Slow Dancing and Fluid Encounters (FLORENCE PEAKE)

Guest artist FLORENCE PEAKE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her multi-faceted, performance-led art practice via 'Stone Butch Blues' 1993 by Leslie Feinberg. It tells the story of life as a butch lesbian in 1970s, working class America and is particularly unique due to the writer gaining full rights to the text, making it fully accessible online and for free.

Florence and Elizabeth talk about hysterical clay, collapsing paintings, mark-making without sight, rigid heteronormative conventions, the patriarchy's rule which brings a perpetual fear of violence, butch lesbians in the 70s, drag queens, sex workers and femmes, extractions of earthly matter and energy, the dance floor as a space for belonging and expression, splattering the audience with clay, tenderness and care, finding comfort in the face of shame, and encountering ourselves imaginatively in relationship to objective reality.

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Richard Saltoun Gallery

2023 16 April - 2 July 'Factual Actual Ensemble' at Southwark Park Galleries then touring to Fruitmarket Gallery and Towner Gallery

2023 11 Feb - 7 May 'Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene' at RAM Museum, Exter with Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, Lucy Stein

2023 18 Feb - 6 May 'Body Poetics' at Giant, Bournemouth with Penny Slinger, Helen Chadwick, Florence Peake, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Edey, Enam Gbewonyo, Rosie Gibbens, Guerrilla Girls, Evan Ifekoya, Ad Minoliti, Senga Nengudi, Niki De Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Tai Shani, Kiki Smith, Rae-Yen Song, Holly Stevenson curated by Marcelle Joseph and Bella Pelly-Fry

2021 Factual Actual at National Gallery

2021-22 Crude Care for British Art Show at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring UK

2019 Apparition Apparition at Venice Biennale

2018 RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW! at De La Warr Pavillion

2015 Voicings for Block Universe at Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House

ARTISTS + PERFORMERS

Cameron Armitage

Carolee Schneeman 'Meat Joy'

Donald Judd

Emma Hart

Eve Stainton

Fabian Peake

Igor Sravinsky 'The Rite of Spring'

Gabi Agis

Grayson Duitu

Jo Moran

Jordan McKenzie

Kate Bush

Lee Bowie

Lindsey Kemp

Mercedes Grower

Michael Clarke 'I am a Curious Orange'

Rosemary Butcher

Siobhan Davis Studios

Tai Shani

The Fall

Yvonne Rainer

BOOKS

Juliet Jacques 'Variations' 2021

Carmen Maria Machado 'In the Dreamhouse' 2019

Octavia Butler