Milk & Blood
Performance
(2015 - 2018)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RW2DIGNwU
Insignificant - Franko B, 2015 >
• Lois Keidan in Conversation with Franko B >
[Resonance FM] (July 2016)
• Interview by Jessica Greenall >
[artinliverpool.com] (July 2016)
• Interview by Sean Ketteringham >
[Corridor8] (July 2016)
• Interview for Total Tattoo Magazine >
(April 2016)
• It’s No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk >
Nisha Ramayya [Exuent Magazine] (July 2016)
[Black and White and Read All Over] (July 2016)
C. James Fagan [Confused Guff] (July 2016)
• I Have Language on my Side >
Miriam La Rosa [Curating the Contemporary] (October 2015)
• Milk & Blood, Franko B a Londra >
Helga Marsala [Artribune] (August 2015)
• Edinburgh is Like a Black Hole for Theatre >
Megan Vaughan [The Stage] (July 2015)
• Il Performer Italiano Franko B Torna a Esibirsi a Londra >
[adnkronos] (July 2015)
• Milk & Blood: a New Performance by Franko B >
[this is tomorrow] (July 2015)
Lyn Gardner [The Guardian] (July 2015)
Milk & Blood is supported by Arts Council England and presented in collaboration with a/political.
Franko B would like to thank a/political, Lee Steggles, Dawn Manners, Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan, Steve Wald, Yuki Kobayashi, Thomas Qualmann, Gill Lloyd, The Bureau of Silly Ideas, Gamba Shoes, Hillary Wili and Katie McPhee.
© 2018 Franko B and the contributors
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
2018
• 16th March - Toynbee Studios, London
2017 • 8th November - Colchester Arts Centre
• 10th March - Backlit Gallery, Nottingham 2016 • 13th October - MAC, Birmingham • 28th July - Bluecoat Centre, Liverpool • 10th July - Rich Mix, London 2015 • 21st October - Norwich Arts Centre