Performance An Evening of Performances

featuring Jimmy Robert

We are thrilled to be collaborating with the David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) to present Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert at one of the most highly anticipated events in  London's Frieze Week calendar: An Evening of Performances.

Guest curated by Block Universe founder Louise O’Kelly An Evening of Performances seeks to explore the importance of alternative subcultures and London’s nightlife as a space for freedom of expression in an era of rising conservatism, fittingly taking place in London’s most iconic nightclub, Ministry of Sound.

A range of international artists working across music, installation, performance, poetry, and dance have been invited to present new works that deal with questions of representation, identity politics and self-expression, weaving club culture in with the current socio-political context of the UK.

Amongst them performer Jimmy Robert (FR) will bridge the gap between the art fair and the context of a club by working with a photograph by Valie Export (Body Sign Action 2, 1970), borrowed from the David Roberts Collection. Robert’s performance seeks to explore how we position ourselves in relation to works of art, and how the environment of a club can be used to disrupt the politics of spectatorship, objectification and representation within the canon.

 
   

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