next late night live art at kraak
A really packed and interesting programme this Thursday for Late Night Live Art at Kraak 3 this Thursday (that's tomorrow, 17 December). It includes David Hancock who's recent collaboration, Dreams with Yingmei Duan at Chinese Arts Centre was recently reviewed here. My friend Helen will also be performing, painting live over a projection of a film she's made about Dungeness.
As usual I think the doors open 10-11pm, it's £2 in, and the event will carry on to around 1am. I think it really is worth attending and if you're able I'd recommend you do.
Kraak now also has a website beginning to take place here. In their own words tomorrow will see:
Artist David Hancock performing live drawing, artist/filmmaker Helen Shanahan painting onto her own film about Dungeness as it plays. There will be improvised music and sound with artists Danny Saul, sound artists Graham Dunning and Gary Fisher performing in collaboration with tape loops, modified record players and other objects, and David Fox as I Lucifer reacting sonically to films by Pasolini and Jarman. There will be an installation by Louise Woodcock in the side room consisting of a large crochet object and sound.
David Hancock graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996. Mostly specialising in painting, he has been included in several group shows including John Moores 21 Painting Prize, BP Portrait Prize, Young Masters curated by Flora Fairburn, i-POD Killed the Video Star at Showroomama, Rotterdam curated by Ken Pratt, The Future Can Wait, curated by Ellis & Rumley and the New London School at Mark Moore, LA. He has also had a number of solo shows both nationally and internationally including the Agency in London, Galerie Transit in Belgium, The Storey Gallery in Lancaster and The City Gallery in Leicester. He has also been artist in residence at the Walker, Liverpool and 501 Artspace, Chongqing China. This will be David's second Live Art performance after collaborating with Yingmei Duan during her Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre. In this weeks performance, David will rub out the headlines of a newspaper questioning the transitory nature of the press.
Helen Shanahan is an artist who works in various media. her main emphasis is on moving image, creating a mixture of narrative cinema and video art . Helen’s work explores the complexities and ambiguities of intimate relationships and often centres around interchangeable themes of body and home. For her performance, Helen will be drawing over one of her films, gradually obscuring the image over time. The film focuses on the artist’s personal sense of loss as her grandparents prepare to leave their remote village home of fifty years.
Louise Woodcock works mainly in installation and performance using objects, sound and light to create intense atmospheres. The work deals with fear and horror and how these are psychologically associated with the body, especially the female body. The work questions the role of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in our collective cultural, moral and psychological make up. The work raises questions about femininity and masculinity, beauty and disgust, the synthetic and the organic. This week, Louise will exhibit an installation consisting of a giant biomorphic crochet object and the ambiguous sounds of cries.
Danny Saul is a Manchester based experimental songwriter. He also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer. Danny will be making an improvisation with something that makes sound, like an instrument perhaps, or some instruments... or possibly something that isn't an instrument or instruments. It will become more apparent what he's doing when he does it.”…
Graham Dunning is a sound and visual artist who uses modified electronic equipment and found objects. Found home recordings from the distant past feature heavily in the work investigating memory, childhood and nostalgia. Graham’s recordings and performances involve layering and delay units that distort and upset the sound as well as making it ambient. The work features field recordings pressed onto vinyl dubplates which are manipulated using modified turntables and delays, raising questions about the role of vinyl in contemporary music.
Gary Fisher is a sound and visual artist working within a continuous process of experimentation and inquiry focused around investigatory or instinctive responses to sounds, objects, words, places, people and images. This process includes collecting and archiving information, research and objects, drawing, construction, photography, text and sound recording. It generates many outcomes including live performance, sound installation, CD or tape recordings, graphic scores, writings and drawings
David Fox will be performing as I Lucifer. David has recently been performing with fellow sonic art-terrorists Kylie Minoise and Smear Campaign as well as touring Europe as part of his Excursions project consisting of 8 live actions and or field recordings in 8 Cities including Berlin, Prague, Zurich and Milan. David will also be releasing his first album under the I Lucifer ident, entitled 69 Hate Songs, in January 2010. The I Lucifer performance will include a semi-improvised work taking sonic cues from Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo and Derek Jarman's Last of England using such instrumentation as a KaosPad, two self-made soundboards and a Bosch Power-drill.
If you would like to perform, try out an installation or would like more information email spacekraak@googlemail.com or call Louise on 07958 050 730
I'll be in the audience and I'll review the event here as usual. Although I'll continue to promote stuff here you can also find out about forthcoming events at their website, and on some listings like The Art Guide.
As usual I think the doors open 10-11pm, it's £2 in, and the event will carry on to around 1am. I think it really is worth attending and if you're able I'd recommend you do.
Kraak now also has a website beginning to take place here. In their own words tomorrow will see:
Artist David Hancock performing live drawing, artist/filmmaker Helen Shanahan painting onto her own film about Dungeness as it plays. There will be improvised music and sound with artists Danny Saul, sound artists Graham Dunning and Gary Fisher performing in collaboration with tape loops, modified record players and other objects, and David Fox as I Lucifer reacting sonically to films by Pasolini and Jarman. There will be an installation by Louise Woodcock in the side room consisting of a large crochet object and sound.
David Hancock graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996. Mostly specialising in painting, he has been included in several group shows including John Moores 21 Painting Prize, BP Portrait Prize, Young Masters curated by Flora Fairburn, i-POD Killed the Video Star at Showroomama, Rotterdam curated by Ken Pratt, The Future Can Wait, curated by Ellis & Rumley and the New London School at Mark Moore, LA. He has also had a number of solo shows both nationally and internationally including the Agency in London, Galerie Transit in Belgium, The Storey Gallery in Lancaster and The City Gallery in Leicester. He has also been artist in residence at the Walker, Liverpool and 501 Artspace, Chongqing China. This will be David's second Live Art performance after collaborating with Yingmei Duan during her Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre. In this weeks performance, David will rub out the headlines of a newspaper questioning the transitory nature of the press.
Helen Shanahan is an artist who works in various media. her main emphasis is on moving image, creating a mixture of narrative cinema and video art . Helen’s work explores the complexities and ambiguities of intimate relationships and often centres around interchangeable themes of body and home. For her performance, Helen will be drawing over one of her films, gradually obscuring the image over time. The film focuses on the artist’s personal sense of loss as her grandparents prepare to leave their remote village home of fifty years.
Louise Woodcock works mainly in installation and performance using objects, sound and light to create intense atmospheres. The work deals with fear and horror and how these are psychologically associated with the body, especially the female body. The work questions the role of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in our collective cultural, moral and psychological make up. The work raises questions about femininity and masculinity, beauty and disgust, the synthetic and the organic. This week, Louise will exhibit an installation consisting of a giant biomorphic crochet object and the ambiguous sounds of cries.
Danny Saul is a Manchester based experimental songwriter. He also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer. Danny will be making an improvisation with something that makes sound, like an instrument perhaps, or some instruments... or possibly something that isn't an instrument or instruments. It will become more apparent what he's doing when he does it.”…
Graham Dunning is a sound and visual artist who uses modified electronic equipment and found objects. Found home recordings from the distant past feature heavily in the work investigating memory, childhood and nostalgia. Graham’s recordings and performances involve layering and delay units that distort and upset the sound as well as making it ambient. The work features field recordings pressed onto vinyl dubplates which are manipulated using modified turntables and delays, raising questions about the role of vinyl in contemporary music.
Gary Fisher is a sound and visual artist working within a continuous process of experimentation and inquiry focused around investigatory or instinctive responses to sounds, objects, words, places, people and images. This process includes collecting and archiving information, research and objects, drawing, construction, photography, text and sound recording. It generates many outcomes including live performance, sound installation, CD or tape recordings, graphic scores, writings and drawings
David Fox will be performing as I Lucifer. David has recently been performing with fellow sonic art-terrorists Kylie Minoise and Smear Campaign as well as touring Europe as part of his Excursions project consisting of 8 live actions and or field recordings in 8 Cities including Berlin, Prague, Zurich and Milan. David will also be releasing his first album under the I Lucifer ident, entitled 69 Hate Songs, in January 2010. The I Lucifer performance will include a semi-improvised work taking sonic cues from Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo and Derek Jarman's Last of England using such instrumentation as a KaosPad, two self-made soundboards and a Bosch Power-drill.
If you would like to perform, try out an installation or would like more information email spacekraak@googlemail.com or call Louise on 07958 050 730
I'll be in the audience and I'll review the event here as usual. Although I'll continue to promote stuff here you can also find out about forthcoming events at their website, and on some listings like The Art Guide.
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