A generative pool; a hot bed of energy; a transcendent space in flux. An othered theatre, populated by fantastical beings, where carnivalesque strategies are employed to affect logic and reason.
Paracosmic Revue’s season unfolds over four acts. Placing the spiritual in contact with the human, the Animal in contact with the machine, each act seeks to reject the known and the ‘norm’ in favour of a reality based upon possibility.
Each act pastiches our 21st century reality – one where the screen is our gateway to transcendence. Each performer presents a conflicted aesthetic, which awkwardly mimics our precarious means of coping with (and manoeuvring within) the maelstrom we call contemporary life.
The intangible spiritual essence contained within Paracosmic Revue’s transformed space uses play and an aesthetic in flux, to present alternatives to the monotonous every day; creating a space to ask, ‘whose logic am I following’.
Heres to 2019!
Exhibition runs: Saturday 12 January to Sunday 3 February 2019
Opening night: Friday 11 January 2019, 6.30pm
Transition Two Gallery, 110 Lauriston Rd, London, E9 7HA.
Gallery opens: Friday Saturday and Sunday 12noon to 6pm
Exhibition features: Paige Perkins with Richard Porter, Christian Noelle Charles, Pádraig Condron and David Sherry. Curated by Toby Upson.
Artists
For Paige Perkins, the process of painting is an ongoing quest for a sense of mystery and enchantment. Exploring the borders between human and animal, fantasy and reality, Perkins delves into her subconscious, emerging with twisted stories.
Influenced by mysticism, fairy tales, and a sense of a very personal folklore, Perkins creates a visionary world where time and space unfold with a strange logic. Her colourful paintings are often unexpected, dark and unruly; like characters in a carnival.
Instagram: @paigeperkins7
Richard Porter lives and works in London. His current practice looks at processes of repair, healing, and transformation and is deeply rooted in both personal and cultural memory, including those of childhood, the AIDS crisis, aviation disasters and a childhood fantasy of winning Best Actress.
Premium Economy, 2018 screens Friday 11 to Sunday 13 January, 2019
Instagram: @rdodders
A Black Female Artist currently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland, Christian Noelle Charles is a Syracuse, New York native. Her work is an exploration of female representation and self-love in a contemporary world.
Drawing upon today’s pop culture, modern performance techniques – the relationship between performer and audience member – as wells as personal experiences, Charles’ works across mediums demonstrating a celebration of self-love and individuality.
Extra, 2018 screens Friday 18 to Sunday 20 January, 2019
Instagram: @it.cctime
Pádraig Condron is a half-Irish half-Italian queer body, finding catharsis in an autoethnographic practice. Recognising and rejecting structures of power, considering their influence over mind and body. They control, with worship, tradition, and normativity. They impede freedom of self-expression.
Mind and body are sanitized separately. A sense of separation sets in.
One becomes alien from the other.
One does not own the other.
A sense of self is lost between.
We’re funny and sexy and queer, but we’re all liars.
I’ll never be dry again, 2018 screens Friday 25 to Sunday 27 January, 2019
Instagram: @paud.c
Interested in performative ideas relating to everyday life David Sherry utilizes ‘play’, performance, drawing, painting, video, sculpture, and sound to investigate cultural codes, the thoughts and opinions that underlie the public face of etiquette and small talk; asking questions of basic learned behaviours: What is work? What is success? What is respect? What is a living? What is happiness?
Definitive Answer, 2018 screens Friday 1 to Sunday 3 February, 2019
Instagram: @davidhughsherry
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Toby Üpson 