Psychic Excavations: The Parasites of Pangu
A technological aria by Ayesha Tan Jones
Alembic II: Chrominance closing event
Friday 27 April 2018, performance at 8pm, exhibition open 12-9pm
Join us for a performance by Ayesha Tan Jones, combining poetry, trash-instruments and operatics for an apocalyptic post-anthropocene landscape. The event will be situated within the exhibition Alembic lll: Chrominance, featuring work by Tan Jones and Maggie Roberts.
Alembic II: Chrominance continues to Saturday 28 April.
Ayesha Tan Jones‘ work is a spiritual practice that seeks to fuse activism and art to present an alternative, queer, optimystic dystopia. They work through ritual, meditating through craft, and building forms from their dreams. Tan Jones approaches activism through art, creating diverse, eco-conscious narratives that aim to connect, enthral and induce audiences to think more sustainably and ethnically. Traversing pop music, sculpture, alter-egos, digital image and video work, Ayesha sanctifies these mediums as tool’s in their craft.
Tan Jones is the founder of Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club, a physical and meta-physical self defence class for women, non binary people and QTIPoC, combining Brazilian JuJitsu and magical/medicinal herbalism to create a holistic approach to self defence. Through community ritual and collective healing, the energy created at SSFC is powerful and creative .
In June 2016, Tan Jones was awarded the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s graduate residency award, giving them space and materials to research and make work on the grounds. This culminated with a show in March 2017. www.ayeshatanjones.com
Further information on Alembic II: Chrominance here, and the full Alembic programme here.