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Urban Photo Village @UrbanPhotoFest – Cartographies

UrbanPhotoFest #UPF17
10-15 November 2017
Urban Photo Village @UrbanPhotoFest – Cartographies is an exhibition in the Urban Photo Village at UrbanPhotoFest, an annual photographic arts festival focusing on cities and urban spaces. The Urban Photo Village showcases the work of established and emerging artists, in eleven venues located within walking distance of each other, in and around Deptford. An area with a strong sense of community and neighbourhood, Deptford it is another example of London’s ever-changing social landscape. In addition, the village — with its intensive programme of workshops and seminars — creates an active space to encourage discussion, participation and creativity, involving local communities, artists, researchers and people interested in contemporary urban life.

UrbanPhotoFest

UrbanPhotoFest will take place from 10-15 November 2017 and the theme is Cartographies. The festival aims to provide an engaging and culturally relevant programme that reflects on visual approaches to contemporary urban life and the image of the city. The programme of events includes the Urban Encounters conference, exhibitions, seminars, workshops, urban walks and portfolio reviews; all of which are overseen by a steering group of lens-media artists and urban researchers. The festival collaborates with a number of international arts and academic institutions, established and emerging artists, urban theorists and researchers. Together their work addresses critical urbanism within its varied and diverse forms, and explores how photography plays an important role in opening up debates about urban change, voice and the condition of the city.

10-15 November 2017
Open daily 12–6pm
Private view: Monday 13 November 2017, 6-9pm

www.urbanphotofest.org
Twitter / Facebook @UrbanPhotoFest
#UPF17


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Freddie Thomas presents Well Proud

Freddie Thomas presents Well Proud

29th – 30th October 2016
Preview: Friday 28th October 2016, 6-9pm

London being Freddie’s hometown she feels very passionate about it and its ever-evolving changing face. Once a place where everyone could afford to live, it is now a place made for the rich, investing in the rich and kicking out the poor. With house prices rising and rising, people are struggling to live on this little island called London. Once a place where council estates were prominent and communities were generations old, it has now turned into a transient place, people coming and going. The young white middle classes, doing their four years in London and then moving on to affordable places to live. Is this place once built on history and tradition turning into one big airport?

Through the use of banners, textile paintings and script, Freddie discusses London, the fabric of society. With every stitch sewn, with every button sewn on, you can feel her passion hovering behind you like a ghost that will not go away. So immerse yourself in the material, feel its presence because she may not be able to afford to live here anymore but she certainly won’t go away.

Free entry
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One One Seven | Ghost House Gone House

One One Seven Ghost House Gone House

16th – 18th September 2016

A double bill theatre and music event by Kyoto-based theatre group BRDG and Deptford-based music duo RABBIT touring Stroud, New Cross and Kyoto. Both pieces are based around an old Victorian house which used to exist at 117 Lewisham Way and the family which used to live there.

117 – one one seven 
This is a play based on interviews with a British woman who has been living in Kyoto since 1989. It introduces her life and her old house at 117 Lewisham Way, which used to exist in New Cross. During the play, the recorded voices of interviews are played and Japanese actors interpret them into Japanese and English. As the play unfolds, this act of ‘interpreting’ transforms into ‘acting’. The memory of New Cross travelled overseas with her and now will be re-told to the people in UK as the story of ‘an outsider’.

Directed by Keiko Yamaguchi. Performed by Bridget Scott, Hiromi Demura and Tatsunori Imamura, with sound technician Toru Koda.

Ghost House Gone House
Two simultaneous films documenting 117 Lewisham Way, a Victorian villa and lost local landmark in the year prior to its demolition. The films were shot by David Aylward (drums and percussion) and Tom Scott-Kendrick (reeds, strings and electronics) who will also provide a live soundtrack including field recordings made at 117 Lewisham Way. 

BRDG
Keiko Yamaguchi (director, actor) and Kano Kawanabe (co-ordinator) founded BRDG in 2011 creating works under the theme of Foreigners in Kyoto.
423 (Shitsumi) Art Project based in rural area in Kyoto produce workshops and events for children and local people. http://423art.org 
117 – one one seven are performers Bridget Scott, Hiromi Demura and Tatsunori Imamura with sound operator Toru Koda.  

RABBIT
RABBIT are Tom Scott-Kendrick (reeds, samplers etc) and David Aylward (drums, percussion etc). They have played together since the mid 80’s, a contemporary, experimental urban folk music, merging and mutating genres in an on-going dialogue of sound and music. For further information go to http://117ukyoto2016.tumblr.com/ or email bridge.ing11@gmail.com 

Dates:
Friday 16th September 2016, 8pm
Saturday 17th September 2016, 8pm* 
Sunday 18th September 2016, 3pm

*On Saturday 17th there will be a special appearance by Nick Doyne Ditmas and Adam Bohman playing with Tom Scott-Kendrick.

Price:
£7.50 adv / £8 door (£5 concessions )
Reservation: http://117ukyoto2016.tumblr.com/ticket

Supported by The Daiwa Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation with special support from Bred in the Bone, Rose Bruford College and Lewisham Arthouse.

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Oliver Campbell: Good God

Oliver Campbell, Scene from the Bacchae, 189 x 120cm, 2016

10th – 14th August 2016, 10-6pm
Preview: 9th August 2016, 6-9pm

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Good God is the first solo exhibition by Oliver Campbell (b.1981).

Drawing on tropes from classical literature and rhetoric, this exhibition of paintings and other objects takes seriously the absurdity of some of our most imaginative beliefs, and explores their relation to our everyday experience.

Symposium: Thursday 11th August 2016, 7.30-9pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Good God there will be a full Greek Symposium: an ancient drinking party with entertainment and discussion. There will be wine and a non-alcoholic alternative, entertainment, and three related topics posed for discussion. To reserve your couch please RSVP to: info@lewishamarthouse.org.uk

Artist Talk: Sunday 14th August 2016, 2-3pm
Oliver Campbell in conversation with Dr Brian Murray from Kings College London.

To download exhibition invitation as a pdf click here

Exhibition continues:
10th – 14th August 2016, 10-6pm, or by appointment.

Free entry
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Lausch II

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Thursday 7th April 2016, 8pm
Doors 8pm, Start 8.30pm
Entry £5
Bring your own drinks
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LAUSCH II presents an eclectic mix of experimental live performances within the scope of sonic improvisation, drawn from the prevailing London scene. This time we have noise, voice, bells and whispers – electronics, sax and silences with Iris Garrelfs, Artur Vidal + Grundik Kasyansky and Khaled Kaddal.

LAUSCH is a series of performances and events exploring new sounds and experiences. Expect an array of exciting artists and venues, hand picked by Adam Jaro and Rahel Kraft.

Iris Garrelfs
Iris Garrelfs is an artist working on the cusp of music, art and sociology. Her practice includes fixed media, installation, improvised voice performance and has been included in major institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, National Gallery, Visiones Sonores Mexico, Liverpool Bienale, MC Gallery New York. Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of the online journal Reflections on Process in Sound and the co-curator and director of Sprawl, a London based experimental music organisation. Iris has a PhD in Sound Art from University of the Arts London where she also works as a researcher and lecturer.
irisgarrelfs.com

Artur Vidal + Grundik Kasyansky
Artur Vidal is a Spanish-born saxophone player and sound artist who grew up in Paris and currently resides in London. As such, he has performed in Europe, Asia and America. His work is interested in the possibilities of improvisation from the perspective of its implications within the social field. As an active member of the improvised music scene, he has been playing and recording with musicians who include Eddie Prévost, Phil Durrant, Jennifer Allum, Roger Turner and Sébastien Branche, with whom he makes up the improvising saxophone duo ‘Relentless’. He has currently completed an MA in Sound Arts and started in 2013 an MPhil research at London College of Communication about improvisation, the practice of listening and the notion of silence.’
www.arturvidal.com

Grundik Kasyansky (b. 1974, Moscow) is a London-based artist and electronic musician who works in experimental improvisation, live installation, audio collage, and designs sound for dance, theatre and film. He wrote poetry before switching to electronic music and it deeply influenced his current practice. grundik.tumblr.com

Khaled Kaddal
Khaled Kaddal is an Egyptian musician/sound artist. His work embraces sound/music and mixed medias to create installations and performances. his music/sonic practices are scoping on the social and the political structures, through the exploration of the varieties of Sonic phenomena. Interested in finding new intersection between disciplines, he collaborated in performances, choreography, films and mixed media projects. www.khaledkaddal.com

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We Need To Talk About Heaven

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Friday 25th March 2016

Fusebox invited a diverse range of artists, to talk about heaven, in all of its shapes and forms. Which heaven are you fighting for? Which heaven are you hoping for? What is heaven anyway? Working through media spanning video art, performance and installation, each artist will consider different notions of heaven; deconstructing, challenging and building heaven(s) today. Fusebox curate thematic nights of newly commissioned work from emerging artists, who may not have had the chance to exhibit. Fusebox are committed to showing work from numerous disciplines, creating new connections between artists and audiences.

Selected Artists

Wilf Speller
We’ll be screening a new video work by Wilf Speller. Wilf’s work looks at the politics and ethics of contemporary image culture. Most recently he exhibited in Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, The Photographer’s Gallery’s annual showcase for emerging talent.
wilfspeller.co.uk

Jasmine Lee
Jasmine Lee’s work sits at a nexus between artist as performer and artist as delegator, bringing audiences together and facilitating their roles as performers through emotional and surreal experiences, as she herself disappears. She is a resident artist at the Roundhouse.

Sara Zaltash
Sara Zaltash is a Bristol-based live artist, known for large-scale interactive projects exploring culture, spirituality and our future. Her recent One Day: Day One crowdsourced questions and answers about the possible outcomes of climate change and notions of sustainability and resilience. She is a research fellow at the Schumacher Institute. sarazaltash.com

Ralph Pritchard
Ralph is making a new three-part single channel video piece exploring heaven variously through text, performance and cinematography. Increasingly Ralph’s work responds to concepts with a multi-faceted approach – playing with storytelling using multiple aesthetic perspectives. Ralph has recently screened at the ICA in London and the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. ralphpritchardfilms.com

Sheaf & Barley
Sheaf & Barley make charms and instructions to change the present through ritual and magic, for everyone to use. For Heaven they will present a new charm, exploring our wishes for a new future. sheafandbarley.co.uk

Gloria Dawson
Gloria is a writer of plays, performance, essay and poetry based in Leeds. She is also a geography researcher with an interest in precarious housing, retail and gentrification. Her main ‘artistic’ interests are the relationship between political organising and lived experience, the politics of death, urban transformation and history. Recently she has been on attachment to West Yorkshire Playhouse developing an original performance around the persistence of bodies and graves in a changing city. She blogs at trespassingassemblies.tumblr.com

To watch event documentation on You Tube click here

fuseboxcollective.com
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nonfictional, Winters/Lane/Spinelli, The Bell Agency

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Saturday 19th March 2016, 8pm
Two new projects offering distinct and unique sound worlds, and one game structure composition, never the same twice.

nonfictional are Maggie Turner (Voice), David Hunger (Guitar), Ravi Low-Beer (Percussion) and Nick Doyne-Ditmas (Double bass, trumpet). nonfictional are currently engaged in deconstructing the song format via improvisation and psychodrama. Each performance is a vivisecion. Nothing is faked.
https://www.facebook.com/nonfictionalmusic

Winters/Lane/Spinelli
Portia Winters; voice Arnold Lane: percussion
Emmanuel Spinelli: electronics and objects
This is a development of a duo of Winters’ vocal improvisations with Lane’s acoustic/electronic percussion mix, combining pure improv with song and spoken word. Tonight they are joined by
Emmanuel Spinelli on electronics and objects.
http://portiawinters.weebly.com/
https://emmalorienspinelli.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/howard.lane.9

A simple game structure for 3 or more players, The Bell Agency opens out into a mesmerising slow motion sound world. Somewhere between performance and unfolding, tonight’s realisation, led by Charles Hayward, depends on cluster maths and hive mind and the unique details to be witnessed.

Entry £5 doors 8pm
Bring your own bottle

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Experimentation

Saturday 13th February 2016

AMPERSAND
London based improvisers of industrial ambient noise, Ampersand are an improvisational sound ensemble who have performed across Europe over the last nine years. They produce an experience of sound to envelop the audience in the act of the moment and the art of the moment. This uniquely pan-generational group utilises found objects, engineered metal, deconstructed traditional instruments and audio toys.

Ampersand performances are always improvised, they arise thus from the moment, the place, the atmosphere, the occurrences of that day. The sound, and the experience of that sound, are imposed on all the senses, to share with the audience a charged and superlayered emotional state. Ampersand are Brian Bushell, Joseph Oldfield, Stephen Oldfield and Paul Wells.

http://www.ampersand.tv/

NGUYEN TRI MAI
Nguyen Tri Mai is a Franco Vietnamese dance artist. For the last 20 years, she has drawn her inspiration from the waters, back and fro between Brittany coasts, salt marshes and the river, pools and canals of the East End of London. Mixing her Butoh dancing spirit with her passion for improvising with live music, Mai loves to express her intense movements in the moment, bring light to a space with her explosiveness. Mai has collaborated with musicians, film makers and photographers and specializes in site- specific and outdoor performances. 

VJ FLICKERING LIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/user/VJflickeringlight 

WELTAUSSTELLUNG
WeltAusstellung is a situational alliance of noise-makers, visual artists, improvisers and composers of the absurd, based in Düsseldorf and Berlin: Peter Issig, Anja Lautermann, Uwe Möllhusen, Thilo Schölpen – they work in the field of sound-action, sound-installation, radio-art, music-theatre and soundtrack-ism. They wring unsettled ideas from a wide range of sound-sources of their own invention, varying their approach in order to experiment with a range of methods and standards.“We play each sound object that passes the test of significance: from massage tools to Styrofoam, from selfmade electronics to piano. We are not interested in the latest sound technology but in the raw and direct signal…which is the basic principle of absurd composition. Absurd composition tends to be doomed to failure and delivers an unexpected twist. Our ambition is to transgress from the internal motivation (of the composition) to the point of failure.”

http://welt-ausstellung.de/about/about/

Doors 7.30pm
Start 8 – 11pm
£5 Entry
Bring Your Own
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‘What Fresh Hell Is This?’

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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A Launch Event For The Happy Hypocrite, Issue 8

Edited by Sophia Al-Maria

Film, discussion and reading from www.a-d-g-z.com,
Sophia Al-Maria, Mika Mino-Paluello from PLATFORM, and Fresh Hell contributor Alex Borkowski.

18.30 – A film, streaming live from www.a-d-g-z.com where it runs continuously twenty-four hours a day, depicts characters surveyed remotely, their actions followed, scrutinised and abandoned as they unfold over a sprawl of a desert town. With no clear markers of beginning or end, the work can be encountered multiple times; each meeting a discreet moment of engagement with its disordered storyline.

19.00 – An introduction to ‘Fresh Hell’ by The Happy Hypocrite founder Maria Fusco, and by issue 8 guest editor Sophia Al-Maria, followed by a talk with Mika Minio-Paluello of Platform London on art, oil and power and how oil-sponsored galleries like Tate can break with business as usual and our colonial legacy. PLATFORMLONDON.ORG

20.00 – ‘Vital Plastics’, a reading from The Happy Hypocrite – Fresh Hell by the writer Alex Borkowski.

On 27th January The Happy Hypocrite – Fresh Hell, Issue 8, and a new limited edition print by Sophia Al-Maria will be available at a special price.

The Happy Hypocrite, founded by Maria Fusco, is published by Book Works annually with a new guest editor. Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life.

RSVP via Eventbrite here

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Housewives, Charles Hayward (begin anywhere), Adam Bohman & Tom Scott, Tom Moodyhousewives

Saturday 6th June 2015

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HOUSEWIVES: surly monochrome slowly ascending into a maelstrom of rage and density, an intensity both political, psychological and illogical. Here’s a video for their song Almost Anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werG8DL-T_w

ADAM BOHMAN & TOM SCOTT: Adam plays the stuff we ignore, toast racks, clothes pegs, styrofoam, upholstery springs, you name it; Tom plays reeds, sampler etc. and the music duets/duels around the sonic subconscious of the everyday. here’s a clip of Adam solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKvCxaixheY

CHARLES HAYWARD (begin anywhere): songs at the piano, a sequence of betrayal, paranoia, subterfuge and privilege, as well as a series of sound events and This Heat & Camberwell Now songs in stark, minimal arrangements. here’s 3 songs: https://soundcloud.com/charles-hayward-1/sets/trademark-ground

TOM MOODY: bassist with FIRST eschews loudness for acoustic guitar and songs that disintegrate and haemorrhage language left right and centre.

8 – 11pm
Entry £5
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The Groundnut

11th – 13th March 2015

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Greetings,

We’re back from our travels in Eastern Africa and have more news. Our cookbook is now available for pre-order on Amazon. It’s exciting to see it up there!

We are also happy to announce that we will be hosting three days of dinners, at Lewisham Arthouse, during the second week of March.

Tickets are £34 per person and advance purchase is essential. Please do reserve a place in good time to avoid disappointment, as tickets tend to sell quickly. Food is served banquet style, and the menu will be revealed in full on the day of the event. As always, we welcome vegetarians and most dietary requirements (but please let us know in advance). The evenings begin at 7pm.

For more information or to see menus and pictures from our past evenings visit thegroundnut.co.uk. If you have any further questions, contact us at thegroundnut@gmail.com.

Warm Regards,

Folayemi, Jacob and Duval