The Washroom Projects at Hackney Empire

The Team

Core Team

Jay Rechsteiner (Project Leader)

Jay Rechsteiner is the founder and project leader of TWP.

Siris Patel (Advisor to Core Team)

2nd DAN, MA, BA (Hon)

Advisor to The Washroom Projects Core Team, working alongside members to ensure artistic honesty and integrity primarily resides. Assistant to TWP Founder and Artist-in-chief, Jay Rechsteiner. General responsibilities to the TWP communication and finance strategy.

With several years within the media industry and strongly linked academic background, it is my firm belief that The Washroom Projects led by Jay Rechsteiner will be one of the most successful art movements of our time. A simply compelling, emotional and dynamic environment that attracts ambitious artists from all over the world. The growing intensity of the TWP Core Team is the catalyst for ground breaking conceptual thinking and realisation to completion.

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Eirini Kartsaki (Coordination Performance)

Eirini Kartsaki comes from Greece but is based in London studying performance. Her personal interest includes performance, performance art and live art in general within the frame of self-exploration as far as sexuality, sexual identity, human limits and body boundaries. He is also very interested in improvisation and spontaneity in performance, nudity, extremity of situations, exhibitionism based narcissism, interaction with the audience, the irrational element (expressed either in speech, text or action) and the use of the unconsciousness.

"Go too far, go too far.
More storm, more storm…"

Jacqueline Mathys (Coordination Gallery Staircase)

Jacqueline Mathys is a sculptor from Switzerland who resides in London. She has been involved with TWP since the beginning and is mainly responsible for on-the-spot filming of interactive site-specific performance installations.

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Annaliese Comelab (event photographer)

Inspired by music, fashion, fine arts and street photography, all my photographic works capture the spontaneity of each moment. During these moments, one finds the innocence and purity of a person, place or object.

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Performers / visual artists

Jacqueline Mathys

Jacqueline Mathys is a sculptor from Switzerland who resides in London. She has been involved with TWP since the beginning and is mainly responsible for on-the-spot filming of interactive site-specific performance installations.

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coordination gallery staircase
room installation in the gallery bar: "And where are you?"
background sound: Norbert Roth
Installation mind map staircase

Norbert Roth

Music is not only for dancing, not only for feeling comfortable in a packed elevator...blabla. To make it short: he produces soundscapes with his infamous Roland MC 303 - and loves it.

music for Jacqueline Mathys' installation "And where are you?"
Installation mind map staircase

Nicholas Middleton

Nicholas Middleton is an artist who lives and works in
London. He studied at London Guildhall University and
Winchester School of Art. His exhibitions include the
John Moores 23 at the Walker Art Gallery in 2004, the
BP Portrait Award 2004 and 2005, the Discerning Eye
2004, Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath 2003, Defining The
Times at the Milton Keynes Gallery 2000 and the Royal
Academy summer exhibitions 2000-2002 and 2005.
He was shortlisted for the BOC Emerging Artist Award
in 2002.

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light boxes with photo
Installation mind map staircase

Seema Rao

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Video installation within the mind-map staircase

Dædalus

"I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning."
James Joyce

performance

Hüma Birgül

I was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 17th of March 1975.I gratuated from University of Fine Arts Mimar Sinan, Istanbul in 2000.

I paint, do video works , and other things...

I live in London since November 2005...

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painting performance
Installation mind map staircase

Louisa Currier

My work deals with the internalisation of body ideals, focusing on how our lives and identities are impacted by constant self-criticism and dissatisfaction with our bodies. For the washroom projects at the Hackney empire, I intend to show a series of intricate drawings in an illustrative style which playfully explore the almost theatrical lengths which people go to to disguise what they regard as their bodies 'flaws', and enhance their more favoured features.

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drawings

Victor Blanke

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painting

Jay Rechsteiner

Jay Rechsteiner is the founder and project leader of TWP. Originally a painter he evolved into a conceptual project artists organising TWP.

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paintings and performance: "East London Series", one quarter of a genious masterpiece and "Transit" and The Washroom Wall
Installation mind map staircase

Achara Kirk

Born in Bangkok (Thailand)to an English father and Thai mother, Achara grew up in Jakarta (Indonesia) and Bangkok. At the age of 17 she left Bangkok to come to England and study Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2004 she graduated from University and has since been living and working in London, searching for truth and meaning in her art and in her life.

performance

Joanna Woodward

http://www.jayrechsteiner.com/twp/twp_collective_joanna.htm

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performance "Secret hostess"

Owen Glyndwr Parry

The Artist Owen Glyndwr Parry is a live artist/ performance artist working within the realms of theatre and fine art, intenting to blend and merge the both.

Owen's theatre based background; both academic and cultural (Insisting that his Welsh upbrigning was theatricality in its own right) has brought him to question the overall concepts of theatre, and what it means 'to perform'. Moving him each time further away from the conventionalities and restrictions imposed by traditional theatre practice towards a more liberal process and creativity.

Through this process Owen has experimented and researched with actors, dancers, visual artists, designers, painters and the general public, and feels more freedom in expressing themes and issues in his work through a more 'experimental' medium. Issues surrounding the self, and cultural identity, queers, and the co modification of 'being' are key themes in his work.

performance
Installation mind map staircase

Michael Harland

Michael Harland is involved with TWP from the very beginning. He started off as an assistant painter together with Jacqueline Mathys when Jay Rechsteiner got the permission to "redecorate" the public toilets at Filthy MacNastys. From then on he developped into a performing artist. He has not missed any performance so far (13th of June 2005). Michael comes from New Zealand, spent a couple of years in Japan studying Japanese and working as an English teacher. He resides in London.

performance

Rob Williams

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performance within the washroom facilities

Lina B. Frank

Studies BA Design for performance at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design. Works with concept, design and performance of contemporary dance and physical theatre. She is "Ausform Dance Theatre" with which she aims at creating performace by exploring the choreographic process through inforcing interaction with materials & design. She also works in close collaboration with musicians and videoartists. Lina first and foremost approaches dance as a theatrical performace with strong emphasis on costume.

performance

Katie Hargreaves

Theatre : for Punchdrunk- The Firebird Ball, Romeo & Juliet (dir: Felix Barrett & Maxine Doyle), for 1157performancegroup- Seen and not seen, Hamlet, Anaesthesia and one-man show The Last Entry: Norden Farm & Touring (dir: Jo Dagless & Matthew Scott). Les Liasons Dangereuse: George Wood Theatre & Three Birds Alighting on a field (dir: Andrew Tidmarsh). Relentless Perfection (Leighton House), Anthony & Cleopatra: Moving Theatre, UK & World Touring (dir: Corin & Vanessa Redgrave), TV: Peak Practice, Talk to the Hands. Music: Singer -'In Past Times,' Atom Bomb Yoga (Mystic Records), Writing/Production/Vocals-'Groundown', Laydybyrd (Music is Freedom), 'A Niggle' Laydybyrd (Tree Frog) Live Interpretation: The Tate Britain, Gunnersbury Park Museum, V&A, No.1 London.

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performance

Kathryn Cooper

Since graduating from the fine art degree at The
Nottingham Trent School of Art in 2002 Miss Cooper has
been making books and comics. 'The Solutions' is sold
in Tatty Devine, Bookartbookshop in London and Page 45
in Nottingham. Miss Cooper is a founding member of
'The Funeral Parlour Kids Club' a drawing and home
technologies club for the overwhelmed which is always
seeking new members. Miss Cooper mostly enjoys drawing
and making installations with paper, cardboard and
....drawings.

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drawing-installation
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Christina Fornaciari

Christina Fornaciari comes from a background of political engagement through the use of Performance. Her work explores the utilization of artistic expression as a weapon against social domination.

In Brazil she developed a series of activities focussed on the raise of socio-political awareness within the less privileged economical classes.

At the moment Christina Fornaciari is based in London where she studies an MA in Performance and works with Live Art. Her main artistic interests include the exploration of alternative theatrical spaces, the social rituals of everyday life and the break of barriers between spectator and performer.

"Every people and every man who wants to become ripe needs an enveloping madness…" Friedrich Nietzsche

performance
Installation mind map staircase

Eirini Kartsaki

Eirini Kartsaki comes from Greece but is based in London studying performance. Her personal interest includes performance, performance art and live art in general within the frame of self-exploration as far as sexuality, sexual identity, human limits and body boundaries. He is also very interested in improvisation and spontaneity in performance, nudity, extremity of situations, exhibitionism based narcissism, interaction with the audience, the irrational element (expressed either in speech, text or action) and the use of the unconsciousness.

"Go too far, go too far.
More storm, more storm…"

coordination performance
performance
Installation mind map staircase

Katie Cuddon

Katie Cuddon is an artist who works in a variety in media inparticular ceramics and computer generated illustrations. She has recently moved back to London having previosuly been researching creative interventions in derelict spaces in Glasgow and is now doing an MA at the Royal College of Art.

visual art (brand names)

Sam Booth

Sam's acting credits include Punchdrunk's Woyzeck at the Big Chill 2004, Hamburg at the Union Theatre, Palatine Theatre's production of Hamlet and Anima's Screen at the Edinburgh Fringe 2000. He co-devised and performed in Love Knot at the Chelsea Theatre. He has produced, written, directed and performed in two shows for Off Key Theatre: Comeback and the double award-winning Pull My Strings (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough / Edinburgh Fringe 2001). He has also acted in several short films.

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performance

Irma Pellegrini

I'm a happy crazy woman!!!! My grandparents were Italian but I was born in LA CARLOTA, CORDOBA ARGENTINA. I love LONDON and I'm very happy here.

If you would like to know more about me , looking at my pictures , I 'm perceptive and sensitive.
When one action is repeated a hundred times it becomes part of the cosmic consciousness.
My most recent piece is picture of a hundred happy women, they're dancing, singing, celebrating. And I'm also working on a piece called " OUR LEFT SIDE " this picture is going be at the HACKNEY EMPIRE'S GALLERY STAIRCASE -23 July -4-7pm. If you would like to hear more about my life in ARGENTINA check out my website.

With love IRMA

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wood carving
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Debbie Woodward

i m called lots of things (except fat bastard.... but
who dares wins)pinknfluffy due to my vast outgaygeous eanbags chairmanwow who creates signature upholstery andheads up the gang of four and the wowists, a collaboative art movement created last year and firstmost a sculptor, not always in a conventional manner that can encompass many 2 & 3-D things for me i dont see boundaries with medium structure or subject matter.

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Matthew Stock

Matt Stock has been an artist for seven years. He is interested in the act of living in a major city, and how the mundane instance of the everyday, and interactions with people and places affect how we act. His work uses technology as a tool to explore an ever greater sensory involvement of the spectator in site specific locations.
His work has moved through photography, sound, sculpture, installations and more recently, performance. It aims at subverting the expectations of the viewers. The last three installations have utilised CCTV security systems to affect this change, allowing the viewer to not only observe his/her interaction with others but their interaction with the installation itself.

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CCTV-installation

Pierre Schmidt

This is a list of the 100 words I used the most in the documents I wrote in July. They are ordered by their frequency of appearance in those texts.

"logic information image program text may sounds modality different protocols computer no experiment yes last file intuitions page Software interaction first reading space compression letters time notes video post database sound using think things bits output characters architecture sentence drawings programs new data describe original made texts art sentences rules playlist script variable know hypothesis UNIX write produce interesting example try specific possible version list article radio images signs Martine listening go stimulus code Tao writing processing play process points feedback terms object order box context level Camille mp3 track method represented Beuys bigger lines playing form puzzle good ways"

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sound installation for the whole TWP-installation
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Ralph Dorey

I think the two things we should never grow out of are
stories and naivety. I used to glue plastic frogs to
the windows of trains and always carry chalk with me
until I noticed that London is actually quite
interesting all by itself. However, like most artists
I still want to claim some credit for what already
exists. So I try and fabricate my own narratives from
a few threads of visual language that other people
have left dangling. Some of my work is up at www.happy-times.com.

assisting Jacqueline Mathys with the coordination of the gallery staircase
prints
Installation mind map staircase

Oliver Kolman

Oliver Kolman is a painter from Germany. He resides with his girlfriend and child in London.

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Liselle Terret

Liselle Terret is a performer, theatre director and lecturer

She is also a member of the performance group called Laundrettas

performance

Sophie Evans

Sophie Evans is the youngest member of The Washroom Collective. She studies acting.

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Hannah Mitchinson

Delyth Taylor

Hannah Mitchinson and Delyth Taylor met at The Central School Of Speech and Drama. After graduation they created About Face. The company works with a core of collaborators to devise innovative shows that have been performed in the UK and Europe. For further information visit www.aboutfacetheatre.co.uk

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Mask theatre performance

Adelaide Robarts

"...the music winds in circle violins
with strings of wood and stranger things..."

i sing/play/pluck/teach/learn/research/write/play
i am a folky bluesy singer/songwriter and a guitarist cellist and sometime pianist
a teacher of music to children with an MA in music/psychology and an MMus in ethnomusicology
i have an album that was made in peru

music

Annaliese Comelab

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photos and assisting marketing / PR

Retrospective: From birth till now

The series of projected images are Selected photographic works made during the first six years of her photographic career. From enigmatic characters in her portraits and her unique perspective of time and place, they reflect the raw energy and creativity of an emerging artist.

Sam Crabtree

Sam is a painter living in Hackney.

painting

Carlos Gonzalez Perez

Carlos is an on-the-spot photographer taking picture of whatever is interesting to him. He hates to be called a photographer and prefers to be simply someone who takes photos. Carlos is from Spain residing in London.

photos

Ilaria D'Intinosante

Ilaria is a set designer. Her work is intallation orientated.

installation

Caroline Breen

Caroline Breen works with photography, video and drawing, She currently favours the latter and is compiling an illustrated A-Z of infatuation (pen on paper) drawings of a rock 'n' roll, gothic, adventure, romance nature.

She has an unatural fondness for Hammer Horror films, Chevy Chase and owns severeral skeletons. In her spare time she one half of ohmygodimissyou.com who make film sets you can dance in.

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drawings

Tricia Bullen

I dream of a green, peaceful planet where love, music and laughter are in abundance. I dream about a world where people dance naked in the fields, hang out of trees and play in the streams. I dream about a place where words are not needed, where we speak with our spirits.

Instead, I live in a world that is intent on destroying itself, intent of bringing terror and trauma upon itself. Where the fields belong to someone else, the trees are dying and the streams are dirty. Instead, we live in a world where angles fear to tread. But still, I dream. I am the Pink Poet.

performance / poetry

Hanna Feldhaus

Hanna gratuated (BA) in Theatre Dance at London Studio Centre and was part of the third year contemporary dance performing company Intoto. She has been choreographer for 'Design for Dance' in 2004, has been a dancer in numerous shows and continue collaborating with artists from other art forms after graduating. Apart from that Hanna likes laughing, learning, loving, living.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/hannafeldhaus

Installation mind map staircase