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THURSDAY 12th of June – Opening Night Opening of THURSDAY 12th of June – Opening Night Opening of the group exhibition A Collective Archive with performances by Biogal and Helga Alarcón @tackyskin (commissioned by Bold Melon Collective) (As part of A Collective Archive Programme) Performances + Opening of the group exhibition | 6–10pm Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3PL Tickets: link in bio 📸 @celiacroft
Join us for Ugly Duck’s FINAL EVENT — a specia Join us for Ugly Duck’s FINAL EVENT — a special closing celebration of 13 years of creative programmes, artists & collectives! We need volunteers for each day of the festival — travel expenses are covered. Festival opening times: Exhibition daily: 1pm–6pm Thurs 12 June: 6pm–10pm (performances) Fri 13 June: 6pm–10pm (performances) Sat 14 June: performances + party until midnight Sun 15 June: daytime performances, closing at 7pm Volunteer roles: ✨ Production support (10–16 June): set build, tech, backstage ✨ Event production & artist support (12–15 June) ✨ Front of House (12–15 June): ushering, invigilation, bar, ticketing ✨ Social media (12–15 June): live posting during events We welcome volunteers who are: Passionate about the arts, friendly & reliable, organised & willing to hold the space for everyone TO JOIN US: Email general@uglyduck.org.uk with your availability. All questions welcome! Find out more about the programme & artists via link in bio. Thank you all — let’s celebrate Ugly Duck together! ♡
From the 12th to the 15th, we can’t wait for you From the 12th to the 15th, we can’t wait for you to see what we have in store as a part of “A Collective Archive” 🎩Presenting ‘Abstract Encounters’, it is an installation and audiovisual performance by Blanca Regina and Pierre Bouvier Patron that explores symbolic gestures, affinity with nature and questions about presence, space and its representation in the digital age. This playful installation and performance is created with an open score where listening and reaction conjure the art of the moment. Their work pushes the boundaries of traditional audiovisual language, combining multiple media by using analogue and digital techniques, presenting an immersive and dream-like experience for the audience with abstract imagery, films, animation, field recordings, vocal extravaganza and music created with objects. Tickets out now!⭐️
Claye Bowler will be exhibiting at the Ugly duck a Claye Bowler will be exhibiting at the Ugly duck as part of “A Collective Archive”. His practice centres on collection and documentation of experience, memory and the remnants of humanity. Bowler uses sculptural practices to highlight stories that are not historically collected through institutional means, often working with narratives of queerness and disability. Whilst also working in museum registration, Bowler often incorporates, yet questions, the ethics, administration and aesthetics of museum collecting in his work. Photo by Rachel Adams
Say hello to Chloé Filani, performing as part of Say hello to Chloé Filani, performing as part of “A Collective Archive”. Chloé is an Artist, performer, poet and writer working with and in her lived experiences Nigerian Yoruba and Eshan heritage. Examining broader themes of identity and power structures, Filani’s work is about going on artistic journeys with play, movement and vocal expression, using her body to communicate the artistic self. Her sound work explores Black sound and the collective Black consciousness experience of sound like in her work ‘Negro Ecstasy/ Black Ecstasy’ and ‘Three breaths they were here’ She will be performing her piece ‘BLK SIRENS & With a guttural screams We can create ragful choruses’ This is a vocal oral sound and rage movement piece an awakening of the blk siren. With acceptance to our play of faith in riot to not rot but create resistance. We are honoured to house Chloé’s artistry🤍
A joy to have Jean exhibiting at our upcoming cele A joy to have Jean exhibiting at our upcoming celebration “A Collective Archive”. You can get your tickets right now! Jean is a photographic artist, creative researcher and founder of Screwed zine. They employ the ethics of DIY making and printing whilst embracing erotic temporality as a tool to destroy ableist, capitalist time constructs. They use photography and camera centred performance to liberate marginalised bodies, exploring fluid viewpoints of sex and desire. Their work seeks to find a language with which to speak of sex and queerness through protest and anarchy, liberating the narrative that sex based images are revolutionary through representation alone. They have documented and collaborated with sex positive and sex worker communities over the years who focus on dismantling shame as well as the gender non-conforming leather community they are part of. It is a true joy to have Jean exhibiting at Ugly duck, from the 12th of June🕊️