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SUMMARY:Donate to support Ugly Duck arts community
DESCRIPTION:Ugly Duck is a London based arts organisation that supports under-represented voices and emerging artists.  \nArtists have access to subsidised rehearsal space\, given them access to technical support\, provide time with our in-house producing team and offer opportunities for public presentation.  \nAll contributions mean a great deal to us and the artists we support. \n 
URL:https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/donate/
LOCATION:Hub / Garage\, 49 Tanner Street\, London\, SE1 3PL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Upcoming
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SUMMARY:The Brink
DESCRIPTION:The BrinK\nNew ruins have not yet acquired the weathered patina of age…’ Rose Macaulay\, Pleasure of Ruins\, 1953\n\nThe Brink is an expansive exhibition of 21 artists\, both established and early-career\, whose works range sculpture\, installation\, painting\, and performance\, all set within the space of a formerly dilapidated tannery. The exhibition\, a collaborative initiative with artists Anna Blom\, Jo Dennis and curators Marjorier Ding\, Elena Shkvarkina and Linlin Zhu\, brings together artists from different disciplines\, creating work that explores the psychological\, physical\, and imagined dimensions of a space.\n\n\n\n\nUsing a stripped back site as a way to explore the idea of place and conversely\, non-place. Sites like this are often liminal spaces\, which means that they are in-between places. They are not fully public or fully private\, not fully built or fully natural. This liminality creates a sense of disorientation and alienation\, which is used as a point of departure for exploring the complex and often contradictory ways in which we experience space\, and to consider the ways in which place can be shaped by our personal and collective memories and culture. The works will navigate themes of temporality\, mortality\, and the relationship between the individuals and the spaces they inhabit\, as well as the ways in which place can be shaped by memory\, history\, and mythology.\n\nWith artworks tailored for the exhibition\, The Brink encompasses both the ground floor and garage of the Ugly Duck exhibition space\, featuring: Abigail Norris\, Alex Young\, Anna Blom\, Elena Shkvarkina\, Ge Hui\, Ivan Seal\, Jo Dennis\, Katrin Spranger\, Nicola Hicks MBE\, Pía Ortuño\, Ross Taylor\, Tom Woolner\, Xu Haoyang\, Zhang Guangyu\, ZITA.\n\n\n\nSpecial guest KV Duong will perform Katrin Spranger’s 1.8\, an evocative environmental statement\, in collaboration with costume designer ZITA. In addition to the exhibition\, the special screening program led by Linlin Zhu will showcase a range of mid and short films\, including documentary films directed by Pietro Francesco Pingitore and Siyi Gu\, experimental shorts created by Laura Puig and Chengzhou\, and an animation by Elmano Diogo. These films delve into themes of healing through art\, spiritual exchange with nature\, and the potential for resurrection amidst ruins. The documentaries spotlight animal life trapped within artificial ecosystems. Experimental shorts incorporate the human psyche into wildlife medium of trees and goldfish\, while the animation guides the audience towards healing psychological trauma.
URL:https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/the-brink/
LOCATION:Hub / Garage\, 49 Tanner Street\, London\, SE1 3PL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Upcoming
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SUMMARY:Altar-native
DESCRIPTION:Altar-native Exhibition: A Journey into East and Southeast Asian Ancestral Heritage in newly opened Ugly Duck Courage Yard \n31st October – 5th November\, The Greenhouse\, Courage Yard\, Shad Thames\, London SE1 2NJ \nCourage Yard with exhibition Altar-native featuring work by nine East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) artists. From October 31st to November 5th\, Altar-native will offer a captivating exploration of ancestral heritage and veneration\, weaving together enigmatic histories and personal journeys through diverse artistic expression. \nAltar-native immerses visitors in the multiplicities within ESEA culture and diaspora. The artists come together to magnify and challenge ideas of death and mourning\, confronting societal taboos. By expanding the notion of “ghosts”\, exploring ritual and altar practices\, the exhibition serves as a conduit for the reexamination of ancestral\, and therefore personal\, identities. The exhibition also explores themes of loss and immortality\, transcending human-spirit boundaries and conventional understandings of grief. \nLaunching on Halloween\, guests attending the opening night are encouraged to draw on ghosts and ancestral heritage as inspiration for their costumes/outfits. \nCurators:\nDora Lam\nDuong Thuy Nguyen \nFeatured Artists: \nAlison Lam @alisonlam_art\nBettina Fung | 馮允珊 @bettinafws\nDora Lam @dorathedrawer\nDuong Thuy Nguyen @duonguyen.thuy\nMegumi Ohata @megumiohata\nKV Duong @kvduongart\nSammi Mak @mak.sammi\nYang-En Hume @yangenhume\nYu Leng @buleng000 \nAbout the artists \nAlison Lam  \nAlison Lam identifies as a neurodivergent\, interdisciplinary\, socially engaged British-Chinese educator\, activist\, a mother\, as an artist using differing materials such as porcelain\, metals\, glass and paper. Alison’s work explores through her cultural heritage difference\, isolation\, belonging and inclusion and her practice facilitates conversations for people who sometimes find it hard to communicate. Stemming from her own personal experiences with her two sons\, who are autistic with complex needs\, Alison uses art and activism to bridge these gaps and create a space that’s supportive and accessible.  \nBettina Fung  \nBettina Fung | 馮允珊 is a Hong Kong born\, British-Chinese artist based in the UK. Her practice centres around the performative nature of drawing\, and bringing people together to explore participative means of sharing the creative making process. She creates 2D\, site-specific and performative works that explore and question subjects of legacy\, belonging\, futility\, productivity and progress. With a strong interest in the ideas of ‘commoning’ and ‘creative collective actions’\, her recent works are associated with the themes of shared authorship and the dynamics within working and building together and often involve audience interactions. \nDora Lam  \nDora Lam is an interdisciplinary artist navigating notions of identity\, diaspora\, transnationalism and heritage. Her socially-engaged work deals with cultural complexity and displacement on personal and collective levels. She is especially interested in how collaborative art practices can mine\, construct\, preserve and engage with the more nuanced forms of cultural and familial heritage. She is concerned with challenging the “invisibility” of the (mis/under)represented ESEA diaspora and places community at the forefront of her practice. \nDuong Thuy Nguyen  \nDuong Thuy Nguyen is a Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist\, and writer based in London and Hanoi\, who explores the questions of origin\, memory\, and belonging in relation to place and landscape. Using habitats as the basis\, Duong experimental works concurrently allude to the historic circulation of products and people\, to cycles of life\, death and rebirth\, as well as notions of individual history\, intergenerational exchange and inherited trauma. Graduating from Central Saint Martins with a distinction\, Duong’s Master Fine Art project was awarded as a winner of Maison/0 This Earth Award and the mentioned Cass Art prize in 2023. \nMegumi Ohata  \nMegumi Ohata is a London-based interdisciplinary artist and SFX MUA of primarily Japanese heritage with a mixed Korean background. Their practice explores gender\, identity\, and Posthuman philosophy\, addressing personal traumas – from the impacts of child abuse to the discrimination they have faced due to their Asian heritage. Ohata perceives their art as an extension of their own body\, blurring boundaries beyond their skin\, seeking the non-human form within. They challenge the role of artists in breaking free from society’s negative cycles and pose the question: What does a body need to be relatable? \nKV Duong  \nKV Duong (b.1980 Ho Chi Minh\, Vietnam) is a London-based artist who examines the complexities of the Vietnamese queer identity through painting\, performance\, sculpture\, and installation. Duong grew up in Canada to Chinese Vietnamese parents displaced by the Vietnam War. In his work he explores themes of migration and cultural assimilation through the lens of his personal and familial history. Duong presented his first institutional solo exhibition at the Migration Museum in 2022. In Spring 2022\, he co-curated and led a collaborative exhibition titled “No Place Like Home” at Museum of The Home.  \nSammi Mak  \nSammi Mak is a female artist born in Hong Kong and currently based in London. Her works explore how painterliness depicts personal experience and identity in reality\, acting as a form of language. She delves into the realm of poetry by replacing linguistics with painted lexicology. Her works bring together the psychological stages and spiritual connections of human beings and the universe\, conveying a sense of oneness and ecstasy through paint and writing. \nYang-En Hume  \nYang-En Hume is an Australian-Singaporean artist working with installation\, textiles\, and alternative photographic processes. Her work explores memory\, untold stories\, and cultural identity. Hume’s work explores the Asian-Australian experience\, reflecting particularly on the permeable categories of ‘Asia’ and the ‘West’.  She is interested in how family photography is used as a social practice that both reflects and shapes relationships and cultural practices.  \nYu Leng  \nYu Leng is from Jinan\, China and has been living in the UK since 2015. She graduated from CSM with an MA in Contemporary Photography; Practice and Philosophy in 2021. Her work involves photography\, moving images and performance. Usually intrigued by the physical space\, landscape\, notion of power and time discursively. Her work centres around the reconstruction and deconstruction of the narratives surrounding her daily life. She was interested in adopting a phenomenological way of documentation\, portraying obscure figures while realising the impossibility of escaping the cultural notion that was embedded in her. She enjoys playing with different digital tools and also practising techniques with analogue cameras. \nCommunity Drumming CIC – Drumming Circle (collaborative performance) \nEdgar Deu and Gary Lee are percussion teachers and band leaders with more than 15 years of experience playing afro-brazilian music. They recently founded Community Drumming CIC\, a non-profit organisation that provides low cost drumming workshops to underrepresented\, underprivileged and marginalised groups with the goal of building inclusive\, collaborative and resilient communities that fosters human interactions\, empowers people\, develops their artistic creativity\, and improves their mental well-being.
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SUMMARY:PRETTY DOOMED
DESCRIPTION:Pretty Doomed\, is an unconventional art fair & exhibition presented by Ugly Duck & Queer Art Projects\, which seeks to challenge the sustainability of the underground and queer art worlds. The first edition took place from the 12th to the 15th of October 2023. \nUgly Duck is one of the few independent art venues that showcases queer and alternative art in London. Artist-led Queer Art Projects has the only online art gallery dedicated solely to queer art: qap.digital. Together\, they have united their creative forces to offer you a glimpse into the world of outsider art during Frieze week. \n‘Pretty Doomed’ has emerged from the intricate interplay of various emotions: the feelings of doom\, unsustainability\, exhaustion\, and financial constraint juxtaposed with the sensations of fabulousness\, queerness\, vitality\, and alignment with our core values. Our aim is to scrutinise the sustainability of our art community\, explore new economic possibilities\, foster mutual support\, and extend an invitation to audiences\, collectors\, and friends to discover artists and their works\, potentially making acquisitions. ‘Pretty Doomed’ will feature a group exhibition in the format of an art fair where each artworks will be on sale and a three-day program of performances\, artist talks\, discussions & conversations\, and film screenings.  \nGet ready to immerse yourself in a diverse array of artists working across mediums\, all set to question\, or even showcase\, the sustainability of queer art and independant art spaces. \nThe exhibition will be set across four different spaces giving the audience the rare opportunity to discover all floors of Ugly Duck’s former Victorian factory. \nProgramme: \nThursday 12th October – Opening Night \n6.30pm: Performance by Benjamin Sebastian (Garage\, ground floor) \n7.45pm: Deen Atger & Queer Art Project (hub\, ground floor + BSL interpreted) \n8.00 pm: Performance by Alicia Radage (Garage\, ground floor) \n8.30 pm: Performance by Clementine Bedos  (Garage\, ground floor) \n8.45 pm: DJ’s   (Garage\, ground floor) \n9.30: Closing  \nFriday 13th October \n4.00 pm: Artist talk with Tina Kohlmann (Hub\, ground floor) \n4.15 pm: Artist talk with Nicky Broekhuysen (Hub\, ground floor) \n5.00 pm: Artist talk with Youngsook Choi (Hub\, ground floor) \n5.30 pm: Performance by Mijke van der Drift (Hub\, ground floor) \n6.00 pm: Relaxed exhibition tour  \n7.00 pm: Anti // Doomed feast – Vegan diner experience by BB Kitchen ( More info here ) (Hub\, ground floor) \n9.30 pm: closing \n  \nSaturday 14th October \n3.00 pm: Performance by InXestuous Sisters (Hub\, ground floor)4.00 pm: Conversation / Archiving performance art  (Hub\, ground floor)5.30 pm: Performance by Tuna Erdem (Hub ground floor)6.00 pm: Conversation / The Freedom of Doom with Babetheory and Deen Atger (Hub\, ground floor)  \n7.00 pm: Performance by Elijas Grybe (Hub\, ground floor) \nSunday 15th October \n2.00 pm: Conversation: Why are we doomed? (Hub\, ground floor)3.30 pm: Performance by Kell w Farshéa (Hub\, ground floor)4.00 pm: Conversation:  (Lack of) Accessibility & Sustainability with Anita Kaslow Care-fuffle working group & Elinor Hayes\, Shape Arts (hub\, ground floor + BSL interpreted) 5.00 : Closing performance by Adam Moore (Hub\, ground floor) \nAccessibility – Full access document here  \nUgly Duck’s ground floor HUB and GARAGE are both located on the ground floor and are wheelchair accessible. The access route for wheelchair users is through the car park into the Garage. We have one fully accessible toilet\, and all toilets are gender-neutral. \nAll artists will have work downstairs\, the upper floors will present collection of past works from exhibiting artist. Ugly Duck and Queer Art Project will provide alternative video and image documentation for individuals who may not be able to access the first and top floors.  \nThere are benches and chairs available in the space for seating. If you require assistance for your visit to Ugly Duck\, please contact us at general@uglyduck.org.uk\, and we will do our best to help you plan your visit. Ugly Duck is operated by a team of queer and queer ally staff\, all of whom have received basic training in inclusivity and accessibility. \nWe acknowledge\, regret and sincerely apologise for the lack of accessibility to this exhibition and its events \nCollaborators and Participating Artists \nFor ‘Pretty Doomed\,’ Ugly Duck and Queer Art Projects are collaborating with VSSL\, Kawai Agency\, ]performance s p a c e [\, qap.digital\, Carefuffle\, and independent artists and collectives. More collaborators will be announced on our social media and web pages soon. \nNiya B\, Mustafa Boğa\, Nicky Broekhuysen\, Elija Grybe\, Nilbar Güreş\, Chris Hawkes\, Şafak Şule Kemancı\, Tina Kohlmann\, Adam Moore\, Mitchell Moreno\, Katarzyna Perlak\, Alicia Radage\, Sophie Seita\, Victoria Suvoroff\, Erdem Taşdelen\, Funa Ye\, ]performance s p a c e [ archive (keioui keijaun thomas\, Bean)\, Benjamin Sebastian\, Özlem Ünlü\, Youngsook Choi\, Tuna Erdem\, Istanbul Queer Art Collective\, Francis Whorrall-Campbell\, Imogen Cleverley\, Puer Deorum\, Abigail McGinley\, Erin Holly\, Anya Palamartscuk\, Magda Onatra\, Ruiji Han\, Hazel Blair\, H. Alix Mourrier\, Kasra Jalilipour\, Feryel Atek\, Susannah Pal\, Rowan R\, Peggy Huang\, Daniel Felstead\, Muzi\, Finn Dovey\, Bart Seng Wen Long\, Yiwen Li\, Chaney Diao\, Juliusz Grabianski\,  Laura Kazaroff\, Thom Grog\, Pamela  Enyonu and more to be announced. \nImage list & credits \nAbigail McGinley\, Double Trouble\, 2021\, courtesy of the artist \nImogen Cleverley\, Tough Stuff from the series Coming to Power\, 2023\, courtesy of the artist \nFeryel Atek\, Love Cosmogony\, 2023 courtesy of the artis\t
URL:https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/prettydoomed/
LOCATION:Ugly Duck\, 47/49 Tanner Street SE13PL\, LONDON\, London\, SE1 3PL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:ANTI // DOOMED feast
DESCRIPTION:ANTI / DOOMED FEAST MENUUGLY DUCK 13.10.237pm – 9.30pm\n\n \nThis feast invites you to think about the food itself and its origins\, culture\, history and links to magic and medicine \nIMPORTANT INFO: PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN PERSONAL PLATE\, CUTLERY AND GLASS(To avoid using disposable materials)\n\n \nAn intimate feast designed to feed you with vitality\, connection\, power and resilience. Offerings of different dishes and treats intuitively prepared with foraged ingredients\, ferments and medicinal plants that are connected to healing\, resistance and queerness – An antidote to doom. All plant-based. \ncheck out Full Menu   \nAbout BB’s Kitchen BB cooks inspired by flavours offered by the different landscapes around her. Wild foraging unique plants seasonally\, exploring traditional preserving processes from different cultures\, sun pickling\, fermentation\, sun drying\, brewing and playing with different cooking methods are all part of her practice. She works to challenge the boundaries of how we view\, understand and experience food. BB wants to bring pure pleasure and excitement into eating. Paying attention to all aspects of food from sensory explosions to emotion. She treats cooking as art and alchamy. She curates tasting and feasting experiences that go beyond dinning\, where interaction and connection with food\, our environment and each other are all part of the event.   About Pretty Doomed  ‘Pretty Doomed’ has emerged from the intricate interplay of various emotions: the feelings of doom\, unsustainability\, exhaustion\, and financial constraint juxtaposed with the sensations of fabulousness\, queerness\, vitality\, and alignment with our core values. Our aim is to scrutinise the sustainability of our art community\, explore new economic possibilities\, foster mutual support\, and extend an invitation to audiences\, collectors\, and friends to discover artists and their works\, potentially making acquisitions. ‘Pretty Doomed’ will feature a group exhibition in the format of an art fair where each artworks will be on sale and a three-day program of performances\, artist talks\, discussions\, conversations\, and film screenings. The program details will be announced shortly on our social media and website. Ugly Duck is one of the few independent art venues that showcases queer and alternative art in London. Artist-led Queer Art Projects has the only online art gallery dedicated solely to queer art: qap.digital. Together\, they have united their creative forces to offer you a glimpse into the world of outsider art during Frieze week.  More info and program ==> HERE 
URL:https://uglyduck.org.uk/event/anti-doomed-feast/
LOCATION:Ugly Duck\, 47/49 Tanner Street SE13PL\, LONDON\, London\, SE1 3PL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Upcoming
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