Past Works Recycling Plant is a mixed-bill night of contemporary performance curated by artist duo Emergency Chorus.

In contrast to the more commonly found 'scratch night' for testing new work, Past Works Recycling Plant instead invites artists to 'recycle' their old work. Expect reworked and remixed material, whirlwind retrospectives, undocumented gems, discarded ideas, or the very first work an artist made 10, 20, 30 years ago.

Past Works Recycling Plant is a celebration of the ways that artists change and remain constant; an invitation to time-travel, making room for the unseen, the almost-forgotten, the stolen, the scribblings-in-the-margins, the what-was-was-there-all-along. We say: out with the new, and in with the old!

Line-up includes:

ACTION HERO
ANDREW NEIL HAYES
ANIA VAREZ
BUOYS BUOYS BUOYS
EMERGENCY CHORUS

Doors: 7pm
Acts start: 8pm

ACTION HERO

Gemma Paintin & James Stenhouse have been working together under the moniker Action Hero since 2005. Using this name, they collaborate to create performances, installations, social practice, audio work and more. Independence is at the heart of the company’s ethos, alongside collaboration, a commitment to artist-led spaces and methodologies, and a belief in the power of art and creativity to give shape to the human experience. As well as extensive international touring to both critical and popular acclaim, the company has received grants, fellowships, commissions and residencies worldwide. They have published two books and contributed to several more. Action Hero are Forest Fringe associate artists and members of artist collectives Residence and The Brunswick Club.

https://actionhero.org.uk/Home

ANIA VAREZ

Ania Varez (they/them) is a Venezuelan dance artist based in Bristol. Their work lives somewhere in between the mediums of dance, community development, live art and writing. These days, they are interested in: ways of generating joy, of passing time, of being together, of creating change, of expanding our collective stories of migration, queerness and being alive today. On an ongoing journey to understand what a truly collaborative and inclusive practice might be, you're likely to find them working with many different people, often with folks who have never been in creative spaces before. Ania's work has been showcased internationally and in the UK, including SPILL Festival, Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival, Taipei Contemporary Arts Centre and Robert Howard Theatre. They are a proud member of Interval, an artist collective based in Bristol.

https://www.aniavarez.com/

ANDREW NEIL HAYES

Andrew Neil Hayes makes videos that are performances and performances that are videos; usually involving himself and / or a suit, live projection, earth, mud, dirt, sweat, tears. Based in Bristol, his work has been shown at festivals and galleries worldwide. He is also an active member of the local music scene, best known as leader of the psychedelic jazz not jazz band Run Logan Run.

www.andrewneilhayes.com

BUOYS BUOYS BUOYS

Buoys Buoys Buoys is a folklorist and multidisciplinary artist working between Swansea & Bristol. Producing performance, sculpture, and installation, they use their practice to engage communities in the retelling of Celtic folktales through absurd storytelling and public play, exploring themes of Queer masculinity, contemporary ritual magic, and working class Welsh folk culture.

Over the last 2 years Buoys Buoys Buoys has performed and exhibited at Soho Theatre, Bristol Museum, Elysium Gallery (Swansea), Theatr y Sherman (Cardiff), and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2022, 2023), with upcoming projects at ArtHouse Jersey, Chapter Art Centre (Cardiff), Kit Form Gallery (Bristol), and Mission Gallery (Swansea).

https://buoysbuoysbuoys.com/

EMERGENCY CHORUS

Emergency Chorus is Ben Kulvichit (he/him) and Clara Potter-Sweet (they/she). They make performances which straddle experimental theatre, live art and dance, often colliding disparate source materials to create collages of text, choreography, music and image. The work is ambiguous, playful, fragile, strange, appealing and troublesome. Recently, they have made a dance piece which predicts the future, a choir of town criers, and an improvised preposition salad.

https://emergencychorus.com/