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Department of Love (2019)
King’s Cross Boulevard, Battle Bridge Place, and King’s Cross Tunnel, London, UK
As part of Art Night London 2019
Artists:
Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin Tran, and Steven Warwick
This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of Art Night, Arts Council England, the Embassy of Mexico in the United Kingdom, and Proyecta Traslados.
The Department of Love presents four performances commissioned specifically for this occasion, by Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin Tran, and Steven Warwick. Each work explores the places, meanings, and functions of love in the contemporary world, guiding the audience along a route that moves from Battle Bridge Place, along King’s Boulevard, and down into the underground at the King’s Cross Tunnel.
Delmar’s itinerant performers activate memories and experiences associated with falling in love, while Montserrat addresses transitional spaces between the urban and the rural, with particular attention to the politics of representation and to love understood as a strategy for survival. In Kundiman, Tran explores practices of care and affection, as well as love as an ethic in times of displacement. Meanwhile, Warwick offers an intervention directed at the audience in the figure of Saint Pancras, patron saint of work and health.
With the aim of situating the places, meanings, and functions of love in contemporary society, the program proposes modes of resistance and tools for self-preservation, love, care, and solidarity.
Photographs: Justyna Fedec
Co-curated with Olivia Aherne, Celina Basra, and Anaïs Cast
June 22, 2019
King Cross Boulevard, Battle Bridge Place, and Kings Cross Tunnel, London
As part of Art Night London 2019
This project was possible with the generous support of Art Night, Arts Council England, The Embassy of Mexico in the UK, and Pro
Artists: Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin T
The Department of Love presents four newly commissioned performances by Débora Delmar, Jade Montserrat, Alvin Tran and Steven Warwick. Each work will explore the places, meanings and functions of love in today’s world and will carry audiences on a journey from Battle Bridge Place, along Kings Boulevard and underground at Kings Cross Tunnel. Delmar’s roaming performers will activate memories and experiences of being in love, while Montserrat will explore the transitional spaceween urban and rural, with a focus on the politics of representation and love as a strategy for survival. Tran’s Kundiman will explore practices of care and affection as well as love as ethics during times of uprootedness, while Warwick will give an address to audiences as Saint Pancras, a patron saint for employment and health. Hoping to situate the places, meanings and functions of love in contemporary society, the programme presents modes of resistance and tools for self-preservation, love, care and sPhotos by Justyna Fedec
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