ROLAND CARLINE – DEPTFORD FREESTYLERS
A new film from the Deptford Freestylers – Deptford Freestylers is an inclusive performance and improvisation project based in Deptford. Set up by Rachel Gildea, Francis Majekodunmi and Roland Carline during the making of 4 Live Works at CCA in 2019. The group meet every Tuesday at Deptford X, they share music, look for new ways to engage with performance and learn from each other. Deptford Freestylers moved their weekly class to the CCA for 4 weeks in 2019.
Artist Roland Carline is the CCA’s artist in residence for 2020–2021. As part of his residency Carline will run events and produce new works, building on his collaborations with local community groups. Deptford Freestylers film is the first of a series of works made specifically for CCA’s lockdown programme.
Carline has been working in social work and applied arts in community settings since 1998. His works often feature signature props, costumes and ‘loose parts’, and moved through the register of humour and absurdity to celebrates collusion, and forge an embodied mode of spectatorship that sits with ambiguity and discomfort. For Carline the performers are at the heart of the process, so that the work itself can fall apart and reconstitute in new and unforeseen ways. Carline’s approach is to retreat into the work, allowing collaborators to take the lead – disrupting prevailing ideas of hierarchy within the artists’ practice.
A new film from the Deptford Freestylers – Deptford Freestylers is an inclusive performance and improvisation project based in Deptford. Set up by Rachel Gildea, Francis Majekodunmi and Roland Carline during the making of 4 Live Works at CCA in 2019. The group meet every Tuesday at Deptford X, they share music, look for new ways to engage with performance and learn from each other. Deptford Freestylers moved their weekly class to the CCA for 4 weeks in 2019.
Artist Roland Carline is the CCA’s artist in residence for 2020–2021. As part of his residency Carline will run events and produce new works, building on his collaborations with local community groups. Deptford Freestylers film is the first of a series of works made specifically for CCA’s lockdown programme.
Carline has been working in social work and applied arts in community settings since 1998. His works often feature signature props, costumes and ‘loose parts’, and moved through the register of humour and absurdity to celebrates collusion, and forge an embodied mode of spectatorship that sits with ambiguity and discomfort. For Carline the performers are at the heart of the process, so that the work itself can fall apart and reconstitute in new and unforeseen ways. Carline’s approach is to retreat into the work, allowing collaborators to take the lead – disrupting prevailing ideas of hierarchy within the artists’ practice.
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