Samuel Lyon Spice — Artist Development
When: Knotty 2020: Fragments of a Festival (online)
Link: Full Knotty 2020 Programme
Home Live Art are currently supporting the artist Paris Grande on the development of new work.
Paris Grande is an artist and activist based in Hastings.
Their work uses the lens of drag to explore world events and media portrayals of the “Good” and the “Bad”. They are co-founder of Hastings Rally Against Racism, a campaign group working in Hastings that seeks to raise awareness and promote education around issues of race.
Part of New Fragments, a bursary programme set up to support artists to develop their practice and enable them to continue their work during lockdown.
Recent Paris Grande visuals to whet your appetite:
Image credits: Header image taken by Alice Denny all other images by Marcus Hessenberg
Knotty 2020 Programme
Home Live Art is currently supporting performance duo Sex Music. Sex Music is a music and performance collaboration from artists Catherine Hoffmann and Florence Peake.
Bird Rave was due to be presented at the 2020 Knotty Performance Festival as a work-in-progress show around bird watching and raving…bringing together a diverse group of artists for an interactive “dancefloor ornithology” performance.
Nu-pop sensation Lucy McCormick and her electrotrash Girl Squad were due to present her subversive, immersive, pop concert spectacular Life: LIVE! at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings during the 2020 Knotty Performance Festival.
Rachael Young is an award-winning artist and writer. Her interdisciplinary performance practice exists on the boundaries between live art, dance, contemporary theatre and socially engaged projects.
For the 2020 Knotty Performance Festival I was due to bring a team of artists together to develop and present Can I Help You? roaming around Hastings town centre.
For Knotty 2020: Fragments of a Festival I have created an online work entitled On The Bench which re-imagines and re-contextualises my performance Sit with Me.
Brownton Abbey were due to present a small-scale version of their event Brownton Abbey Bless bar in Hastings as part of the 2020 Knotty Performance Festival.
Samuel Lyon Spice explores the relationship of objects and images related to his experience of gay socio-sexual environments such as backstreet nightclubs, saunas and fetish events.
Home Live Art are currently supporting the artist Paris Grande on the development of new work. Paris Grande is an artist and activist based in Hastings.
For the 2020 Knotty Performance Festival I was due to present an immersive installation created from my collection of dirty white socks.
