Samm Shackleton

Anonymous. Leeds city centre 10/2/2024 Duration: 90mins Documentation: Benjamin Cowley #performanceart #performanceartist #publicart #durationalperformance #durationalperformanceart #poetics #activistart #critical #radical

“For the Faint of Heart” 13/5/2022 @darp.media Images: @lucymarriottart

IK KIN: Discharge presented by @futureritual Friday 1 May, 7pm Tickets £8 - £25 Future Ritual present the latest edition to the KIN programming, Discharge. IKLECTIK is proud to host this series, with the first edition on Friday the 1st of May. ARTIST FOCUS: Samm Shackleton and Ian Whitford - Feeder " @weeks_and_whitford and @samm.shackleton have solo and collaborative practices as performance artists/organisers. They are co-founders of OTHER and this collaboration was born out of that experimental practice led crucible. Together they make confrontational/confessional performances that explore intimacy, control and somatic memory. They offer compact site aware work that foregrounds the body as a site of inheritance and compulsion. They understand making performance art as something they do to make sense of experiences for themselves and others, to learn, transform, and find meaning. Whitford has performed as half of duo Weeks & Whitford since 2010 and is co director of Performance Platform." See Feeder as part of the first edition of Discharge, curated by Future Ritual and @martinobrienart 18+ event.

‘Portal’ - Samm Shackleton & Pierce Starre (@samm.shackleton @piercestarreartist ) Born from a weekend of shared exploration at The Field, Derbyshire, ‘Portal’ traces a connection between two artists through contrasting experiences of addiction and survival. The door became their motif. Both barrier and passage, separation and meeting point. Two mirrored images marked their exchange: two bodies, two truths, held in reciprocity. Since the first iteration, Samm and Pierce have continued to revisit the work. When Samm later relapsed and relocated, the original door was lost. A new one now stands in its place. A living threshold through which the collaboration continues. In July 2024, it featured in this performance for camera at ASC Gallery, London, as part of an OTHER residency. Photography: @weeks_and_whitford

‘Feeder’ - Samm Shackleton and Ian Whitford (@samm.shackleton @weeks_and_whitford ) Drawing on the shadow logic of ‘Hansel and Gretel’, Ian and Samm moved through cycles of feeding and being fed upon, tracing compulsions, care, control, hunger, and insatiable appetites. Bread and butter. Offered, devoured, returned. Becomes both sustenance and sacrament, consumed and transformed, then stitched back together; a ritual of taking and giving, loss and restoration. (A sound score built from a stuck record player and the ‘BBC Classified Football Results’, produced by the duo, looped in the air. Droning, measuring. Familiar voices collapsing into trance.) Big thanks again to @weareunltd and @clayleeds for their support and help to realise this work. 
Documentation: @piercestarreartist

Alignment. 27/5/2024 Documentation- Benjamin Cowley. #performanceart #performanceartist #sitespecific #sitespecificart #durationalperformance #durationalwork #durationalart #duration #durational #critical #radical

SITE : FAULT LINES Participating Artists : Eduardo Cardoso Amato, Barbara LeBéguec-Friedman, Kane Stonestreet, Samm Shackleton, Helen Davison, selina bonelli, and Ash McNaughton. Documentation by: Fenia Kotsopoulou and Daz Disley Edited by: Daz Disley and Ash McNaughton Performances at: Carriére de Dannes, France (12.09.2022) and Upper Culand Pit, Burham, UK (16.09.2022) Commissioned and presented as part of SALT + EARTH Festival of Landscape, Seascape and the Environment (23 - 25/09/2022) at Block 67, Digital Glassworks, Folkestone, UK. Supported by Kent AONB, Parc naturel régional des caps et marais d'Opale, Folkestone Fringe, and Creative Folkestone. SITE is co-founded and co-facilitated by selina bonelli, Helen Davison, and Ash McNaughton /

Documentation from a few months back tentatively we initiate touch; unity do you accept? Photos- @lucymarriottart

Remembering “Reet Good” with all my heart. Reet Good is an electric, dynamic, and trail-blazing event of Live Performance Art that seeks to break down barriers, challenge preconceptions and boldly centre and illuminate the work of Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists. Images: @marcin_sz_photographer Participating Artists: Pierce Starre // Gemma Marmalade // Samm Shackleton // Paula Clarke // Niamh Meehan // Alice Colquhoun Thank you @performancentha ❤️

“Survival Kit” 2021 @artcoregallery @darp.media Images by Francis Ana

FUTURERITUAL:MYTHIC TIME a workshop by VestandPage and Joseph Morgan Schofield, ]performance s p a c e[, 2021. Photos by Zack Mennell.