DACS Meets: Florence Peake and Oreet Ashery in conversation
- 27 October 2021, 5-6pm
- Online event
We joined multi-disciplinary artists Florence Peake and Oreet Ashery to discuss how their expansive practices unfold and converge through their exploration of the human form and a penchant for performance-based works.
Through this collaborative conversation, Peake and Ashery jointly reflected on topics that have inhabited their practice through shared experiences; the process of aging and non-belonging in a queer body as well as notions of friendships, community, and kinship.
About the artists
Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been making solo and group performance works intertwined with an extensive visual art practice since 1995. Her practice spans movement, interactive sculpture, paintings that use the whole body’s physicality, text, film, and drawings which respond and intercept each other to articulate, extend, and push ideas.
Presenting work internationally and across the UK in galleries, theatres and the public realm, Peake is known for an approach which is at once sensual and witty, expressive and rigorous, political and intimate.
Peake is part of the Hayward Gallery’s touring British Art Show 9 (2021).
Oreet Ashery is a transdisciplinary visual artist who navigates established, institutional and grassroot art and social contexts. The work engages with biopolitical fiction, autoethnography, gender materiality and potential communities.
Ashery’s practice manifests through distinct multiplatform projects that span moving-image, live situations, performance, assemblage and writing. The work turns to costume, new music/sound commissions and activism. Ashery’s practice is often collaborative, participatory and questions the modes and conditions of art production.
Ashery was a Turner Bursary recipient in 2020.
About DACS Meets
DACS Meets is a series of conversations between artists and leading cultural practitioners. These conversations form part of DACS’ public programme, showcasing how artists continue to play a unifying role in our social fabric.
