Low Entertainment ~ Opening Night

An art show for anyone who’s ever stifled a snort in a gallery, Low Entertainment will prod the often awkward relationship between contemporary art and hilarity through the work of 14 established and emerging artists willing to take unserious art seriously.

Via airhorn organs, Derek Akora impersonations and corporate meditation spaces, Low Entertainment plays with the expectations you have about humour in art. Because like all the best jokes, it’ll be better after a bit of explaining. Please join us from 6pm to celebrate the opening night! Exhibiting Artists: Louise Ashcroft, Alessandro Carboni, Joseph Craig, Jonny Drewek, Edward Herring, Scarlett Hirst, Dolly Kershaw, Taliesin Lewis, Eleanor Pearch, Raphael Schulenburg, Shinuk Shu, Korallia Stergides, Katja Verheul, Charlotte Young with critique from Chloe Stavrou

The opening night will feature:

DJ HMT

Beer from Forest Road Brewery

Performances from:

Louise Ashcroft

https://www.louiseashcroft.org

Louise Ashcroft’s installations and performances retell fantastical, and often antagonistic, situations she creates in public space. Louise studied at Oxford University, Birkbeck and RCA, and is the founder of the free art school AltMFA. She has shown widely including at Artsadmin, Boring Conference, BBC iPlayer, The Government Art Collection, Latitude Festival, Guest Projects, Turner Contemporary, with recent residencies at Camden Arts Centre and Tate Modern working with young people. She teaches at Goldsmiths and University for the Creative Arts.

Jonny Drewek

https://www.jonnydrewek.com

Jonny Drewek is an artist, designer and comedian working in London. He studied at Central St. Martins. He has worked across video, illustration, writing and spoken word; performing stand up comedy around the world and working with clients including Alexander McQueen and the V&A Museum

Rosie Gibbens

http://www.rosiegibbens.com

Rosie combines everyday objects with her body to explore issues of desire and power in relation to gender performativity and sexual politics. Through absurdity, she hopes to communicate bafflement in the face of externally prescribed rules about how to behave, as a socialised human, sexualised women and desiring consumer. More TBA

Scarlett Hirst 

https://www.scarletthirst.com

Scarlett Hirst is an artist born in Huddersfield who now lives and works in London. Working across performance, poetry and painting, her practice involves stretching out her arms and trying to fit everything in her pockets. 

Korallia Stergides and Raphael Schulenburg

http://www.raphael-schulenburg.com 

http://korallia.co.uk

Koral and Raph are emerging performance practitioners. They explore collaboration and improvisation to unearth surprising narratives and use a choreographies of imagined myths.  Tableaux are used as moments that attempt to resolve the disjointed, info-saturated nature of contemporary culture. For Low Entertainment they offer a series of meditations such as a dinosaur's back brushing the palms of Cleopatra's cat.

More TBA

The exhibition continues until 1st July

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