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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY:
THE SOUNDS
OF
CHRISTMAS
Co-Produced by ELECTRA and Tate Modern
The Sounds of Christmas is an annual project by Christian Marclay,
pioneer of the experimental turntable movement and leading artist
operating at the intersections of art and music. Reinventing this
work-in-progress for London, Marclay will present his collection of over
1,200 Christmas records as a publicly accessible archive, alongside
projections of the record covers and footage of previous performances.
On Friday and Saturday evenings, noted turntablists and DJs will create
live remixes of their own selection from Marclay's Christmas records.
These recorded performances will create a soundtrack for the space.
Combining blatant sentimentality with vanguard experimentation, Marclay
suggests that the categories distinguishing 'serious' music from its
opposite are both arbitrary and arcane.
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Tim Macmillan's 'Ferment'
Dryden Goodwin's
'Hold'
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ONCE SEEN
Curated by ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic
Once Seen is a touring programme of British video developed initially
for
screening as a large projection at Oslo Central Train Station (Oslo S),
the
most visited building in Norway, with 80000 visitors per day. Orignially
shown in 2003, Once Seen is currently being exhibited at the Tromso Gallery of Contemporary Art in Northern Norway as part of the British Art Week.
The programme includes
works by Rachel Reupke, Joe Magee & Alistair Gentry, Dryden Goodwin, Tim
Macmillan, People Like Us, Semiconductor and Greg Pope. Once
Seen
explores our relationship to public space through a series of small
everyday events caught on camera. The programme is filled with fleeting
encounters, vignettes of passers by, covert footage of people in
shopping malls, train stations and airports.
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John Cage
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SOUND AND THE 20TH CENTURY AVANT GARDE
Led by Rob Young, Lina Dzuverovic, Anne Hilde Neset
From the noises of Futurism and Dada to the Silence of John Cage, this
course
investigates key sonic moments of the 20th century avant-garde.
Participants
will learn about different ways in which artists have exploited the
materiality of
sound through lectures, listening sessions, screenings and artists'
interviews
with a particular emphasis on sound as a political tool, the confluence
of sound,
film and performance, ending with a look at contemporary plunderphonic
outputs,
effects of sampling and 'copyleft' strategies of the 'Creative
Commons'.
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Destroy All Monsters
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ELECTRIC
WEEKEND
Guest curated by Lina Dzuverovic
This weekend of talks, interventions
and screenings
at Electric Avenue Studios and The Ritzy Cinema featured Emma
Hedditch's collaborative video Video Home, Come On!, Harrell Fletcher & Miranda
July's
'Learning To Love You More' assignments, CyberMohalla from the Sarai
Media
Lab, Delhi, a 'node drawing excercise' by Rachel Baker, &
low-fi
and a presentation by The People Speak. Screenings included
videos by Chicks
On Speed, The Space Hijackers, Kevy B, PaperRad, Joanie 4 Jackie
video chain
letter plus an exclusive screening of videos featuring Destroy All
Monsters (Mike
Kelley, Jim Shaw, Niagara, Cary Loren) introduced by Edwin
Pouncey and a
premiere of hot new videos from Cuba with a talk about the Havana
video scene
by Cecilia Andersson.
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Shipwreck
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SHIPWRECK RADIO
Curated by Anne Hilde Neset & Rob Young
As part of Lofoten International Art Festival we have commissioned Nurse With Wound to make sound art above the arctic circle. Steven Stapleton and collaborator Colin Potter have been 'marooned' on the Norwegian islands in order to produce new work to be broadcast three times a week on local radio Lofotradioen 104,4FM for the entire duration of the festival.
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