ICA | Rebecca Bellantoni: First, everything happens. C.R.Y

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Films

First, everything happens. C.R.Y, Rebecca Bellantoni, UK 2022

Image Behaviour 2022

The first part of a trilogical new moving image and performance work by Rebecca Bellantoni that deals with the realities and magic of the city, looking at the urbanised landscape, materials and past actions/movements. Focusing on a section of the Westway flyover, this new work imagines the city, its past encounters and their energetic traces as a positive trigger for meditation, transformation and growth. Ultimately the work speaks to the creation, dissolving of and regeneration of community and self.

Rebecca Bellantoni is the recipient of an Image Behaviour production grant.

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Artist Biography

Rebecca Bellantoni’s practice mines everyday occurrences and abstracts them, with a focus on the lives of Black people, in particular those living in cities. Investigating, through the lens of metaphysics, philosophy, spirituality and the aesthetics of them, the artist considers the concept of the accepted/expected ‘real’ and the experiential ‘real’, looking at how these removed borders may offer meditative experiences and portals to self, collective reasoning and healing thought. In material concerns Bellantoni works with materials that proliferate our everyday and within contexts that are both familiar and unfamiliar, aiming to skew/reinterpret their meanings and future encounters with those substances. Recent works have been shown at and with Frieze LIVE 2021; Den Stroom, The Hague (Languid Hands); Tate Modern, London (Rowdy SS); Raven Row, London (Nora-Swatje Almes); PUBLICs, Helsinki (Adelaide Bannerman); Art Night London (Nikki Agency); and Goldsmiths Library, London (Present Futures).

Ticket information

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£7 Full, £5 Concessions, £3.50 Green/Blue Members

This event will include live performance documentation to be used in a further development of the work.

Run time: 60 min.

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Artist Interview