Hover, horror
Details
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday 28 November 2024
FormaHQ, Peveril Garden Studios
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
Timings:
19:00: Doors open
19:30-20:30: Performance
20:30-21:00: Reflections
21:00: Drinks
Credits
Previous recipients of the Goldsmiths Exhibition Hub Alumni Commission Award include Tara White (2023) and Djofray Makumbu (2021).
The 2024 award is in partnership with Forma and LADA.
Hover, horror
Krystle Patel
28 November 2024
A multi-stranded performance that uses the Lepidoptera to explore the violent trap of visibility, presented in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub and the Live Art Development Agency (LADA) for the 2024 Goldsmiths' Alumni Commission Award.
Working with choreography, light, sound and language Hover, horror digs into the machinations of mass media, identity politics and art institutions to reveal what it is to be culturally visible. Harnessing performance as a porous tool, Hover, Horror exposes the structures which govern our ways of seeing and being seen.
Hover, horror is part of an ongoing series developed by Patel, titled Possession. The project seeks to question how immaterial languages can disrupt euro-centric frameworks, and how movement can be mobilised as a vessel for greater empathy and connection.
This performance will be the culmination of the Goldsmiths’ Alumni Commission Award 2024. Over the last six months, Krystle Patel has received mentoring sessions from members of staff at Forma, LADA and Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub. Undertaking archival research at LADA, Patel has focused on strategies to destabilise established hierarchies within theatre and performance. Resources and recordings from Oreet Ashery, Jerome Bell and Jacques Rancière were pivotal within the research, as were essays around Nationalism and contemporary theatre in India.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
Krystle Patel, 'Hover, horror', a live multi-stranded performance at FormaHQ in collaboration with Kim Kohlmann. 2024. Developed for the Goldsmiths Alumni Commission Award 2024 in partnership with Goldsmiths Exhibitions Hub, LADA and Forma. Courtesy the artists. Photo by Forma.
On the Alumni Award, Krystle Patel said:
“I’m looking forward to working with both LADA and Forma to research staging in performance as part of my long form project Possession. Using LADA’s archives of art writing and experimental theatre alongside the architecture of Forma’s event space, I will develop a performance that plays with light and spatial sound while considering notions of permission and control.
Possession has evolved from ongoing work into the limitations and violence of the term ‘British – Asian’ as well as frustrations with the current expectations and impositions of the art world with respect to identity politics and fixed notions of being.
Possession here is seen in the multiple, as trance like possession through rhythm, possession of the body and desire, and possession of culture and identity as commodifiable objects.”.
Biographies
Krystle Patel is a London-based Asian artist born in Texas. She uses writing, sound and textile to create moving image works and site-specific installations that interrogate the construction and value of relationships through language.
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Details
19:00 - 22:00
Thursday 28 November 2024
FormaHQ, Peveril Garden Studios
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
Timings:
19:00: Doors open
19:30-20:30: Performance
20:30-21:00: Reflections
21:00: Drinks
Credits
Previous recipients of the Goldsmiths Exhibition Hub Alumni Commission Award include Tara White (2023) and Djofray Makumbu (2021).
The 2024 award is in partnership with Forma and LADA.