'no release' will be performed at The Adelaide Salon 'Artist Bed' exhibition

Ink drawing, Andy Ash (2025)

I'm pleased to announce I will be performing 'no release' at The Adelaide Salon 'Artist in Bed' exhibition on Sat. 17th May at 2pm and again on Mon 26th May at 2pm. (27 Adelaide Crescent, Hove)

I will create a performance, installation and sound piece that invites an audience member to be in the bed while I am kneeing at the foot of the bed and whispering to them. I will be connected to the participants via a small broadcasting device (old fashined paper cup telephone) so that I can speak and sing directly to the participant without others in the room hearing, creating a personal and intimate moment/relationship between artist and audience. Whispering is a powerful device that focuses attention, communicates secretly and intimately.

Art serves to make the invisible visible. Beds can be lonely and sad spaces. They are private and rarely public. This performance will highlight those moments when one can’t sleep, when one is alone, late at night, restless, and reflecting on being outside and yet transfixed in the personal inner world and the sub-consciousness.

Around the bed I will create an installation of objects, drawings, books and maps. The objects relate to the activities people tend to do while being unable to sleep, reading poems and self-help books, listening to music, writing and drawing in sketchbooks. I will be positioned in a childlike praying position, on a decorative church kneeler.