
Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014
Anxiety 2014 is a London-wide arts festival taking place at multiple venues throughout June 2014. The programme of visual art, film, communities and on-stage explores anxiety as a modern condition.


Sleepwalking screen (Écran Somnambule)
Friday 6 June
With two performances Fri 6 June & Sat 7 June. The UK premiere of Latifa Laâbissi’s solo dance Écran Somnambule is a unique reinterpretation of Mary Wigman’s 1926 Witch Dance.
The visual arts programme looks at the flexible and often contested boundaries between sanity and insanity, centre and margins, visibility and invisibility.
Visual Arts

Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Eva Kotátková
Tuesday 10 June
As part of acting out: the institution denied, artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Eva Kotátková respond to the context and history of the Anatomy Theatre with two new performances.
Film discovers the bodies, shapes, objects and forms that have represented anxiety throughout cinema history. They are recognisable figures who play out the history of our shared anxious fears.
Film

The Lodger (PG)
Sunday 1 June
The Lodger will be accompanied by an original live music score from the Guildhall school's electronic music studios. Part of our Fear of Fear film strand.
Communities explores anxiety by engaging with our understanding of where 'community' starts and ends. We invite you to explore the commonalities and differences that are part of the fabric of London.
Communities

Asylum
Saturday 28 June
Special rare documentary screening recording the filmmaker's seven-week stay in RD Laing's controversial Archway Community, testing Laing’s conviction that mentally ill people can only heal their shattered “self” in a space where they are free. Part of our Un-Homely film strand
On Stage explores anxiety through music, the voice, spoken word and comedy. We present a wide range of performances aimed at attracting diverse audiences.
On Stage

Sanctuaries With artists Christina Kral, Patient X and Albert Potrony.
Saturday 21 June
This event is the culmination of two collaborative artists’ residencies commissioned by Anxiety 2014 and will take the form of artists’ presentations and screenings.

Cathja Curates - Art, Music and BBQ
Friday 20 June
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