Projects - PAPRIKA

The Age of New Babylon

23 November–12 December 2018

DOCUMENTATION

The Age of New Babylon is the Lethaby Gallery’s first student-led exhibition.

Through a series of actions and interventions, this evolving exhibition examines notions of ‘otherness’ through the lens of difference and seeks to go beyond the frame of images. Curated by Central Saint Martins alum Samboleap Tol and final-year student Sara Gulamali, the exhibition features the work of 22 artists, including students and graduates from colleges across London.

Featured artists: Yemi Alade, Moza Almatrooshi, Grace Black, Imann Gaye, PAPRIKA Collective*, I-M Jerome & Jannat Hussain, Sid and Jim, Mati Jhurry, Alaa Kassim, Yili Liu, Maria Mahfooz, Abondance Matanda, Zeinab Saleh, Hannah Smythe, Samboleap Tol, Damilola Ayo-Vaughan, Neale Willis, Abbas Zahedi.

*PAPRIKA Collective presents: Boram Moon, Eunjung Kim, Helen Davison, Panic Attack Duo (Emilia Demetriou, Naz Balkaya), Chloe Nili, Demelza Toy Toy, Ada Hao.

This exhibition is the result of a College-wide open call and was developed with the support of Central Saint Martins staff.

Public Programme

Thursday 22 November, 6–9pm
The Private View will feature live works, performances and social gestures including:

Abbas Zahedi, The Boulevard
Alaa Kassim, Mother Other
Samboleap Tol, The Babylonians
Paprika Collective, INFLUX, REFLUX, EXFLUX

Asia-Art-Activism Research Network is a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational network of artists, curators and academics investigating ‘Asia’, ‘art’ and ‘activism’ in the UK through research, dialogue, practice and collective work.

Day THREE / LIVE #1: Contract With the Skin
/// Saturday 6th October 1:00 - 5:00pm ///

DOCUMENTATION

Contract with the Skin is an afternoon of performances and durational actions. It comprises a gathering of performance artists, each presenting work in a shared space, one after the other, sometimes overlapping, merging beginnings and endings. With their body as archive and site of action, across space and time, they come individually and work collectively. Identity is only a placeholder for the wide range of individual practices and research that investigate across themes of racial and social justice, gender and sexual politics, body and material, voice and sound, public engagement and social experiment. Artists include: Eunjung Kim, Nicholas Tee, Tianqi Liu, Kimvi Nguyen, Ada Hao, You He, Quek Jia Qi, Menting Zhuo, Bettina Fung, Ying Xue, Ni Li, Yanwen Xiong, Boram Moon, Howl Yuan.

Alongside this programme curated by Ada Hao (PAPRIKA Collective) in collaboration with Bettina Fung, Artists Samboleap Tol and Abbas Zahedi will be running a 'LIVE ARCHIVE / artist' workshop inviting audiences to participate.

Over the three days Chi Bagtas and Glo Orpilla will be running PASAWAY SARI SARI STORE #000. This project is kindly supported by S.E.A Focus. http://facebook.com/seafocussg

SYNTHETIC HAPTICALITY

Drifters, Georgia Travers Cook, Natalia Trejbalova, Boram Moon, Ada Hao, Jade Blackstock, Caterina Gobbi

Private View
Friday 30th March, 6pm - 9pm
Performances: 7pm - 9pm

Opening Times
31st of March – 8th of April
Wednesday – Sunday 12am – 6pm

Curated by Sayori Radda and Felice Moramarco

Performance Curated by PAPRIKA

Speed Curating

March 16th, 2018

The Chelsea Arts Club

'The Chelsea Arts Club was born as an idea in the late 19th century, with the original idea being ‘for an exhibiting society.’ In line with the mission of creating a sustainable young artist community, Speed Curating is constantly trying to subvert the power dynamic in the art world through searching and creating more opportunities for the practitioners who are working in the creative arts sector. We from Speed Curating would like to open up the curatorial process to artists and to facilitate artist-labor in an expanded sense. The Chelsea Arts Club, a long-lasting artists’ community, is our inspiration to initiate this non-profit artist hub: Speed Curating.'

What will happen on the night is: both curators & artists who are selected by the Speed Curating Committee will meet and start the conversation with each other, in Chelsea Arts Club's social room. The idea is to create a hub for artists and curators to meet with each other. As for curators, it's an amazing chance to explore and expand on the area of research and practice with artists who have similar interests.