I'm taking part in the the Archive Fever II conference at Goldsmiths on Friday 12th. My presentation will focus on the art of crate diggin', and the current trend of creating on-line archives of information, on sites such as you tube, rather than collections of physical objects. This throws up the thorny problem of the passionate enthusiast's desire to put stuff out into the public realm vs the owners of the copyright asking for it to be withdrawn. As result in many cases you have temporary archives - there one minute gone the next.
More info on the conference here: Archive Fever II
The second event is the Sampler - Culture Clash work in progress event on Thursday 18th September at London Printworks in Brixton. See flyer below for more info. The idea behind the event is to present some of the stuff we've been working on over the last six months and to engage the audience in helping to develop the project. We'll present a free-improvised performance mixing up embroidery, pattern into sound, beat-boxing, performance poetry, sampling, film clips and break dancing from a selection of Brixton B-Girls. I'm very excited to say that Rob Rainbow (ex-Light Surgeons) will be providing live visuals on the evening.
During the event, you'll have the chance to create patterns, a selection of which we'll turn into sound to use as a starting point for the performance; take part in creating a huge embroidered sampler and learn some new stitches working with some of the embroiderers and create your own poetry using cut 'n' paste techniques. There will be guest dj's droppin' their favourite breaks. I've no idea how it's going to go, it's going to be messy but it'll be fun.
We'd love to see you.
4 comments:
This looks awesome. With a bit of luck, I'll be there.
just found out about this project and your blog and feel like i am going wahh wahh wahhhhhhhh as i can't make it to the event on 18th being in Glasgow and all. It sounds right up my street - break dancing! embroidery! wahhh! anyway, i will watch the site with interest now i have found it and good luck! Claire (www.misofunky.com)
I attended this last night - it was fabulous, thankyou!
Can you tell me the name of the beatboxer? He was excellent.
Hi Jessica,it's great that you came along last night..thank you so much, and I'm delighted that you enjoyed the event.
I'll be posting some images,etc over the next few days and weeks.
The beatboxer is Jason Singh. You can see more of his work by clicking on his name in the collaborators section of my blog.
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