Name: Drift Fright - New Noveta, Elena Bushueva, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
Start: 2019-11-23T19:00:00+00:00
Location: London Horse Hospital Colonnade

LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Saturday 23rd November, 2019

7:00pm

Event information

Psychic Communities –_ Drift Fright

New Noveta
Elena Bushueva
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson

19 - 24th November 2019

Drift Fright – Performance
Saturday 23rd November 2019, 7pm – late
Featuring: Terriblis
Live sound processing and mixing: Vindicatrix
Make up: Crystabel Riley

Admission*: £2 - unwaged / £5 - low on funds / £10 - waged & general admission
*includes 'Psychic Communities' publication featuring an essay commission by Philomena Epps

Drift Fright will remain open to the public on Sunday November 24th 2019, 12-6pm. Free, all welcome.

Trapped in Drift Fright

Around the walls, the bed * We cutting, find the flow***Flee, but while fleeing, pick up a weapon Now, levels will be layered for the love of disruption***The head, wrangles

Crossing over crossing***makes drills see the person***Opening new lines of panic and joy.

New Noveta (the Taskers) are trapped in Drift Fright, a sinister force that prevents their leaving and is the current that transmits them, where co-performers Elena Bushueva (the Judge) and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (Remote Viewer) mediate and weaponise their Drift in the Horse Hospital.

Disturbing the construction of the real: through projection, and digital avatars, temporal zones within and without the Horse Hospital, give time, presence and technology a life of its own. The Drift Fright is a current that carries this panic, sinister currents of city: but also a galvanising weapon.

Psychic Communities

Psychic Communities is a programme of performances, workshops and a reading salon curated by Letitia Calin and Sholto Dobie at The Horse Hospital, looking at community-forming mechanisms that operate beyond verbal and visual transmission through sensual, spiritual, embodied or tacit forms of connection.

As part of the programme, The Horse Hospital will host Drift Fright a one-week residency for artists New Noveta, Elena Bushueva and Sophie Sleigh-Johnson to consider how anxiety and other invisible disabilities can be made perceivable and explore their mediation through sensory performance practices, bodies and audio-visual technology.

The residency features a newly commissioned collaborative live performance, a reading salon at Atlantis Bookshop with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, and a Spatial Augmented Reality workshop led by Elena Bushueva for Cockpit Wednesday Studio Project artists from Action Space, a visual arts organisation dedicated to artists with learning disabilities.

Supported by Arts Council England.