I am showing 'She Wants To Be Flowers' at 'The Tipping Point' at Bell House this May as part of The Dulwich Festival.
The Tipping Point
Bell House
27 College Rd
Dulwich
London
SE21 7BG
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PV: 10 May 6 to 8pm Exhibition open: 11/12 and 18/19 May, 11am to 6pm
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Sarah Sparkes and Jane Millar have been invited, by host Kim Thornton, to curate two rooms in Bell House, The Landing and The Gowan Room, in response to her theme 'The Tipping Point Magical or Malevolent? We took Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' as our starting point.
THE TIPPING POINT: SHAPERS Sarah Sparkes and Jane Millar - Landing and Gowan Room, Bell House
Artists: Jonathan Callan, Chudamani Clowes, Sarah Doyle, Lydia Julien, Marq Kearey, David Leapman, Yair Meshoulam, Jane Millar, Stephen Nelson, Victoria Rance, Alke Schmidt, Lex Shute, Ania Tomaszewska-Nelson, Sarah Sparkes, Sara Trillo, Marianne Walker, Alice Wilson
Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel, ‘Parable of the Sower’, opens in 2024, when capitalism, wealth inequalities, repressive regimes and climate disintegration have led to a rapid and violent breakdown of society. The novel’s protagonist, 15 year old Lauren Oya Olamina, creates a new belief system, 'Earthseed', where the only lasting truth is change and where all the seeds of life may be transplanted and adapted to new situations and locations, ultimately, beyond Earth.
We are all entangled - humans, animals, plants, fungi, earth, water, fire, air – yet it seems that the human condition is to wait for tipping points, transformative catastrophes to precipitate urgent change and then, only as a means of return to an illusionary status quo.
Our artists explore a new awareness of change and exchange, a constant shifting of strange identities, the malleability of being, interspecies communication and the strength and vulnerability of community. We are imagining new ways to merge; ways to intelligently and sensually live in the flux of a perpetual tipping point. Sarah Sparkes & Jane Millar 2024
Spaces/Curators
Downstairs
Entrance Hall: Lucy Bainbridge
MacAndrew Room: Min Angel and Lucy Soni
Lutyens Room: Léonie Cronin
Thomas Wright Room: Kim Thornton
Upstairs -
Landing & Gowan Room: Sarah Sparkes and Jane Millar
Lucas Room: Monika Kita
