Knotty Festival 2020

Knotty

1 Jun

When: June 2020
Where: Hastings

Knotty 2020 — Online Festival

Knotty is an adventurous performance festival offering a welcoming home for audiences to engage with bold and original performance work.

In response to COVID-19 we have re-imagined Knotty this year and are very proud to present Knotty 2020: Fragments of a Festival featuring rare performance fragments from a selection of the artists due to perform in Hastings and St Leonards this summer.

Knotty 2020 is entirely online: each artist has been invited to create works that can be experienced by clicking on the artist’s name below.

Each artist fragment is totally unique and the work created embraces multiple forms including zines, videos, music playlists and interactive online spaces allowing us an intimate glimpse of the process and feelings behind the live work.

Alongside these commissioned Festival Fragments sits New Fragments, a bursary programme set up to support artists to continue to develop their practice during these uncertain times.

Fragments of a Festival Programme.

Featured

Artist Development: Sex Music

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.

Miss High Leg Kick

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.

Lucy McCormick

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 — Artist Development

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.

Rhiannon Armstrong

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.

Tink Flaherty

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

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 — Artist Development

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.

Paris Grande — Artist Development

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.