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Fierce Jams 02: Midlands Sailing Club
Francesca Millican-Slater, Margot McClane, Harmanpreet Randhawa, Sym Stellium (Simone Mendez), Emily Parsons-Lord
(Birmingham / Melbourne)
A new performance series rises! Fierce Jams is a new, ongoing, and nomadic performance series that indulges in small-scale experiments in contemporary performance and live art. It is an excuse for Birmingham’s performance community to gather and to develop their practice in conversation with each other. Each edition features 4 local artists – selected through a mixture of invitations and an open call – plus a guest national or international artist. With a keen desire for new collaborations across the city, Fierce Jams is an attempt to refute the models of scarcity imposed upon our present artistic ecology while insisting on experimentation as an essential ingredient to artistic practice. The second edition of Fierce Jams is on the banks of the beautiful Edgbaston Reservoir at the Midlands Sailing Club and will feature Birmingham-based artists Margot McClane, Francesca Millican-Slater, Harmanpreet Randhawa, Sym Stellium, and Melbourne-based Emily Parsons-Lord. If you’re a Birmingham artist and interested in participating in future editions of Fierce Jams, we have a rolling, ongoing call for expressions of interest.
Photo: Irina Mackie
artist bio
Margot McClane is a multidisciplinary artist, working across performance, video, installation, paint, collage and text, often utilising found and readymade objects within her work. Through a feminist lens, she explores pertinent issues including systemic violence, institutional injustice, identity and agency, and personal space in the public realm and questions how, during these times of societal inequity and collapse, we can create spaces for transformation and growth. Margot first started creating live art performance in 2010 during her B.A (Hons.) Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton and worked with various performance-makers at that time, including Periplum and Companis. In 2011, she was a core member of the organising committee for the first Junction Festival, and in the same year she secured the Eastside Projects Graduate Award for her achievements during her undergraduate degree. She is currently studying for her M.A in Fine Art at Birmingham City University.
Francesca Millican-Slater is an artist working in theatre, performance and audio. She also sit pets. Fran makes work in response to histories of place, people, nature, objects and how stories are collected and told. Her shows have been co-produced and commissioned by Birmingham Rep, New Vic Stoke, Duckie & Fierce Festival (Princess Promenade) and she has been artist in residence at The National Waterways Museum and Warwickshire Archives. Her audio works include podcast Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night (strange stories for sleepless nights) and commissions for Coventry City of Culture and The National Trust. She’s usually trying to get wet in a pool, pond or puddle.
Emily Parsons-Lord makes visually stunning, embodied installations and performances.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Animal parts
Fire
Needles
Pyrotechnics
Theatrical smoke/haze
VENUE INFO
This edition of Fierce Jams is made possible with support from The Saintbury Trust.