The Store
Kaia Goodenough and Tilly Wace
11 May 23 – 14 May 23
Staffordshire St presents The Store, an exhibition and collaborative programme of events centred around a potato store in Norfolk.
Curated by Kaia Goodenough, The Store is a response to Tilly Wace’s interdisciplinary film and research project. Together they present an exhibition of film, photography and creative writing that use live actviations to create a metaphor for a source of energy. They question the multiplicity of dark spaces, embodiment, tangent thought and collective movement.
OPENING EVENT: 11 May 2023 | 7 – 10pm
TICKETS: FREE
VISIT: 11 - 14 May 2023 | Fri, 5 - 8pm | Sat - Sun, 12 - 6pm
If you are financially able, please consider donating, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.
The gallery space will become a site for dance, music, film and community workshops that connect the photo, the potato and the body, celebrating the juxtaposition and similarities of playful abstraction, improvisation and repetition.
The exhibition, performance and film are accompanied by a specially commissioned score and sound design by Charlie Flynn.
EVENTS:
Potato Store | screening and performance
The exhibition will open with a live performance choreographed by Kaia Goodenough in collaboration with movement artists and musicians, alongside the premier of Tilly Wace’s latest film. The potato store bustles, bumps and brims with possibility calling for an improvisational score, resonating with the becoming of the potato, their eyes sprouting to find new light and create new understandings.
11 MAY 2023 | 7 – 10PM | FREE
Community Collaging with the lazy susans | workshop
The lazy susans invite you to re-imagine your surroundings, taking one image from a magazine and letting this grow into a collective artwork. This is a drop-in workshop, so feel free to join for as long or as little as you like. We invite you to come and have a cup of tea and a natter in and amongst the exhibition. Finding endless possibilities from just one snip, one image, or collection of words.
13 MAY 2023 | 2 - 5PM | FREE
Bring some, get seeds free | performance
A night of poetry in aid of SE local food banks - to share inspiration, words and seeds of new ideas.
The second iteration of the lazy susans’ nights of mutual offerings in aid of the cost of living crisis in South East London. All we ask of you is to ‘bring some’ make a donation or bring some words that have inspired you to ‘get seeds free’ from our poets and spoken words artists. An evening of performance, exchange and giving, we bring you the spring seasonal special from the lazy susans. We invite you to counter everything your parents taught you and give, to receive (seed potatoes & poetry!).
13 MAY 2023 | 6 - 9.30PM | PWYC
Potato Planting | workshop
Join us to plant your own potato to take home and nurture: Sunday 14th coincides with the third quarter of the moon’s rhythm, when root crops are planted.
14 MAY 2023 | 2 - 4PM | FREE
