2021 Festival Thank You!

For the fourth edition of You’ve Got Mail!, the artist Brian Fuata, shares the inaugural publication of PEBBLE, an occasional, hard copy, visual poetry mail-out edited by Sydney based artists Mitchel Cumming and Mitch Cairns. It includes contribution from its editors, Brian Fuata, MP Hopkins, Kate Lilley and Zoe M Robertson.

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For the third edition of You’ve Got Mail!, the artist Nikita Gill shares a video performance that marks the beginning of a new conversation. ‘The Purpose of the Role’ is an ongoing project that sees the artist deconstructing institutional language. Inspired by conversations with artist Jade Montserrat and curator Uthra Rajgopal, Gill considers the barriers to becoming a curator and how the job applications we are so often made to perform for can often times be the first of many barriers for young creatives. In this video performance, Gill deconstructs post Covid-19 job specifications, considering the language used in an industry that claims to centre care. To this end Gill performs the question “What does care look like?”

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Please click here for previous editions of You’ve Got Mail! Our previous contributions were from Himali Singh Soin and Marijke De Roover.

For the second edition of You’ve Got Mail!, the artist Marijke De Roover shares her meme art, alongside current research and experimental writing.

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Please click here for previous editions of You’ve Got Mail! Our inaugural contribution was from Himali Singh Soin.

You can now catch up with Performance Research Network’s roundtable discussions #3 hosted by Liverpool Biennial via the link below:

Speakers: Dr Harold Offeh (Artist), Nikita Gill (Artist) and Julie-Ann Delaney (Art Collections curator at The University of Edinburgh)
Chaired by Dr Samantha Lackey (Director of the Liverpool Biennial)

You can now catch up with Performance Research Network’s roundtable discussions #2 hosted by Block Universe via the link below:

Speakers: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (Artist), Aaron Cezar (Founding Director of Delfina Foundation) and Than Hussein Clark (Artist and founder of London Performance Studios).
Chaired by Louise O’Kelly (Founding Director and Curator of Block Universe)

For the first edition of You’ve Got Mail!, the writer and artist Himali Singh Soin, that we presented during Block Universe 2019 edition, sent us some poetic experimentation from Delhi.

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You can now catch up with Performance Research Network’s roundtable discussions #1 hosted by Glasgow International via the links below:

Speakers: Paul Maheke (Artist), Ned McConnell (Curator at the Roberts Institute of Art) and Lauren Wright (Head of Programmes for Metroland Cultures), Zinzi Minott (Artist)
Chaired by Richard Parry (Director of Glasgow International)

Block Universe, London’s leading performance art festival is teaming up with the independent online radio – Know Wave – to delight your ears with a discussion on the mysterious links between performance and transcendence.

On this occasion, Louise O’Kelly, founder and curator of the festival, catch up with two artists from the 2019 edition Paul Maheke and Melika Ngombe Kolongo (Nkisi) for a mystical exchange.

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For more information about Paul Maheke and Melika Ngombe Kolongo (Nkisi)’s performance for Block Universe 2019, click here.