we can dream and start everything all over once again, yes”
(Leif Elggren: That Little Idiot Telling Truths, Firework Edition, 2015)

Sat 14TH - SUN 15TH
Sebastian H-W [MX/UK]
Behind Closed Doors
‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a site-responsive, participatory walking audio tour, that explores mental well-being,
auditory hallucinations, social cleansing and suppressed voices in regenerating cities. Participants,
armed with just a pair of headphones and a handheld digital dictaphone, loaded with a mixtape of music
tracks and audio instructions, set off together for an audio walk around an area undergoing regeneratio n.
Sat 14th July
Moa Johansson [UK]
“My research-based performance practice is inspired by the politics of ecofeminism within which I
currently explore obsession, materialistic desire as sexual desire and the (female) body as the consumer
and the consumed. I blur the lines between reality and fantasy by creating ‘living’ images of
everyday actions with an air of ridiculousness. Through repetition and a non-narrative structure, my
work is an ongoing investigation on how the body converses with witnesses, objects and space.”
Manson X [UK]
Shattered Urban Soundscape
Inspired by London and its urban aesthetics and realities, Shattered Urban Soundscape is a liveperformed
experimental sonic piece accompanied by visuals. The work is creat-ed employing software
and hardware synths, drum machines and samplers, featuring abundant personally sourced field recordings
and footage. It draws on influences from UK electronic music in order to generate a sonic
artifact of fragmented beats, dark, ambi-ent and noisy atmospheres, rich deep bass and strangely
familiar conceptual references to city experience. The visual side enhances the listeners’ immersion,
guiding their atten-tion towards the notions inspiring the music, through abstract and glitchy urban
imagery.
Mowgli and the slate pipe banjo draggers [UK/ES]
Prime Bolus Music MRItrusion
An experimental audiovisual performance with a progressive audio collage composed of found
sounds, field recordings and live sources visualised through a sound-reactive tapestry of live video
manipulations of MRI imaging.
Penelope Koliopoulou [GR]
Do You Hit Girls?
Do You Hit Girls? is a performance about gendered bodies and their abilities. Is it OK for a man to
fight a woman? What are the boundaries of consent? What are the boundaries of violence? Do we
sexualise violence? Why are almost all sports sex segragated? Literal and figurative fighting are
equally present and brought up in this performance, as Penelope is trying to explore the strengths
and the limits of the / her female body.

Sunday 15th jULY
Angela Bartram [UK]
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
At a recent animal studies conference I noticed that although
discussions were of the subjects being sentient
and cognate, the delivery was for humans. Essentially,
animals have no opportunity to understand the theories
written about them. For the past year I have been reading
animal theory to dogs, cats and horses and now it is time
for a lecture for dogs and their humans about dogs in
art. ‘Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks’ is a different type of
lecture for an interspecies audience and extended ‘pack’.
Lizzie Masterton [UK]
ASMR: Tools for Tenderness
ASMR: Tools for Tenderness is a participatory talk by Lizzie Masterton, exploring the physiological
and psychological tingling sensation of ASMR, its potential for healing fractures in the
relationship between the mind and body, as well as promoting a sense of wellbeing.
The talk will explore: the emotional and biocapital labour of feminine presenting people within
ASMR videos, the construction of gender, race, and the posthuman embodied subject within
ASMR, and the potential for ASMR to be used as a therapeutic tool for those coping with
depression, anxiety, depersonalisation, PTSD and other mental health problems or personality
disorders.
The concept of ‘fracturing’ will be explored from a psychological point of view, as well as
within the mediated relationship between the representational ASMRtist (ASMR-artist) and corporeal
viewer.
Whilst this lecture hopes to introduce the audience to the sensual world of ASMR, it is also to
be enjoyed as a live ASMR experience in itself.
After the talk the artist will engage the audience in a participatory ASMR relaxation exercise.
TF18 is proud to be supported by Theatre Arts at Middlesex
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Monday 16th jULY
Amy Kingsmill [UK]
Bleeding Skirt
A woman walks alone in a red skirt, each step is
marked by a blood trail left behind her, painting a
bloody path which encircles the space. Through the
trajectory a boundary of blood is created around
the gallery building. Amy Kingsmill presents Bleeding
Skirt, her new durational piece, a meditation
on bleeding women and bleeding as a woman. This
ritualistic performance is both deceptively simple
and radically ambitious- exploring concerns around
public space as a contested space for women to exist
in safely.
Nathaniel Wyrick [USA]
That Fine Line Before It All Breaks
Nathaniel’s work is concerned with the exploration of identity, masculinity, and sexuality, especially
in relation to memory, domesticity, and historical traditions of southern Americana. In That
Fine Line Before It All Breaks , the artist will be utilizing a collection of slip cast ceramic hands, feet,
& body parts, each filled with honey. The objects will be broken open, and their insides will be mixed
into a basin of milk. The liquid will be consumed, briefly, before being bottled and sealed. The performance
objects will then be offered to the viewers as documentation to be experienced after the piece.
Documentation Action Research Collective
(DARC): Tara Fatehi Irani, Ernst Fischer, Holly
Revell, Manuel Vason, Jemima Yong
Transformance
Opening with a short performance, Transformance will
remain on show as an exhibition until 21st July. It is a
process of artistic exchange and creation in which live
performance, documentation, translation and transformation
meet. The project seeks to blur the lines
between live performance and documentation. The aim
is to generate a hybridised live practice by creating and
responding together through a variety of disciplines
including photography, video, drawing, writing, performance
and alternative forms of documentation.
Heidi Edström [ingentinget] [SE]
The Penal Labour
A foundation does not have to be expensive to be good, but it is worth investing in. A good
founda- tion is essential to smooth out and conceal irregularities. And then you have
something, something to continue to build on, on and on. Cover it up and create new outlines.
Stare yourself blind upon the most inconsiderable details, and watch them grow beyond
recognition. I’m building a wall between us. To shut me in, to shut you out, in a desperate
attempt just to be like everyone else. Soon my nose will be covered by pebbles and
maybe it’s just as good, because it still smells piss in the town by 1 o’clock in the morning.
Tuesday 17th jULY

We
Live
In
Fractured
Times

TUES 17th July
Peter Eason Daniels [UK]
The sound of a Record sleeve
Yesterday by the Beatles has been credited as the most re-recorded and released song, by
January 1986, 1,600 cover versions had been made. I will be playing the cover of the 45. Creating
a document of the record itself. The sound of a record sleeve is a project looking at
the relationship be-tween object and sound as well as the process of forming a document.
The project itself is the process of playing and recording the sound of 45” record cover or
sleeve. Creating a new soundtrack that is intrinsically linked to both the physical record, its
artwork and the music on that record.
Robin Bale [UK]
The Mural Crown
A large backdrop reads “l’etat, c’est moi” (“I am the state”). A figure moves in the shadows,
wrapped in blan-ket/robe scrawled with magical sigils, wearing a crown made in the form of
a small castle. The sounds get louder, words more coherent, snatches of sense emerge and
strange in-struments are played. The piece treads a fine line between grotesque comedy and
the intimidating bus stop wino, the tragic and the absurdly abject.
The Palimpsisters ft. Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy [UK]
Drowning not Waving
A dancer. A soundscapist. A professor of Food Policy.
A cross channel swimmer’s feet encased in concrete – moving forward with difficulty – incessantly
gesturing to the beats of an uplifting late 80’s, early 90’s Acid house soundtrack,
interlaced with Professor Tim Lang’s continued discourse on the rise and fall of Britain’s
food membership of the European Union over the past fifty years.
A pressing proclamation on Brexit’s effect on the food we consume and the free movement
of peo-ple across borders.
Uninvited Guests with Oh, The Guilt [UK]
Breaking News: Croydon Edition
In these troubled times of uncertainty and division, Uninvited Guests return to their 2012
show Make Better Please and rework it with Bristol band Oh, The Guilt.
We call on people to gather with us in Croydon, to read the day’s newspapers together,
to speak and to listen. This is what the papers say according to you, the news at The Spread
Eagle. This is your chance to get some things off your chest, to have a rant, speak truth to
power and really vent your spleen.
Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees [UK]
Strike
In a totally dark room, a performer will attempt to construct 40 elec-trical lights in 4 hours using only match light
as they connect bulbs, wires and plugs. When each light is finished it is plugged into a socket that is operat-ed by
an electrical timer switch. After four hours the switch will acti-vate and the space will be illuminated. The illumination
correlates to the performers success and ability to perform the task. Darkness de-notes a failure of the task.
Lori Baldwin [USA]
The Villages
The Villages sets the conditions for an intimate encounter. It’s a request, an exper-iment,
a proposal. It highlights the connection that is created in subversive and explicit
power dynamics and the physical actions that accompany them. It explores what happens
when BDSM practices are carried out in a public performative setting.
ANERHLOD - LEIBNIZ [DE/IT/UK]
Transfusion: A Collective Act of Remembrance
Transfusion: A Collective Act of Remembrance combines a live performance of
ANERHLOD’s Blood with a performance score (based on re-membered fragments - actions,
images, objects &/or words - drawn primarily from The Book of Blood : Human
(w)Rites, an ongoing, participatory arts project that explores issues of human rights.
WEDS 18th jULY

Robin Bale [UK]

Thursday 19th jULY
Sarah Davis [UK]
Push
Push an ever-growing work exploring the artist’s experience of receiving chemotherapy and having a stemcell transplant
for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The work has been evolving since June 2017.On show until 21st July, this work sees the
artist over 18-hour period working in situ documenting and archiving the medical ephemera she has collected over
the past year and a half and transforming these objects into plaster artifacts. The work functions as a landscape of
trauma, it sits on the floor so the audience views it from above, tracing the narrative suggested by each pill packet. It
is a cathartic work that addresses themes of survival, unfairness and the burden of ill health.
KUBOV [UK]
be (e) tangled
KUBOV read from a con-stantly shifting mobile score, fuelled with sounds found in
the various districts of an indeterminate piece for detuned baroque violin. The mobile
score reflects a self regulating system managed by their tangled robot, which is
continuously pushing towards balance and harmony in the space. Unfortunately for
the robot, this is not to be, as the sound environment can’t be predicted and so the
system pushes towards chaos as much as order.
COLDSORE [DE/FI]
POLLUTANT
After a childhood filled with insufficient explanations about what has happened in
Chernobyl and, later, many years of struggle against a system that enforces nuclear
power and other operations of vast destruction with a violent police apparatus and
biased media, GRM has been still angry. Frus-trated after the apparently desired incidents
in Fukushima, GRM started to embrace a cynical res-ignation, that culminated
into the series POLLUTANT by the live electronic project COLDSORE. It is a sonic
meditation on mankind’s destructive ignorance.
Rocio Boliver/Thibault Delférière [MX/BEL]
The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab
The lato sensu symbiosis is defined like any biological interaction between
species, no matter whether these affect positively or negatively among them.
Here, the Amphitryon is interpreted as harassing either side and supplants a host organism
that hosts a parasite, a mutual partner, or a commensal partner.
At some point in the cycle, even if there is some benefit, the host receives damage
from the parasite. Predation will be the objective in a close relationship in which one
of the participants (the parasite) depends on the other (host).
Pablo Pakula [ES/DE]
UNNEGATIVE
The prefix un-. Added to nouns, adjectives, participles,
verbs, adverbs, and their derivatives.
Denoting the absence, reversal or cancellation of a
quality, state or action.
Deprivation, separation or reduction to a lesser state.
A lack. Not.
Charging words with opposite force, the prefix un- turns
everything inside-out and up-side-down. It changes the
positive into negative, the negative into positive. Un- is
deeply transformative. It un-does, un-makes, un-breaks.
UNNEGATIVE invokes these powers as an incantation.
Somewhere between sculpture and dance, this ritual-action-piece
clumsily reaches towards the light, forever trying
to overcome. UNNEGATIVE is about guilt and forgiveness,
about shame and acceptance, and ultimately, about
redemption.

James Johnson [UK]
My Brother’s Keeper
Installation exploring how the Black male body navigates in and
around the continual surveillances of masculinity and body to
body contact of the male body in contemporary society.
Thomas & Devaki Music [UK]
Sound Meditation
Kirtan or Sound Meditation is an ancient practice from India which
strives to bring peace and release to participants through the exploration
of Sanskrit chants. Using various instruments including
the Indian harmonium & mridangam, Kirtan facilitators Thomas &
Devaki, will guide participants through various melodic repetitions
with the aim to find inner peace and a sense of togetherness.
Kajoli Ilojak [BD/UK]
Matriarchal Tarantula
Kajoli Ilojak takes as her inspiration her lived experiences as a
woman in Bangladesh under the fake dysfunctional power offered
by the patriarchal community to women in order to oppress
other women. Through stories from her childhood and adult life
in Bangladesh, she brings issues of women’s freedom of speech and
control over their bodies into a visually grasping performance that
only speaks through the body; the body of a woman that has been
through much turmoil and is in search of a healing ritual.
Francesca Fini [IT]
SKIN/TONES
I’m naked in front of two neon lights, giving my back to the audience,
so that only the outline of my body is visible. I pass a digital
microscope all over my skin, scanning the different textures (hair,
lips, tongue and so forth).
The skin is a landscape that tells many different stories, showing
details that look like maps of unknown planets. An infinite variety
of colors, textures and shapes, patterns and imperfections - sometimes
beautifully frightening - are transformed into digital information
producing live generative sounds and visuals, in the synergy
of the random movement of my hand.
Nurture presents motherhood as a durational performance
and as an act of love and labor. In the
role of the archetypal Mother, the artist offers her
empathy and her breasts to the audience in an intimate,
one-on-one interaction. Breasts are maternal
and erotic symbols, representing the conflicting
roles of Madonna and Whore. In either role, the
female body is a body that does not belong entirely
to itself. By publicly performing the private act of
breastfeeding, Nurture makes visible unacknowledged
maternal labor, confronts social taboos concerning
the female body, and exposes the competing
demands fracturing women’s identities.
Nurture
Lena Chen [USA]
animus cultivates a chaotic interdependency between human and non-human: merging or- ganic and in-organic with an affective
intensity of toxicity and intimacy. In a gesture of self affection and awareness of sensation to explore new possibilities of sensory
perception and body movement as dynamic and affective language. Galvanizing the materials own autonomy
and subjectivity to suggest a communal body or second skin
and show how affect can reshape zones of possibility for bio-political transformation.
animus
Hollie Miller in collaboration with Craig Scott [UK]
friday 20th jULY

friday 20th jULY
dave phillips (Schimpfluch) [CH]
field recordings & video action
field recordings: this set uses raw and untreated recordings made in national parks, rainforests, nature reserves and other natural
habitats in thailand, vietnam, indonesia, china, ecuador and switzerland, of insects, amphibians, mammals, weather and other
natural, non-human phenomena. individual tracks are layered and mixed into a composition. no effects, loops or any other manipulations
of the sound sources are applied. this set is played in total darkness. this set addresses the importance of the insect world
for human existence.
video action: an actionistic and physical performance accompanied by visuals. loops and samples of voice and objects are played
live over prepared sonic struc-tures. The visuals communicate matters dear to my heart, metaphysical questions, thoughts, criticisms
etc. on personal, so-cial/societal and global levels. this set is an evocation of the ‘humanimal’, a sonic ritual, an audio-visual
catharsis, a trigger of discourse, offering food for thought.
There are crypts, sarcophagi of mummified memories
within our bodies, often located
just near the solar plexus. Sizes vary and metamorphosize.
How does one release these
into being and remember the essence of oneself?
the point of it (guts and glory)
selina bonelli [UK]
An interactive performance for 5 people at a time. Audience-participants
are invited to join Daniel and Frauke
in a series of awkwardly intimate and strange actions,
rituals, dances, games, and other dysfunctional activities
brought back in time from a post-neurodivergent
revolution family fun-time future. Daniel is dyspraxic
and is too slow. Frauke has ADHD and is too quick.
They are married and have kids. This interactive performance
is rooted in their experiences of their bodies as
neurodivergent lovers, parents, and weirdo performance
makers. It is a space in which clunky experiences
of bodies and actions can be discussed, explored and
ultimately celebrated through ritualisation and play.
Dadderrs
Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver [DE/UK]
“…it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Following IN//Footsteps OF is an observation of the resistance
that is experienced between fragmented parts of the self.
And, dying, it rises above its own ag-ony to out-carol
the lark and the nightingale.” The Thorn Birds, Colleen Like the body itself, the performative space is autonomous,
McCullough, (2013).
evolving through time and action. It is an attempt to understand
what is a personal experience/way of being, and what is
In the cultural and sound based performance, ‘Erškėtis’
combines the voices of three gen-erations of Lithuanian
women in the family (Vilma Pranaitytė, Vida Valentina installACTION, ideas of the female and inherited roles of the
inherited through familial and societal expectation. Through
Pranaitienė and Orinta Pranaitytė) together with an feminine are confronted. The roles of mother, sister, daughter,
artist, etc. are considered alongside notions of feminine
endurance strength performance. The piece con-cerns
immigration; the improvement of a personal situation function and fertility. Where does my performance of societal
and one’s conceptions of the ‘other’. As the core of the labels end and my true embodiment of being a woman, mother,
body balances its weight at height, it overcomes physical
and mental challenges, whilst reflecting on our
artist begin?
sacrifices in life.
Erškėtis
Following IN//Footsteps OF
Orinta Pranaitytė [LT]
Natalie Ramus [UK]
Saturday 21st jULY

FRAC-
TURED
BODIES

Sunday 15th July:
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
12. Aktion
Erstauffuhrung: Wien 6.9.1965
Wierderauffuhrung: Prinzendorf 24.1.1988
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
15. Aktion
Erstauffuhrung: Wien 10.10.1965
Wierderauffuhrung: Prinzendorf 26.1.1988
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
24. Aktion
Wien: Atelier Nitsch Juli 1967
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
14. Aktion
Erstauffuhrung: Wien 29.9.1965
Wierderauffuhrung: Prinzendorf 25.1.1988
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
20. Malaktion
Scession: Wein 18-21.2.1987
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
40. Malaktion
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts Wien 31.10 - 9.11.1997
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
107. Aktion Parts I & II
Prinzendorf 30.6 - 1.7.2001
Monday 16th July:
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
6 Tage Spiel
1. Tag
2. Tag
3. Tag
4. Tag
5. Tag
6. Tag
Prinzendorf an der Zaya 3-9.8.1998
Saturday 21st July:
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
150. Aktion
Hobart Tasmania, Australia
17.6.2017
We
a r e
h o n -
oured to
showcase a rare
retrospective of
works from the archive
of Hermann Nitsch ahead
of his 80th birthday on 29th
August 2018.
This legendary artist granted TF18 permission
to screen a selection of pieces chosen
by Hermann Nitsch himself and our artistic
director, Dr. Thomas John Bacon for the festival.
A founder of the short-lived and yet contuinly relevant,
shocking, and infamously impactful, Vieniese Aktionists, Hermann
Nitsch’s influence continues to touch all of performance
art still today. His Orgien Mysterien Theater aktions, often involve
slaughter, butchery, religious sacrifices, crucifixion, as well as noise,
dance, celebration, ritual and rapture. The viewing experience on film is no
less impactful and creates beautfiully shocking imagery that holds its audience
in a world full of question and wonder.
Each aktion will be screened only once; shown in full and uncut.
Hermann Nitsch

Sat 21st jULY
Heather Sincavage
the burden of this
Trauma is an individual experience yet manifests similarly in our bodies often challenging the simplest of tasks.
Contending with our trauma is performed in the artwork, the burden of this, by walking while dragging the artist’s
own body weight in manure. This performance is conducted in public areas as an example of how we always
grapple with our trauma, no matter the place or circumstance. Throughout the performance, the artist fights
the abject body as she tries to maneuver the public sphere.
Weeks & Whitford [UK]
‘Insult to Injury’
Continuing their autobiographical approach, Weeks and Whitford ritualize
a response to a recent period of illness, mourning, estrangement and
survival that has pushed them to their limits. Asserting life and love with
its many difficulties, kinks and complications over grief, disability, addiction,
and fear this complex durational work reflects an ongoing process
of disintegration, renewal and transformation. The work is a rite or a
prayer because at points performance is all we have.
Aleks Slota [PL/DE]
Domestic Communication
Domestic Communication, is an improvised sound performance revealing
the hidden ra-diation that surrounds and infiltrates the human body in the
domestic space. Using EMF detectors an audio image of the invisible forces
in the home environment will be created.
Jeffery Byrd [USA]
The Universe is Shitfaced
Dada poetry, opera and astronomy collide as Byrd explores the aftermath
of his 2017 stroke.
PETER BAREN [NL]
BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND [RAGE AND TIME] London
Suite
The recent series called BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND,
as a multi-sensory work, searches for a common ground between sensual
bewilder-ment and political commentary, challenging the constructed
nature of our ideas on progress and memory, that lingers in between our
immediate social and cultural circumstances.
The festival will be documented; by purchasing a ticket you agree
to the release and free use of your image in any documentation
produced.
Sat 21ST - SUN 22ND
Instant Dissidance with Young Roots
Croydon is Dancing
Rita Marcalo of Instant Dissidence returns to Croydon to work with local migrants and refugees of Young Roots for a very special
audio tour of town centre. Hear their stories and rediscover Croydon with new eyes.
With thanks to our funders, sponsors and partners:

MONDAY 9TH JULY
Shawn Escarciga - Whatever You Want / 7.30pm / The Front Room
Mehmet Sander. / 8.30pm / The Front Room
TUESDAY 10TH JULY
Yoga in Black / 12.30-1.30pm / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Kieran Wakeman - Festering Under Tortured Skin / 6pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Niko Raes - This Boy Needs Love / 7-10pm / The Front Room
Nicole Mermann / 8-9pm / Croydon town centre
WEDNESDAY 11TH JULY
Yoga in Black / 12.30-1.30PM / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Kieran Wakeman - Festering Under Tortured Skin / 12pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Katarina Rasic - Memory traces on the skin / 1-8pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Richard James Hall - AUTOS/FLECTIONS / 6pm / The Front Room
luxul / 7pm / The Front Room
Clive Henry and Yol - Strobed / 7.30pm / The Front Room
Mother Disorder - Crystalline / 8pm / The Front Room
THURSDAY 12TH JULY
Funding Scrum w/ Andrew Ellerby / 2-4pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Yoga in Black / 12.30-1.30PM / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Kieran Wakeman - Festering Under Tortured Skin / 12-4pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Arianna Ferrari - CLOACA / 7-10pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Ashley-Louise McNaughton - VOLATILE DECEPTIONS / 7.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Sarah Glass - 13 +/- / 8.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Erika Bülle Hernández - Scars / 9.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
FRIDAY 13TH JULY
Yoga in Black 12.30-1.30PM / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Kieran Wakeman - Festering Under Tortured Skin / 12-3pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Natalie Weardon - SELKIE SKIN / 3.30pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Joseph Morgan Schofield - L’Ariete / 6pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Dale Cornish / From 5pm / Croydon Council Chamber
Marie Ségolène - The Eye Of The Rib / 6.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Joseph Raven - Prepared / 7.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Leif Elggren - It is said that no King is a King if no one is looking / 8.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
SATURDAY 14TH JULY
Sebastian H-W - Behind Closed Doors / 12pm / Croydon town centre
Dale Cornish / From 5pm / Croydon Council Chamber
Moa Johansson - louder, she said what / 6.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Manson X - Shattered Urban Soundscape / 7.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Mowgli and the slate pipe banjo draggers - Prime Bolus MRItrusion / 8.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Penelope Koliopoulou - Do You Hit Girls? / 9.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
SUNDAY 15TH JULY
Sebastian H-W - Behind Closed Doors / 12pm / Croydon town centre
Dale Cornish / from 2pm / Croydon Council Chamber
Angela Bartram - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks / 1-2pm /
TF Artist Talks / 2pm / Braithwaite Hall
Lizzie Masterton - ASMR: Tools for Tenderness / 7.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Hermann Nitsch retrospective / From 12pm / David Lean Cinema
MONDAY 16TH JULY
Amy Kingsmill - Bleeding Skirt / 1-8pm / TURF Projects: Keeley Road
Hermann Nitsch retrospective / From 12pm / David Lean Cinema
Nathaniel Wyrick - That Fine Line Before It All Breaks / 8.30-9.30pm / TURF Projects: Keeley Road
TUESDAY 17TH JULY
DARC - Transformance / 1pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Peter Eason Daniels - The sound of a Record sleeve / 5.30pm / The Spread Eagle Theatre
Heidi Edström [ingentinget] - The Penal Labour / 6-10pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Robin Bale - The Mural Crown / 6.30pm / The Spread Eagle Theatre
The Palimpsisters - Drowning Not Waving ft. Prof. Tim Lang / 7.30pm / The Spread Eagle Theatre
Uninvited Guests w/ Oh, The Guilt - Breaking News: Croydon Edition / 8.30pm / The Spread Eagle Theatre
WEDNESDAY 18TH JULY
DARC - Transformance / 12pm / Matthews Yard
Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees - Strike / 6-10pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Lori Baldwin - The Villages / 7pm / The Spread Eagle Theatre
ANERHLOD - LEIBNIZ - Transfusion: A Collective Act of Remembrance / 8.30pm / The Spread Eagle Theatre
THURSDAY 19TH JULY
DARC - Transformance / 12pm / Matthews Yard
River Lin - Bone Setting Service / 12.30pm / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Performance philosophy w/ Dr Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca / 2-4pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Sarah Davis - Push / 3pm / Matthews Yard
KUBOV - be (e) tangled / 6.30-9.30pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Pablo Pakula - UNNEGATIVE / 7pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
COLDSORE - POLLUTANT / 8.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Rocio Boliver/Thibault Delférière - The Sea Anemone and the Hermit Crab / 9.30pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
FRIDAY 20TH JULY
DARC - Transformance / 12pm / Matthews Yard
James Johnson - My Brother’s Keeper / 12pm / Braithwaite Hall
River Lin - Bone Setting Service / 12.30pm / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Thomas & Devaki Music - Kirtan: Sound Meditation / 1pm, 2.30pm, 4pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Sarah Davis - Push / 3pm / Matthews Yard
Hollie Miller w/ Craig Scott - animus / 6-10pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Lena Chen - Nurture / 6.30-9.30pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Kajoli Ilojak - Matriarchal Tarantula / 7pm / Braithwaite Hall
Francesca Fini - SKIN/TONES / 8.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Dave Phillips - field recordings & video / 9.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
SATURDAY 21ST JULY
Orinta Pranaitytė - Erškėtis / 10am / Braithwaite Hall
River Lin - Bone Setting Service / 11.30am / Matthews Yard: The Lounge
DARC - Transformance / 12pm / Matthews Yard
Instant Dissidence w/Young Roots - Croydon is Dancing / 12pm / Croydon town centre
Natalie Ramus - Following IN//Footsteps OF / 12.30-2.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver - Dadderrs / 1pm, 2pm, 3pm / Matthews Yard: Gallery
Sarah Davis - Push / 2pm / Matthews Yard
Selina Bonelli - the point of it (guts and glory) / 3-6pm / Braithwaite Hall
Heather Sincavage - the burden of this / 4-8pm / Croydon town centre
Weeks & Whitford - Insult to Injury / 5-9pm / Matthews Yard: Lounge
Aleks Slota - Domestic Communication / 6pm / Matthews Yard: Theatre
Jeffrey Byrd - The Universe is Shitfaced / 7pm / Braithwaite Hall
PETER BAREN - BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND [RAGE AND TIME] London
Suite / 7.30pm / Braithwaite Hall
Hermann Nitsch retrospective / 8pm / Braithwaite Hall
SUNDAY 22ND JULY
Instant Dissidence w/Young Roots - Croydon is Dancing / 12pm / Croydon town centre
TF18 closing party / Secret location