Performance N' Tha, Liverpool (2026)

28/07/2023

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→ Proposal Deadline: 5pm, Fri 4 August

20/10/2022

TONIGHT (Thursday 20 October 2022 @ 7:00-21:30pm BST) we will be sharing a compelling two hour online contemporary video performance event featuring a critical selection of seminal performance artists from across the globe.

We invite you to share with us, to absorb and to reflect upon these beautifully pertinent, evocative and considered works.

Franko B
Fenia Kotsopoulou
Rubiane Maia
VestAndPage
Amanda Coogan
Ivan Lupi
selina bonelli
Shalva Nikvashvili
Guillermo Gomez Pena

There is still time to get your tickets for this one time only event, visit https://performancentha.com/spill-yer-tea-7/ for more details.

We hope to share time and space with you.

Sending love and care ❤️

20/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 ninth contemporary video performance announcement

Guillermo Gomez-Peña
Mirror Dance
Image: Zach Gross

Dancing with Fear Part One: Mirror Dance is a collaborative performance film in progress by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra. Video by Zen Cohen. The complete series of 6 video performances deal with Body Politics, The Aging Body, Fear of Illness, Love Gone Wrong, US/Mexico relations and the tensions between performance art and the mainstream. Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the “road”. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. His artwork has been presented at over one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by Heart of Glass and is funded by Arts Council England

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

Click our bio link to book tickets for SPILL YER TEA

ID: Guillermo is positioned in the centre of the image. He is topless from the waist upwards and clutching his long hair at both sides.

20/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 eighth contemporary video performance announcement

Shalva Nikvashvili
Sapling
Image: Shalva Nikvashvili

Sapling is a collage of nonconformism. The work, which has been compiled from interviews with s*x workers presents a surreal, psychedelic and provocative work between traditions and total anarchy – crossing the path of houses, religion, childhood-songs and MILK. The work, which explores biographies, memories, thoughts, hopes and dreams is at times brutal and violent but shines optimism. Shalva Nikvashvili (b.1990, Sighnaghi) lives and works in Germany. Nikvashvili’s practice looks at identity issues through transgressive takes on idiosyncrasy, visual explorations and modiﬁcations applied to a portrait. Nikvashvili has recently showed his work at OPYUM Video Performance Festival, Paris, 2020; Young Friends of Smak at SMAK, Gent, 2021; AIR-Antwerp Art week, Antwerp, 2021; En Vous Remerciant, Bordeaux, 2021.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by and is funded by

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

Visit https://performancentha.com/spill-yer-tea-7/ to book tickets for SPILL YER TEA

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ID: In centre of the image Shalva looks into a mirror at the reflection of themselves in prosthetics and a wig.

20/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 seventh contemporary video performance announcement

Selina Bonelli
pearl-tongue
Image: selina bonelli

pearl-tongue is a live-work to camera that explores difficult interfamilial relationships through a family heirloom of imitation pearls given to the artist by their grandmother. The film explores an intensely personal transformation through the vernacular and memory of an object whilst questioning the internalised misogyny handed down to them through maternal generations. Shot as a live performance by JJRolfe in London, 2015. selina bonelli is a visual artist currently exploring the failure of the document in performance art and it’s relationship to the failure of language to articulate traumatic experiences, through post conflict, abandoned architectural structures left in the landscape.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by and is funded by

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

Click our bio link to book tickets for SPILL YER TEA
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ID: in centre of the image string and pearls are wrapped around selina’s tongue.

20/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 sixth contemporary video performance announcement

Ivan Lupi
Salut
Image: Ivan Lupi

A ‘Salut’ and acknowledgement to all humans living with HIV globally.

From the Latin: ‘Sàlus’ – Health
Related to: ‘Salvus’ – Safe
Italian: Saluto – Greeting

Ivan Lupi was born in 1972 in Ferrara, Italy and currently resides in New Zealand. Lupi who has a Masters in Q***r Studies in Arts and Culture from the Birmingham University has presented work widely including Switzerland, Lithuania, United States, India, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand. The most relevant events: ‘The Voice and the Lens’ – Whitechapel Art Gallery (London 2014), ‘The Slip of the Tongue’ – Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana (Venice 2015). Other credits include ‘Performance Arcade’ (Wellington 2019), ‘Towards the forest’ – The Vivian gallery (Matakana 2019), ‘WTF!?’ – Museum of Transport and Technology (Auckland 2019).

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by Heart of Glassand is funded by Arts Council England

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

Visit https://performancentha.com/spill-yer-tea-7/ to book tickets for SPILL YER TEA

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ID: The centre of the image features the open palm of Ivan’s left hand.

20/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 fifth contemporary video performance announcement

Amanda Coogan
Prologue
Image: Amanda Coogan

Beginning life as a “translation” of the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony – this performance to camera becomes a Janus. Language and communication are at the heart of much of Coogan’s work and it is this face off between the aural and the embodied that Prologue explores. Critically acclaimed for her ability to condense an idea to its very essence and communicate it through her body. Coogan is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art, performance, sculpture and installation. The body, as a site of resistance, is the centrality of Coogan’s work.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by and is funded by

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

Visit https://performancentha.com/spill-yer-tea-7/ to book tickets for SPILL YER TEA

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ID: a double exposure of Amanda Coogan. Both exposures are in the centre of the image. One presents Amanda looking to the right with both hands and arms open, the other Amanda is leaning slightly back with both hands in front of her. She is looking up to the left with her mouth slightly open

17/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 fourth contemporary video performance announcement

VestAndPage
VestAndPage
Amor and Psyche
Image: VestAndPage

“AMOR AND PSYCHE (In Times of Plagues)” is an itinerary into the radiographic inner portraits of the artists to look at the limits of the biological body, with breath as the element crossing the inner-outside border. It is an exercise in comprehending the importance of one’s vital force, the gravity of which extorts itself when faced with its imminent loss. VestAndPage are Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes, who work in performance art, filmmaking and temporary artistic community projects worldwide as producers, researchers, curators and mentors.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by and is funded by

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

To book tickets for SPILL YER TEA visit www.performancentha.com

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ID: VestAndPage are situated in the centre of the image looking at one another, their heads that are covered in a white textural substance, are contained within individual bell jars. Verena is situated on the left and Andrea is situated in the right. A radiograph is illuminated onto the jars.

17/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 third contemporary video performance announcement

Rubiane Maia
Ghost Voices
Image: Rubiane Maia

Ghost Voices is an action based research on the body as a polyphonic channel capable of accessing infinite layers of time and connecting human and non-human memories. If the past is diluted in everything between and beyond us, would it not always belong to what we call the present? If so, I want to learn to talk to the ghosts. Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist based in Folkestone. She is interested in the body, voice, memory, phenomena and organic matter. She usually develops her research in site specific contexts, always considering the landscape and the environment as guides and co-creators of her art practices.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by and is funded by

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

To book tickets for SPILL YER TEA visit www.performancentha.com

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ID: Rubiane is stood centrally with her back to the image. She is looking into a window of a building. There is a door to the left and another window to the right of where she is standing. There is also overgrown grass around the edge of the building and dirt on the ground with a few large stones

15/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 second contemporary video performance announcement

Fenia Kotsopoulou
50.000 Touches

Image: Fenia Kotsopoulou

This work is the third excerpt from the ongoing experimental film project “50.000 TOUCHES” (2022-) on the poetics of love, intimacy and touch in relation to self and other, through the means of alternative image making, performance for/with camera, and animation. Fenia’s cross-disciplinary, process-driven, hybrid and rhizomatic practice, draws upon the notion of the body in performance through q***r and feminist lenses, interrogating the de/re/construction of fe/male identity, modes of (self)representation and the politics of the gaze-d body captured through the lenses of the camera. Often she is going back to old alternative photographic processes, as a way to question moving and still image within the frenetic visual culture we live in, whilst using them as a strategy to explore failures and potentialities within the medium itself.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by and is funded by

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #6 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

Click our bio link to book tickets for SPILL YER TEA

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ID: Fenia is in the centre of the image, holding her neck. The image is alternatively processed and as such parts of the image are speckled and missing particularly around the left side of Fenia’s face

13/10/2022

SPILL YER TEA #7 first contemporary video performance announcement

Franko Black
I’m Still Here

Image: Franko B

Born in Milan, Italy in 1960 Franko B makes drawings, installations, sculptures and Performances, as well as works in many other disciplines. Franko B rose to prominence in the 1990s due to his extraordinary body-based performances that often involved blood-letting, performing at the ICA, London, throughout the UK and internationally. I’m here brings together moving and still images from the past 30 years of Franko’s life, revealing the personal and “a product” of this world to the audience. The work also compiles images from the internet, both moving and still, over a two year period showcasing “all of the s**t of the world”.

SPILL YER TEA
20 October 2022
19:00 - 21:30
Performancentha.com

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by Heart of Glass and is funded by Arts Council England

Tickets: We are suggesting a £5.00 ticket fee, however, to ensure individuals experiencing financial hardship are not turned away, we also have donation based and free ticket options.

All proceeds from the ticket sales of SPILL YER TEA #7 will be donated to Deaf Active; a vibrant young charity working to support, promote and enhance the lives of D/deaf children and young people throughout the boroughs of Merseyside, Liverpool. Deaf Active campaign tirelessly to promote inclusive youth and play services for D/deaf children and young people, CODA's (Children Of Deaf Adults), Hard of Hearing children and their hearing family members and friends.

To book tickets for SPILL YER TEA visit our website https://performancentha.com/spill-yer-tea-7/

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ID: The image features Franko B’s body from three different angles; the front, left and right. On each angle of Franko B, a projection is illuminated.

13/10/2022

We are back and excited to present our next instalment: SPILL YER TEA #7. The event, which will take place online over at https://performancentha.com features ground-breaking contemporary video performance from a selection of critically acclaimed performance artists from across the world.

We have an electric and exciting line up of artists, stay tuned for more information.

SPILL YER TEA #7 is supported by Heart of Glass and is funded by Arts Council England

ID: The words SPILL YER TEA in bold graphics feature in the middle of the image

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