About

An evening of live art celebrating contemporary performance practice and the different ways it is brought to life.

Blurring lines between movement, ritual, sound, voice, and body, the meaning of performance art will be tested, and its impermanence questioned.

At Humber Street Gallery we are interested in bringing new performance works to the city and providing space for artists to explore and share challenging work. Our city has a long history of radical performance, from COUM Transmissions to Hull Time Based Arts, and the spaces which exist in our city today, like Hull Artist Research Initiative and Ground, which champion artists working in live art.

With a contemporary community of artists exploring the potential of sound, dance, and theatre in their work, we want to celebrate Hull as a place where expectations are challenged and where new understandings of art can emerge.

We understand performance art as art which happens in live and recorded contexts, and which in some way challenges the relationship between artist and witness.

Sometimes this work is experienced whilst it is performed, and other times its existence is documented through photography or film. We think of performance art to exist in a blurriness between choreography and spontaneity, and as a method for artists and audiences alike to process the changing relationship between the body and the spaces it exists and moves in.

This is not a fixed description and will change as our understanding develops, and as the artists we work with and encounter widen our perception.

At our performance events, you can expect to experience:

Live readings of poetry and spoken word.
Artists using their voice and instruments to create new sounds.
Visual projections of film and moving images.
Alternative interpretations of dance and movement.