D E S E R T E R S

D E S E R T E R S - an exhibition and website examining the relationship between illness and making

Beside my video work “the HEALING” which is part of the exhibition I will give a live performance and an artist talk with the title ”A State Of Bared” on the opening day at 12 midday

D E S E R T E R S

03/04/2025 – 26/09/2025 opens Thursday 3rd April, 11am - 3pm

Monday to Friday from 10am – 5pm.

Oriel y Bont, Ty Crawshay Building at the Treforest, Pontypridd Campus, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK

Life changing sickness is a commonality that connects many artists' otherwise disparate practices across decades, genres and lifetimes*.Deserters asks, ‘What is the relationship between illness and making? ‘Good health’ has obvious merit – but what about the value of ‘ill health’?’

Society draws a line between the healthy and the sick; mind and body; good and bad. Artists often occupy the fault line between these definitions and while illness, a common theme in art and literature, can be seen as a symbol of alienation, it can also be the key to ‘desertion’ into a creative space.

This exhibition brings together the work of 12 artists Jenny Alderton, Delphi Campbell, Hal Camplin, Laura Dutton, Johannes Gérard, Dave Gowers, Steph Mastoris, Charlotte Morgan, Jack Moyse, Nel, Tracie Peisley and Katya Robin, to reveal themes and modes that can be broadly described as: abstraction, repetition and pattern making; nature and healing; lying down while the world stands up; the body – whole and in parts; words and printed text. In addition to the main funded project, the website will also feature work by other artists who are showing their work online.

Supported by Zoë Gingell, curator of Oriel Y Bont, Caroline Humphreys and Bella Kerr are co-curating Deserters, alongside Amanda Roderick, who is also creating its online presence.Supported by the Art Council of Wales / University of South Wales / Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands

Entrance is free and there is an excellent café in the same building.The Gallery is fully accessible to wheelchair users.

www.deserters.co.uk

Summary of Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox

Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox is a short duration performance festival took place on

Sunday 23 March 2025 from13:00 to 14:00 at the Hof in Dordrecht.

On March 23, 2025 I was one of the performance artists participating in Equinox to Equinox2025 at the Hof square in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. The festival took place between 12 and 1 p.m. and lasted exactly one hour. Everything was based on improvisation, trial and error, and experimentation. During this hour, I did several short performances. The first was a performance in which I created a small site-specific installation with simultaneous movements related to the installation. In the second performance, I moved between the house fronts in the square, sometimes carrying small objects from one place to another. In the third, I used the high windows of one of the buildings, turning my back towards the audience and the square. Facing and touching the window, using my hands and upper body I conducted my performance

Everyone was welcome to participate in openness and solidarity, embracing diversity and acknowledging each other’s individual circumstances, difficulties and conflicts. There is no fixed programme with consecutive performances but everything takes place simultaneously, collaborations can arise spontaneously.

Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox isan international event for public action for freedom for all people. Every year on the Equinox (in March and September), the duration of day and night is roughly equal around the world. In the spirit of cosmic equality, the event is a global connection for people performing together in public space.This sharing of time and space brings us closer together, as a temporary (global) community to encourage, through performance art, non-violent expressions for locally specific conditions.

Participants: Topp & Dubio, Annie Abrahams, Engel P-Luck, Frans van Lent, Marita Bullmann, Eduardo Amato, Yelena Myshko, Aida Kristina Dedeic, Yvo van der Vat, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Johannes Christopher Gérard, Geerten Ten Bosch, Joseph Deuss, Ienke Kastelein, Ellen Rodenberg, Maarten Schepers. Curator / Organization Frans van Lent 

Link to one hour video showing whole event 

https://222lodge.nl/index.php/2025/03/25/equinox-march-2025/

“Frequenz” (Frequency)

Two of my works, a photographic work “Frequencies in Lines” and the video work “Birch Alley”, will be presented at:

“Frequenz” (Frequency)
23/03/2025 – 13/04/2025 -opening 23/03/25, 14 h
QQArt
Forststrasse 73, 40721 Hilden, Germany

The private cultural center is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Starting as an art school, it has evolved into a venue for art, music, theater, film, and much more from the cultural scene. Since 2010, the QQArt gallery has hosted an annual, internationally thematic exhibition – now a biennial – every two years. The selected themes focus on "art and technology," each featuring a word from physics. This year's exhibition theme is "Frequency." (Frequency)

KITOKI video_dance exposition

 Two works “View behind the Curtain” and “Dark Paths” are presented at KITOKI video-dance exposition in Brussels, Belgium

KITOKI

video_dance exposition

23/02/2025 – 05/04/2025 opening 23/03/25 ,18-21h

auJUS /Avenue Jean Volders, 24 / Brussel 1060 / Belgium

open 16-20 h and by appointment / also online: kitoki.io

“View Behind The Curtain” was made in collaboration with Jana Schmück (Bautzen, Germany) and “Dark Paths” in collaboration with Tsai Hsin Ying (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

In an era where artistic expression and social equity are increasingly vital, the Kitoki Foundation emerges as a catalyst for creativity and collaboration. Our mission is to foster a vibrant community that celebrates diversity through the dynamic interplay of dance, art, and shared knowledge.

Video dance festival: local in person exhibitions and online gallery and networking for developing VideoDance as a genre in contemporary art.

“Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox”

 I will be performing at “Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox” – a short performance festival

Time: Sunday 23 March 2025 from 13:00 to 14:00

Location: Het Hof Square in Dordrecht, Netherlands

There is no fixed programme with consecutive performances but everything takes place simultaneously, collaborations can arise spontaneously.

Participants so far: Topp&Dubio, Annie Abrahams, Engel P-Luck, Frans van Lent, Marita Bullmann, Eduardo Amato, Yelena Myshko, Irmgard Himstedt, Gernot Bogumil, Yvo van der Vat, Jolanda Jansen, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Johannes Christopher Gérard, Roland Farkas, Yvette Teeuwen, Thomas Reul, selina bonelli, Ienke Kastelein, Ellen Rodenberg, Maarten Schepers and more.

However everyone is welcome to participate in openness and solidarity, embracing diversity and acknowledging each other’s individual circumstances, difficulties and conflicts.

Curator/ Organizer Frans van Lent

MATA HARI, - OUVERTURE CRI DE FEMMES 2025

 

My video work “Dark Paths” with Tsai Hsin Ying is presented at

MATA HARI, - OUVERTURE CRI DE FEMMES 2025

13/03/2025 - 31/03/2025

Galerie Emergenc'Art,

Entrée de Valombreuse, Petit-Bourg, Guadalope

MATA HARI is a prism, a gateway. Entirely subversive, the aim here isn't to celebrate her history, but to question all the small, common and redundant stories within our own, without trusting in the universal. Women in struggle are everywhere.

Curator: Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette

“Collage Music 31” - “Agua y Grava”

 “Collage Music 31”

My sound and music piece “Agua y Grava” (Water and Gravel) is included in the album Collage Music 31” (edition IFAR4’33”/277), Label Institute For Alien Research, Bath, UK

Released on February 21th, 2025.

Compiled and arrange by Shaun Robert.

More information:

https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/collage-music-31

“Agua y Grava” (Water and Gravel)

The work does not follow a particular style or category. The piece combines the sounds of water and waves flowing over gravel and rhythms of a piano, forming a piece of music.