DRAF Broadcasts: Live with artist Sriwhana Spong
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Online event
Join the online conversation between artist and dancer Sriwhana Spong and DRAF curator Ned McConnell.
About this event
Online event - talk will start promptly after 5pm, Thursday 7 May - event login link will be sent out in advance to those that have registered. Please note that without the link you cannot join us live. All talks are recorded and shared afterwards.
DRAF Broadcasts: Live, an online conversation between visual artist Sriwhana Spong and DRAF curator Ned McConnell. They will explore notions of liveness in her work, the voice, and translation.
This event is part of a series of online conversations, co-hosted by DRAF and Performance Exchange. The webcast talks feature artists, curators and other cultural practitioners engaged in live work.
As organisations both being dedicated to performance and event-based art practices, this collaboration is born from the need to keep supporting these practices, perhaps now more urgently than ever. In creating this platform together, we want to share artistic projects and ideas with our audiences, whilst thinking through different cultural infrastructure that works for performance in times of social isolation. We will be announcing these conversations via our digital channels so please do keep an eye on @draf_art or subscribe to our newsletter.
About DRAF
DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) is an independent, non-profit organisation for contemporary art dedicated to the transformative forces of the art encounter. DRAF has welcomed over 130,000 visitors to thought-provoking and challenging international programmes including exhibitions, commissions, performances and discussions, since it was founded in 2007.
DRAF provides an enriching and progressive platform for artistic and critical rigour connecting artists, writers, cultural producers and the public. Fostering creative partnerships with institutions across the UK and abroad, we nurture and support the discovery of new ways of thinking and risk-taking through our commissions and presentations of ambitious work.
About Performance Exchange
Performance Exchange is a dispersed performance project across commercial galleries in London, some of which will also be hosting performances from international galleries in July 2020.
Highlighting the work done by commercial galleries to support multi-disciplinary and performance practice, Performance Exchange will create new forms of support for collecting performance art through a three day programme of presentations combined with detailed acquisition information for each work on an innovative digital platform.
Previous talks are published on our YouTube channel.
Image: Sriwhana Spong, Tasseography of a Rat's Nest (extended) [detail], 2018. Courtesy the artist, Michael Lett and Pump House Gallery. Photo: Damian Griffiths
