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Carl Gent (2018)
Event
the Balls of Alban
25 Jan 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 13:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
free
Address
- Distillery Tower
- 2 Mill Lane
- London
England - SE8 4HP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 543, 53, 177 - stop Deptford Bridge
- New Cross
- Deptford station or Deptford Bridge DLR
SEAGER opens it’s new gallery space with The Balls of Alban, a performance by Carl Gent, which sees a Dark Ages martyr and a 21st century artist meet for a battle of Texas Hold ‘Em.
About
“St Alban and I were playing strip poker but neither of us had any cards...”As past and present collapse into one and new rounds of strip poker ensue, it is not just clothing that is shed. The performance exposes how the legacy of Saint Alban is tied up in the beheading of a King who living four centuries ahead of Alban’s time and thirteen centuries into the past for you and me.
�������� �������� is an artist from Bexhill-on-sea, UK. Their recent work has been attempting to rehistoricise the biography of Cynethryth, eighth-century Queen of Mercia. This has occurred through live publishing, tabletop gaming, performance of folk song, amateur dramatics and the creation of a carnival float that took part in 2018's community-led Bexhill Carnival.
������������ is a newly established commercial gallery just off Deptford Broadway. The programme is focused on art that uses digital technology in its process, as its product, or as its subject. This is our housewarming, breathing life into the space ahead of launching the exhibition programme in February.
