Embodied drawing/embossing workshop and live performance.
Doors: 6:30pm. The workshop will begin at 7:15
Join Artists Billie M Vigne and Chloé Das Neves for a collaborative evening of embodied mark making on metal and paper, interlacing Billie’s Beer Can Votive project with Chloé’s performative drawing workshop series Palimpsest Bodies. Using our own sensations and bodily inclinations we will contribute our gestural artworks to a space that will become the set for a live performance of Faire Corps by Chloé.
Through Billie’s metalsmithing practise of memorialising and shrine-building and Chloé’s methodology of excavating the body’s haptic memories, we will guide you on a series of mark making exercises that seek to uncover a freer and more embodied way of drawing. Using charcoal on paper and embossing on recycled aluminium, we will give the results as votive offerings to the final performance which becomes a shrine to our shared and varied corporeal experience.
Billie M Vigne is an artist and metalsmith based in Kent whose work revolves around the temperamental intricacies of chronic illness. In 2022, Billie began The Beer Can Votive project; a travelling forum of embossing workshops in which people make ex votos/votive offerings from recycled drinks cans. The project focuses on imbuing the metal with feelings, sensations and stories that speak of our own physiological experiences, challenging the historical narrative of their use as curative talismans.
billiemvigne.co.uk/beercanvotives
Chloé Das Neves is a London-based artist who works mainly within movement and drawing. Palimpsest Bodies encourages the exploration through the body's different layers, and while a palimpsest was once a textual conversation, this workshop aims to apply the method to an embodied practice. Participants delve into their bodily memory through somatic movements that are reincarnated on paper using drawing, marking, body mapping and collage, catalysing a dialogue between the inside and outside body.