Mission Statement
O U I Performance is a not-for-profit, artist-led organization curating live time-based performance in York, North Yorkshire, UK. Founded in 2010, O U I Performance aims to create a physical and conceptual space for new live work in the city through the curation of regular performance events.
O U I Performance commissions new work by local, national and international artists, committed to developing live performance practice on a local level that is represented nationally and internationally.
Responding to a lack of sustainable infrastructure for contemporary time-based practice, O U I Performance supports non-commercial, experimental arts practice. Fostering a culture of criticality and discourse.
O U I Performance is led by artists Victoria Gray & Nathan Walker
About Us
Victoria Gray makes live work that is located between performance art and sculpture, or, performances that are sculptures and sculptures that are performances. Victoria has developed work nationally and internationally, including solo performances at: ]Performance S p a c e[ (London), tactileBOSCH (Cardiff), Abandon Normal Devices (Liverpool), Sideshow 2010, British Art Show 7 (Nottingham), Elevator Gallery (London), ArtEvict (London), Chisenhale Studios (London), Axis Arts Centre for Contemporary Art (Manchester). Victoria has developed work on international residencies including Performing Arts Forum (France), Es.Terni Festival, (Italy) and Grace Exhibition Space, (New York). Victoria holds a permanent post as Lecturer in Performance within the Faculty of Arts, York St John University. website
Nathan Walker's practice transforms the event of writing into performance, video and collage and other things that make it difficult to produce readings. These forms are interconnected and assemble found and constructed images as language experiments using poetic explorations of symmetry, paragrammatic readings and interruption. Underpinned by a state of loss or discomfort his work uses notating, obscuring and repeating, arranging, organising and deconstructing, tasks, images and texts. Considering the action of making as a meeting and arrangement of relationships between bodies, objects and words. Recent projects include: Hunter Gatherer, PSL Project Space Leeds; Proximity Effect, Plymouth Arts Center; Spill Festival, London; ArtEvict, ]Performance S p a c e[ London. Nathan is currently Visiting Lecturer in Performance within the Faculty of Arts at York St John University. website
Contact
Email ouiperformance@gmail.com
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