12april

12april

a play by George Lynch
made collaboratively by Joe Davies, Tom Hardwick-Allan, George Lynch, Alex McKenzie & Hannah Taverner

12april is a play set in a city where almost no one lives.

The story is told through audio composed and performed by Tom Hardwick-Allan & Alex McKenzie, combined with an installation created by artist Joe Davies, with one performer (Hannah Taverner) live on stage.

This project was supported by an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant.

Hannah Taverner is a performer, actor, and artist living in South London. They work with performance and sound. Recent performances have been shown at Wysing Art Centre (Cambridge, UK), PRIMARY (Nottingham, UK) and The Horse Hospital (London, UK). They work with young people and alternative educational programs such as The Complete Works.

Alex McKenzie is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and improvising musician based in London. Their artistic output primarily takes the form of collaborative work, as a member of the groups Shovel Dance Collective, Gentle Stranger, caroline, and Search Engine Quartet. They regularly perform both within the UK and internationally, and their work has been featured in publications such as Pitchfork, The Wire, The Quietus, and The Guardian, on radio stations such as BBC Radios 3, 4, and 6, NTS, and on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series.

Tom Hardwick-Allan is an artist based in London. Solo and duo shows include Halbe Sachen with Stanislava Kovalcikova, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2023, Catching the First Mute Sliced in the Morning, South Parade at NADA New York, 2023, Scrying the Slice, South Parade, London, 2022, Going Light, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2021.
Group shows include A separate space between the thought and felt, South Parade, London, 2024 and White Trash, The White Ermine, Dusseldorf, 2024. Publications include After the Numbers, Before the Numbness, 2024, The Weather Gut, The Toe Rag, 2024, Catching the First Mute Sliced in the Morning, 2023 and Studio Log, 2021.
As a musician, he has performed under his own name at Cafe Oto, 2024 and has played across the UK and internationally as a member of Gentle Stranger, Shovel Dance Collective and Search Engine Quartet. Recent performances with Gentle Stranger include a collaboration with Agnes Scherer between Cabaret Voltaire and Kunteverien St Gallen, 2024.
He co-runs the space Worse.

Joe Davies’ practice explores the social histories of objects through their embodied, emotional charge. His work usually takes the form of expansive installations strewn with combinations of the given and the made. Results are often uncanny, occupying a zone between archeological reconstruction and fictional tableaux. His practice also involves regular collaboration with other artists and musicians with a focus on analogue technologies, multimedia and expanded cinema. He has shown in artist-run and DIY spaces internationally and nationally, exhibitions include The Listeners, The Horse Hospital (2024), XX-XX-XXXX, West Werk, Hamburg (2023) and always already, Old Souvenirs, Zona Mista, London (2021).

George Lynch is a writer. Recent publications of her work include: Oxford Poetry, Fieldnotes Journal, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Datableed Journal, Montez Press Radio. Her work involves performance — she has given performances internationally, most recently Galerie Molitor (Berlin) and Cafe Oto (London), and produced numerous performance events at The Horse Hospital (London), including Teachers (2023), Stems (2023), and prayer (2024). She was a recipient of the 2023 Fieldnotes Development Grant.

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Loud noises and some flashing lights