Claudia Palazzo, Live Art Club 2022, photography by Zack Mennell
This participatory workshop led by artist Claudia Palazzo and producer Conrad Kira explores the materiality of concrete and its relationship to movement and bass. Through guided tasks, the workshop looks at concrete as a central vehicle to unpack ideas about absorbing impact, fitting in spaces, re-building and replacing the self in space in an attempt to unfix the self from ableist ideals of mobility and repair. Join them as they share research from their most recent collaborative performance work Our Suspended Corridors.
The workshop is open to 12 participants of all skill levels.
Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. Her work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street, and focuses on the live experience and a place to be able to shift through, let go and sit/deal with. It is often poetic, feral, meditative and violent in its structure, influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city concrete dwellings and psychophysical training. She seeks to establish charged connections and subliminal feedback loops of understanding with an audience in order to process and harness our collective and individual sense of joy, sadness, resistance, power and endurance. Current research is around absorbing impact, damaged support structures, what can represent us in our absence and repair and rebuild. As a performer Palazzo has worked with Carlos Motta, Complicité, Carlos-Maria-Romero aka Atabey Mamasita, Ann-Liv Young, SERAFINE1369, Eddie Peake, Cyberdog, Daniel Oliver, Sinead O’Connor, Lucy McCormick, Marisa Carnesky, Thick and Tight, Michael Dean and many others. She is currently a studio holder at
CONDITIONS, a member of drag troupe The Lipsinkers, a member of queer performance and activism collective SPIT and was Artist and Dancer in residence at GROW Tottenham. Claudia is also a guest lecturer at UEL and DJs for The Posh Club – a club for the over 60s run by Duckie.
Conrad Kira is a musical artist, producer DJ and sound designer. He comes from Peckham and is a South London native. His musical endeavours span from producing expansive soundtracks to producing industrial drill and grime inspired beats. His soundtrack work includes music for projects such as Digging (Film 4), Samson (LAHFF award winner), and Claudia Palazzo’s previous work Vertebral disc, to name a few. Conrad has recently returned from Japan after a year of DJing and producing music for various artists in Tokyo. He is now back in London doing bits.
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