Tuesday, 18 December 2012

New Year Advent Berlin Door: 04.01.2013

MATERIALS
Friday 04.01.2013
7.30pm for 8.00pm start

Abteilung für Alles Andere
Ackerstr. 18
10115 Berlin

The second in a series of material readings, improvisations, proclamations, and performances in Cambridge, London, and Berlin.

WORDS / Lisa Jeschke (poetry)
SOUND / Jon Kaufman-Styles (improvisation)
IMAGE / Staff (video)



The evening will be the Berlin Launch of MATERIALS # 1, a bulletin:magazine:anthology of poetry, prose, and essays published in Cambridge, UK. Includes For Example, Staff's Stuff, Nausea, ABC, The Soul, Against Kenny Goldsmith, Against Tino Sehgal, Amazing Pain &&& more. 130 pages +++ free CD.
 

Described as a 'combined attack on institutionalised rubbish, its very aim is to demonstrate that values are beyond our reach, that the decisions are to be made on our behalf, that guided interpretation of banal things is the way to be conducted towards our proper artistic experience. "Bravo!"' (Will, 25, London)

Copies will be for sale on the night and can also be ordered from:
http://material-s.blogspot.co.uk/

For further information:
http://www.stjka.org/
http://staffcollective.com

Saturday, 15 December 2012

Advent Calender: Door 15

Hey guys, girls, followers, fans, users, democrats. 
Harmless. I can't explain.
Pain.

Daily. Mail. [A few weeks ago,] Kim Kardashian apologised for 'offending' fans after tweeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict. In a post entitled A Message To You Guys, she wrote on her blog: 'I want to own up to and explain that earlier today I sent out two tweets about saying prayers for the people in Palestine and Israel and after hearing from my followers, I decided to take down the tweets because I realised that some people were offended and hurt by what I said, and for that I apologise.'

Friday, 14 December 2012

Advent Calender: Door 14

Hey, its nearly Christmas! Kindle, matches, candles, fires. Soon. Already it’s advent.

I am 27. There’s nothing big to say about it. But it’s strange to wait for someone or something, as if the future moved backwards towards you set in stone: as an objective public plan. The future would then be that which is on the way back towards the present, fucking it from the front. The past, then, is fucking the present from behind. If one was simply graphic, or evenly metaphorical, or terribly crude. Sigh. If I died before Christmas is to happen this year, it would lose me as one of the subjects whose annual happiness and anticipation it produces. But that would not be a big loss to Christmas, for it’s a big thing. It is, for now, as real as a tree, or the wind outside. Brilliant. In fact, it is mainly articulated by means of trees as one of its objects. And the fact that it does not mind me is almost reassuring, like it’s possible to think more, impersonally. Or alternatively to leave it, individually.

But which one? Which side are you on? Why are you saying one thing and its opposite?

When I say I, I should note, it’s not me I’m referring to, or not quite. I am a kind of inner democracy – or should one say I have a kind of inner democracy, or it has me – it’s a kind of horribly hypocritical state. Or should one say, I behave like a democracy. Which would be historically accurate: 1 behaves as if 1 was born into a liberal democracy, and 1 was. Its a terrible weakness, but its not necessary, is it?

No. Why are you suddenly so constrained, so cold, so much like a – manager-ess? And just think: words as objects are real, real, real, as real as that wind, or that Christmas.

Pop!

Sunday, 2 December 2012

MATERIALS #1

MATERIALS # 1 --- [Magazine (130 pages) + CD (10 songs)]  --- includes For Example, Staff's Stuff, Nausea, ABC, The Soul, Against Kenny Goldsmith, Against Tino Sehgal, Amazing Pain &&& more from Danny Hayward, Mattin, Lisa Jeschke, David Grundy, Staff, Jeremy Hardingham, George Osborne, David Stent, Patrick Farmer, Lucy Beynon and Laura Kilbride. 




Materials #1 can be ordered here: http://material-s.blogspot.co.uk/

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Tomorrow, 8pm

Action one19 (CHRIS GOODE + JONNY LIRON)
// LISA JESCHKE + LUCY BEYNON
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Action one19
THE INFANCY GOSPEL OF THE KEVINS CLASH

The latest in a series of public and private performance works by Action one19 exploring the predicament of the body seeking to extricate itself from the systems of language, capitalism and sexual normativity, and drawing on apocryphal and appropriated texts, certain distinct 'muse' figures from the cultural and political environment, and an avowedly queer reading of Agamben's concept of 'bare life'.

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Jeschke + Beynon
PROCLAMATION TO THE NATION: THREE SONGS FOR A MINOR, INCLUDING A VIDEO

For the 2004 ICA exhibition Artists' Favourites, Tino Sehgal selected Jeff Koons's Hippo (1999). His selection was accompanied by the following text: "Koons [may] effectively be the only truly leftist artist. [...] Ideally his work transforms the museum into a place where a person of so-called lower culture feels good, understood, seduced and, above all, is not alienated."

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Judith W. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, Cambridge
FREE and open to all

Friday, 8 June 2012

SHOW TiME Festival

he's dead / he's dead / i've shot him in the head
17 June, 5pm, SHOW TiME Festival, Rich Mix London


he’s dead / he’s dead / i’ve shot him in the head occurs in three idiotic movements (all violently moving!). They forcefully annihilate themselves and each other through an enforced rigidity of speech revealing itself in time and imposing on a room that would rather be silent, or elsewhere. Each of the movements is an echo of and commentary on found material – (1) Samuel Beckett’s play Not I in he’s dead [Not I], (2) the question of whether you can kill a man with sound in he’s dead / he’s dead, (3) the Hungarian underground band AE Bizottság’s song Szerelem in he’s dead / he’s dead / i’ve shot him in the head. Objects that Mattered in the Twentieth Century then, but these new performances are just minute and harmless re-presentations distinguished by their huge and shuddering violence.

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PROGRAMME

Friday 15th June / 7pm / £10, £8 student + conc

    Rachel Mars and Rosie Kelly - Spoiling It For Everybody Else
    Present Attempt - M.O.U.S.E
    Bill Aitchison Company - Indifference

Saturday 16th June / 4pm / £10, £8 student + conc

    Augusto Corrieri - Musical Pieces
    Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects - Control Signal

Saturday 16th June / 7.30pm / £10, £8 student + conc

    Chloe Dechery - A Duet Without You
    Joseph Mercier - Good Boy
    Seke Chimutengwende & Friends - Mr Lawrence

Sunday 17th June / 5pm / £10, £8 student + conc

    Mischa Twitchin with Penny Francis - The Field of Memory and In the Zone of Stones
    Head of a Woman - Grey Matters: A Play for Six Brains
    Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon - he's dead / he's dead / i've shot him in the head (sections I-II-III)


WEEKEND PASS £27.50, £22.50 student + conc  


http://www.show-time.org.uk/showtime/show-time-3/
http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/festival/show-time/

Monday, 7 May 2012

POETRY / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / FILM

TWO DAYS of POETRY, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE and FILM in the JUDITH E WILSON DRAMA STUDIO:

DAY ONE
(Friday 11th May, 19:30hrs)
MUSIC from ADAM BOHMAN and LAWRENCE DUNN
POETRY from SOPHIE ROBINSON and MYSTERY GUEST TBA

DAY TWO
(Saturday 12th May, 19:30hrs)
MUSIC from DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA
PERFORMANCE from LISA JESCHKE & LUCY BEYNON
FILM from IAN HEAMES, JUSTIN KATKO, OLLIE EVANS / JEREMY HARDINGHAM, LUCIA YANDOLI

DESKRIPTORS:

*** FRIDAY ***
ADAM BOHMAN has been exploring the sonic possibilities of the amplified detritus of everyday life since his first forays into the strange world of hometaping while growing up in the Ballardian badlands of west London. Since then he's become an essential part of London's musical underground, curating concerts and performing with a wide variety of ensembles, including the legendary Morphogenesis, the London Improvisers Orchestra, to which he also contributes his own distinctive graphic scores, and smaller groups with players such as Steve Beresford, Dylan Nyoukis, Catherine Pluygers and Adrian Northover.

"a DIY Dadaist in the midst of suburban banality"
"Is this an organic version of Dogme '95?"
"Much concerned with food and experimental music"
"A sort of extension of what Tony Hancock might have done if he had developed his arty phase"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKvCxaixheY

SOPHIE ROBINSON was the Poet in Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and now teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her poetry has been published by yt communication, Reality Street, Les Figures Press, Oystercatcher, Bloodaxe and Shearsman.

"Full of energetic parataxis splintering and manipulating language in ways which are on one level powerfully expressive, with emotion, gender, embodiment & sexuality exploding out like fireworks — but with a coherency & poetic power coming from an informed & thought-through avant-gardist poetics[...]The beautiful game of poetry played out for the highest stakes, and winning."

See: http://www.modernpoetry.org.uk/introsr.html

LAWRENCE DUNN is a composer and improviser, currently studying at the University of Cambridge. His recording for piano and objects, 'if I in my north room', was released on Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes' Compost and Height.

"bustles with a kind of barely-suppressed nervous energy; tapping, scratching, clattering sounds abound"

See: http://soundcloud.com/lawrencedunn

***SATURDAY***
DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA is currently based in London. Previously, she lived in Barcelona for several years, where she acquired a Ph.D thesis in theoretical linguistics, investigating the notion of (in)definiteness. During her stay there she gradually began getting involved in experimental non-academic music. She was influenced and attracted by free and electro-acoustic improvisation, its multiple historical situations and its concurrences with modern composition strategies and jazz. She has played the zither since 2006. She treats it as the interior of a piano, extending its sonic possibilities by preparing its strings, making use of various objects detached from their usual usage, as well as of electronic media such as the e-bow. She is particularly interested in the co-articulation of acoustic and electronic sounds on the resonance box of an instrument. The preparations she uses on the zither are not placed before the playing/performance, but form a substantial part of the playing itself, which is influenced by the placement and removal of various kinds of objects on the zither.

She has recorded duos with guitarist Ferran Fages (as ap'strophe) and contrabass clarinetist Chris Heenan. A solo record, 'Stroke
by Stroke', came out in 2011.

http://thesorg.bandcamp.com/album/stroke-by-stroke

LISA JESCHKE AND LUCY BEYNON: 'he’s dead / he’s dead / i’ve shot him in the head' occurs in three idiotic movements (all violently moving!). They forcefully annihilate themselves and each other through an enforced rigidity of speech revealing itself in time and imposing on a room that would rather be silent, or elsewhere. Each of the movements is an echo of and commentary on found material – (1) Samuel Beckett’s play Not I in he’s dead [Not I], (2) the question of whether you can kill a man with sound in he’s dead / he’s dead, (3) the Hungarian underground band AE Bizottság’s song Szerelem in he’s dead / he’s dead / i’ve shot him in the head. Objects that Mattered in the Twentieth Century then, but these new performances are just minute and harmless re-presentations distinguished by their huge and shuddering violence.

(LJ & LB are theatre-makers, previously based in Berlin, now in Cambridge and London. They have been collaborating since 2007.)

FILMIC EXTRAVAGANZA

FILMS BY LUCIA YANDOLI, OLLIE EVANS / JEREMY HARDINGHAM, JUSTIN KATKO, IAN HEAMES :: MORE INFO TO FOLLOW

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

NOW, MICROTHEATRES

Sat, 14 April, 8pm
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Performances by
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David Berridge
Ellie Bradford
Irum Fazal
Jonny Liron
Kieran Kier Brau
Lisa Jeschke
Lucy Beynon
Mischa Twitchin
Ollie Evans
Stefan Riebel
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Five Years
Unit 66 6th Floor
Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN


Wednesday, 7 March 2012

In March

1.

SPRING DECOYS Festival Cambridge

14 March

Irum Fazal, Ground 1 & 2
Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon, Terrorism
Jeremy Hardingham & Lucy Beynon & Lisa Jeschke, [untitled?]
Ollie Evans, Kinder Surprise #3: The Vacation of Mimotech and Zettel
& more.

For 15/16/17 March, see Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, Cambridge.


2.

filling in the blanks

16 March 2012, 6-9pm

filling in the blanks is a series of events, investigating how one could perform the blank book. with performances by David Berridge, Patrick Coyle, Marc Godts, Rupert Hartley, Sarah Jacobs, Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon (another performance of: Terrorism), John Morgan and DJ Roberts.

X Marks the Bökship
210/ Unit 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ


3.



Evergreen

30 March 2012, 7- 9pm

VerySmallKitchen present an evening of book launches, readings, andsoup, alongside a one night only exhibition and presentation by Márton Koppány.

Features book launches/presentations by Márton and nick-e melville,soup, and further readings by David Berridge, S J Fowler, Lisa Jeschke, ClairePotter, and seekers of lice.

X Marks the Bökship
210/ Unit 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ


4.

Maintenant: a celebration of contemporary avant-garde poetry at the rich mix arts centre

31 March

a presentation by the Hungarian Visual Poet Marton Koppany,
sound poetry & installations from:
David Berridge & Nick-e Melville
Hannah Silva & Holly Pester
Ben Morris & Fiona Kennedy & Jon Marshall
Tamarin Norwood & Julia Calver & Patrick Coyle
Ollie Evans & Lucy Beynon & Lisa Jeschke


5.

Saturday, 4 February 2012

Five Live Performances [ink on paper]



as part of
A PIGEON, A KITCHEN AND AN ANNEXE: SITES OF ALTERNATIVE PUBLISHING.

Preview on 17/02/2012, 6-9pm
Five Years
Unit 66, 6th Floor
Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN


[See Very Small Kitchen for online documentation.]

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

THE FOULE READINGS

Saturday 14th January, 7.30pm.

*Andrea Brady
*John DeWitt
*Lisa Jeschke
*TBC

The Nihon Room, Pembroke College

There'll be free wine, a book table & a half-time break in a Japanese garden. It's all free.

THE FOULE READINGS are a series of contemporary poetry readings in Cambridge organised by undergraduates in English (Caitlín Doherty, Andrew Griffin, Connie Scozzaro and Tomas Weber)