4th May 2013
2 hours extract from 6 hours total
STEP WHACK STEP - Radio show includes review of Because of Love
Step Whack Step, Resonance 104.4 FM, 31st March 2013.
Review of Franko B's piece, BECAUSE OF LOVE Volume 1 starts at around 39:30.
Mark Carberry, Eleanor Sikorski and Else Tunemyr hosted the show on which they spoke about their visit to The Bride and the Bachelors at The Barbican Art Gallery, interviewed Jo Barratt about his obsession with smell and his work making scent for performance, and reviewed Because of Love volume 1 by Franko B.
Review of Franko B's piece, BECAUSE OF LOVE Volume 1 starts at around 39:30.
Mark Carberry, Eleanor Sikorski and Else Tunemyr hosted the show on which they spoke about their visit to The Bride and the Bachelors at The Barbican Art Gallery, interviewed Jo Barratt about his obsession with smell and his work making scent for performance, and reviewed Because of Love volume 1 by Franko B.
Performance / Audience / Film
Performance / Audience / Film
26 March 2013 - 20 April 2013
John Hansard Gallery
University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Featuring Artists: Oreet Ashery, Franko B, Blast Theory, Ian Breakwell & Ron Geesin Jean Dupuy, Rachel Gomme, Dan Graham, Joshua Sofaer
Performance / Audience / Film aims to look at the different relationships that are established between the artist and the audience within the realm of performance art, examining the role of the audience in relation to the completion and meaning of the work. [more >]
Tel: +44 023 8059 2158
Email: info@hansardgallery.org.uk
Opening Times Tuesday to Friday 11am-5pm Saturday 11am-4pm
Free Admission
26 March 2013 - 20 April 2013
John Hansard Gallery
University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Featuring Artists: Oreet Ashery, Franko B, Blast Theory, Ian Breakwell & Ron Geesin Jean Dupuy, Rachel Gomme, Dan Graham, Joshua Sofaer
Performance / Audience / Film aims to look at the different relationships that are established between the artist and the audience within the realm of performance art, examining the role of the audience in relation to the completion and meaning of the work. [more >]
Tel: +44 023 8059 2158
Email: info@hansardgallery.org.uk
Opening Times Tuesday to Friday 11am-5pm Saturday 11am-4pm
Free Admission
BECAUSE OF LOVE Volume 1 - reviews
Two more reviews from the premiere performance of BECAUSE OF LOVE Volume 1 at The Place Theatre, London - 5th March 2013.
Honour Bayes, Total Theatre Review >>>
At first Franko B’s new work Because of Love – Volume 1 appears as resolutely non-theatrical as his previous offerings. Incorporating an uncompromisingly opaque mise-en-scene and sections of unblinking repetition that lead nowhere, it very politely puts both fingers up at the proscenium arch that surrounds it. Yet it also weaves a story through our subconscious through a highly crafted use of emotive projections, a rousing piano score, an animatronic dancing polar bear, a glitter ball, and the most effective use of Canidae heads since the bombastically theatrical Three Kingdoms. [more >]
Jareh Das, Aesthetica Magazine >>>
As you take your seat for Franko B’s latest performance, Because of Love Volume 1, it was hard to pre-empt what this evening was about to offer. An artist renowned for using his body and blood in performances, here, we are in a theatre waiting for his most ambitious production to date to commence, with a title that gives little indication of what to expect from the work. [more>]
For more information about the 2013-14 tour, visit franko-b-because-of-love.blogspot.com
Honour Bayes, Total Theatre Review >>>
At first Franko B’s new work Because of Love – Volume 1 appears as resolutely non-theatrical as his previous offerings. Incorporating an uncompromisingly opaque mise-en-scene and sections of unblinking repetition that lead nowhere, it very politely puts both fingers up at the proscenium arch that surrounds it. Yet it also weaves a story through our subconscious through a highly crafted use of emotive projections, a rousing piano score, an animatronic dancing polar bear, a glitter ball, and the most effective use of Canidae heads since the bombastically theatrical Three Kingdoms. [more >]
Jareh Das, Aesthetica Magazine >>>
As you take your seat for Franko B’s latest performance, Because of Love Volume 1, it was hard to pre-empt what this evening was about to offer. An artist renowned for using his body and blood in performances, here, we are in a theatre waiting for his most ambitious production to date to commence, with a title that gives little indication of what to expect from the work. [more>]
For more information about the 2013-14 tour, visit franko-b-because-of-love.blogspot.com
FIL ROUGE - review and images
Ricucire la guerra, dorare la morte. Franko B da Antonio Marras
Nel giardino segreto milanese di Nonostante Marras, fino al 7 aprile, i grandi ricami di Franko B sono il “Fil Rouge” che lega dramma e poesia. Tra libri, abiti e pasticcini, un ambiente accogliente per le opere e per il visitatore. Lontano dall’asetticità del white cube.
Franko B – Fil Rouge – veduta della mostra presso Nonostante Marras, Milano 2013
Nessuna performance cruenta, ma Franko B (Milano, 1960; vive a Londra) sa bene che il sangue può essere evocato senza essere rappresentato. Le grandi tele che trovano casa nel salotto incantato di Antonio Marras parlano di ferite, di guerra e di potere. Ricamate con doppio filo di cotone rosso, le giubbe ornate di medaglie divengono elemento identitario dei giovani soldati, estrapolati da conflitti diversi, sottratti alla guerra e portati alla tela. Non è più il corpo a essere trafitto, ma il tessuto bianco, su cui si sono cucite le sagome. La solitudine dei militari dai volti imberbi è sanata solo in Kiss n. 1, nell’intreccio di un bacio. Riproponendo e approfondendo una tipologia di lavori che era stata presentata nella retrospettiva al PAC del 2010, l’artista ha dorato oggetti e animali imbalsamati, memento mori efficaci, che ricordano come anche Re Mida abbia rischiato di morire di fame.
Marta Cereda
Milano // fino al 7 aprile 2013
Franko B – Fil Rouge
a cura di Francesca Alfano Miglietti
NONOSTANTE MARRAS
Via Cola di Rienzo 8
02 89075001
info@antoniomarras.it
www.antoniomarras.it/it/nonostantemarras.aspx
Franko B – Fil Rouge
a cura di Francesca Alfano Miglietti
NONOSTANTE MARRAS
Via Cola di Rienzo 8
02 89075001
info@antoniomarras.it
www.antoniomarras.it/it/nonostantemarras.aspx
BECAUSE OF LOVE - reviews
Because of Love Volume 1 - The Place, London - 5th March 2013
Jessica Sabatini, Cloud Dance Festival >>>
There is no question of artist Franko B’s gift for generating live imagery of almost alchemical imagination. The conception and arrangement of Because of Love Volume 1 are striking in themselves; but it is the performance – in which he brings to bear his neutral, cohering presence and consummate, wordless candour – which finally endows this work with its uniquely moving qualities. [more >]
James Morgan, en de Horse >>>
This new work was emotional and shocking, but not at all in the way I had expected. Images were quieter and less charged than the nudity and blood-letting of his other works. I think the experience felt more deeply relatable and inclusive as a result. He was generous to the audience in a way which was profoundly different to what I can ever recall seeing on stage. [more >]
Eleanor Sikorski, Bellyflop Magazine >>>
When watching Because of Love volume 1, I am aware of the difference between the calm of my seated body and the noise of my mind. My perception of any performance, against my wishes, is always affected by how well or how little I know the artist/s involved. Watching Franko B on stage I observe that I hold great respect for him, not only because of what I am watching but because of what I allegedly know of him. I project qualities onto him – artistry, experience, intelligence, control.
[more >]
Jessica Sabatini, Cloud Dance Festival >>>
There is no question of artist Franko B’s gift for generating live imagery of almost alchemical imagination. The conception and arrangement of Because of Love Volume 1 are striking in themselves; but it is the performance – in which he brings to bear his neutral, cohering presence and consummate, wordless candour – which finally endows this work with its uniquely moving qualities. [more >]
James Morgan, en de Horse >>>
This new work was emotional and shocking, but not at all in the way I had expected. Images were quieter and less charged than the nudity and blood-letting of his other works. I think the experience felt more deeply relatable and inclusive as a result. He was generous to the audience in a way which was profoundly different to what I can ever recall seeing on stage. [more >]
Eleanor Sikorski, Bellyflop Magazine >>>
When watching Because of Love volume 1, I am aware of the difference between the calm of my seated body and the noise of my mind. My perception of any performance, against my wishes, is always affected by how well or how little I know the artist/s involved. Watching Franko B on stage I observe that I hold great respect for him, not only because of what I am watching but because of what I allegedly know of him. I project qualities onto him – artistry, experience, intelligence, control.
[more >]
BECAUSE OF LOVE
BECAUSE OF LOVE Volume 1 - performance at Norwich Arts Centre, 18th May 2013More information and tickets here.
visit franko-b-because-of-love.blogspot.com for more about the touring programme.
WISHFUL WEDNESDAYS - Talk at Chelsea Theatre
Chelsea Theatre has gathered some of the most interesting names
in contemporary performance for a series of lectures all about hopes,
dreams and predictions for future practice, and for the future itself.
13 Mar // Franko B
“I’m essentially a painter who also works in performance. I come from a visual art background and not “live art” or theatre, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read.
http://www.chelseatheatre.org.uk/wishful-wednesdays/
13 Mar // Franko B
“I’m essentially a painter who also works in performance. I come from a visual art background and not “live art” or theatre, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read.
http://www.chelseatheatre.org.uk/wishful-wednesdays/
READING FRANKO B: MOMENTS IN LOVE
Reading Franko B: Moments in Love is an exhibition examining the contents of Live Art artist Franko B's archive.
The exhibition is a fragmented narrative of his creative and personal histories, asking: who is Franko B? What do we perceive about his identity through the archive? What relationships does this provoke between audience, document and artist? ... Why do we fall in love with him?
Curated by PhD researcher Cara Davies, in association with the Theatre Collection, the exhibition will showcase a diverse range of the documents in Franko’s archive, challenging what they embody and disseminate about his artistic practice and the contexts he works in.
This will be the Theatre Collection’s first ever exhibition from the Live Art Archives and in particular the Franko B archive. Franko's archive has been housed at the Theatre Collection since 2008, and hosts an extensive set of documents, which not only preserve official documentation of Franko’s performances/visual artworks/exhibitions, etc. (from the 1980s to 2008) but also documents of a bureaucratic nature, his personal life and the wider cultural/political context of the time they were created.
The Theatre Collection would be delighted if you could join us for Reading Franko B: Moments in Love. **** Please note though this exhibition contains material of a challenging nature. Under 18s may be permitted by prior arrangement only.The exhibition is open:
Thursday 14th March to Friday 12th April 2013
(Closed Friday 29th March to Tues 2nd April)
Mondays: 12pm to 4pm
Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 4pm
Venue University of Bristol Theatre Collection, 21 Park Row, BS1 5LY
Admission Free, no booking required.
For further information
Email: theatre-collection@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)117 331 5086
www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/events.html
www.franko-b.com
This exhibition is part of Cara Davies' practice-led research PhD and is supported by the University of Bristol’s AHRC-funded project Performing Documents http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/performing-documents/
UNTOUCHABLE - CASA NOSTRA
UNTOUCHABLE casa nostra
Sat 9th March 2013
2:00pm - 1:00am
A platform for performance, installation, music and art events curated by Franko B in support of the Southwark LGBT Network. This is a free event but we will kindly ask for voluntary donations to support the Network.
The Flying Dutchman, 156 Wells Way Camberwell London SE5 7SY
The Flying Dutchman, 156 Wells Way Camberwell London SE5 7SY
(Re)Fresh
As a bonus event to the (Re)Fresh programme at Queen Mary on 21st February, the Live Art Development Agency will present (Re)Fresh Extra at the White Building in Hackney Wick on Saturday 23 February with Sheree Rose & Martin O’Brien, and Franko B & jamie lewis hadley.
The legendary US performance artist Sheree Rose will present the first ever UK lecture about her extraordinary life and work, especially her collaborations with the late Bob Flanagan. The lecture will be followed by a in-conversation between Sheree and Martin O’Brien.
(Re)Fresh Extra will also feature an ‘all live’ and expanded version of the new intergenerational dialogue performance by Franko B and jamie lewis hadley. (Re)Fresh Extra is a free event. There is a limited capacity and places will be available on a first come first in basis.
FIL ROUGE
FIL ROUGE - exhibition by Franko B, 18 Feb-7 Apr.
Nonostantemarras Via Cola di Rienzo 8, 20144 Milan, Italy
http://www.facebook.com/events/604470259578907/
This exhibition, entitled Fil Rouge, displays the works by the Milanese, London-based performance artist Franko B, important figure of reference for the body art of the 1990s. His intertwined cotton strings tell of war, the drama of soldiers and the loss of affection that accompany every armed conflict. Red and gold, the dominant colours of his canvases, emerge on the white surfaces. His work was originally based on blood and the rituals of the bodies’ violations. At the end of the 1990s his research moved towards a more multi-disciplinary inclination, such as video, sculpture, photography, painting and installation.
UNTOUCHABLE - The Musical
UNTOUCHABLE - The Musical
26th January 2013
at The Flying Dutchman, London
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/444441205604276/?fref=ts
A platform for performance, installation, music and art events curated by Franko B in support of the Southwark LGBT Network. This is a free event but we will kindly ask for voluntary donations to support the Network.
ARTISTS:
Andrea Abbatangelo, Andro Andrex, Sarah Angelise Poetess, Kisito Assangni, Franko B, Alex Binnie, Vera Bremerton, Paride Calvia
Patrizia Carlota,
Liz Clarke,
Patrick Courtney,
Robert Crosse,
David Pompili Davil, Jessica and Antonio di Luca, Fidia Falaschetti, Nick Hudson,
Ryan & Luke Jordan,
Chloe Lawrence,
Rui Miguel Leitao, Mancinelli Trobbiani,
Piero ½botta,
Ólöf Helga Helgadóttir,
Cristiano Petrucci, Jennifer Picken & Kimbal Quist Bumstead,
Tom Qualmann,
Mentalphotographic,
Sharon Reeves,
David Rickard,
Priya Saujani, Angelo Santonicola,
Flavio Sciole,
Samm Shackleton,
Qasim Riza Shaheen, Lady Stubbs,
Julie Tolentino,
Ernesto Tomasini,
Ali Zaidi,
Desmond Zeederberg
DJs: Franko B, Dr. MU (Kaos)
The Mori + Stein Gallery @ The Flying Dutchman is an interdependent artist run venue. At the entrance guests will have the chance to give their contact information for future art events. The Flying Dutchman will pay £3 for each new guest signing up for the news letter. The money donated by the Flying Dutchman will be shared among the participating artists to refund the artists expenses and as allocated by Franko B.
A short video from the previous UNTOUCHABLE, December 2012:
26th January 2013
at The Flying Dutchman, London
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/444441205604276/?fref=ts
A platform for performance, installation, music and art events curated by Franko B in support of the Southwark LGBT Network. This is a free event but we will kindly ask for voluntary donations to support the Network.
ARTISTS:
Andrea Abbatangelo, Andro Andrex, Sarah Angelise Poetess, Kisito Assangni, Franko B, Alex Binnie, Vera Bremerton, Paride Calvia
Patrizia Carlota,
Liz Clarke,
Patrick Courtney,
Robert Crosse,
David Pompili Davil, Jessica and Antonio di Luca, Fidia Falaschetti, Nick Hudson,
Ryan & Luke Jordan,
Chloe Lawrence,
Rui Miguel Leitao, Mancinelli Trobbiani,
Piero ½botta,
Ólöf Helga Helgadóttir,
Cristiano Petrucci, Jennifer Picken & Kimbal Quist Bumstead,
Tom Qualmann,
Mentalphotographic,
Sharon Reeves,
David Rickard,
Priya Saujani, Angelo Santonicola,
Flavio Sciole,
Samm Shackleton,
Qasim Riza Shaheen, Lady Stubbs,
Julie Tolentino,
Ernesto Tomasini,
Ali Zaidi,
Desmond ZeederbergDJs: Franko B, Dr. MU (Kaos)
The Mori + Stein Gallery @ The Flying Dutchman is an interdependent artist run venue. At the entrance guests will have the chance to give their contact information for future art events. The Flying Dutchman will pay £3 for each new guest signing up for the news letter. The money donated by the Flying Dutchman will be shared among the participating artists to refund the artists expenses and as allocated by Franko B.
A short video from the previous UNTOUCHABLE, December 2012:
UNTOUCHABLE - review
Review by Lisa Newman for Artillery.
UNTOUCHABLE was an exhibition and performance event curated by Franko B, November / December 2012.
Don't Touch Me There
UNTOUCHABLE was an exhibition and performance event curated by Franko B, November / December 2012.
Don't Touch Me There
Franko B's Performance Night at the Flying Dutchman
"Invoking Jonestown" by Nick Kilby, with sound by Llewyn Maire, photo by Lisa Newman
LOVE, LONGING AND PERFORMANCE art are best experienced in their natural habitats of dark venues on the edges of civilization. "UNTOUCHABLE," curated by Italian performance artist Franko B, proved just that in November at The Flying Dutchman pub in Camberwell, London with an evening of performances on the 17th. The event doubled as a fundraiser for the Southwark LGBT Network and a platform for new live and visual art pieces to be exhibited in an informal setting. The familial vibe, the constant presence of Franko's two Jack Russell terriers, and the unabashed evidence of sex club accoutrements throughout the venue—including purple walls and a series of pull points on the ceiling, walls and floor—eemed to invoke an openness in the audience to participate in some of the more intimate performances.
[... read the full article here >>>]
[... read the full article here >>>]
BECAUSE OF LOVE - Volume 1
BECAUSE OF LOVE - Volume 1 - performance at The Place, London - 5th March 2013.
More info and tickets here >>>
Franko B makes his debut at The Place with the new multi-disciplinary performance solo, Because of Love volume 1. Drawing upon memories of vivid moments and experiences of art, film and dance from different stages in his life, this piece is about life, childhood, humanity, inhumanity, love and grief.
Central to the work is the idea of the sentimentality of memory – the emotional charge and romanticism often applied to our experience of remembering culture. Experiences can be mediated by someone else’s voice or appropriated in a way which is both personal and political.
Franko B was born in Milan and has lived in London since 1979. He has exhibited and performed widely, including at Tate Modern, the ICA, South London Gallery and Beaconsfield, and has presented work internationally.
There will be a post-show discussion between the artist and Gilles Jobin
The Place 17 Duke's Road London WC1H 9PY
Tickets: +44 (0)20 7121 1100
For more information about the Because of Love 2013/14 touring programme, visit http://franko-b-because-of-love.blogspot.co.uk.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FrankoBBecauseOfLove
More info and tickets here >>>
Franko B makes his debut at The Place with the new multi-disciplinary performance solo, Because of Love volume 1. Drawing upon memories of vivid moments and experiences of art, film and dance from different stages in his life, this piece is about life, childhood, humanity, inhumanity, love and grief.
Central to the work is the idea of the sentimentality of memory – the emotional charge and romanticism often applied to our experience of remembering culture. Experiences can be mediated by someone else’s voice or appropriated in a way which is both personal and political.
Franko B was born in Milan and has lived in London since 1979. He has exhibited and performed widely, including at Tate Modern, the ICA, South London Gallery and Beaconsfield, and has presented work internationally.
There will be a post-show discussion between the artist and Gilles Jobin
The Place 17 Duke's Road London WC1H 9PY
Tickets: +44 (0)20 7121 1100
For more information about the Because of Love 2013/14 touring programme, visit http://franko-b-because-of-love.blogspot.co.uk.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FrankoBBecauseOfLove
UNTOUCHABLE - performances and closing party
Many thanks to everyone who has supported UNTOUCHABLE so far. The exhibition continues until 1st December 2012 at the Flying Dutchman, London, and there are more events still to come -
Sat 1st Dec, 5PM-1.30AM (in connection with World AIDS Day) - Discussion, followed by performances and closing party.
PERFORMING ARTISTS: Shabnam Shabazi, Leibnitz, Franko B
Franko B DJ and closing party.
For more info ask to join the Facebook group.
Cick here to read Franko's UNTOUCHABLE interview in the Southwark LGBT Newsletter.
Sat 1st Dec, 5PM-1.30AM (in connection with World AIDS Day) - Discussion, followed by performances and closing party.
PERFORMING ARTISTS: Shabnam Shabazi, Leibnitz, Franko B
Franko B DJ and closing party.
For more info ask to join the Facebook group.
Cick here to read Franko's UNTOUCHABLE interview in the Southwark LGBT Newsletter.
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