MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS Evening of Performances

DRAF and Kaleidoscope Magazine invite you to a special evening of performances and events.

image : Amy Granat/Cinema Zero . The David Roberts Art Foundation

Thursday 14.10 from 7 pm

19.00 - 19.45: Cinema Zero
19.45 - 20.00: Patrizio Di Massimo
20.00 - 20.30: Amy Granat and Flora Wiegmann
20.30 - 20.45: Laure Prouvost
20.45 - 21.15: Amy Granat and Flora Wiegmann

The Negus said: Give me the lion, keep the stele is a performative reading of an eponymous text piece by Patrizio Di Massimo (b. 1983, Italy). Analysing consequences and implications of the restitution of the Lion of Judah and the Obelisk of Axum: two artefacts that were stolen by the Italians during the second Italo-Ethiopian war and then returned to their original possessors in 1969 and 2005.

Initiated in 2004 with the help of artists Olivier Mosset and Steven Parrino, Cinema Zero is a concept of nomadic events mixing screenings (of early 20th century experimental films as well as contemporary works) with performance, painting, sculpture, dance or sound. For More Pricks Than Kicks, Amy Granat (b. 1976, USA) will conceive a Cinema Zero evening for the first time in London, involving dance, sound and a choreography recently developed with Flora Wiegmann.

For More Pricks Than Kicks, Laure Prouvost (b. 1978, France) presents From The Sky, a performance in which the narration seemingly falls short with no fixed conclusion. Prouvost will tell us about an event that occurred a few weeks ago within a room slightly smaller than the one you are standing in. Remnants of the performance will become part of a new installation at the gallery.