Friday 7 June 2019
18:00 - 21:00
Private View

19.30 - 20:00
Performance #1: ‘Deep Love Sales: Drop A Winner x Bubbles Of Time (2019)’

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Friday 14 June 2019
19:30 - 20:00
Performance: Subterranean Bingo x The Sun’s First Red Giant Phase - with Korallia Stergides & Raphael Schulenburg

20:00 - 21:00
Dome Sweet Home
Open discussion between artists Korallia Stergides, Raphael Schulenburg & Dr Rikke Berg Jensen (Royal Holloway)

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‘I’M IN THE BATH ON ALL FOURS…’ is a 3-phase visual art exhibition and interspersed series of talks, performances, workshops and screenings curated by Well Projects and artist Flora Parrott. Its premise stems from a research trip, undertaken by Flora Parrott, to learn about a recently discovered cave dwelling fish, the Cave Loach, that inhabits a labyrinthine cave network. In each phase of ‘I’m in the bath on all fours’ a pair of artists, artist-groups or researchers are invited to collaborate and expand upon notions of the sub-aqueous, engaging with the nature of water, embodied experience and the deep dark in relation to community and commonality.

For the final iteration of the project, artists Korallia Stergides & Raphael Schulenburg (in conversation with Dr Rachael Squire) have developed a site-specific installation and series of performances under the guise of their collaborative character ‘Deep Love’.

Entering into a cave system or a body of water reorients your relationship to the cartographic. The usual fixation on a determinable two-dimensional map is exchanged for a volumetric axis in which distinct entities such as temporality, relativity and materiality become entangled into a new thought space. Floating down into this space we meet Deep Love; “You are an ephemeral bubble of time just waiting to be popped”.

Interplay between spatial relativity and geological time underpins Deep Loves’ performative enquiry into environmental decision making and Planetarity; an evocation of the planet as that which exceeds human control.

Taking cues from texts and conversations with Geo-humanities Scholar, Dr Rachael Squire, the exhibition uses the proposed and imagined protective environments of sealed dome enclosures as a framework to metabolise and forecast tomorrow’s future. Using processes of storytelling, objects and monologue, Deep Love recollects, revisits and regurgitates apocryphal and on-going narratives that are unearthed in scientific predictions of our new epoch

Through a series of reworked planetary scale arcade games, we are taken on a journey through the causalities and outcomes of gut instincts and ecological thinking, from making sense of a dream to the digestion of the Anthropocene.

“Life’s a gamble, get to know your future gut. Through the Well of today, into a Volcanic Cavity of yesterday we take an Icelandic bath into tomorrow”
- Your Gastrointestinal Tract Oracle, Deep Love


I’M IN THE BATH ON ALL FOURS, is kindly
supported using public funding
from Arts Council England.


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