7–8.30pm
97–99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL
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lip service was a celebration of common/play\grounds by yasamin ghalehnoie and sass popoli in collaboration with The Mosaic Rooms.
lip service was a performance of three playmates (yasamin, sass, hannah) organising, preparing, and attending to a playground of their common desire, bearing the weight of the everyday psychosocial anxieties and disabilities towards taking part. The performance played out five new publications printed throughout this project, along with an improvised soft score.
inward. outward. collective play time. words burst into an inaudible murmur of out of tune yells; coordinated repetitions spill beyond their borders. An invite takes place. Going up the slides, through to the assembly point; holding hand up face down closed eyes. “ohhh my playmates! don’t be shy to take part. the world has come to an end and we still,”
The event launched five publications of poetic visuals and words, made in collaboration with Hannah Clarkson, Angela YT Chan, and Ashkan Sepahvand in response to the workshops organised by the artists at The Mosaic Rooms as part of the project common/play\grounds. The publications titled Hold keeping with my insomnia, Pleasures of the Mouth, What are Autoimmune Autographies, Failed Weathered Radios, and How to Play out Rejection, were available to purchase at the event.
Biographies:
yasamin ghalehnoie, ghalenoi, qalenoii, is undecided by the incongruity of vowels in translation. Transitioning out of shame, today they are interested in clockless times, destressing hysteria, and the everyday culture that is fictional in its making. They write, make docufictions, and teach among other things fermenting, sweaty and silly. For its worth, they hold an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and are an associate lecturer at the Royal College of Art.
sass popoli is an artist living and working in London who graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Dig and Rise, The Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Spider on Hairs, Stiftung Künstlerdorf, Schöppingen, Germany, 2023; Present Artifact, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Loyola University Chicago, 2021. sass has been a fellow of Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, 2023, and Kala Art Institute, 2022. They are author of I’m Spring Clouds of Smiles, 2024, and Mahbubeh, the Poor Farm Press, 2021. They have participated in the Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2021.
Hannah Clarkson is a visual artist, writer, and researcher interested in the materialities of storytelling and voice and embodied languages of empathy. Following a BFA from Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (2013) and an MFA from Konstfack, Stockholm (2017), she is currently a practice-led PhD candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the RCA (2021–2025). Alongside an active art and writing practice, she teaches creative writing for post-graduate students at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and BA Stage Design at Wimbledon School of Art. Publications include Decolonizing Architecture anthology (ed. 2021), Synonyms for Shelter poetry collection (2020), and The Green Room: Perspectives on Artistic Research (ed. 2018).
This event was in collaboration with The Mosaic Rooms who hosted the year-long project common/play\grounds led by yasamin and sass.
