'Performing the Unconscious' An evening of performance with artists Shaun Caton and Quilla Constance

Join us for an evening of performance inspired by The Festival of the Unconscious, featuring artists, Shaun Caton and Quilla Constance. 7pm ‘PRECIPICE RECIPE’ is a new performance formulated specially for the Freud Museum’s dining room and uses Sigmund Freud’s dining table to present a miniature wunderkammer – or cabinet of curiosities – of curious artifacts found in or near the river Thames. In something akin to the guise of a shaman Caton interacts with these objects, creating fabulous projections and breath-taking moments of surreal paradox. As both curator and creator in his own dream-like museum within a museum, he reveals and conceals a series of fractured, apocalyptic stories inside stories evinced in bold and disturbing images - not words. This multi-dimensional performance is an opportunity for people to experience Caton’s immersive world of stratified culture and ritual in a museum setting. 7.45pm Jennifer Allen (as Quilla Constance) will give a performative lecture on Freud's theory of the unconscious, automatism and jouissance, with reference to texts by Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink, and Rosi Braidotti. To follow, Allen will screen a bespoke re-edit of her recent arts council commissioned video work 'PUKIJAM'. The piece sees Quilla Constance perform a sub-linguistic vocal scat intercut with 'exotic' scenes from her painting studio, and a hypnotic Rorschach test inspired montage of objects. The video will be interspersed with a live, automatic Cello fugue.
Admission
£10/£7 concessions/Members

Website
http://www.freud.org.uk/events/76006/performing-the-unconscious/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000274?id=EVENT530631