Rise Flap Lick: Experimental writing on Fine Art performance event and curation

Windsor, Esther (2026) Rise Flap Lick: Experimental writing on Fine Art performance event and curation. Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music, 9 (1). pp. 19-40. ISSN 2513-8537

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Abstract

Rise Flap Lick is experimental writing, taking its’ title from words made in coloured masking tape, on an Art School Gallery wall during a performance made with artist Anat Ben-David (of Chicks on Speed) and students from Birmingham School of Art and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.  It also expresses bodily interventions of performance art and the messy curatorial and pedagogical happenstance of this event. These were incidental but not accidental. Ed McKeon (guest editing this edition of Riffs journal) and I curated this event after conversations and collaborations in our Cultural Activisms reading group. Art Schools can occupy a romantic and mythological mid 20thC place, in popular imagination, where it’s imagined that subcultures and subversions gestate and find form. The 21st Century reality is a little different, of course. Academic labour and Art History scaffold the circumstances of this event, some of which I relay here, reflexively drawing on my lived histories in curating and teaching.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.82600/z6bp-be85
Dates:	Date Event 1 February 2026 Accepted 13 February 2026 Published Online
Subjects:	CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-01 - creative arts and design > CAH25-01-02 - art
Divisions:	Arts > Art and Design
Depositing User:	Gemma Tonks
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2026 16:58
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2026 16:58
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16944

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