Electra is delighted to announce the launch of the Her Noise Archive blog. This new online resource of collected materials investigates music and sound histories in relation to gender, bringing together a wide network of women artists who use sound and music as a medium. Whilst it exists as a physical archive, key elements of the original Electra project, including video interviews with a number of artists and musicians, are available on this new site, as well as documentation of more recent events, guest 'curations' and other responses.

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Pil and Galia Kollectiv
19 April, 11.45 PM
Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London, E8 2PB

Terminal is a live performance and film drawing on the politics of post-apocalyptic fiction. Taking the form of a morality play for end times and future folk music, it recasts eschatology, or the study of the end of history, as a foundational myth for a future society.

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1-2 February 2013
The Tanks, Tate Modern


Charming for the Revolution is an experimental congress of artists, activists and thinkers, seeking to unpick underpinning, pressing questions of contemporary sexual and gender politics; exploring strategies that divert and destabilise normative gender and its representations. Including screenings by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz and Wu Tsang, a symposium convened by Carlos Motta with Xabier Arakistain, Giuseppe Campuzano, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, J. Jack Halberstam, Beatriz Preciado, Dean Spade, Terre Thaemlitz, Wu Tsang and Del LaGrace Volcano, and a performance by Carlos Motta and Matthias Sperling.

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20 February, 7 PM
South London Gallery


A screening of works by Alex Bag, Brice Dellsperger, Vivienne Dick, Wynne Greenwood, Ursual Pürrer/Hans Scheirl, Jack Smith and Ryan Trecartin, curated by Electra with Anne Sophie Dinant. The programme brings together film and video by artists and filmmakers who escape formal filmic narratives through the use of direct, sometimes exaggerated performances for the camera. Mixing over-arranged mise-en-sc�ne and dressing up with more intimate scenes of self-reflection, their aesthetics range from 50s kitsch to Punk and New Wave, alongside more contemporary settings.

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Salome and Salomania
16 March, 8.40 PM
Lives of Performers
18 March, 6.30 PM
BFI Southbank, NFT3

A two-part event featuring a screening of Alla Nazimova's Salome (USA, 1923, 72 mins) with a live soundtrack from Electrelane's Verity Susman alongside Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz's Salomania (Germany, 2009, 17 mins); and Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers (USA, 1972, 90 mins).

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14 December 2012 - 24 February 2013
South London Gallery


For their first solo exhibition in the UK, Berlin-based artist duo Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz present Toxic, 2012 and Salomania, 2009, alongside a programme of performance, screenings and talks. Through their installations of film and archival material they upset normative historical narratives with a host of collaborators including Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Werner Hirsch, Yvonne Rainer and Wu Tsang.

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