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One One Seven | Ghost House Gone House

16th September 2016 admin

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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Marion Phillini Invites You to Join Collaboration In Progress

29th July 2016 admin

Marion Phillini Collab in Prog

22nd July – 29th July 2016
Preview: Friday 22nd July 2016, 6-9pm

Marion Phillini takes over Lewisham Arthouse and invites you to join Collaboration In Progress.

Amongst the Phillini debris of past installations, multiple screens and a familiar washing line, discover the results of an experimental Marion workshop with Wimbledon MFA Students. Testing the boundaries of collaboration, their work will join Marion Phillini’s exhibition/ installation/ performance/ studio for one week.

Marion Phillini will use the space for production of new work during exhibition opening times. Working on site, Phillini will shift and re-modulate the installation of works in response to viewers’ reactions/ interactions.

More info about Marion Phillini at www.marionphillini.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007018519118
Twitter: @marionphillini

Exhibition continues:
22nd July – 29th July 2016
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12-6pm

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How the Hares are Dying: Private Stocktaking

15th July 2016 admin

How the Hares are Dying

15th – 17th July 2016
How the Hares are Dying: Private Stocktaking
Work in progress by Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne

The founders and core creative team of Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne are Magdalena Tuka and Anita Wach, two very different performing artists from backgrounds in theatre and dance respectively, who were inspired in 2013 to unite under a name appropriated from the 1968 Joseph Beuys’ artwork to represent the creative combination of opposites.

Through its various mixes of new dramaturgy, contemporary dance, and multimedia experimentation, the work of Ja Ja Ja Ne Ne Ne (JJJNNN) may be located within the notion of a postdramatic theatre. The narrative of a JJJNNN show is never that of a linear cause-and-effect system of events but one open to fragmentation and deconstruction. Fiction is employed as a device for the performer-devisors to confront personal material, though the strategies used to achieve such confrontations are not set in stone but built anew in relation to the content being dealt with. While the initiator of each project may ultimately retain an authorial final word, JJJNNN encourages the idea of a performer’s autonomy and every performance is very much the result of a true collaboration.

From the outset one of the group’s key modus operandi has been the development of co-operations with and support of other international organisations and individual artists. Over the last three years of showing work a network of ongoing connections has evolved throughout Poland and the UK as well as in Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Works presented by JJJNNN have received various funding including Polish Ministry of Culture, Visegrad Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Dance Festival in Gdansk 2013; Threecity Dance Cooperation, Body/Mind Foundation, Maat Festival.

‘There were men and women, children and old people, teenagers and babies, rich people, and poor people, black men and white women, white men and black women, Orientals and Arabs, men in brown, and grey and blue and green, women in red and white and yellow and pink, children in sneakers, children in shoes, children in cowboy boots, fat people and thin people, tall people and short people, each one different from all others, each one irreducibly himself…’ City of Glass Paul Auster
How the Hares are Dying: Private Stocktaking is about: war (past, future and now) and identity smeared in the muddy memory’s landscapes, about mnemonic and reaching out to the cellars of that memory to recall girls from grey pre-stressed concrete housing estates, about a sense of destroying everything around and weakness of the will and about the power of drawing by the Great Architect. It’s a combination of different theatre strategies, a stubborn and unstable search for the meaning of the events on stage, giving up and start from the beginning again and again.

Click here for a link to the teaser

Work is devised and performed by Magdalena Tuka and Anita Wach, sound and video by Myles Stawman. Work combines video, live video, sound and live acts.
jajajanenene.com

Performances:
Friday 15th – 17th July 2016
7-8pm

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We Need To Talk About Heaven

25th March 2016 admin

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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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LAUSCH

30th January 2016 admin

LAUSCH

Thursday 4th February 2016

LAUSCH is a series of performances and events to explore new sounds and experiences.

Expect an array of exciting artists and venues, hand picked by Adam Jaro and Rahel Kraft. This evening brings together five artists/musician to share their interest in sound and voice. The Los Angeles based musicians Archie Carey and Odeya Nini will open up the evening with two solo works that encounter durations, resonance and pure expression.

The Deptford based sound artist David Bloor will perform ‘Care Work’ with a self-made artificial intelligence followed by a duo performance by David Toop and Rahel Kraft.

Archie Carey, Bassoon – SOLO
Odeya Nini, Voice, Movement – A SOLO VOICE
David Bloor, Sounds – CARE WORK
David Toop, guit, objects + Rahel Kraft, voice, electronics – DUO

Doors 8pm
Start 8.30pm
£5 Entry
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Gagarin, Warren Schoenbright, Lofe

28th November 2015 admin

Saturday 28th November 2015

“There’s nobody quite like Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin“ Boiler Room TV 2015

Graham ‘Dids’ Dowdall aka GAGARIN has been making music on the edges of the musical galaxy for many years in many guises. As Gagarin he works alone crafting instrumental electronica that doesn’t adhere to any particular scene or style and draws on influences ranging from contemporary classical to techno and every point in between and beyond. The music is atmospheric, melodic and sometimes beaty characterised by a combination of field recordings, gorgeous synth melodies, tough abstract beats and a sophisticated yet accessible approach to composition. Gagarin has released several albums on his own Geo imprint as well as contributing tracks and remixes to a large number of compilations and releases by other acts. His latest album Aoticp was released in Summer 2015 and follows the much acclaimed Biophilia in 2011.

As well as Gagarin, Dids is also a member of avant rock legends Pere Ubu for whom he provides digital synthesis, keys and samples , a duo Roshi feat. Pars Radio with Iranian songstress Roshi who create what has been described as “ Welsh-Iranian folktronica “, another duo Low Bias with Rothko leader Mark Beazley and is an occasional member of world beat pioneers Suns of Arqa. He has also released a cassette Outside Broadcast in his given name Graham Dowdall for Touch’s cassette imprint Tapeworm.

www.gagarin.org.uk
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GAGARIN/81533059428

WARREN SCHOENBRIGHT is a band, not a person. Their new Ep, (Out of Bounds) Eaten by the Forest, brings live drums and electronics together with minimal acoustic instrumentation to create a disturbing and arresting sound palette. By turns confrontational and meditative, the mercurial textures retain a sense of flow through continual reference to noise, drone and modern improvised idioms.’
https://soundcloud.com/nil-nil-3/1-fucking-torrentialdelirium
https://ukscumscene.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/live-review-crowhurst-feat-caina-conjurer-and-warren-schoenbright-at-the-unicorn-camden-2092015/

LOFE: Driving beats, driven words. jewel carriageway chords. Keyboard plus Ableton (Nik the Deks), Bass (Elwell) and Voice (Zolan Quobble). It’s got that biodynamic, organic whole grain texture and that lively lambic yeasty rhythm. It hits 260°C, when it’s baking.

Doors 8-11pm
Entry £5
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Housewives, Charles Hayward (begin anywhere), Adam Bohman & Tom Scott, Tom Moodyhousewives

6th June 2015 admin

Saturday 6th June 2015

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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Thurston Moore & James Sedwards + Albert Newton + Harmergeddon

21st March 2015 admin

Saturday 21st March 2015

THURSTON MOORE: Since the demise of Sonic Youth Thurston has moved to London and thrown himself into the city’s fevered music underground. Local/global. Makes sense. Tonight he will be performing songs with guitarist JAMES SEDWARDS, currently one of Moore’s closest collaborators and deep with it. Here’s a clip of them getting all site-specific performance like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tJrAMIKmxY&spfreload=10

ALBERT NEWTON is a long term project of John Edwards (double bass), Pat Thomas (keyboards) and Charles Hayward (drums). Sudden change of direction, spin on a fivepence, pirouette like emergency response team, iron grip, sumo wrestling on speed, we don’t know the result yet, like football. Albert Newton played for 12 years as a quartet with Harry Beckett on trumpet and flugelhorn. At Harry’s memorial benefit, as the last notes faded, John remarked that they had to keep playing this music and so Harry’s absence has thrown them into a new dynamic as a trio: the spirit lives on in the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSSx60m2McY&spfreload=10

HARMERGEDDON do their thing like nobody’s business. Their thing accesses dreamtime via the off cast, the disembowelled VHS cassette, the bar code check out, the L.E.D. and photosensitivity. Think cavemen, Fred and Wilma, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePlbY7zJRos&spfreload=10

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thurston-moore-james-sedwards-albert-newton-harmergeddon-tickets-16120941169

Doors open 8pm
Entry £5

[toggle]Image credits: Tom Hemming[/toggle]