DIY: 2015 – Shaun Caton ‘SHADOW SECT’

Project Summary

An opportunity to join Shaun Caton, one of the main exponents of the macabre and grotesque in performance art, to explore ideas of experimental drawing and ‘shadow’ work in ritualistic performance. The DIY will culminate in a collaborative live performance.

Drawing on Shaun’s own ritual performance objects, props and masks, participants will make drawings and cut outs that pay homage to the phenomenon of the wunderkammer – or cabinet of curiosities. The project will become a durational shadow play performance incorporating the use of ethnographic percussion instruments and vocal sounds. All drawing/shadow making materials will be supplied.

Applicants with an interest in shadow puppetry, shamanism, primitive, tribal and non western cultures and/or applicants with the ability to imitate birdsong or speak in a range of strange voices are encouraged to apply. 

Applicants must make their own masks to wear in the performance workshop and dress in neutral colours. 

Application deadline: Deadline passed.

Dates, times, location
Saturday 19 September, LADA office, London and one other date in October to be confirmed.

The Artist

Shaun Caton is a British performance artist, painter and avid collector, who has worked internationally for over 30 years. His  performance work has been variously described as ‘like eavesdropping on the home life of a serial killer’ -The Scotsman and ‘Neo-noir psychological horror’ – Exeunt Magazine. See the Shaun Caton website for more information. 

Banner image credit:

Image: Julius G Beltrame

Part of DIY: 2015

Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

DIY: 2015

DIY

Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

Read more

DIY: 2015 – Call for proposals

DIY

Unusual professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists

Read more

Also

DIY: 2018 – Nwando Ebizie: Afro Diasporic Ritual as Afrofuturist Technology

DIY

Exploring neuro-mythology, Haitian Vodou dance, and atypical perception

Read more

DIY: 2020 – FAQs

DIY

A list of frequently asked questions covering all aspects of the DIY application process

Read more

DIY: 2016 – Curious (Leslie Hill & Helen Paris) ‘PRIVATE KEEP OUT!’

DIY

A weekend by the sea side exploring the very British obsession with privacy

Read more

DIY: 2017 – max+noa: How to Build Boats and Influence People (to build boats)

DIY

Five days making your own skin-on-frame coracle somewhere outside in Northumbria and thinking about things quite a bit

Read more

DIY: 2018 – Marikiscrycrycry: SH4ME/[N0 SH4ME]

DIY

Giving form and function to the dance party

Read more

DIY: 2017 – Giovanna Maria Casetta with Helena Waters: Help The Aged

DIY

A traditional seaside weekender for ageing artists with a punk/anarchic ethos

Read more