Free to attend, no ticket required. Performance starts at 3.30pm but please arrive at 3pm to guarantee attendance.
FTHo is pleased to host a live performance by US artist Clifford Owens as part of a collaboration with TALKER, an interview zine about performance art, published by artist Giles Bailey since 2016.
Clifford Owens' work brings the significance of liveness and presence into dialogue with the photograph. It acknowledges the complexities that come with a compulsion to record events and asks questions about the existential anxieties that accompany the camera. His own body is a crucial player in this. His practice takes the legacies of emergent performance art making from the ‘60s and ‘70s in which we see the artist’s body as the site of the work and pulls it into a conceptual dynamic with themes of race, masculinity, class and the fragility of social structures.
His project Anthology features performances scores—written or graphical instructions for actions—that Owens solicited from a multigenerational group of African-American artists. Twenty-six major artists have contributed scores — including Pope.L, Kara Walker and Senga Nengudi — nearly all of whom composed new works specifically for Owens and his project.
