Come and learn some self-defence moves. This is a free event.

Artists, Soohyun Choi, Olivia Hernaïz and Ruth Waters present a self-defence workshop inside Battersea Park. Drawing on historical practices of feminist self-defence taught by the suffragettes and self-organising collective groups, the Flâneuses have worked together with a professional trainer – Debi Steven, founder of Action Breaks Silence – to set up a specific outdoor class that will encompass both physical self-defence and vocalisations. This class is thought as an invitation for participants to start their own journey of thought and action – to repossess their streets, and their city.

The Flâneuses was selected to be part of Art Night 2018 taking place on Saturday 7th July and will be presented at Battersea Park between 19:00-23:00. Come along to learn some basic moves. Please follow the ticket link to book your time slot.

With special thanks to Action Breaks Silence, Ned McConnell, Pump House Gallery and Enable Leisure and Culture

Soohyun Choi (b.Seoul) lives and works in London. She completed her MFA in 2016 from Goldsmiths College in London. Past group exhibitions include Songs, Balloons, and Broken Tablets for the Snehta Residency Group Exhibition, Athens (2017); the 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens (2017); Romanticism: The 2k17 Edition for isthisit?, online; and CACOTOPIA, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2017).

Olivia Hernaïz (b.Brussels) lives and works in London. She graduated from Goldsmiths MFA in 2016. Her work has been featured in multiple exhibitions around the world, most recently at the Moscow International Biennale For Young Art (2018); Le Consulat, Collectionair, Lisbon, Portugal (2018); and the solo exhibition As Long As The Sun Follows Its Course, Museum of Ixelles, Brussels (2017). Olivia has been awarded the First Prize of the 2016 Boghossian Foundation, Art Contest in Brussels, where she presented the solo exhibition Make Yourself Comfortable.

Ruth Waters (b. Kendal) lives and works in London. She has exhibited and screened internationally at venues including 6 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow); Peer Gallery (London); Annka Kultys Gallery (London); Kingsgate Projects (London); Pump House Gallery Pavilion (London). She has an MFA from Goldsmiths University (2016), a BFA from University College Falmouth (2010), and was the recipient of the Goldsmiths MFA Studio Award 2016 including a grant and a year residency at Acme Studios. Upcoming exhibitions include Island (Brussels) and Koppel Project (London).

ART NIGHT

Art Night is London’s largest free contemporary arts festival, transforming the city annually for one unforgettable night. Each year, Art Night invites a leading cultural institution to explore the history, culture and architecture of a different part of London, inspiring a series of new commissions, one off events and premieres by internationally renowned artists. Alongside this, Art Night works with local organisations, curators and artists, encouraging participation in the festival’s Art Night Open programme via an open call, that extends the festival further across the trail.

Art Night 2018 is curated by Ralph Rugoff and the Hayward Gallery, and coincides with the institution’s 50th Anniversary. For its third edition, Art Night moves south of the river, from Southbank Centre to Battersea Power Station through Vauxhall and Nine Elms on the 7th July. Art Night is supported by international auction house Phillips.