Jamie Lewis-Hadley: We Will Outlive The Blood You Bleed

PLACE: Vanha viinatehdas (The Old Liquor Factory), Manilla Culture Factory, Itäinen Rantakatu 64 B

DATE & TIME: Sat 6.9. at 22:45–23

DURATION: 15 min. No pre-booking needed.

LANGUAGE: None.

We Will Outlive the Blood You Bleed is a performance installation. For the past decade, Lewis-Hadley has been presenting different works around a simple statement: “Not everybody bleeds in the same way, but every-body bleeds”. Like many of these works, this performance deals with experiences and discourses on inequality, nationality, land, religion and politics of everyday life.

In We Will Outlive the Blood You Bleed, the use of a white flag represents a neutral geography, politics and secularity. “Covering the flag in my blood is an action to highlight our body’s universality – a flag that connects us all,” he says. Ultimately, this performance contains a message of hope: an act of protest that urgently calls for compassion, reconnection and a potent reminder of both our fragility and our inherent and material connectivity.

Jamie Lewis Hadley (he/him) is an artist, festival director and curator whose field of multidisciplinary and sociocultural artistic practice explores the fields of medicine, professional wrestling and barbering.  He has presented work widely across the UK, and around the world including South Africa, Brazil, North America, Canada and mainland Europe. In 2017 he curated and directed CUT Festival; a 10-day multidisciplinary art festival across multiple venues in London exploring themes of gender, social healing, race, community, identity and heritage within the context of contemporary barbering. 

Jamie’s work is committed to creating and curating visually striking and conceptually accessible artworks; opening the field of visual arts to as varied an audience as possible. He holds a MRA in Theatre and Performance from the University of Plymouth, and was recently published in Performance Research: On Protest.