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HER NOISE ARCHIVE AND 'WE'RE ALIVE, LET'S MEET'
IN RESIDENCE
At Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Electra opens up it's extensive archive of sound based work by women and invites visitors to take part in a range of participatory events, listen to records, view videos or spend time with Electra and artist Emma Hedditch and find out more about the Her Noise project.
Emma Hedditch will present 'We're Alive, Let's Meet' - a series of 'get togethers' at which people can exchange knowledge, record discussions and make their own contributions to the Her Noise archive.
The programme will feature screenings of the Her Noise Documentary (2006, 90min) by Emma Hedditch and Electra and other curated screenings of the material from the archive.
This residence is a collaboration with British Council Norway.
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RADIO GALLERY: THE TRANS-COMMUNICATION LAB
Curated by Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Lina Dzuverovic (Electra)
Featuring Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jon Ronson, Olivia Plender, Jacob Kirkegaard with voiceover by Rob Young (The Wire Magazine)
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'PERFECT PARTNER' US DEBUT
A film by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison, starring Michael Pitt and Jamie Bochert
with a live soundtrack featuring: Tim Barnes, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke and DJ Olive
Perfect Partner is a first time collaboration between Sonic Youth guitarist Kim Gordon, renowned video artist Tony Oursler and filmmaker
Phil Morrison. Somewhere between Godard's Pierrot Le Fou and a thundering free rock freak-out, Perfect Partner is a surreal psychodrama-cum-road movie celebrating our society's enchantment with automobile culture. Joining Kim Gordon on stage is fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore, musician, filmmaker and producer Jim O'Rourke, percussionist Tim Barnes, laptop virtuoso Ikue Mori and turntable whiz DJ Olive.
Perfect Partner was initiated, produced and curated by Electra in 2005.
The work was co-commissioned by the Barbican Centre, London and Contempoaray Music Network (Arts Council England) for a European Tour in 2005.
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PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS PRESENTS HER NOISE DOCUMENTARY
AS PART OF 'SOUND' FESTIVAL, ABERDEEN
Authors: Electra with Emma Hedditch
The programme is an exclusive compilation from the
Her Noise, specially compiled for this occasion, featuring new, previously unscreened footage.
The video documents the development of the Her Noise project between 2001 and 2005 including interviews with a range of
artists involved in the project including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches,
Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch and the show's curators.
The documentary features excerpts from live performances from Erase Errata, Kevin Blechdom, Lydia Lunch and events during the
exhibition at South London Gallery: Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata) at the opening of Her Noise,
Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline, Marina Rosenfeld's
'Emotional Orchestra' at Tate Modern, and footage compiled for the 'Men in Experimental Music' video made during the
development of the Her Noise project by the curators and Kim Gordon (featuring Thurston Moore).
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SOUND AND THE 20TH CENTURY AVANT GARDE LECTURE SERIES IN NORWAY
The
Sound And The 20th Century Avant Garde
lecture series taught by Electra's Lina Dzuverovic, Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young (The Wire Magazie)
will take place at Norway's Numusic Festival between the 7th and the 9th of September.
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'REVERSE KARAOKE' BY KIM GORDON AND JUTTA KOETHER OPENS AS PART OF 'REPLAY : LA SPHERE PUNK'
Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether's installation 'Reverse Karaoke' originally commissioned by
Electra for the Her Noise
exhibition and shown at South London Gallery in
November 2005, is touring to Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain in Grenoble,
France as part of the exhibition 'Replay : La Sphère Punk.
Aside from Reverse Karaoke, the exhibition also features videos by Mike Kelley,
Cary Loren & Jim Shaw (Destroy All Monsters) and Linder Sterling.
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'LEOPARD LEG' AND 'MUSIC FOR ONE' LIVE AT THE WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY
Co-curated by ELECTRA's Irene Revell and Beatrice Dillon
Electra's Irene Revell has guest curated a night of music and moving image with
independent curator Beatrice Dillon as
part of the Whitechapel 'late night fridays - adventures in music' series.
Leopard Leg,
a primal ten-piece all-girl noise troupe from London and Brighton, shake up
interlocking rounds and rhythms: sea shanties for noise lovers, where voices
are underpinned by pounding drums, multi-instrumental rumblings and found sound
scrapings.
London-based sound artist and musician Music For One
has collaborated with animator Neng Yu and film maker Mari Kind to create a new
and unique piece where her stark melodies and electric clicks meet
with their collaged hand-drawn animations and disturbing super 8 footage.
In parallel to the performances, the evening sees the UK screening of
the video 'EMP 18.10.2005' by Henriette Heise and Jakob Jakobsen (Copenhagen,
2005), in which the film makers meet the seminal Danish experimental composer
and reel-to-reel tape pioneer
Else Marie Pade.
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MARINA ROSENFELD: SHEER FROST ORCHESTRA AT TATE MODERN
Marina Rosenfeld returns to the Tate Modern after the great success of her piece Emotional
Orchestra, performed at the Turbine Hall last September
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This time, Rosenfeld will be leading her infamous Sheer Frost Orchestra as part of
Tate Modern's Long Weekend. The Sheer Frost Orchestra appears within 'Musicircus',
a three hour piece developed by John Cage in 1967 for performance in the Stock Pavilion at the
University of Illinois in Champagne, Urbana.
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Still from
'Loneliness
And The Modern
Pentathlon'
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DARIA MARTIN & ZEENA PARKINS
London premiere of Loneliness And The Modern Pentathlon and Regeneration performance
Daria Martin's film Loneliness And The Modern Pentathlon
fast forwards 20th century avant-garde ideals via the Modern Pentathlon and features a soundtrack by
composer and harpist Zeena Parkins, a collaboration conceived and produced by Electra.
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SONIC BED BY KAFFE MATTHEWS RECEIVES AN AWARD OF DISTINCTION AT PRIX ARS
ELECTRONICA
Sonic Bed by Kaffe Matthews, originally commissioned by Electra for the Her
Noise exhibition shown at the South London Gallery in November/December 2005,
has been awarded an Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics Category at
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. We would like to take this opportunity to
congratulate Kaffe Matthews on this well deserved award. The work will be
exhibited as part of the
Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, 1 - 5 September at
the OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst.Visit Music For Bodies for information on Kaffe Matthew's most recent work.
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DIRECTOR OF ELECTRA, LINA DZUVEROVIC ANNOUNCED AS 2006 DECIBEL MID-CAREER CURATIONAL FELLOW
Lina Dzuverovic has been named the 2006 deciBel Curatorial Fellow and recipient of the £50,000 award,
recognising her contribution to contemporary curating and providing funding to support her in the development
of a major exhibition. The deciBel Curatorial Fellowship, established in 2004, is awarded to a British-based
contemporary visual art curator who is of Black African, Black Caribbean, or Asian descent as recognition of
critically excellent curatorial practice at a timely point in their career. It is intended to promote public
discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and raise the profile of diverse curators in the UK and abroad.
Lina Dzuverovic is in the early stages of developing an interdisciplinary project
on the legacy of German artist Kurt Schwitters, which will form the basis for
her curatorial research and development while she is the deciBel Fellow.
deciBel is supported by Arts Council England and managed by Artsadmin
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