Hosted by Kira O’Reilly thinker in residence for SPILL Festival of Performance, the SPILL Salons are informal events that are intended to allow people to engage with some of the strands of practice and thematics presented during the festival. Audience, artists and others can mingle, converse and ponder some of the ideas in circulation during the festival.

Salon 3: Shuffle
Monday 20th April
3 – 5 pm,
The Edge,
Soho Square.

This final salon will embrace the notion of shuffle, the SPILL program is far ranging across modes of live work, venues and audience engagement, frequently this has created situations of mingling, shuffling, fluidity and breakdowns of hierachies. One of the major SPILL projects is the SPILL Tarot pack which suggests notions of shuffle, relationality and complexity, also how one set of ideas (or art works, cultural event etc) can become filters to read other through or shape and redefine their borders and edges.

This salon will have complexity scientist  Sylvia Nagl and Robert Eaglestone professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought present as well as Edward Hobbs, one of the SPILL volunteers.

Sylvia Nagle writes,
Performance can create fluid spaces dissolving boundaries between artists, designers, technologists and scientists for new interdisciplinary figurations of knowledge and practice to emerge. Like the shifting permutations of the tarot cards, rich fabrics of encounter - playfully shuffling, interweaving diverse embodied modes of being in shared space and time - open up currents of relationality between ourselves and others, and between our own multiplicities.

The SPILL Salons are informal events that are intended to allow people to engage with some of the strands of practice and thematics presented during the festival.

Salon 2
Monday 13th April
3 – 5 pm,
The Edge, Soho Square.

Feasts
Food and eating as cultural, political, economic and social practices; celebratory, sensory, perceptual, feasts and feasting will be explored as an entry point to digest SPILL’s multitude of courses. Archaeologist Martin Jones will discuss how humans first came to share food and the ways in which the human meal has developed since that time and how our culture of feasting has had far-reaching consequences for human social evolution. Australia artist Boo Chapple will talk about her art project Hand to Mouth and it examination of means of production, economies and waste, UK based artist John O’Shea will introduce Meat Licence, an artistic intervention into meat consumption, legislation and ethics of meat production.