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FUTURE

TALKING ABOUT ARTISTS MAKING RECORDS*

Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Charlotte Prodger
27 June, 6.30 PM
Iniva, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA

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Through conversation and selected sound-based and video material from artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Charlotte Prodger, the event explores the materiality of the record as a sound storage medium but also as evidence and witness with political consequence.

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RECENT

TERMINAL: A MIRACLE PLAY WITH POPULAR MUSIC FROM THE END OF THE WORLD

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.

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RECENT

CHARMING FOR THE REVOLUTION
A CONGRESS FOR GENDER TALENTS AND WILDNESS

1-2 February 2013
The Tanks, Tate Modern


With 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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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.


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BOOKSHOP

TOXIC PLAY IN TWO ACTS: FANZINE

A fanzine bringing together archival research material and new texts by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz drawing on their ongoing engagement with unrepresented or illegible moments of queerness in history.

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RECENT

REFLECTIONS WITHOUT SUN

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.

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RECENT

SALOME SALOMANIA AND LIVES OF PERFORMERS

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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PAST

QUERIDO JOHN

Cage Rattling #3 with Bridget Hayden and Kelly Jayne Jones, Emma Hedditch and Mattin, Will Holder, Charlotte Prodger, Verity Susman

12 November, 8pm Monday
Kings Place, London

Querido John brings together a number of meditations and performances departing from a correspondence between Basque artist Esther Ferrer and John Cage, exchanged in the realisation of the Cage's final work, the mesostic lecture-poem 'Overpopulation and Art' in 1992.



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PRESENT

HER NOISE ARCHIVE BLOG - NOW LIVE!

Electra is delighted to announce the launch of the Her Noise Archive blog.

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RECENT

PAULINE BOUDRY/RENATE LORENZ
TOXIC PLAY IN TWO ACTS

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.

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PAST

FROM BELOW, AS A NEIGHBOUR

25 October - 6 November
Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia


From Below, as a Neighbour turns to the fragile institution: strategic detachments practiced within temporary spaces of agency and relief. With works by Babi Badalov, BADco., Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten, Kajsa Dahlberg Öyvind Fahlström, Mark Leckey, Jennie Livingston, Carlos Motta, Želimir Žilnik and a new performance co-commission by Pil and Galia Kollectiv.

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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. Buy now