ELENA
COLMAN

D. I. Wine is a performance which will take place in the Cossall Estate in Peckham to a small invited audience and will be broadcast live online via Periscope.

In October 2015 Elena Colman made wine using apples picked from a tree in the nature reserve in her estate inSouth East London. Really too much wine, about 20 bottles. It might not even be very nice.

In May 2016 it will be ready to be bottled. Join us via Periscope for performative decanting, a tour of the Kirkwood nature reserve, and a shake-a-long-a cocktail making session.

D. I. Wine is an exploration of the blurring of art and life, the definitions of hosting based practice and the limits of performative action. It is also about making wine from apples you picked in the Autumn, feeling like this is somehow important, but not really knowing why.

It is about creating structures that bring hope through long winters, sadness, nostalgia and wanting a practice that centres around making things that in themselves are not art.

D. I. Wine will be broadcast via Periscope at 7pm on Thursday 4th May. To watch please download the Periscope app and follow 'ekdcolman' or go to periscope.tv/ekdcolman

To join in with the shake-a-long you will need:

- Vodka
- Apple Schnapps
- Apple Juice
- Ice
- A cocktail shaker
- A glass (preferably martini style)

Elena Colman runs Ladette Space, an independent project space based in her flat in South East in London. She is interested in creating spaces where conversations can occur and the pursuit of alternatives through DIY culture. She used to make sculpture but stopped because she ran out of money and no longer felt able to support a process of production that feeds into an art world that benefits so few. Now she prefers to make dinner for friends. In 2016 she is pursuing various projects, including running a reading group for artists who work in the service industry, and The Chips are Down, a zine, made in collaboration with Daniella Valz Gen, about chips and gentrification in South East London.

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