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Alex Billingham | Temporary Exclusion Zone
Alex Billingham | Temporary Exclusion Zone

Sat, Sep 21

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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.

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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…

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