Flesh / Bone/ Breath: A performance installation, LCB Depot

DMU's Drama, Dance and Performance Studies Research Institute

Bone meets bone. Flesh meets flesh. Breathe with us…. The archives of two ground-breaking artists inspire a performance installation

LCB Depot

Flesh / Bone/ Breath: Encounters with the Archives of Traci Kelly and hancock &amp; Kelly4 – 5.30pm, Monday 20th February 2023A falling burning woman. An arm curling with care. A trail of slime and gold. A soiled cactus. A pound/ing of tenderness. A hairy-brained scheme indeed. Bone meets bone. Flesh meets flesh. Breathe with us….Embracing messy mucky queer feminist joy, this performance installation launches the archives of two ground-breaking artists and showcases the performance art, movement, spoken word, visual art and video art-based practices of a collective of DMU graduates and current undergraduate and postgraduate students. In January 2023 Special Collections at DMU received the beautiful, provocative archives of the artists, Traci Kelly and hancock &amp; kelly (the collaborative project of artists Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly). Since 2001, hancock &amp; kelly have collaborated on a series of works questioning and provoking the gaps between subjects. Through an internationally acclaimed body of work spanning performance, choreography, video, photography, installation, and text, they have continually asked questions of where the limits of the body may be drawn. Issues of materiality, value, and embodied knowledge have been pivotal to the complex critical and aesthetic dialogues they undertake. Their practice moves fluidly between 'live' and 'object-based' work, and the resulting pieces have been a series of visceral and queer encounters, both moving and spectacular.Traci Kelly, Richard Hancock, the Drama, Dance and Performance Studies academics at DMU, and Special Collections are invested in these artist archives as living, breathing, inspiring and generative. Flesh / Bone/ Breath is rooted in that idea. Our collective of artists has forged a dialogue between their distinctive individual practices and the powerful images and materials from the archive. Do join us and contribute to this dialogue. Audience members are invited to move around the space, to stay for the full hour and a half of the performance installation, or come and go as you please. You are free to choose to participate when invited or to stand back and witness. Please note that this event will include nudity, sex and body positive imagery, and contained use of meat. This event will be recorded via video and photographs.This event is part of a wider project, funded by De Montfort University, focused on Creatively Innovating the Archive, co-ordinated by Alissa Clarke, Harriet Curtis, Elinor Parsons, and 'Funmi Adewole.

With thanks to Traci Kelly, Richard Hancock, Paul Samuel White and Cristiana Ilie for the images displayed above. The full details of the images and the performances they document are detailed below.Title:		UNION (Part II: Affective Labour) Year:		hancock &amp; kelly 2017Medium:	Performance Photo credit:	Paul Samuel White, for ]performance s p a c e [Title:		UNION (Part III: A Labour of Images) Year:		hancock &amp; kelly 2017Medium:	Performance Photo credit:	Paul Samuel White, for ]performance s p a c e [Title:		UNION (Part IV: The Gilded Cage) Year:		hancock &amp; kelly 2017Medium:	Performance Photo credit:	Paul Samuel White, for ]performance s p a c e [Title:		The Death Drawings Year:		Traci Kelly 2014Medium:	Performance drawingPhoto credit:	Cristiana IlieTitle:		Threshold 
Year:		Traci Kelly 2020
Medium:	Performance for camera
Photo credit:	The artist

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