STANLEY PICKER PUBLIC LECTURES SERIES
Steven Warwick: “The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine”
Thursday, 7th February 2019, 7.30pm
ICA Theatre
Tickets available on the ICA website:
https://www.ica.art/on/live/steven-warwick
For 2019 the Stanley Picker Public Lecture series revolve around notions of sound, collage and the digital. These strongly interrelated areas of contemporary art practice are at the heart of artistic research at Kingston School of Art and the Fine Art Department in particular. The series of talks, event and screenings will explore the entanglement of sound, collage and the digital as a key preoccupation for contemporary art practice. Central to such enquiries is a sense of rupture that questions established assumptions about the production and reception of artworks. With content increasingly available on-line, the Stanley Picker Public Lectures programme seeks to explore innovative ways for the presentation and dissemination of contemporary art practice.
The first Stanley Picker event of 2019 will be the premiere of new work by Steven Warwick to be presented at the ICA on 7 February 2019. Warwick’s practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach which encompasses, amongst other areas, music, fine art, writing, DJing and theatre. His work is disseminated on a multitude of platforms including records, galleries, the internet, nightclubs and print-publications. Warwick’s is a prime example of contemporary practice that seeks to re-define how we navigate various spaces through experiential events.
The latest iteration of Warwick’s mutating Mezzanine series, ‘The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine’ is part platform as performance, part live event reflecting on how forces of social evils and religious undertones of retribution or redemption manifested themselves in popular culture and folklore, be in the Lincoln Imp (the county symbol of where Warwick grew up), Pinhead from ‘Hellraiser’ or popular literary sleuths such as Poirot.
FINE ART DEPARTMENT / KINGSTON UNIVERISTY
With generous support from the Stanley Picker Trust
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The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine (My Journey)
Steven Warwick
Performance event
Saturday, 9 February 2019
Doors open: 7 pm
Performance: 7.15 pm
Eggla / Unit 207 (Basement)
Broad Street Mall
211 Broad Street
Reading RG1 7QH
Reading International presents the latest iteration of Steven Warwick’s mutating Mezzanine series, ‘The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine (My Journey)’. Part platform as performance, part live event – Warwick reflects on how forces of social evil, religious retribution and redemption manifest in popular culture and folklore; be it in the Lincoln Imp, Pinhead from Hellraiser or popular literary sleuths such as Poirot.
‘The Riddle of the Imp on the Mezzanine’ is a sonic performance that will comprise of text and spoken word within a unique site-specific installation situated within the bowels of Broad Street Shopping Mall, a ritualised site, symbolic of commercial exchange and social demographics. It will be the fifth episode of NOVEL’s year-long publishing and curatorial project A reproduction of three weeks in May 1970 the final episode will feature Helen Cammock and will take place on March 2019.
