In Conversation and Performance: Summer of Expression - Saturday 19 September

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5.45-8.30pm

Join us for a special evening of performance and conversation exploring the power of art as a form of non-verbal communication. As part of The Box's Summer of Expression programme, this event brings together artists working across painting, film and dance to discuss how creative practice can communicate human emotion, experience and meaning beyond words.

The evening begins with a performance of A Spilling, a newly commissioned dance work conceived by choreographer Theo Clinkard in response to Gillian Ayres: A Life in Colour. Find out more about the performance below. Afterwards, Theo will be joined by Dr Eve Ess (Head of Painting, Arts University Plymouth) and artist and filmmaker Jordan Baseman, whose work Pro Grip (How to be Humans) is currently on display in The Box's Media Lab, for a panel discussion examining art as a powerful means of expression and connection.

Please book your ticket by performance time. Guests are welcome to wait in our Kitchen & Bar during other performance times, which will be open during the event serving drinks and food.

5.45pm: doors open, guests for first performance of A Spilling to arrive
6-6.30pm: guests are taken to South gallery for the first performance

6.30pm: guests for second performance of A Spilling to arrive
6.45-7.15pm: guests are taken to South gallery for the second performance

7.30pm: 'In Conversation' taking place in Kitchen & Bar.
8.30pm: event ends

A Spilling by Theo Clinkard

When once asked about her visceral relationship with paint, Gillian Ayres responded with an experimental poem: "...a shape, a relationship, a body, oddness, shock, mood, cramped, isolated, acid, sweet, encroaching, pivoting, fading, bruised..."

Taking its cue from Gillian's evocative words, dancer Ronan Cardoza and musician Emma Holbrook create a live dialogue between movement and sound; an attempt to capture her exuberant, generous, and fiercely independent spirit.

How do we break the rules, resist definition, celebrate the mundane, champion freedom and express our most idiosyncratic selves?
Through instinctive movement and experimental live drumming, these two exceptional performers wrestle with the body and the imagination, creating a bold invitation to expressionism. Rather than offering answers, A Spilling leaves meaning open, encouraging each viewer to discover their own.

Conceived, directed and costumed by Theo Clinkard
Realised and performed by Ronan Cardoza and Emma Holbrook.

Read full artist and panellist bios