Electra

3-5 May 2012
Tate Modern, tickets

This three-day event investigates feminist discourses in sound and music through a programme of talks, performances, discussions and film screenings. The programme brings together performances and a talk by Pauline Oliveros; an evening orbiting the legacy of Meredith Monk; and a day of talks and discussions with contributions by Ute Meta Bauer, Nina Power, Tara Rodgers and many more. The events are realised as a collaboration between CRiSAP, Electra and Tate.

February / March 2012
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8

The Right to Silence is an event series exploring the legal status of the voice and builds on the research and polemics at the core of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's ongoing project Aural Contract. Taking the form of presentations responding to tracks from the Aural Contract Audio Archive, a compilation of sounds related to the politics of listening, a symposium and screening the series brings together contributions by amongst others Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Agency, Paul Elliman, Patrick Hanafin, Anne Karpf, Susan Schuppli and Salomé Voegelin. The events are a collaboration between Electra and the Showroom, during his Aural Contract: The Freedom
of Speech Itself exhibition.

Common Practice has recently commissioned and published the research paper Size Matters: Notes towards a Better Understanding of the Value, Operation and Potential of Small Visual Arts Organisations, written by Sarah Thelwall, with support from Arts Council England. The paper seeks to articulate the value of the small-scale visual arts sector within the wider arts ecology. Common Practice, London is an advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small-scale contemporary visual arts sector in London. The group's founding members are Afterall, Chisenhale Gallery, Electra, Gasworks, LUX, Matt's Gallery, Mute Publishing, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire.

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Wednesday 4 April 2012, 7pm
Electra, 3rd Floor
Shacklewell Studios
18 Shacklewell Lane
London E8 2EZ
Free event, booking essential please email bookings@electra-productions.com

This evening with minimalist/maximalist composer, video artist, performer and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine brings together a programme of video works followed by a conversation.

The reader to accompany the Dirty Literature series is now available online, for the cost of postage. The A5 publication contains contributions from all of the artists in the series, as well as a contextual essay.

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We are delighted to announce a partnership between Electra
and London College of
Communication on the development of the Her Noise Archive. PhD candidate Holly Ingleton has been researching the archive, collected for the exhibition at the South London Gallery in 2005. The current collaboration with CRiSAP sees the archive expand to include the entire development of the Her Noise project, illuminating both a greater wealth of global activity by a diverse range of artists and a further fluidity of networks between people working at the intersection of sound, art, noise and politics. The Her Noise archive will be accessible for further research purposes at the LCC Archives from January 2011.

Listen to a discussion between Dirty Literature artists Tim Etchells and Tony White in conversation with Electra's Fatima Hellberg in a broadcast made for Resonance FM 104.4.

Listen here

18 April - 26 August,
Les Laboratoires D'Aubervilliers and Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Toxic is a new film installation by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz co-commissioned by Electra together with Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers and La Triennale (Paris, 2012). The project draws on the artists' ongoing interest in the 'Theatre of the Ridiculous' - performances by Jack Smith, scripts and films by Ronald Tavel, in late 1960s New York which formulated an anarchic and outrageous critique of capitalism and the normalisation of bodies. In the work, Boudry/Lorenz have worked in close collaboration with Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Werner Hirsch in a performative exploration of the toxic, and toxicity. Electra will present the first UK solo exhibition by Boudry/Lorenz, including this new commission at the South London Gallery, Winter 2012/13.

Electra is proud to announce a new collaborative series of events realised with OTOProjects. The programme builds on Cafe OTO's live events and takes the form of talks, discussions, screenings and workshops by artists and musicians performing at Cafe OTO. The series provides a platform to explore the performers' practices in a more discursive format.

'PRACTICAL UTOPIAS'

Practical Utopias is a multiannual project bringing together utopian communities, thinkers and activists engaged in radical forms of systemic critique and practice. Born out of the legacy of two previous Summits of Micronations, Practical Utopias expands on this category of self-
organisation in a third summit on the Croatian island of Brioni - President Tito's former summer residency. The summit, organized in collaboration with Drugo More, Croatia and YKON, Finland, will take place in the summer of 2013 following a series of events across Europe.

Visit the first Summit of Micronations.

Electra is delighted to have partnered with UbuWeb, the largest archive of avant-garde material online, founded in 1996 by artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith. Ubuweb offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art and now also hosts material from all Electra's projects within its archive.

Go to ubu.com

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