2026
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Performance Series
SET Vauxhall
London
Created as part of the group show KICK
curated by Alex Stone & Sarah Davis
London
Created as part of the group show KICK
curated by Alex Stone & Sarah Davis
Multiple performances, video and photo documentation, installation
Materials: Builders buckets, body, PVC drain pipes, wood, castors
Installation dimensions:
Video: 9-minute loop, 1920 x 1080 px, camera Allysa Guitars
The installation constitutes an arch made of stacked builders’ buckets. But during the exhibition opening, part of the arch is living the life of its own – the large stack of buckets is simultaneously wandering around on its own. The performer's body is not visible and therefore non existent - it delegates its agency to a number of inanimate objects forming a new uncanny entity.
The viewers are free to form their own judgement of what is happening before them as this DIY non-human agent wanders around and attempts to connect to another buckets stack. The artist's goal here is, as is often with Dagnini's performances, to dis-identify and exist in an alternative form. The act is also meant to erase otherwise definitive lines between a subject and an object.
After the show's opening the work exists as a pre-recorded video of the performance alongside the buckets arch. The video documentation serves as evidence of the object's curious past life, while the object itself remains frozen in space, like a fossilised organism.
After the show's opening the work exists as a pre-recorded video of the performance alongside the buckets arch. The video documentation serves as evidence of the object's curious past life, while the object itself remains frozen in space, like a fossilised organism.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Exhibition dates: 16-31 October
Public opening event: Thursday 15 October, 6-9pm
Opening performances by: Dagnini, Laura Carey, Alex Stone, Olga Tomalik, Chanel Vegas and Ian Williamson
Opening hours: Friday – Sunday, 12-6pm
Artist tour/talk: Saturday 17 October, 3-5pm
Location: Ground floor, SET Vauxhall, Camelford House, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP
KICK, curated by Sarah Davis and Alex Stone, brings together more than 30 artists working across sculpture, painting, photography, performance and intervention. Taking the multiplicity of the bucket as its starting point, the exhibition explores how artists have expanded the uses, contexts and concepts of this humble domestic object.
The title is an act: to kick a door down, to move an obstruction. Framed on three sides by the MI6 building, the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament, KICK sits at the centre with a bucket full of defiance, asking what it means to be an artist in 2026.
Buckets have a deeply functional history, from carrying drinking water to bailing out floodwater. They are vessels to be filled and emptied, holding precious, life-giving resources as well as vile bodily fluids. They help us clean, contain, hide and expose. They can signify both death and life, or act as portals to other worlds. To fulfil a bucket list is a pilgrimage. As objects of the erotic, they can hold a multitude of things, and we can be derided for what we put inside. Turned upside down, they become stages, costumes or instruments.
KICK draws on a long lineage of buckets in art, from Dutch still lifes featuring bulging buckets of fish to Sarah Lucas’s metaphorical reinterpretation in Au Naturel (1994). The exhibition continues this lineage through an expansive range of interpretations: buckets filled with watery interiors; objects that reference the materiality of buckets; buckets in direct action; buckets worn as hats or reimagined as oozing bags of bits.
https://setspace.uk/event/kick-exhibition-set-vauxhall/
Public opening event: Thursday 15 October, 6-9pm
Opening performances by: Dagnini, Laura Carey, Alex Stone, Olga Tomalik, Chanel Vegas and Ian Williamson
Opening hours: Friday – Sunday, 12-6pm
Artist tour/talk: Saturday 17 October, 3-5pm
Location: Ground floor, SET Vauxhall, Camelford House, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP
KICK, curated by Sarah Davis and Alex Stone, brings together more than 30 artists working across sculpture, painting, photography, performance and intervention. Taking the multiplicity of the bucket as its starting point, the exhibition explores how artists have expanded the uses, contexts and concepts of this humble domestic object.
The title is an act: to kick a door down, to move an obstruction. Framed on three sides by the MI6 building, the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament, KICK sits at the centre with a bucket full of defiance, asking what it means to be an artist in 2026.
Buckets have a deeply functional history, from carrying drinking water to bailing out floodwater. They are vessels to be filled and emptied, holding precious, life-giving resources as well as vile bodily fluids. They help us clean, contain, hide and expose. They can signify both death and life, or act as portals to other worlds. To fulfil a bucket list is a pilgrimage. As objects of the erotic, they can hold a multitude of things, and we can be derided for what we put inside. Turned upside down, they become stages, costumes or instruments.
KICK draws on a long lineage of buckets in art, from Dutch still lifes featuring bulging buckets of fish to Sarah Lucas’s metaphorical reinterpretation in Au Naturel (1994). The exhibition continues this lineage through an expansive range of interpretations: buckets filled with watery interiors; objects that reference the materiality of buckets; buckets in direct action; buckets worn as hats or reimagined as oozing bags of bits.
https://setspace.uk/event/kick-exhibition-set-vauxhall/