New work

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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