SPILL YER TEA is an open supportive platform for emerging and established artists, students and graduates and collectives and groups to share new artwork that is either ready-to-go, or is in its developmental stages.

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HOLLIE MILLER (UK)

Career Woman

Hollie uses her body as an activated and politicised site, bringing charged materials to it to envisage ‘insideness’ and externalise the unconscious. She makes site-responsive and intimate time-based work both live with the audience as witness and in isolation in derelict buildings and remote landscapes with her camera as witness. Through somatic enquiry as quiet activism she uses her body as a visceral material to turn feelings of vulnerability into empowering actions that reclaim the sensual as a political tactic to expose and overcome invisible codes of violence on women’s bodies.

Artist: Hollie Miller, Career Woman, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

PAUL REGAN (IRE)

Step 2

Visual artist Paul Regan works with the subjects of ritual, faith, religion. Coming from a background in painting, his recent ongoing projects utilise live performance to explore actions in compulsion and restraint, cultural misappropriations, invocations and profane devotions.

The visual imagery and symbolism associated with notions of “the sacred” within religious ideologies is a major area of consideration in much of the work. Working with religious elements raises complex issues; one of the most significant is faith.

Artist: Paul Regan, Step 2, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

NATHAN WALKER (UK)

Dressing

‘Dressing’ considers the site of the body, specifically the back, as a location for discovering vocal sound. Nathan’s work explores the voice as a physical and embodied task. In recent years Nathan has been developing performances for camera, both still and moving image, that focus the site of performance within the frame of the camera and facilitate a more detailed enquiry into the role of their vocal-body in performance.

Artists: Nathan Walker, Dressing, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

PIERCE STARRE (UK)

Scrutiny

Scrutiny explores personal experiences of deprivation, oppression and survival, from the perspective of a queer Child of Deaf Adults, growing up in Thatcher Britain in the 80’s and 90’s. The work provides a glimpse into the world of an oppressed and marginalised family, who as a result of the barriers faced and a lack of employment opportunities, found themselves consumed by poverty and struggling to survive. Scrutiny combines symbolism of regality and abundance with the reality of domestic life and poverty.

Artist: Pierce Starre, Scrutiny, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

ALASDAIR AMBROSE

Effacement 19082021

Effacement: 19082021  Effacement: to rub out, erase, or obliterate (outlines, traces, inscriptions, etc.). to make (oneself) inconspicuous; withdraw (oneself) modestly or shyly.   Effacements are a new series of works which utilises photographs as a base of performative gesture of manually erasing the human characteristics of the image. Leaving hollow and haunting documents of the past. Subtly exploring transgressive ideology via an act of defacing the person/s in the photograph; potentially erasing the last known document of their existence.

Artist: Alasdair Ambrose, Effacement 19082021, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

KELVIN ATMADIBRATA (UK)

I’ll Be A Good Boy

I’ll be a Good Boy is a prayer calling for submission and to be dominated.  A pair of hands clasped tightly, but their thumbs protruding out, hinting towards the thumbs-up gesture. Dangling beneath is a pair of clinking army dog tags attached to a string of common beaded necklace, almost as if they were a religious relic, a rosary perhaps.   The performer is then accompanied by a synthesized voice uttering words of invocations filled with worship- but to whom this piety is petitioned for remains cryptic. The words are uttered in two languages- Indonesian and English; slightly rearranged from its source: a series of lewd messages the artist received from an unknown man.

Artist: Kelvin Atmadibrata, I’ll Be A Good Boy, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

DIMPLE B SHAH (IND)

Decolonising Ritual: The Scent on Earth

Decolonising Ritual –The Scent of Earth is a ritual which attempts to establish a deeper bond with nature. The complex histories of colonialism, where humans have sailed seas, extracted wealth and ruled countries such as India for money, power and greed has left the ecosystem of the planet in a significant crisis. To the audio backdrop of the Last Batch Of British Troops Leave India (1948) | British Pathé, Dimple will transit through thoughts and actions, reflecting upon colonisation while attempting to reacquaint with what it means to be part of the Earth’s ecosystem.

Artist: Dimple B Shah, Decolonising Ritual: The Scent on Earth, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

MARINA BARSY JANER X ISIL SOL VIL (CAT & PRI)

Sustancia Alkimiya

Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil (Puerto Rico x Catalunya) take corporeal mimesis to the eXtreme, in a specific space and in a given environment. They explore alternative sensitivities that challenge the imposed historical chronologies while suppressing the male/ female dichotomy. Their pieces are framed by the need to establish a single connection and body rhythm of pure listening. They are not two bodies, they are not two artists; they are the body in a space, in a time and in a presence. Their point of union, as vanishing point, is a constant pulsation where the plural presence of the body, the border destruction and the decolonisation of the mind-body is an act of rebellion and subversion.

Artist: Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil, Sustancia Alkimiya, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

NINA CLAIRE (NOR)

Porridge

PORRIDGE is an interaction with food that’s existed in many forms over thousands of years in many cultures. In modern times, porridge has become a conflicted symbol of “food for the poor”, food for the obese and food for the wealthy who wish to stay healthy. PORRIDGE is an intimate exploration of the artist’s own complicated relationship with this substance of nourishment, as a person with obesity and low income.

Artist: Nina Claire, Porridge, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021

ROB HESP (DNK)

I Only Exist Beneath Your Teeth Milk Flowing

I only exist between your teeth, milk flowing   A queer performance action, rooted in images of wilderness, rage and need for community healing.   An intimate performance, blending embodied choreography, tonal vibration and politically charged material actions. A hybrid affectation, a sort of prayer, rite and burial dance, centred around the soft, gentle and sensuous body, milk and blood red wine.  Inhabiting this space of trance, bouncing between our rage and your violence – gripping the spinning surface of the earth with our toes.

Artist: Rob Hesp, I Only Exist Beneath Your Teeth Milk Flowing, SPILL YER TEA #4, 2021