the space in between, hosted by Kelly Lloyd

With performances and readings by Anna Bunting-Branch, Kelly Lloyd, Ashkan Sepahvand and Frank Wasser.

the space in between is hosted by Kelly Lloyd at No Show Space in the context of her show , things like this. Bunting-Branch, Lloyd, Sepahvand and Wasser have all recently completed or handed in their PhD thesis. These performances and readings are in response to the chasm that opened up in our lives after we completed/handed in our PhD theses. The chasm that opens up after you finish something you’ve worked on for a long time. What do you do after? Why do you need to do anything? Regardless of how you feel about your work, or work and productivity in general, this space exists. The space in-between. What do you do in this space, with this space?

Anna Bunting-Branch is an artist and researcher based in London. Moving between painting, writing, animation, and collaborative practice, her work explores spaces of future re-vision: from feminist collective action to speculative fiction and fan activity. In 2022, she completed a PhD titled ‘Practicing the Difference: Reading Luce Irigaray with Feminist Science Fiction’, which considers feminist SF as a methodology to approach the question of sexual difference raised by philosopher Luce Irigaray. In 2025, along with Peg Rawes, Anna will co-convene the 15th meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle––a virtual conference dedicated to works-in-progress and practice-led research inspired by Irigaray.

Ashkan Sepahvand is an artist, writer, and researcher. He was born in Tehran, grew up in Tulsa, and lives and works between London and Berlin. His practice takes time. An interest in words and bodies shape his inquiries. Projects take the form of performances, publications, performances, and regular collaboration with friends. Together with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, they founded the institute for incongruous translation in 2010, a framework for their shared studies. He is one half of ssssSssssssss, a study-friendship with Virgil B/G Taylor.

Dr Frank Wasser is an Irish artist, curator and writer from Dublin, living and working in Dublin, London and Vienna. He has exhibited internationally, including Tate Modern, Jerwood Arts, London, the University of Oxford, and he currently teaches Fine Art and Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Recent and upcoming projects include a performance at the Irish Museum of Modern Art 'SPLIT' (July 2024) and DEBT at the Salzburger Kunstverein (which opens December 2024). His writing has been published in Flash Art, Art Monthly, and Art Review and he is editor of the international journal The Posthumanist. Wasser is currently an artist in residence at Tate Library supported by Askeaton Contemporary. His work unfolds through a variety of materials, forms, and encounters, both discrete and explicit, in the form of the body of an artist, as lecture-performances, teaching, lies, sculpture, publications, images, and slips of the tongue. He follows an investigative preoccupation with class, colonialism, contemporary and historical governing structures in the workplace, the art institution, and the university. Wasser received the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Artist bursary in 2024.

Saturday 30 November, 3 - 5pm

Performances and Readings from 3:30pm

With drinks and snacks.