FBI+A latest works both as a collective and individually

Update on work from FBI+A and our individual practice

FBI+A’s collective work which started in  2018 has vitally enriched and informed our individual arts practices. FBI+A  is where we take risks and try new ideas in areas we may not venture into separately. Projects by FBI+A so far are:

2021*Upcoming, Operation Edna, performance, workshops and film
2020
* Bringing out the dead zoom permance with FBI+
   2019
* Operation Herbody, with FBI+ Milton Keynes Museum (June 2019) UK
* Operation Herbody,with FBI+ at MK Gallery (July 2019) UK
* Untitled(speculum)1991 exhibited in MK Museum Exhibition Herstory March 22- July 28  2019
* FBI+present Operation Manifesto at the GraceGraceGrace book launch event at LADA-Live Art Development Agency, London UK

 

We are currently working on a new project in Collaboration with Irish artists for May 2021 and researching our next film  project Operation Edna together

Danielle Imara and O.Pen Be are founders and facilitators of Be-Coming Tree, a durational live art eco-initiative. The quarterly events feature live artists worldwide simultaneously interacting with a local tree for one hour. Their actions are live streamed via a shared Zoom webinar, presented to atttendees in gallery view. Each ticket includes a donation to plant a rainforest tree. https://www.facebook.com/becomingtree

Deej Fabyc is now the director of  Live-art.ie at Milford House in Tipperary Ireland and subject to the Pandemic divides her time between London and rural Ireland. They set up this organisation to foster residencies and research into Live Art, Film and hybrid practice.

Sarah Andrew has established Come Hell or High Water with Anne Bean and Hayley Newman for the year of 2020 on the Thames bank in London. Sarah in also collaborating with Ane Bean on African Incidentalism ‘the context is half the work’* a project between Zambia and the UK

 

Danielle Imara Latest Work

Collaborations with artist/author Yolande Brener

Y&I Go Outside, (above) Video, 1 minute. Collaboration with artist/author Yolande Brener. Published by Come Hell or High Water artzine, The One Minutes: New Normalism and Corona! Shutdown online exhibition. Selected by The Monkey Bread Tree Awards. Third in a transatlantic video series of five made via Zoom mirroring phases of lockdown and quarantine (2020) https://brenimara.com/video/ Selections by: Micromania Film Festival and Frostbite International Indie Film Awards. Published: Oye Drum, The Night Heron Barks, SODA Social Distancing Art Festival, Corona! Shut Down, the Wake Up Memorial.

Matters A: Rising, Video, 18 minutes (2020)   https://vimeo.com/476803465 Experimental documentary. Black people aged 17 to 70 in the UK and US discuss the 2020 BLM protests via Zoom alongside original footage of protests and Harlem streetlife. Published by Placeholder Press, New Feathers Anthology, Abstract Magazine, Ghandi! PPNRC and soon to be published by Dyscorpia and Impress Express.

Solo video work:

Nowhere To Run 2020 (2020) https://www.dyscorpia.com/animated-digital  Nowhere To Run 2020 refers to the frustration of being alone, or worse trapped in unhealthy and unsafe domestic environments during Covid-19 lockdown. Published by Dyscorpia 2:1 Animated Digital.

Invisible Enemy (2020) http://www.gracegracegrace.moonfruit.com/distancework-submissions/4595039692Published by Grace Grace Grace Distance: Work  responding to the theme 'Personal Protection'. 2020 Genuine Burmese sword. Martial Arts practice based on Royal Malay Silat.

2019-20 solo music-based live art at Deep Trash (CUNTtemporary), Duckie, Princess Julia Loves and Something Has to Happen Festival

Sarah Andrew Latest work

Above ‘On 27th September, 2020, as part of CHOHW/ InspiralLondon’s walk through St Anne’s churchyard,
John Wild, spoke about Situationist International, with the Mission behind him and Sarah Andrew, above, pointed out Limehouse Town Hall, where her involvement, as a lawyer, had begunwith Space Hijackers, Anarchitects, who specialised in reclaiming public spaces.’ Anne Bean
https://www.codedgeometry.net/x/limehouse/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Hijackers
2021
African Incidentalism ‘the context is half the work’* a project between Zambia and the UK- Talk
2020
* Bringing out the dead zoom performance with FBI+
* Come Hell or High Water, Anne Bean, Sarah Andrew and Hayley Newmans’s project on the Thameside London Involved in the planning and research and Presented work in the July, September & December iterations of the project
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2019
* Come Hell or High Water, Anne Bean, Sarah Andrew and Hayley Newmans’s project London Involved in the planning and research for this year long project of works on the Thameside Beach*  Operation Herbody, with FBI+ Milton Keynes Museum (June 2019) UK
* Operation Herbody,with FBI+ at MK Gallery (July 2019) UK
* FBI+present Operation Manifesto at the GraceGraceGrace book launch event at LADA-Live Art Development Agency, London UK

Deej Fabyc Latest Work

2020
  • Bringing out the dead zoom performance with FBI+
  • The Raven Enquiry (picture above) with Mj Forde in "Becoming Tree 2", Zoom Performance with international group of live artists
  • Farmyard Beach with MJ Forde, Come Hell or High Water, Anne Bean, Sarah Andrew and Hayley Newmans’s project on the thameside London
  • FEM_20 International Meeting of Women Performance Artists, Zoom Duet hosted by Gresol Art Catalonia A keening at the the computor for 5 minutes as an attempt to break through the virtual Video Here

2019

2018 

O Pen Be Latest work

2020 – 21

Live Performance

Live streamed solo experimental performance  ‘Touch Outlaws’ (picture Above) as part of  Open Online theatre  Festival.  Piece based on concern over the psychotic effects of demonization, sanitisation and criticism of touch during pandemic .

Be- coming Tree Live art global eco-initiative . Online performances in 3 seasonal internationally synchronous events:  ‘Searching for Roots; ‘Clean touch’ and ‘Body’s lived architecture’

Video and film work

‘Ecosensual’ , a solo film premiered and published on Oyedrum online journal  Vol III The Sex Issue after responding to call from The One Minute Film Org. to  Imagine the Earth is your Lover’ .

'Personal Protection' video published as part of by Grace Grace Grace Distance: Work  in response to the theme 'Personal Protection' by repurposing  feminine sanitary products as  symbols of power.

Podcast

Interview in Oyedrum You’re the One  Episode 4. https://oyedrum.com/podcast/

 

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