The Perfect Number

Name: The Perfect Number
Start: 2025-09-18T19:30:00+01:00
Location: 37 Earl Street, Hastings, TN34 1SG, United Kingdom

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

37 Earl Street, Hastings, TN34 1SG, United Kingdom | Hastings, EN

Rare opportunity to see the amazing Richard Layzell’s new live work:
'The Perfect Number' is a unique interaction of film and live performance, where the narrator/performer exists in many different shapes and places.
Hosted by The Peripheral Space Project
sited in an old warehouse @
37 Earl Street, Hastings. TN34 1SG
Thursday 18th Sep @ 7.30 pm
£10.00 and concession/ unwaged £5
To book a place [limited spaces] contact Martin J Gent:
<martinjgent>
More than a century after the anarchic DADA art movement emerged in Zurich as a response to global chaos, we again find ourselves struggling to make sense of the many conflicts and ecological crises we are living through.
In the spirit of DADA, 'The Perfect Number' travels in free-flow and touches on: dreams and visions, other living beings who eat grass, brutality and survival, trees fighting back, the history of photography, concrete underfoot, how to pose, the sound of plastic, the wrong clothes, confused golfers and the centre of the world.
Along the way we meet First Nations political activist Milton Born With A Tooth, the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, The Admiral Motel gone to seed, Zeus, and the DADA poets and founders of the Cabaret Voltaire, **Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball.
“Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing in itself.” Hugo Ball
Richard Layzell has been showing installations, films and performances internationally since 1980. His multi-sensory installation 'Tap Ruffle and Shave' was experienced by 100,000 people across the UK. He’s worked collaboratively with communities in Bristol, Shanghai, Perth (Australia), London, Canvey Island, Glasgow and Dundee, and teaches at University of the Arts London. He’s the author of 'Enhanced Performance' and 'Cream Pages.'</martinjgent>