Florence Peake The Keeners

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British-born artist, dancer and choreographer Florence Peake presents 'The Keeners' - a work exploring cultural loss and the commodification of art practice. • Commissioned by [ SPACE ] it was presented as a public dance performance on 19 September 2015 in London Fields and as an exhibition from 1 October - 23 December 2015. • Dancers: Charlotte Ashwell, Lizzy Le Quesne, Susanna Recchia, Nikki Tomlinson, Rosalie Wahlfrid. • More information + further events: http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/exhibi... • Florence's website: http://www.florencepeake.com/ • The Keeners takes its title from the notion of ‘keening’, where professional mourners in Irish and Celtic traditions grieve the losses of others on their behalf. Peake’s work abstracts this tradition and presents a collective grief in the form of a public performance to mourn the commodification and instrumentalisation of art by the corporate world, enacted by a chorus of dancers on a glossy mirrored dance floor. • Collected through a public open call, the dancers mourn every one of the submitted personal losses. The performance is situated in London Fields, which is classified as common land (Lammas Rights for grazing animals), and links to its history as a plague burial site. • Highlighting a framework of collective support and a platform for discussing the notion of ‘artwashing’, personal ethics and moral dilemmas the piece is also a playful and slyly ironic comment on the hypocrisy that faces us in daily life. • • ***** • Video in Common makes video for the Arts – Editorial, Talks and Artist Commissions – http://www.videoincommon.com • It also does research – http://mcn.incommon.org.uk • Subscribe to Video In Common: https://goo.gl/5iuYu2 • Twitter: / videoincommon • Facebook: / videoincommon

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