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Milk & Blood
Performance by Franko B
(2015-2018)
about:
Milk & Blood appropriates the aesthetics of boxing for thirteen two minute rounds of mental and physical endurance. Exploring themes of pain, eroticism, revulsion, ecstasy and masculinity, the performance becomes a metaphor for social struggle and the ability to overcome.
Internationally recognised as a pioneering performance artist, Franko B uses both his body and a punch bag as democratic tools, embodying notions of the personal, political and poetic. In this unprecedented performance Franko B returns to the seminal aesthetics of the wound. Milk will bleed.
‘Looking introspectively, I can truly say that I have successfully wrecked my career as a “bleeding” artist and continued my lust for life thanks to language.’
- Franko B
performances:
2018
Toynbee Studios, London
2017
Colchester Arts Centre
Backlit Gallery, Nottingham
2016
East Street Arts (Patrick Studios), Leeds
Teatro Massimo, Cagliari, Sardinia
MAC, Birmingham
Bluecoat Centre, Liverpool
Rich Mix, London
2015
Norwich Arts Centre
Toynbee Studios, London
Broadcast live on thisistomorrow.info
Preview at a/political, London
photos:
photographs by Hugo Glendinning
videos:
interviews:
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• Lois Keidan in Conversation with Franko B
Resonance FM (2016)
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• Interview by Jessica Greenall
artinliverpool.com (2016)
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• Interview by Sean Ketteringham
Corridor8 (2016)
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• Franko B
Total Tattoo Magazine
reviews:
“The room is dark. So dark, you can’t see the edges. The floor bleeds into the walls, the walls bleed into the ceiling, the faces bleed into the black. A single row of chairs is arranged in a square, facing inwards. In the centre of the room is the only source of light – a spot-lit punch bag, glistening gold, swaying softly, suspended from the ceiling.”
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• It's No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk
Nisha Ramayya, Exuent Magazine (July 2016)
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• Review by Mary Paterson
Black and White and Read All Over, (July 2016)
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• Franko B, Milk & Blood
C. James Fagan, Confused Guff (July 2016)
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• I Have Language on my Side
Miriam La Rosa, Curating the Contemporary (October 2015)
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• Il Performer Italiano Franko B Torna a Esibirsi a Londra
adnkronos (July 2015)
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• Milk & Blood: a New Performance by Franko B
this is tomorrow (July 2015)
related works:
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• Insignificant
text (2015)
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Milk & Blood
video (2001)
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• Because of Love
performance (2012-2014)
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• I'm Thinking of You
performance (2009-2022)