Private View: PAGE/STAGE/SPACE

Join us for the joint private view of PAGE/STAGE/SPACE, an exhibition curated by motor dance journal foregrounding contemporary artists working within and around the field of dance, including works by Zinzi Minott, Rowland Hill and Mary Hurrell

Dance as an art form has permeated myriad fields – film, social media, printed matter, gallery and social spaces. These sites and stagings in turn invite new understandings of how and what dance can be. PAGE/STAGE/SPACE challenges the idea that dance must be ‘live’ and foregrounds different choreographic registers existing simultaneously. The group of artists featured in this exhibition share a commitment to an expanded understanding of dance as it mutates across media and temporalities. Brought in dialogue, their practices create an asynchronous overlapping of forms and approaches, with the gallery populated by material traces and interdisciplinary transformations of dance. 

Alongside the exhibition, there will also be a corresponding live programme, activating new encounters with and between artist, work and viewer. Situated within San Mei Gallery, a space with a rich history of dance in the building’s previous iterations as a dancehall, PAGE/STAGE/SPACE invites propositions into dance’s pasts and futures.

For further information about this exhibition, please visit our website.

There will be a performance taking place during the private view by Rowland Hill (details below):

Rowland Hill, ‘Fluchtpunkt’, 20th June 2024
Rowland Hill will present ‘Fluchtpunkt’ (vanishing point, place of refuge), an immersive performance-installation invoking the fantasy world of 1990s Eurotrance music and its disquieting, portentous rhetoric of utopia and disaster. The work is a suspenseful choreography of animated stagecraft including smoke machines, strobe lighting and a dramatic audio landscape of extreme weather sounds – a recurring metaphor for conflict and resolution in 1990s dance music. The site-specific work has been adapted to San Mei Gallery.

Accessibility
San Mei Gallery is located on the ground floor with step-free access. Our building has one gender-neutral toilet with step-free access, however, we regret that it is currently not fully accessible. Please note that Rowland Hill’s performance Fluchtpunkt taking place at the private view on Thursday 20 June contains strobe lighting and loud noises. If you have any specific access requirements, please contact us at info@sanmeigallery.co.uk

Support
This exhibition and its associated programme of events has been supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Drinks are kindly provided by Brixton Brewery.

Image: Still from Rowland Hill, Holy Prototype (2024) multi-channel audio-visual installation, 5 min. loop