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Rakshanda
Khan and Sophia Yadong Hao
Spin Cycle is a one-day interactive live artwork and installation that
takes place in Tumblewash launderette on Camberwell Church Street. This
new collaboration between Rakshanda Khan and Sophia Yadong Hao explores
extreme, obsessive and addictive forms of expression, such as self-harm,
which are used as a means of dealing with stressful experiences and painful
memories. Through drawing, performance and repetitious rituals, the artists
attempt to remove some of the secrecy and stigma which surrounds such
behaviour.
Sophia
Yadong Hao is a live artist based in Manchester. Her work attempts to
break down boundaries in personal space through interaction and improvisation.
Rakshanda Khan is a graphic designer based in London currently working
on a graphic novel about Self Injury aimed at the mental health sector.SLG
Lucy Panesar
Good Vibrations is a live art work in disguise. Artist Lucy Panesar's
alter ego, Felicity Mukherjee, will invite members of the public to test
the marketability of the vibrator as a device for treating hysteria and
other stress-related disorders in women. The device is presented as a
faux therapeutic treatment from NFHC International Inc, the fictional
faceless corporation created by Panesar.
Lucy
Panesar is a live artist based in London. For the past year, she has been
researching, developing and presenting live artworks in response to the
current national interest in improving mental well-being, therapy culture,
the self-help industry and the transformation economy.SLG
Orly Orbach
Orly Orbach has created a trail of word and image in a striking series
of small drawings exhibited in classified ads in newsagent windows. Using
the same fractured language of classified ads, Wanted talks not of babysitting
and fridges for sale, but conveys powerful stories and experiences of
madness. In addition, Orbach will lead a drawing workshop on Camberwell
Green in which visitors can create a large scale collaborative new work
Orly Orbach
produces prints and drawings for exhibitions and publications, as well
as moving image and installation pieces. Since graduating from the Royal
College of Art in 2003 Orly Orbach has worked on personal, collaborative
and research-based projects, including Ghost Watch, an installation for
the Hayward Gallery and Burnt Book Box, an arts and health commission
about smoking for which Orbach was awarded the Association of Illustrators
Gold Award in Design in 2006.SLG
'Wanted' locations:
Basic
Wholefood Ltd
49 Denmark Hill |
Kings
Food and Wine
51 Denmark Hill |
Capital
Newsagents
24-26, Denmark Hill |
Camberwell
News
9 Camberwell Green |
Premiere
Food & Wine
244 Camberwell Road |
Drink
Store
4 Camberwell Church Street |
Camberwell
Superstore
32-34 Camberwell Church Street |
Supersave
Express
350 Camberwell New Road |
Shree
Ji News
63, Camberwell Church St |
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A
Dose of Light: Wu Xiao Kang 1979-2005
Singapore-based collective A Dose of Light will present the final roll
of film taken by photographer Wu Xiao Kang before he committed suicide
at the age of 26. This haunting series of images depicts the now deserted
mental hospital where Xiao Kang had previously received treatment. The
building was documented by Xiao Kang repeatedly in his work and the images
reflect his associations with the institution and his desire for escape.
Excerpts from Xiao Kang’s diary are interspersed with the images.
Wu Xiao Kang 1979-2005 will be screened on Camberwell Green and will be
distributed as a limited edition DVD during the festival.
A Dose of
Light is a visual arts collective base in London and Singapore which promote
contemporary photography from Singapore to an international audience.SLG
http://adoseoflight.com/overdose/xiaokang.html
www.adoseoflight.com |