Live with Holly Blakey

22 April 2020

Choreographer and artist Holly Blakey speaks to RIA curator Ned McConnell about notions of liveness in her work.

This event was part of a larger series of online conversations, co-hosted by our organisation and Performance Exchange since the start of lockdown. The webcast talks feature artists, curators and other cultural practitioners engaged in live work.

As organisations both being dedicated to performance and event-based art practices, this collaboration is born from the need to keep supporting these practices whilst gatherings are not possible. In creating this platform together, we want to share artistic projects and ideas with our audiences, whilst thinking through different cultural infrastructure that works for performance in times of social isolation.

Holly Blakey

Holly Blakey's work has been described as a 'punk, 4am vision of what contemporary dance can be' (Kate Hutchinson, The Guardian). Her practice moves between genres, from pop to contemporary, and responds to contexts than span live performance, video directing and choreography.

Performance Exchange

Performance Exchange is a dispersed performance project across commercial galleries in London, some of which will also be hosting performances from international galleries in July 2020.

Highlighting the work done by commercial galleries to support multi-disciplinary and performance practice, Performance Exchange will create new forms of support for collecting performance art through a three day programme of presentations combined with detailed acquisition information for each work on an innovative digital platform.