Bio
Eve Stainton is an artist interested in the politics of uncodeable queer presence and its intersections with race and class. They create multi-disciplinary performance worlds that hold movement practices, digital collage, and welded steel, and other invisible forces like waves, imagination and drama. These forms work together to create live ecologies that are discordant, multi-layered and psychedelic. Stainton is interested in the production of conflicting states and textures to unravel essentialist thinking, with intent to create more expansive understandings of the lesbian identity, non-gender/variance, and perceptions of the ‘real’.
Notable presentations include: New commission ‘Dykegeist’ for ICA (2021), Venice Biennale performance programme with Florence Peake (2019), Block Universe (UK), The Place (UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Crac Occitanie (FR), Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis (UK), La Becque (SE), LCMF (UK), CCA Glasgow (UK), Tangente (CA). Features include AQNB, FACT Mag, Dazed Beauty, Twin Magazine, Art in America, This is Tomorrow. Work for other artists include Anthea Hamilton, Tai Shani, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Sonia Boyce, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Holly Blakey, Goldfrapp, Compagnie ECO international tour, Vivienne Westwood, Claire Barrow, Art School, Molly Goddard, walking for London/Shanghai/Paris Fashion Weeks
CV
Choreographic work:
Dykegeist, with musician Mica Levi, 2020- present
Commissioned and presented by ICA, supported by Arts Council England, The Place, South East Dance, METAL, London Sculpture Workshop
- Premiered at ICA, Sept 2021
- South East Dance, 2022
Rubby Sucky Forge, The Place Theatre, 2020
Co-commissioned by And What Queer Arts Festival and The Place, supported by Arts Council England
Performers Gaby Agis, Joseph Funnell, Eve Stainton
Rubby Sucky, solo, (2018-2019)
- Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Theatre, 2019. Performed in the context of Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome's Wild Card event 'INCHOATE BUZZ'. Alongside artists Jamila Johnson-Small, Rukeya, Kiera Coward Deyell, Isabel Muñoz-Newsome.
- Steakhouse Live curated by Katy Baird and Aaron Wright
- Laban, 2019, as part of 'Difficulty in Dance Discourse' symposium
- Move Close, Club night at VFD, 2019
- inner u, Club night at The Yard, 2018
LOW-KEY, 2017- 2019, in collaboration with Michael Kitchin and Sara Sassanelli with a different invited performer
- Platform Southwark Gallery, with Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome
- Somerset House, with Rukeya
- inner u at The Yard, with Rowdy
Augmented Superpile, 2018, in collaboration with Michael Kitchin
-Residency and performance at Siobhan Davies Studios, 2018
-Residency at Dance4
NOLO: Curating the Body, A cross cultural project with Michael Kitchin and Sorcha Stott-Strzala between artists in London and Montreal, 2017
Invited contributing choreographers: Seke Chimutengwende, Florence Peake, Henrietta Hale, Frauke Requardt, Adam Kinder, Sasha Kleinplatz, Katie Ward. Performed by Eve Stainton
- Guest Projects, London, 2016
- Tangente Danse 4 night run, Montreal, 2017
Video work:
With [the ghosts] (2020)
Commissioned by Block Universe, supported by ArtFund for their online programme 'Sessions'
Apparition Apparition digital collage film (2019)
Lives inside the live performance work Apparition Apparition in collaboration with Florence Peake. Presented at Venice Biennale performance programme 2019
Rubby Sucky Forge digital collage film (2020)
Lives inside live performance work Rubby Sucky Forge, presented at The Place, 2020)
Spider Revenge digital collage film (2019)
Supported by METAL Time and Space residency programme and Arts Council England.
Lives inside live performance Dykegeist to be premiered at ICA, March 2020
Residencies:
- Rich Mix during the creation of Rubby Sucky Forge, 2019
- The Place during the creation of Rubby Sucky Forge, 2020
- The Place, as a selected Choreodrome 2019 artist for creation of Dykegeist, 2019
- METAL Southend and Liverpool as selected Time & Space artist, to support digital collage film Queer Spider Revenge, 2019
- Dance 4 and Siobhan Davies, to support creation of Augmented Superpile in collaboration with Michael Kitchin, 2018
Press:
- AQNB online publication, 2020 'Queer transformational states & the emotional edges of metal in the dance & digital collage of Eve Stainton’s Rubby Sucky Forge in London', by Jared Davis
- FACT Mag, online, 2020 'Eve Stainton experiments with sci-fi choreographies in Rubby Sucky Forge', by Henry Bruce-Jones
- Twin Magazine, in print 'The Age of Excoriation' feature by Dorothy Feaver, featuring digital collage work, 2020
- Not Cancelled Salon online, featuring digital collage works
- Kunst Bulletin 06, featuring digital collage work Friendly Creature, 2020
- Dazed Beauty, 'Masculinity' feature, 2019
Work for other artists:
Anthea Hamilton at Tate Britain and Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli. Jamila Johnson-Small as Last Year Interesting Negro at ICA, Malik Nashad Sharpe as marikiscrycrycry 2019 tour, Tai Shani at Nottingham Contemporary, Compagnie ECOs international tour, Holly Blakey at Southbank Centre and UK tour, Jacopo Miliani at DRAF, Sonia Boyce and Barbara Gamper at Goldfrapp Anymore music video and Glastonbury, Years and Years, Mabel, Vivienne Westwood, ArtSchool, Molly Goddard, Claire Barrow among others, and walked during London/Berlin/Paris/Shanghai Fashion Week.
click here for collaborative CV with Florence Peake
Photography, Anne Tetzlaff, Dykegeist, ICA, 2021