Sat, Sep 21
|The Asylum Art Gallery
Alex Billingham | Temporary Exclusion Zone
Our Artist Residency for the month of September is: Alex Billingham | Temporary Exclusion Zone Resulting in a performance evening on the 21st September 6pm-9pm Free Entry Then open by appointment until 27th September.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2019, 6:00 PM – Sep 27, 2019, 9:00 PM
The Asylum Art Gallery, 21 Chapel Ash, Clifton St, Wolverhampton WV3 0TZ, UK
About the event
Temporary Exclusion Zone sees gender-queer artist Alex Billingham work over our complex relationship with Nuclear Technology.
Alex’s residency with Asylum will act as a bridge from their time with ESP’s Summer Camp to their theatrical show ‘Nuclear Tides’ at The Midlands Arts Centre on November 22nd . Allowing them time to absorb and reflect on the ongoing project while preparing for the next phase of the project.
Artists Statement:
Reiterating the need for vulnerability while understanding that everyone is learning to be human together.
I’m a gender-queer artist based in the West Midlands working as a curator and performance artist. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts my work mixes performance, endurance, visual arts, low-fi tech, film and installation in an often visceral and physically exhausting way.
I’m intrigued by the points where technology and our fear of it meet. I have a particular fascination with the fetishization of Nuclear dread…