Ian Giles
Heat Feet

Sea Cadets Hall

17:00-18:00 Saturday 26 June

As part of the event’s programme of the festival, artist Ian Giles reprises his performance Heat Feet. This is a visceral and forceful work that sees the artist standing barefoot on a metal platform that is rapidly heated by two gas stoves lit beneath it. An opera singer ‘documents’ Giles’ movements on the platform with her voice, leading to a distressed and frantic duet which ends when Giles can no longer endure the heat.

Ian Giles graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2008. Recent group shows in London include Architectural Playgrounds, at the Barbican Art Gallery, Play, at Paradise Row, and Caught In The Act, at Chelsea Futurespace. Recent solo exhibitions include Blind Alchemy, at the SWG3 (Glasgow), a collaboration with Rachel Adams, All Together Now, at 20 Hoxton Square Projects (London) and After Cravan at Oriel Davies Gallery (Newtown, Wales). In 2009 Giles was awarded a Wandsworth Arts Grant.

With thanks to soprano Maya Sapone.