]ps[ Associate Artist List
]performance s p a c e [ like to work closely with artists. The ]ps[ Associate Artist List is a group of artists who typify our work at ]ps[ and hold true to our manifesto. We work as producers for our associate artists, behind the scenes, supporting them to manifest their visions. We will be taking on additional associates across 2021/2022. Our current associate artists are Selina Bonelli, Poppy Jackson & Joseph Morgan Schofield:
"Memory as the trace of the poetic within the words that distract us. - - - Selina is interested in the processing of anxieties where one reformulates them into motions and actions as a possibility of teasing out the inadequacies of language. By making images in the moment, she employs performance to explore the relationship between the uncommunicable and the unspeakable."
"My works are acts of mythopoesis - process driven embodiments of other ways of being in other possible worlds. I utilise ritual action as a technology of divination, a way to vision, prophecy or fiction [other] [queer] futurities. From the shards of myths and memories, I distil a queer poetics of body, material, text and space. My ritual actions often involve difficulty and duress, foregrounding the immediacy of the sweating, bleeding, leaking body..."
Poppy Jackson is an internationally practicing visual artist & “leader in women’s activism” (NGO Aarogya Seva), making work that explores the female body as an autonomous zone. The artist works in performance, painting, sculpture and printmaking: public space, the body, site and architecture are key research areas...
"Memory as the trace of the poetic within the words that distract us. - - - Selina is interested in the processing of anxieties where one reformulates them into motions and actions as a possibility of teasing out the inadequacies of language. By making images in the moment, she employs performance to explore the relationship between the uncommunicable and the unspeakable."