Upcoming Performances

New work

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:43:00 +0000

Allan is currently developing new work and is seeking commissions and performance opportunities. Feel free to contact him with any questions.

Work-in-progress presentation @ Construction Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:24:00 +0000

As part of a peer spport mentoring initiative, Allan will be performing with five other Wandsworth-based live artist at Wandsworth Council's art gallery pop-up Construction Gallery on Sunday 18th March from 5-7pm. Entrance is free! Details are below:

Construction Gallery and Cafe
74 – 80 Upper Tooting Road
London
SW17 7PB

Nearest tubes: Tooting Bec (Northern Line)

King of Beauty at Tempting Failure

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:31:00 +0000

Allan will be performing 'The King of Beauty' at ]performance space[ on Sunday 4th March. Below is some information about the programme:

12 pieces have been curated by the body-artist Thomas John Bacon to engage with an ethos of Tempting Failure as part of a new live art & transgressive performance platform in London on Sunday 4th March at the ]performance s p a c e [

The artists featured are: Danielle Abulhawa, Kris Canavan, Nicola Canavan, Ernst Fischer, Mark Flisher, Sardonik Grin, Holly Johnson, Nick Kilby, Mark Leahy, Taylor LeFin, Helena Sands, Allan Taylor, Tracing the Pathway, & Traumata.

In the build up to the forthcoming premiere at Buzzcut of [RE]authoring through Sacrifice, the second part of Thomas John Bacon's phenomenological Triptych, each work selected seeks to engage with the role that sacrifice may play for the artist who challenges their practice or Being in the production of the living artifact: Be it via physical means or through a sense of exposure. Be it metaphorical or actual. And most importantly, be it through the risk of failure.

Tickets cost £5 on the door.

6 Hamlet Industrial Estate,
White Post Lane,
London
E9 5EN

Success and the City @ TheatreLab

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:57:00 +0000

I will be doing a work-in-progress showing of my new show Success and the City on the 26th November

Allan is just another independent, successful person in control of his single and fabulous life in the metropolis that is London. But when he stops to think, is what he has that fantastic? In Success and the City, Allan explores the ideals of modern city living by arguing with his interior monologue and taking phone calls from his own worst enemy – himself. Join him and his equally single and fabulous personas as they ponder the question ‘what is success’ and why are so many people concerned about it?

Parodying the values sold to us by stateside romcoms, Success and the City aims to promote ‘success’ as an intrinsic and subjective value – one that is inside all of us.

Saturday 26th November

Starts: 5pm

Royal and Derngate
1 Guildhall Road Northampton NN1 1DP

Love Is A Number @ 'poolside emergency, Liverpool

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:46:00 +0000

"Love is a game of chance. It's a game with very high stakes. But as any good gambler knows, chance is just a statistic. It's Chaos Theory- it's the way the world works."

If you knew your chances of finding love, how many risks would you take in the future? Or would you play the game at all? Allan breaks down the stats and shows us just how many people he could potentially fall in love with, and how futile our attempts to find love can be.

Sat 11th June

the Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool
United Kingdom
L1 3BX

Entrance - FREE!

Event starts at 12pm. Love Is A Number starts at 6pm

The King of Beauty at The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:55:00 +0000

The King of Beauty has invited you to dinner. He would like to sing you a song. He would like to share a meal with you. He'd like to talk to you. He'd like to talk to you about himself. The King of Beauty is a piece that walks the line between fiercely comic and chillingly sinister.

Hosted at the King's banquet, the audience will be invited around the table as he ingests a meal of make up in a vain attempt to make himself look beautiful on the inside. Will it work? Or is the change purely cosmetic? It's rude to leave the table before everyone has finished their meal...

Saturday 23rd April 2011

4 Prince's St,

Brighton,

East Sussex

BN2 1RD

Starts 6pm

For more information and to book, go to www.pinkfringe.co.uk

Censortive Information @ The Cube, Bristol

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:10:00 +0000

Censortive Information @ The Cube, Bristol

25th February 2011

As part of Beacons, Icons and Dykons

Censor-tive Information was developed specifically for Act Art 8 and was a conceptual live art piece that took place over the course of the evening. Starting with a large blank sheet of paper hung on a wall, I wrote in paint various descriptions of incidents in my life where I have been the subject of homophobic abuse. When the text was finished, passers-by were asked to act as censors and paint out the single most offensive word in the story in thick red paint, effectively changing the meaning of the text and blotting out the parts of history that they do not wish to see. When the red paint dried, a word of the opposite meaning to the one it replaced will be painted over the top of it, transforming it into a new biography: a censored version of my own life.

4 Princess Row,

Bristol,

BS2 8NQ

Entry: £5

For more information, click here

Alain D'Aylour at Greenroom, Manchester

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:26:00 +0000

Are you an artist? Have you ever wanted to make money from your work? Are you looking for incredible art bargains starting at just 1p?

Internationally fabulous conceptual artist and 21st Century dandy Alain D'Aylour is here to help in his most affordable art auction of the decade. Make and create your own artworks and see them sell in the same session as Alain gives you the tools to become an entrepreneurial artistic success.

Allan will be performing as Alain D'Aylour as part of greenroom's emergency2010:

FRIDAY 1st October 2010

54-56 Whitworth St

MANCHESTER,

Lancashire M1 5W

ENTRY: FREE

Love Is A Number @ Artsfest, Birmingham

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:22:00 +0000

"Love is a game of chance. It' a game with very high stakes. But as any good gambler knows, chance is just a statistic. It's Chaos Theory- it's the way the world works."

If you knew your chances of finding love, how many risks would you take in the future? Or would you play the game at all? Allan breaks down the stats and shows us just how many people he could potentially fall in love with, and how futile our attempts to find love can be.

Allan will be performing Love Is A Number twice during Artsfest and both performances will be completely free:

FRIDAY 10th September

Old Joint Stock Theatre

4 Temple Row West

Birmingham

B2 5NY

TIME: 8.00pm

SUNDAY 12th September

The Library Theatre

In the Library on Chamberlain Square

Birmingham

B3 3HQ

TIME: 5.30pm

Censortive Information @ ACT ART 8, Friday 9th July

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Censortive Information @ ACT ART 8

Metalworks, Islington

Nearest tube: Angel

Friday 9th July

Censor-tive Information has been developed specifically for Act Art 8 and is a conceptual live art piece that takes place over the course of the evening. Starting with a large blank sheet of paper hung on a wall, I will write in paint various descriptions of incidents in my life where I have been the subject of homophobic abuse. When the text is finished, passers-by will be asked to act as censors and paint out the single most offensive word in the story in thick red paint, effectively changing the meaning of the text and blotting out the parts of history that they do not wish to see. When the red paint dries, a word of the opposite meaning to the one it replaced will be painted over the top of it, transforming it into a new biography: a censored version of my own life.

Tickets £10 in advance

For more info, go to www.actart.co.uk

'It Ain't Easy Being Me' at Bar Wotever

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:53:00 +0000

I will be performing a ten minute excerpt from the King of Beauty at the gender-queer performance night Bar Wotever. Entitled 'It Ain't Easy Being Me', the self-proclaimed King talks about how the British love misery, and how getting the wrong Barbie for Christmas can ultimately lead to promiscuity in later life.

The event is free to attend and should include a line up of very interesting performers.

The King of Beauty @ Bar Wotever

The Royal Vauxhall Tavern

372 Kennington Lane

Nearest station: Vauxhall (Victoria Line)

A Season In Hell @ ACT ART

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Taking Rimbaud's text 'A Season In Hell', Allan works through his sexual guilt and own personal living nightmare through the eyes of the French poet's lover Verlaine. An intimate performance for 3 to 4 people at a time to spend a spell in someone else's hell.

Friday 6th November

ACT ART @ Hidden
100 Tinworth Street
London
SE11 5EQ

The King of Beauty @ Winchester Performance Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:43:00 +0000

The King Of Beauty

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:04:00 +0000

The King of Beauty has invited you to dinner. He would like to sing you a song. He would like to share a meal with you. He'd like to talk to you. He'd like to talk to you about himself.

The King of Beauty is a piece that walks the line between fiercely comic and chillingly sinister. Hosted at the King's banquet, the audience will be invited around the table as he ingests a meal of make up in a vain attempt to make himself look beautiful on the inside. Will it work? Or is the change purely cosmetic?

It's rude to leave the table before everyone has finished their meal...

14th June 2009 @ 2pm
Entry: FREE
Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street, London
E1 6AB
Nearest tube: Aldgate East

Love Is A Number

noreply@blogger.com (Allan Taylor) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:05:00 +0000

"Love is a game of chance. It' a game with very high stakes. But as any good gambler knows, chance is just a statistic. It's Chaos Theory- it's the way the world works."

The first part of Allan's love triptych "Love Is A Number" will be given it's premiere at the Scene Pool in Camden on the 6th of February at 7.30pm

Address:

58-60 Hampstead Road

London

NW1 2PY

Tickets £7

Phone 08700 600 100 or go to www.cptheatre.co.uk