Chloe Langlois will be testing a new performance work during the opening of Are the Stones Standing Still, curated by Dinosaur Kilby at Staffordshire St.

The banners are raised, the canopy is holding, come shelter under our framework for collective practice. Please join us for the OPENING of Are the Stones Standing Still. Meet artist-led practitioners from across the UK to find out about what they do and where they want to be in 5 years time. During this opening event, Chloe Langlois will be performing a new work based on her project HOTSNAKES! Expect audience participation and an ouroboros on wheels.

Info:

Thursday 29th August
18.00 - 21.00

Tickets:
Free or PWYC

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Chloe Langlois | @clolanglois : 

Originally from London, Chloe completed a BA in Painting at Chelsea College of Art, then worked in a betting shop for nearly eight years, moved to Nottingham, and returned to the compulsion of art making after finding a group of weirdos with similar tastes in art, comedy, and the occult. During the pandemic she completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art, and moved into a completely circular care home with thirty people she didn't know, making most of her work with housemates. Since then she has been trying to contact her Holy Guardian Angel, Hotsnakes, with mixed results. Looking at the messy and the magical in video and live performance, her interests lie in channeling, re-enactment, non-verbal communication, and collective euphoria.

About the exhibition: 

Are the Stones Standing Still is a symposium, a gathering of collectives from around the UK to come together and protest.

Curator Dinosaur Kilby has invited five collaborative artist groups to come together: Prayer Room in Birmingham, Test Space from Bristol, PINK in Stockport, Studio Cybi from North Wales and The Field in Derbyshire to participate. Each collective is asked to produce a banner; a statement of intent about who they are, what they are doing and where they want to be in five years. During the four day event the banners will be raised as a makeshift tent for collective practice to shelter under. The symposium will seek to examine questions such as: what does rurality mean? How do artist-led ecologies talk to each other? What’s important for artists now?

The four day exhibition cum weekender will activate the project space with screenings, performances and conversation below, between and around the waving flags. Are the Stones Standing Still is a follow up to If It Thunders on All Fool's Day, which took place at Eastside Projects in 2023.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest

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