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08/11/2020

Louise Ashcroft, Gnippohs, Collectively-authored performance (60 min) Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck , London, 9 November 2019.

As part of our Saturday programme, artist and educator Louise Ashcroft presented an interactive, participatory piece with a focus audience engagement.

Gnippohs (or shopping backwards), is a new lifestyle concept which invites influencers and insignificants to mutate marketing methods through experimental creative exercises, using a shopping bag full of clutter as their toolkit. Louise Ashcroft led participants through a pile of fragmented stories as they invented content for Gnippohs’ post-shopping YouTube channel which they helped to shoot during this collectively-authored performance.

Speaking fiction to power, Louise Ashcroft creates situations and stories which unravel reality, often deliberately misunderstanding or subverting cultural codes and disrupting systems in order to speculate alternative ways of seeing/being. Louise works with stand-up comedy, film, writing, image, sculpture and interactive performance. She graduated from the Ruskin School of Art (Oxford University) and Birkbeck (University of London). She also studied Sculpture at The Royal College of Art and is co-founder of the alternative art school AltMFA.

Disorders Vol.3 was hosted by Ugly Duck
Image credits: Antonis Maros

01/10/2020

Niya B, ‘Ekdysis’, performance (2,5 hours) mixed media installation. Disorders Vol. 3, Ugly Duck London, Saturday 9 November 2019.

‘In Greek mythology, the seer Tiresias was allegedly transformed into a woman for seven years for disturbing two copulating snakes on Mount Cyllene. Niya B re-reads this myth from an eco-transfeminist lens through a series of performances for the camera filmed on site, and live actions. The artist engages with her own autobiography to re-envision this metamorphosis as a transgender mythopoesis, which is directly affected by ecology, the feminine/Other and the non-human.
The artist performs a durational act by activating the elements of water and air through a ritualistic process of erasure and letting go. The act, which includes live footage and field recordings from Mount Cyllene, allows her and the audience to enter a liminal time-space of potential change, and originate an installation that inhabits the space until the end of the show. In her performance, Niya B works against the notion of linear time to trace back the oppression of the feminine. In this occasion, she uncovers an epigram attributed to 4th century Alexandrian poet Palladas, and she copies the words on each page of her diary. The text reads:

"Homer showed that every woman is bad and dangerous,
chaste and harlot, both are destruction”.

The repetition of the epigram refers to how the patriarchal apparatus permeates education, family, work, institutional and social structures – which results in internalised misogyny in all genders. Despite efforts to wash this off, its traces are always left behind. Instead of being hidden, the sheets with the traces are exposed one by one to a slow changing image of the artist in a lake. Eventually a fragmented surface is constructed.
Installation: Mixed media (fishing line, notebook, paper, container with water, stones, bones, twigs).
Video and sound: Performance on site (Lake Stymphalia, Mount Cyllene, Greece). Filming by Betty Gkountani’.
(Source: www.niyab.com)
Disorders Vol.3 was hosted by Ugly Duck
Image credits: Antonis Maros & Silvia Tanzini

26/09/2020

Demelza Toy Toy & Annie Pender. An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of New Week Association (30 min) Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck, London, Saturday 9 November 2019.
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As part of our Saturday programme, Demelza Toy Toy and Annie Pender presented an Interactive, participatory piece focusing on audience engagement. Our third exhibition, Disorders Vol. 3 was hosted by Ugly Duck.

‘Consider the days of the week: How they might frame our lives and inform our reality as we step out into the world?’ Annie Pender and Demelza Toy Toy presented the guiding principles of the theory and practice of New Week Association or NWA as it is more commonly known. Best described as a practice that performs a non-evasive self-administering cognitive procedure, NWA adjusts or re-focuses reality for positive reinforcement of self.
Image credits Antonis Maros

26/09/2020

Luca Asta, Communion, Video, Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019.

Luca Asta presented his video ‘Communion’ on the 8th, 9th and 10th of November 2019 in Disorders Vol.3 hosted by .

‘Holding a baby, holding someone, holding something, holding faith are spaces of comfort felt within embodied gestures of communion. Communion looks at the constructed yet felt essentialist nature of these needs of protection’. Luca Asta, London, November 2019.

Image credits: Antonis Maros / Luca Asta

02/04/2020

Jade Blacstock, Untitled, Performance (20 min) Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck, November 2019.
Jade Blackstock's practice explores dialogues and questions of the body and identity, and their connections with historical, cultural and personal events and experiences. Her work seeks to reclaim expression of the body and self; with elements of spectacle, intervention and social commentary. Jade focuses on race and blackness, feminism, ownership and loss. Through live performance, actions and images, she combines the use of the body as a site with the narrative qualities of perishable materials.

www.jadeblackstock.com
Image Credits: Demelza Toy Toy
Video Credits: Antonis Maros

12/03/2020

Antonis Maros, Lionel Desmazon ‘Tidal Volume’. Collaborative Performance (15 min), Disorder Vol. 3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019.
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Greek artist Antonis Maros and French performer Lionel Desmazon Lionel Desmazon stand still, staring at each other. They hug whilst a piece of glass is placed between them, separating their faces. They move their bodies, positioning themselves in front of each other and breathe onto the surface of the glass. Their breathing becomes erratic; the piece of glass is slipping down. They lay on the floor with their heads pressed against the glass and gradually recover their normal breathing. ‘Tidal Volume ‘explores physical concepts of proximity and separation, examining the tensions that regulate states of co-existence and mutual exchange.
Disorders Vol.3 was hosted by
Image credits
Images 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 by Demelza Toy Toy .toytoy
Image 9: Performers: Antonis Maros, Lionel Desmazon. Installation: Demelza Toy Toy. Photo by Corin Salter Taylor
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25/02/2020

Stav B, Shut the f**k up you stupid f**king c**t, Performance (10 min), Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019.

Artist Stav B performing at the opening evening of Disorders Vol.3 hosted by Ugly Duck.
Stav B’s practice deals with themes of identity and love, the politics of the female gaze, the aesthetics of beauty, sexual identity, repetition, reflection, obsession, transformation, solitude in the presence of the spectator (a public spectacle), alchemy and magic.
Her body of work presents a linear progression, evolved through time: sketches, diaries, paintings, collages, installations, sculpture, photographs, texts, performances, video, DJing and Radio Broadcasting, and sound, constructing a multi media manifestation.
Image/Video credits:
Image 1 by Corin Taylor Salter
Image 2 by Corin Taylor Salter
Image 3 by Corin Taylor Salter
Image 4 by Demelza Toy Toy
Image 5 by Corin Taylor Salter
Image 6 by Demelza Toy Toy
Stav B's liquor bar

17/02/2020

Hannah Mary, Do Digital archives dream of death? Durational Performance, Video Installation, Disorders Vol.3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019

Hannah Mary explores communal exchange and the loss of the sentimental labour within the death trade by drawing passers-by into conversation around the way in which the death trade demands a transaction and exchange on both physical and digital assets. She sits at a table and sands her death mask, offering participants who engage in discussion to help her sand the mask. The action of sanding is filmed and presented on a laptop placed in a separate space. The laptop showcases this intimate experience in a quiet space of reflection, imitating a religious text in a cloister, surrounded by cathedral candles. The piece engages with questions around the extension of the consumption of a funeral object into digital assets such as Facebook profiles and bitcoin currency, profiles of archived data that transform our memory of a person into data that can be consumed and owned.

Disorders Vol. 3 was hosted by Ugly Duck.

Image/Video Credits:

1 Image by Silvia Tanzini

2 Hannah Mary and Anne Bean, video by Antonis Maros

3 Image by Arreum Eileen Moon

4 Performers: Hannah Mary, Asimis Alexiou & Malgorzata Lisiecka

5 Video by Antonis Maros

6 Image by Corin Taylor Salter

7 Image by Corin Taylor Salter

8 Image by Corin Taylor Salter

9 Video by Antonis Maros

26/01/2020

Naz Balkaya, F**kuall, Performance, Disorders Vol. 3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019.
Image 9, left side, Hannah Mary, Do digital profiles dream of death?, Durational Performance.
Naz Balkaya is a Turkish artist-curator based in London. She is part of the feminist art duo-collective Panicattack, selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2019. Her practice explores experiences of migration and precarity, and uses collaborative, participatory approaches to challenge emargination and promote solidarity as an emancipatory tool.
Disorders Vol. 3 was hosted by Ugly Duck.
Image credits:
Image 1,2,3,6 by Jakob Buraczewski
Image 4,5 by Demelza Charity Shop Rochester
Image 7,8,9 by Corin Stephenson-Salter

12/01/2020

Awc (Chuwen) Wang, Listening My Mustard, Durational Performance, Disorders Vol. 3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019.
Awc Wang is currently a student of Contemporary Art Practice, Performance Pathway, at the Royal College of Art. Her durational, interactive piece 'Listening My Mustard' invites the audience to join the artist in simple acts of shared listening and eating, creating ephemeral intimate moments of phisycal and spiritual communion.
Disorders Vol. 3 was hosted by Ugly Duck.
Image credits:
Image 1 by Demelza Toy Toy
Image 2, 3, 5 and 6 by Jakob Buraczewski
Image 4 by Corin Stephenson-Salter
www.awcwang.com

06/01/2020

Boram Moon, Performance, Disorders Vol. 3, Ugly Duck, London, November 2019.
Artist Boram Moon performing at the opening evening of Disorders Vol. 3 hosted by Ugly Duck. Moon's practice focuses on the sensory responses evoked by power, pressure, posture, and gesture by interrupting the physical integrity of the materials. The artist investigates how it could be supported by the triggers caused by memories of the unconscious and presents different ways of emerging retrospection through psychological and philosophical grounds.
Image credits:
Images 1,3,4 by Jakob Buraczewski
Images 2,5,6,7,8 by Demelza Toy Toy

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