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Always Coming Home

in 4 Chapters

31st of May | 28th June | Autumn 2024

at Matt's Gallery, 6 Charles Clowes Walk, Nine Elms, London SW11 7AN

A new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), featuring works by 

Bliss Carmxn, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, utopian_realism, Matt Carter, Vivenne Griffin,  Billy Klotsa, Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Josèfa Ntjam, Philomene Pirecki, Harold Offeh, Emily Pope, Fuyuhiko Takata, 

Josh Woolford, Abbas Zahedi, A—Z

This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. The first iteration of Always Coming Home took place at Iklectik in September 2023, as a starting point for ambient sensorial experimentation, a threshold for furthering the ideas of immersion, speculative world and conscious listening.

Each chapter at Matt's Gallery will start with a reading as an introduction followed by a live performance, a moving image and a live musical set. 

Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and world building as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths. 

In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions.

The title is an hommage to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, where the reader follows the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed. 

@blisscarmxn @jjchan.co.uk @sarahhowe.co.uk @utopian_realism @mr_mr_carter @vivienne.griffin @billy_klotsa @tareklakhrissi @jenniferlauren_martin @josefantjam @philomene.pirecki @harold_offeh @emily_pope90 @fuyuhiko_takata @abbzah @jshwlfrd   

@mattsgallerylondon @a___________________________z

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Thursday 9th Nov. 

8 - 10.30pm

Quasar

A---Z at Iklectik

Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/o0856a0ca324

A—Z comes back to Iklectik to present Quasar – Expect a night of live sets including immersive ambient sounds, from mystic, dark noise to electronic pulsar chaos. The event presents three acts that explore sensory/textural sounds, syncretism, displacement, cathartic tremors.

8.30 - 9pm Gisou Golshani (live)

9.15 - 9.45pm GAKKO (live)

10 - 10.30pm Manuka Honey (live)

Manuka Honey

Marissa Malik, best known by her stage name Manuka Honey, is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ and producer at the forefront of Latinx-infused club music coming out of the UK. US-born and London-based, Manuka’s adoration of the Latinx diaspora’s sounds is exuded by her beautifully chaotic DJ sets that have pummeled the sound systems of clubs and festivals internationally.

GAKKO

Carolin Schnurrer is a London and Berlin-based artist, DJ (alias GAKKO), designer, and instrument builder, producing sensory experiences with a variety of media, from sound performance and installation art to moving images. In her artistic research, she creates electronic instruments that incorporate human skin into her music-making process: Providing a platform for the audience to actively shape and manipulate the sounds she produces in real time by engaging in tactile interactions with one another on a transformative odyssey through synthetic, sensual, and otherworldly sonic landscapes.

Delving into the depths of profound vulnerability and resilience, this approach allows her not only to investigate the potential of healing through the powers of human touch and sound, but also challenge traditional notions of music creation and club experiences – inviting listeners to embrace the symbiotic fusions between the organic and the synthetic, to forge a path towards a speculative and fictional future where these connections transcend the confines of borders, culture, language, and other categories of exclusion that we construct.

Operating under the name GAKKO, she has cultivated an unwavering passion for seamlessly blending genres spanning from 130 to 160 BPM, weaving together sets that pulsate with the raw energy of bass-heavy music, unexpected club edits, and thunderous drum breaks. Through radio shows on Foundation FM, Refuge Worldwide, and [sic]nal, she aims to showcase forward-thinking and marginalized electronic producers within the experimental and DIY realm. Carolin Schnurrer’s artistic journey is characterized by collaborative ventures with musicians, artists, writers, and dancers like KLEIN, AUDINT (Kode9, Eleni Ikon, Toby Heyes), Julie Cunningham, and Haroon Mirza; she has performed at events such as Tate Lates, Oram Awards at Kings Place, Hyperdub’s Night Ø at Corsica Studios, intonal in Malmö, the YARD theater, 925 in Colombo and the MIRA Festival in Barcelona.

Gisou Golshani

Gisou Golshani is a London-based Iranian artist. Their work depicts abstract narratives from seemingly disparate elements. Through multilayered editing and playful uses of sampling, they investigate the intimacy of the voice, the effects of sound on the body and their mother tongue Farsi’s complexities in translation. Looking into archival found material, Gisou creates multi-sensory, immersive installations and performances. Previous work has been shown at Disturbance (Ugly Duck), London, Studio/Chapple for Deptford X, London, Nottingham’s New Art Exchange, Mimosa House, London and internationally including their home country. 

#Bandcamp

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Always Coming Home*

Saturday 2nd September | 4 - 12pm A- - -Z at Iklectik

Johann Arens, Matt Carter, ex.sses, Man Like Alex, Zein Majali, Proteus, utopian_realism, Guy Ronen, Mohammed Rowe, Josh Woolford 

Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/c8752fbf3387

Considered as a small A—-Z festival, this all day event revolves around speculative landscapes from the synthetic to the sensual and otherworldly. Mainly AV Sets and live performances will explore embodied practices through sound and visual sensories, the acts will expand on affective elements shared together. https://linktr.ee/A___Z

Iklectik Kiosk opens 1 hour before staring (3pm) If you can’t afford the tickets please email: [email protected]

*Always Coming Home is a "title-hommage" to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Its written style alternate a narration, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.

Johann Arens Johann Arens uses installation and video to survey the documentary properties of public interiors and their inherent social textures. These site-related interventions are enquiries into the multiple ways social policy can impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. He has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, BSR in Rome, Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and realised a number of public art commissions assigned by Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Jerwood Space London and Kettle’s Yard Cambridge. 

https://www.johannarens.com

Matt Carter

Matt Carter is an artist living and working in London. His practice comprises and often combines different forms of cultural production, including video, sound, text, performance, design and curation. His work draws from the everyday, remixing video, images and sound recorded on-the-fly into newly formed environments which act as points of departure from, or sites of critical interrogation into, the physical and socio/cultural structures we inhabit. https://www.mrmrcarter.com/audio

ex.sses

ex.sses (she/they) is an experimental sound artist, electronic producer and DJ. She initially came on the scene in 2018 as the founder of Earwax, an ongoing project based platform for sound artists of marginalised genders. ex.sses’ ties to experimental sound and club culture have since manifested in EP releases Relic (Cherche Encore, 2021), Buried (Hard Return, 2021) and most recently Scanner (TT, 2022) which premiered on DJ Mag. As well as singles for compilations including Pollination and Earful of WAV’s out this year. These releases, in addition to their online presence, have gained attention over the past year, resulting in dark, club-focused DJ sets for Keep Hush, Circadian Rhythms and Platforms (Corsica Studios), and electronic live performances for Comic Sans label tour, Hidden Door Festival and Iklectik that expand on ex.sses’ exploration of sonic intimacy, hauntology and the gendered body. https://soundcloud.com/ex_sses

Man Like Alex ManLikeAlex a self taught, hybrid shooter, based in London. His practice often documents events related to music and behind the scenes of everyday life. Collaboration and documentation are central to his practice. Underpinning themes of research encompass personal experiences, performances and blackness. A previous member of the Playmaker team working as production assistant. Alex s role varies from producing social media and digital content, (BTS photography to videography)

Zein Majali

Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist currently based in London. Through video, sound and installation, Zein examines the accelerated cultural shifts online and in the Arab world.  https://zeinmajali.com/music

Proteus

Feral Sound Proteus explores industrial and modernist electronics. Intimate//Challenging soundscapes, ritual catharsis. https://www.instagram.com/proteus_jk/

utopian_realism

utopian_realism (Alessandro Moroni) originates from a fascination with the aesthetics and communities revolving around internet-native music genres and explores concepts of nostalgia cycles, controlled escapism, commodified utopian narratives and collapsing myths of progress. https://www.instagram.com/utopian_realism/

Mohammed Rowe

Mohammed Rowe is an artist born and raised in London, who uses sound as a medium of expression and communication. His works include elements of found sound, experimental and improvised music, and his compositions tend to draw from the immediate environment. He uses an array of processes and recording techniques in order to capture and mould different forms of composition. His approach has also incorporated his sound into interactive installations, moving image, theatre and performance through collaborations with artists from different disciplines which continue to enrich his own approach. https://soundcloud.com/Tekfis

Guy Ronen Guy Ronen is an artist working between video, sound, text, technology, and installations. Across different mediums, they question and explore the potential of storytelling as a capacious tool for expression and a path through which to negotiate existing fictional and embodied structures. Weaving together found footage, lived experience and speculative material, Guy begins with a search after a common language punctuated by intimacy, slippage and difference. https://guyro.xyz/recent-works

Joshua Woolford Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Born and raised in the South of England with mixed Waitukubuli* British heritage with African roots, Woolford has been actively seeking community and understanding of the world(s) around them from a young age.  ‘Calling out and addressing experiences of violence, aggression and misalignment is central to my work; often starting from cultural research, recounting literature or a personal experience (being of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora and living in Europe). States of reflection, transition and action are instrumental in disrupting existing narratives and enable me to process my sociopolitical context through and within my practice’ Woolford graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture), and more recently with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice). Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Habait theatre in Tel Aviv, and Gallerie V in Cambridge. As well as exhibiting and performing in multiple institutions across London, including HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Soho House, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives and the V&A.  * Waitukubuli is commonly known as Dominica and was labelled so by Spanish colonisers https://joshwoolford.co.uk/

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- THE STARS BELOW hosted by Anne Duffau (A- - -Z) – this week, A---Z interviews Josh Woolford and Proteus on their current works and their participation to 'Always Coming Home' A---Z mini festival at Iklectik 2nd of September (https://iklectikartlab.com/always-coming-home-part-1/)

- Josh Woolford (@jshwlfrd)

Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Born and raised in the South of England with mixed Waitukubuli* British heritage with African roots, Woolford has been actively seeking community and understanding of the world(s) around them from a young age.

‘Calling out and addressing experiences of violence, aggression and misalignment is central to my work; often starting from cultural research, recounting literature or a personal experience (being of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora and living in Europe). States of reflection, transition and action are instrumental in disrupting existing narratives and enable me to process my sociopolitical context through and within my practice’

Woolford graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture), and more recently with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice). Woolford work and live performances have been exhibited at: the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Soho House, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives, The V&A, Copeland Park and Tate Britain.

*Waitukubuli is commonly known as Dominica and was labeled so by Spanish colonisersUpcoming performance: 29th of June

Books recommandations:

- PROTEUS (@proteus_jk)

Feral Sound

Proteus explores industrial and modernist electronics.

Intimate//Challenging soundscapes, ritual catharsis.

Forthcoming DJ Set:

https://ra.co/events/1599128

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Always Coming Home*

Saturday 2nd September | 4 - 12pm A- - -Z at Iklectik

Johann Arens, Matt Carter, ex.sses, Man Like Alex, Zein Majali, Proteus, utopian_realism, Guy Ronen, Mohammed Rowe, Josh Woolford 

Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/c8752fbf3387

Considered as a small A—-Z festival, this all day event revolves around speculative landscapes from the synthetic to the sensual and otherworldly. Mainly AV Sets and live performances will explore embodied practices through sound and visual sensories, the acts will expand on affective elements shared together. https://linktr.ee/A___Z

Iklectik Kiosk opens 1 hour before staring (3pm) If you can’t afford the tickets please email: [email protected]

*Always Coming Home is a "title-hommage" to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Its written style alternate a narration, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.

Johann Arens Johann Arens uses installation and video to survey the documentary properties of public interiors and their inherent social textures. These site-related interventions are enquiries into the multiple ways social policy can impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. He has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, BSR in Rome, Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and realised a number of public art commissions assigned by Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Jerwood Space London and Kettle’s Yard Cambridge. 

Matt Carter

Matt Carter is an artist living and working in London. His practice comprises and often combines different forms of cultural production, including video, sound, text, performance, design and curation. His work draws from the everyday, remixing video, images and sound recorded on-the-fly into newly formed environments which act as points of departure from, or sites of critical interrogation into, the physical and socio/cultural structures we inhabit. https://www.mrmrcarter.com/audio

ex.sses

ex.sses (she/they) is an experimental sound artist, electronic producer and DJ. She initially came on the scene in 2018 as the founder of Earwax, an ongoing project based platform for sound artists of marginalised genders. ex.sses’ ties to experimental sound and club culture have since manifested in EP releases Relic (Cherche Encore, 2021), Buried (Hard Return, 2021) and most recently Scanner (TT, 2022) which premiered on DJ Mag. As well as singles for compilations including Pollination and Earful of WAV’s out this year. These releases, in addition to their online presence, have gained attention over the past year, resulting in dark, club-focused DJ sets for Keep Hush, Circadian Rhythms and Platforms (Corsica Studios), and electronic live performances for Comic Sans label tour, Hidden Door Festival and Iklectik that expand on ex.sses’ exploration of sonic intimacy, hauntology and the gendered body. https://soundcloud.com/ex_sses

Man Like Alex ManLikeAlex a self taught, hybrid shooter, based in London. His practice often documents events related to music and behind the scenes of everyday life. Collaboration and documentation are central to his practice. Underpinning themes of research encompass personal experiences, performances and blackness. A previous member of the Playmaker team working as production assistant. Alex s role varies from producing social media and digital content, (BTS photography to videography)

Zein Majali

Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist currently based in London. Through video, sound and installation, Zein examines the accelerated cultural shifts online and in the Arab world.  https://zeinmajali.com/music

Proteus

Feral Sound Proteus explores industrial and modernist electronics. Intimate//Challenging soundscapes, ritual catharsis. https://www.instagram.com/proteus_jk/

utopian_realism

utopian_realism (Alessandro Moroni) originates from a fascination with the aesthetics and communities revolving around internet-native music genres and explores concepts of nostalgia cycles, controlled escapism, commodified utopian narratives and collapsing myths of progress. https://www.instagram.com/utopian_realism/

Mohammed Rowe

Mohammed Rowe is an artist born and raised in London, who uses sound as a medium of expression and communication. His works include elements of found sound, experimental and improvised music, and his compositions tend to draw from the immediate environment. He uses an array of processes and recording techniques in order to capture and mould different forms of composition. His approach has also incorporated his sound into interactive installations, moving image, theatre and performance through collaborations with artists from different disciplines which continue to enrich his own approach. https://soundcloud.com/Tekfis

Guy Ronen Guy Ronen is an artist working between video, sound, text, technology, and installations. Across different mediums, they question and explore the potential of storytelling as a capacious tool for expression and a path through which to negotiate existing fictional and embodied structures. Weaving together found footage, lived experience and speculative material, Guy begins with a search after a common language punctuated by intimacy, slippage and difference. https://guyro.xyz/recent-works

Joshua Woolford Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Born and raised in the South of England with mixed Waitukubuli* British heritage with African roots, Woolford has been actively seeking community and understanding of the world(s) around them from a young age.  ‘Calling out and addressing experiences of violence, aggression and misalignment is central to my work; often starting from cultural research, recounting literature or a personal experience (being of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora and living in Europe). States of reflection, transition and action are instrumental in disrupting existing narratives and enable me to process my sociopolitical context through and within my practice’ Woolford graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture), and more recently with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice). Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Habait theatre in Tel Aviv, and Gallerie V in Cambridge. As well as exhibiting and performing in multiple institutions across London, including HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Soho House, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives and the V&A.  * Waitukubuli is commonly known as Dominica and was labelled so by Spanish colonisers https://joshwoolford.co.uk/

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Alyse Stone | THEBLACK ALCHEMISPHERE

July 13th – 16th 2023 at The Truman Brewery 

July 13th – 15th 2023 at House of Annetta

July 15th 2023 at Shoreditch Arts Club

Enter The Black Alchemisphere, a walkable time-parallel universe in Shoreditch powered by a book written by Alyse Stone

RSVP:

https://theblackalchemisphere.splashthat.com

July 15th - Performance reading by Alyse Stone 7pm at Shoredithc Arts Club:

https://theblackalchemisphere.splashthat.com/

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Throughout the exhibition’s run, A---Z will host The Voices of A Tempest in Three Acts, a series of programmes comprising of readings, screenings, performances and discussions in the Lancaster Rooms. The artists involved include Michelle Williams Gamaker, Philomene Pirecki, Peter Spanjer, Chooc Ly Tan, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, Jennifer Martin, Mohammed Rowe, Guy Ronen, Murat Adash, Matt Carter, Josh Woolford, Tarek Lakhrissi and Jeanie Crystal.    

7 Dec. / 24 Jan / 19 March

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/voices-tempest-three-acts

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A new exhibition for Somerset House Studios’ Gallery 31, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), featuring works from Babeworld x utopian_realism, Michael & Chiyan Ho, and Tarek Lakhrissi.

In response to the research of poet and politician Aimé Césaire, in particular Une Tempête, his adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest as a critique of colonialism, the works in Gallery 31's The Voices of A Tempest take classic and cult genres - from sci-fi to slashers - as references to invoke fictional activism* through their storytelling.

Artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi’s utopian short film Out of The Blue turns the sci-fi alien invasion trope on its head to empower the Queer community, where the minority becomes the new ruler of Earth. In Empty Orchestra, multi-disciplinary duo Michael and Chiyan Ho reappropriate a music video of Paula Tsui (a Cantopop singer from Hong Kong) to address censorship via an eerie, blurry karaoke-style version of the video in which the viewer is invited to partake in the sing-along poem.

Newly commissioned for Gallery 31, Babeworld x utopian_realism’s analogue short film, soundscape and ‘bloody’ installation Derby Day is a violent investigation into the art world with a critical eye on intersectionality; defying and reclaiming this space whilst also conjuring a threshold into new potentials.

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/gallery-31-voices-tempest

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Tuesday 14th June

7-11pm

A—-Z Fundraising event for Rainbow Migration and GIRES  (Gender Identity Research & Education Society)

The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road,SE15 3BE, Nunhead

Entrance by donations via TICKETS > From £5 to £15

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-z-fundraising-event-for-rainbow-migration-and-gires-tickets-341247940777

w/ special guests

Babeworld X Utopian realism

Matt Carter

Sarah Howe X JJ Chan

Whiskey Chow

Marianne Keating

Imran Perretta

Philomene Pirecki

Mohammed Rowe

Vanessa Da Silva

Peter Spanjer

Chooc Ly Tan

Josh Woolford

Rehana Zaman

@babeworld3000 X @utopian_realism

@mr_mr_carter

@sarahhowe.co.uk X @jjchan.co.uk

@whiskey.chow

@marianne_keating

#imranperretta (http://www.imranperretta.com/)

@philomene.pirecki

@rowe.mohammed

@vanessadasilvasilvasilva

@peter.spanjer

@chooclytan

@jshwlfrd

@re.ha.na.na.na

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- THE STARS BELOW hosted by Anne Duffau (A- - -Z) – this week, A---Z interviews New Magic Media (@newmagicmedia)

https://noodsradio.com/shows/the-stars-below-w-new-magic-media-17th-april-22

New Magic Media aka Adéla Sobotková is an artist, DJ and writer. She studied Intermedia studio at Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. She works mainly with time based media such as sound and moving image, but also installation and drawing. Her works are heavily infused by magical symbolism and themes of memory, emancipation and sexuality. Last five years she also works fluidly as a radio creator and music journalist, she is a Punctum Radio resident and a resident DJ at the club Funchs2 in Prague.

https://linktr.ee/newmagicmedia

References:

Punctum Radio Prague

https://radiopunctum.cz/

Funchs2

https://linktr.ee/fuchs2

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CdISQe6szpe/

28.04.2022 

Alpha played in collaboration w/ @e_ikon & @mattlewis.mattlewis for @polisonics w/ @ronnieism @xnaam @iklectikartlab

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A—-Z new soundscape for the @mark.leckey show on @nts_radio 🔊❤️‍🔥🚀 Using sci fi trailers & soundtracks > when machines have apocalyptic feelings… love&rage&hate

https://www.nts.live/shows/mark-leckey/episodes/mark-leckey-22nd-march-2022

Alpha - Lego (Background Intro)

Extract from the series Humans - Niska and Esther

Hans Zimmer - First Step (Interstellar Main Theme)

Gabriel Yared - City of Jasper Bird Fight(Gandahar OST)

Blade Runner Extract - Deckart Meets Rachel

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Kaneda's Theme (AKIRA)

Dark Star Trailer 

Brad Fiedel - The Terminator Main Theme

Akira Extract - What is Akira?

Frank Strobel - Metropolis Main Theme

Mica Levi - Love (from Under The Skin)

Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - For Those That Follow (Annihilation Soundtrack)

Ex-Machina Extract - Are you attracted to me?

Edward Artemiev - Meditation (Stalker  Soundtrack)

Akira Extract - Keneda / Tetsuo

Hans Zimmer - First Step (Interstellar Main Theme)

Ex-Machina Extract - Is Nathan your friend?

Hans Zimmer - First Step (Interstellar Main Theme)

THX 1138 Trailer - Vangelis

Love theme (Blade Runner Soundtrack) - Raised by Wolves Serie Trailer

Vangelis - End titles (Blade Runner Soundtrack)

Humans TV Series Trailer

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Boys and Girls (Stranger Things Series Soundtrack)

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THE STARS BELOW hosted by Anne Duffau (A- - -Z) – this week, A---Z interviews Clo Page @clo.xyz

Chloe Page:

Chloe graduated from an MPhil in Criticism and Culture at the University of Cambridge in 2019, where she was researching digital technologies, coding, and new media in literature. She is the Digital Producer at Wysing Arts Centre since January 2020.

Alongside this, Chloe is co-founder and co-organiser of two ongoing arts event series across London and Cambridge, plant! and XD, has worked closely with the now closed DIY Space for London and focusing on experimental arts, music, and digital aesthetics. She has previously been involved with Resonance Extra, Balamii Radio, and London-based queer arts and events collective TREMORS TV. She also makes sound work informed by the relations between virtual and material.

Chloe is interested in the potentials for digital broadcasting technologies to create communities and expand access to Wysing, as well as the use of digital media to bring to her practice as well as to her work at Wysing as a physical space into the virtual.

BOOK:

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age by Alexander Galloway

SHOWS:

Part of the group online show with Schemata > Exquisite World on New Art City

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Babeworld's Rack Your Brains installation, at PAF in Olomouc, (Cz Rep) is a work which discusses the limitations of creating work when marginalised. Using bright colours and influences from popular culture, this piece explores what it means to be accurately represented. Programmed by A---Z (Anne Duffau).

https://pifpaf.cz/en/events/paf-spring-olomouc-2022/programme/rack-your-brains

Babeworld is led by Ashleigh Williams (she/her) and Ingrid Banerjee Marvin (she/her), with associate artists Gabriella Davies (she/her) and Caitlin Whittle (she/her).

Babeworld seeks to create a more representative art world through the creation of art, fundraising and creating grants, and the facilitation of events – for those who are marginalised in the arts. With an emphasis on collaboration and co-creation, Babeworld’s practice focuses on themes of political and societal identity, specifically disability/access, neurodivergence, sex work and race. Their interactions with the communities they create and infiltrate consist of oversharing (otherwise known as attention-seeking) on the internet and through their events – and you best believe they'd overshare at a round table, and probably also cry. Babeworld are committed to bringing their ideas and networks to institutions and organisations in the art world, whether they want to hear it or not.

https://sites.google.com/view/babeworld/

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THE STARS BELOW hosted by Anne Duffau (A- - -Z) – this week, A---Z interviews Peter Spanjer  @peter.spanjer

Peter Spanjer currently lives and works in London, UK. Peter graduated with a BA degree in Fashion Promotion from the University for the Creative Arts, UK in 2015 and he is currently studying for a MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image at the Royal College of Art, UK. His work is often framed around but not limited to the idea of resistance; resisting the emotional stereotypes put on black men; resisting the need to perform his blackness to others and thereby allowing room for self-exploration which he extends to an audience as a piece of visual art.

Solo exhibitions include In Order for it to Change, Screw Gallery, Leeds (2021); What do you desire, inter.pblc, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021); The Tingle That You Feel On Your Tongue, Peter Spanger, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020)

Group exhibitions include The London Open 2022 (Upcoming), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Testamant, CCA Goldsmiths, London

BOOK: Real Life, Brandon Taylor, 2020

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/46263943-real-life

SHOWS running until April 2022:

Testamant, CCA Goldsmiths, London

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THE STARS BELOW hosted by Anne Duffau (A- - -Z) – this week, A---Z interviews Abbas Zahedi. (@abbzah)

Abbas Zahedi’s interdisciplinary practice blends contemporary philosophy, poetics, and social dynamics with sound, sculpture, and other performative media. With an emphasis on how personal and collective histories interweave, Zahedi makes connections whenever possible with those around, in proximity to, or involved with the particular situations upon which he focuses. Through a non-approximate approach, one foregrounding the multiple specificities of a cite/site and those beyond sight, Zahedi invites others into an ongoing conversation. It is through careful gestures that Zahedi’s practice is enunciated.

BOOK: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta

SHOWS running until March 2022:

TEMPORARY COMPOSITIONS > https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/gallery-31-temporary-compositions

BEUYS OPEN SOURCE > http://belmacz.com/home/ 

Image Caption: Pome-Pomme eye-Phone by Abbas Zahedi. Installation view, D.E.VALUATION, Mécènes du sud, Montpellier, France, 2021. Photo: Elise Ortiou Campion

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https://2021.pifpaf.cz/en/events/paf-olomouc/programme/paf-home-x-a-z-episode-into-oblivion-curated-by-a-z

presents a selection of artists’ films for PAF HOME 2021.

Films by Nenghuo & Shi Zheng / Aura Satz / Harold Offeh / Iria Vrettou / Tabita Rezaire / Lana Lin / p. Staff / Tamu Nkiwane / Tom Kalin, GRAN FURY. Into Oblivion, as a state of unconsciousness, merges past and present encounters. Chimeras, latent figures in the dusk, allow for another realm to open.

From personal stories to iconic re-enactments, the works explore radical narratives linked to experimental places & states of mind connecting/commenting on our realities. A---Z’s aim is to share discursive practises in order to challenge normative notions of race, gender identities and power relationships.

1-Harold Offeh, Keep it Up! 1. 2017

2-Tom Kalin, Gran Fury, Kissing doesn't Kill, 1. 1990, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

3-Tabita Rezaire, Peaceful Warrior, 2015

4-Lana Lin, Stranger Baby 1995

5-Harold Offeh, Keep it Up! 2. 2017

6-Nenghuo & Shi Zheng, OSC_#V, 2016

7-Tom Kalin, Gran Fury, Kissing doesn't Kill, 2. 1990, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

8-Aura Satz, Entangled Nightvisions, 2018

9-Harold Offeh, Keep it Up! 3. 2017 10-p. Staff, On Venus, 2019 P. Staff’s 12-minute video On Venus is comprised of two parts. The first of scratched, warped, and overlapping footage documenting the industrial farming of hormonal, reproductive, and carnal animal commodities including urine, semen, meat, skins, and fur, depicting both the intimate and abstracted violence of human and non-human reproduction. The video’s second half relays a poem describing life on the planet Venus as an alternative state of non-life or near-death—a queer state of being—that is volatile and in constant metamorphosis; one infused with the unrelenting violence of pressure and heat, destructive winds and the disorientating lapse of day into night.

11-Tom Kalin, (Gran Fury), Kissing doesn't Kill, 3. 1990, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

12-Tamu Nkiwane, Apocrypha, 2019

13-Tom Kalin, (Gran Fury), Kissing doesn't Kill, 4. 1990, Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

14-Iria Vrettou, Homer Dreamt Before He Slept, 2021 “Homer Dreamt Before He Slept", is a video-installation performance by Iria Vrettou which was done as part of Ios Festival 2021 and took place at the square of a small church. The performance conjures Iria (female primordial god-messenger) who blurs the Homeric myth with Hesiod’s cosmology. This performance is part of an ongoing research on myth and ritual vis a vis body politics and queer ecologies. The music is composed by artist Anto Lopez.