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Curating Commissioning Producing

UPCOMING

ERIS: THE PATH OF ER

26 May, 9.30 pm
LUX/iCA Biennial of Moving Images, ICA, The Mall, SW1
£5/ Free to ICA Members, tickets

A new performance by Claire Hooper, starring Danielle Marie Shillingford, a narration by Grime MC Lioness and a specifically developed live soundtrack by musician and composer Beatrice Dillon.



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RECENT

HER NOISE
Feminisms and the Sonic

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.



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RECENT

LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN
The Right To Silence

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.



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NEWS

'SIZE MATTERS' PUBLICATION

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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UPCOMING

THE YKON GAME

Saturday 23 June, 4 PM - late
SPACE Studios, The White Building, Hackney Wick
Free event, booking essential please email bookings@electra-productions.com

This site-specific game, designed by the artist collective YKON charts connections between diverse utopian pursuits and practices, with an emphasis on the 'practical utopia'. The workshop, which will be followed by an evening of screenings and conversation, is the first event in a more long-running investigation and pursuit to map, bring together and extend current utopian thought and practice developed between YKON, Electra and Drugo More.

ELECTRA & OTOPROJECTS

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
Screening and Conversation

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.

BOOKSHOP

'DIRTY LITERATURE' READER

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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DISCUSSION

TIM ETCHELLS AND TONY WHITE IN CONVERSATION ON RESONANCE FM

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


CURRENT

PAULINE BOUDRY / RENATE LORENZ, Toxic 2012

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.



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NEWS

ELECTRA AND OTOPROJECTS

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.

OUR PARTNER

UBUWEB

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