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| INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 17
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THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES
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ART / TALK
| BORDER CROSSINGS | | Tuesday 1 October (7:30pm) | | @ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars |
| | Price: general £6 | concessions £3 |
| Links: Tate Modern | Boder Crossings Talk | Irational.org | Switch Bunting Interview |
| In today's global economy, a butterfly falling in Africa could quite possibly crash the New York stock market; then it should come as no surprise that the economic refugee-migrant exists at all levels of the work place -- from the Tate's new Portuguese curator to the lowest level Macdonald's employee, 'fact even museums now seem like transnational corporations. With the cheap airlines, "chunnel tunnel", internet and the Union, Europe's borders seem as virtual as the dotted lines that demarcate nations on the map. Enter artist Heath Bunting -- a Documenta X participant -- whose project BorderXings Guide (part of the Tate's Net Art Programme) involves him traversing these national borders "sans interruption", that is not being stopped by border police, customs or immigration... Bunting will be speaking with German critic and activist, Florian Schneider on the roles of borders in Europe and beyond, and the way artists are now crossing all those boundaries as well as cultural ones. Writer-critic Armin Medosh will chair the event. | |
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ART / TALK
| TURNER TODAY | | Wednesday 2 October (6:30pm) | | @ Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Pimlico |
| | Price: general £6 | concessions £3 |
| Links: Tate Britain | Turner: A Main Who Painted Britain | Info On Turner |
| Tate Britain -- home of the Turner Bequest, a group of paintings removed from Turner's studio after his death on the artists instruction and given to the nation -- hosts a panel discussion on contemporary attitudes towards J.M.W. Turner. Former Tate Magazine editor and visual arts broadcaster Tim Marlow will be talking to historian and broadcaster Lisa Jardine, artist Brad Lachore and writer James Wilson, author of a recently published novel based on the life of Turner. Expect an interesting mix of aesthetic appraisal, biographical detail and historical context, all served up from contemporary perspectives. Turner connected the visual world with the potential of paint and overturned academic expectations in the process, not to mention kick starting French painting's move in the same direction culminating in what we know today as Impressionism. Contributing much in his own lifetime then, will the panel discern this English Master's presence in culture today and how do they see his work regarded in retrospect? A fascinating proposition | |
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ART / FILM
| STEVE MCQUEEN | | Thursday 3 October (Tue to Sun 12pm - 8pm; until Sunday 10.11) | | @ Lumiere, 45 St. Martin's Lane, WC2 (020.7300.5500) Tube: Leicester Square |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Artangel | Guardian On SM | Images | Zing Magazine On SM | SM At Documenta X |
Remember Steve McQueen? Not the one with the bike in that film they play every Xmas, but the one that makes films, won the Turner Prize and recently became an OBE. He makes films about Black identity, about a certain marginalisation and he's redefined a certain type of art-making with a sense of humour. He's back... with two films that were specially commissioned for Documenta 11 -- Carib's Leap and Western Deep. The films are now being screened in a huge subteranean auditorium. Linking South African gold miners in Western Deep with a tribute to Carribeans who left to their deaths rather than surrendering to the French in 1651. Both the ambitious films touch and expand upon territory already conquered by McQueen.
NB: Both films run from Thursday 3.10 until Sunday 10.11 | |
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CONCERT
| SONIC MOOK: FUTURE ROCK & ROLL | | Thursday 3 October (8:30pm) | | @ On The Rocks, 25 Kingsland Rd., E2 Tube: Old St. |
| | Price: £5 |
| Links: Future Rock & Roll Album Review | French Kicks Site |
Pioneering the current trend for '80s style electronica from the Hoxton based 333 club, Sean McLusky's Sonic Mook Experiment take us on another
journey towards the cutting edge. This time "Future Rock & Roll" nights embrace another direction -- a raw scuzzy, heavy guitar based sound. The line up includes the all American French Kicks -- watch out for a multi-talented frontman combining singing and drumming like Karen Carpenter on speed. Also live sets from Klang featuring Donna Matthews (ex-Elastica) and The Dirty. With Sean McLusky's knack of finding the new and diverse, Future Rock &
Roll promises to be an eclectic mix of live music pushing the boundries.
NB: Tonight's show is the first in a series of live dates at On the Rocks during October -- the other nights take place every Thursday | |
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ART / FILM
| STRAIN ANDROMEDA THE | | Friday 4 October (7pm) | | @ Whitechapel, 80-82 Whitechapel High St., E1 (020.7522.7888) Tube: Aldgate East |
| | Price: general £5 | concessions £3.50 |
| Links: Whitechapel | Film Comment On Anne McGuire | The Andromeda Strain |
| As part of "a programme of rarely seen work and cutting edge film", American video artist Anne McGuire is personally presenting her Andromeda Strain The at The Whitechapel gallery. Film this love you'll backwards it like you if. That gives you a rough idea of what this is all about. Andromeda Strain The is the 1971 Robert Wise film The Andromeda Strain painstakingly taken apart and re-assembled scene by scene starting at the end and finishing at the beginning. This may sound like the work of a mad-woman, but hidden poignancy can be revealed when a narrative unfolds in reverse with action preceding motivation. Anyone who's read Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, will be familiar with the technique and reviews indicate that Mcguire's film is worth the effort... just don't arrive late or you'll miss the end. | |
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ART / FESTIVAL
| F-EST | | Friday 4 October (Various ) | | @ Various Venues -- Check Website For Details |
| | Price: Check Website For Details |
| Links: F-Est |
Wanna be part of the art-world, other than that quarterly trip to Hoxton Square? Having a hard time telling the difference 'tween the Wilson Twins and the Chapman Brothers -- i.e. which pair's wearing the wig? Think Gilbert and George are sausage manufacturers? Well then, you need an intravenous dose of art-world, and F-Est is your event! Created by various East London institutions, F-Est assembles a weekend's worth of venues (80!) with a buncha extended opening hours, special performances (catch Sam Basu's performance night at OneintheOther on the 5th) walking guided tours, and if you want to fork out dosh, then there's even an inaugural glam party DJ'd by the likes of Neneh Cherry and with performance by Medium Rare Artists including "Gunther the German Porn Star".
NB: F-Est goes on until Sunday 06.10 -- check the F-Est website for details on all the events | |
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FILM
| VDV BY FUNKI PORCINI | | Friday 4 October (11pm; also showing on Saturday 05.10 ) | | @ Curzon Soho, 93-107 Shaftesbury Ave., W1 (020.7439.4805) Tube: Leicester Square/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £5 | concessions £4 |
| Links: Curzon | Ninja Tune | FP Bio | Interview |
For those of you who have already witnessed Funki Porcini's VDV, a DVD of eight short films accompanying his new album Fast Asleep, you'll know that an oppurtunity to see these gorgeous productions on the big screen is not to be missed. Assisted by Team Alcohol, Porcini has produced six visual representations of new album tracks; one older release, Ritmo de Jazz; and one extra track Atomic Kitchen.
Accompanied by Porcini's lush, downtempo sounds the stunning images provide a surreal comedown to the hustle and bustle of everyday city life and you'll soon be floating off into a tranquil, stress-free ambience. So sit back, relax and let Funki Porcini's beautiful films bathe your tired eyes.
Giveaway: We have three copies of Fast Alseep (which comes with VDV) to give away. They'll go to three randomly picked winners who can tell us the name Porcini's first album on Ninja Tune. | |
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ART / TALK
| THE ART MARKET | | Saturday 5 October (10am - 1pm) | | @ Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1 (020.7300.8000) Tube: Piccadilly Circus |
| | Price: £17 |
| Links: Royal Academy |
| The arrival of the art market was not signaled by Abstract Expressionism's promotion by the CIA, nor the fact that Picasso on his weekend studio visists, had to wait on the street while his mates hid their latest because he had a direct link to the market, but the fact that we can now buy art off the peg at Harvey Nicks and Selfridges. Sure everything even the hottest-latest-most-contemporary is available at a price - or perhaps not... Disagree? Well then, come to the Royal Academy's talk -- The Art Market: Paris-New York-London that's being held in conjuction with The Galleries Show. Norman Rosenthal and Max Wigram (co-curators of The Galleries Show and Apocalypse), Nicholas Logsdail (Lisson Gallery) and Lynda Whiteley (Oxford University) will be filling in the details on the shifting art market. | |
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FESTIVAL / FILM / TALK
| ALEC GUINNESS/JOHN LE CARRE | | Saturday 5 October (8:45pm) | | @ National Film Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020.7928.3232) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo |
| | Price: general £11 | concessions £9 |
| Links: NFT | Salon.com le Carre Interview |
In conjunction with the festival Alec Guinness: A Life in Pictures , legendary international espionage thriller author John le Carre will be at the NFT to talk about his friend Alec Guinness. First and foremost, Carre will concern himself with the now classic TV series Smiley's People (of which all parts will be shown at the NFT during the festival) where Alec Guinness played the inadequate George Smiley more than adequately. If not for Alec Guinness, go for John le Carre who rarely indulges his audience with public performances.
NB: See the NFT website for the Alec Guinness: A Life in Pictures schedule | |
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DJ / FILM
| PERFORMANCE VS. MORCHEEBA | | Sunday 6 October (7pm) | | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £10 | concessions £9 |
| Links: ICA | Morcheeba |
| Full Length 19 have hit on the novel idea of remixing classic movies to modern dance grooves. And with Morcheeba's Paul Godfrey providing the soundtrack, this night session promises to surprise and delight. Believe it or not, there was a day when the idea of seeing Mick Jagger in the buff had ladies quivering in their kaftans. Donald Cammel's Performance chronicles those heady days. A rock star vehicle that's actually good. The chance to see James Fox as a sexually confused gangster on the run makes Performance a must. And the film's visual journey into the dark heart of '60s London should match Morcheeba's louche vibe perfectly. The evening also features the premiere of the winning entry from Morcheeba's competition for short films inspired by their instrumental track The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre. | |
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DJ
| KID 606, DJ RUPTURE & DWAYNE SODAHBERK | | Sunday 6 October (7pm - 12am) | | @ Plastic People, 147-149 Curtain Road, EC2 (020.7739.6471) Tube: Old Street |
| | Price: general £7 | concessions £6 |
| Links: Plastic People | Tigerbeat6 | Stuporsonika Records | Kid 606 Site |
| For those who yearn for a DJ set that doesn't make you feel like you've walked into a musical fromagerie, the management of Plastic People offer an evening of experimental electric shadow music on Sunday. This Tigerbeat6 showcase purveys sets from Kid 606, DJ Rupture and Dwayne Sodahberk -- well-matched DJs who cut different slants off the abstract techno block. Reminiscent of the trade plied by the likes of LFO, Autechre and the Future Sound of London, Kid 606's acidic CD-skipping blends with DJ Rupture's electroid melange, whilst Dwayne Sodahberk provides the more melodic minimalist listening. Expect sonic surprises. | |
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FILM
| THE VANISHING | | Monday 7 October (6:30pm) | | @ Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 (020.073.1350) Tube: South Kensington |
| | Price: general £6 | concessions £4.50 |
| Links: Institut Francais | Spoorloos | Review |
| Some of the greatest examples of European cinema have been snapped up by Hollywood and remade into an inferior product partly destroying the reputation of the (usually) masterful original. For some obscure reason, this happens even when the original director remakes his own movie as is the case with Spoorloos. It is therefore very satisfying when the original has retained some legitimacy and is the chosen version for a screening. Spoorloos is terrifying -- and yet, it is ultimately very human. There is no blood nor gore, it is simply classy, and it leaves the viewer constantly wondering how he or she would deal with a similar situation. | |
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JAZZ
| MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD | | Monday 7 October | | @ Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Rd., WC2 (020.7434.9592) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd. |
| | Price: £15 |
| Links: MMW Site | Interview | Blue Note Records |
| Somewhere in Brooklyn in the summer of 1991, John Medeski (pianist/organist), Billy Martin (drummer/percussionist) and Chris Wood (bass) got together and decided to make music... They recorded their first album Notes from the Underground only a few months after they got together and are now represented by the famed Blue Note Records. Since then, they have risen out of the underground and have become somewhat of an experimental jazz phenomenon. MMW push against stylistic restraints to offer us a qwirky and unique sound, creating a funky version of jazz fusion and deep improvisatory grooves. They have earned a stellar reputation on the club circuit as a live act and are not to be missed! | |
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ART
| PHYLLIDA BARLOW | | Tuesday 1 October - Saturday 19 October (Tue to Sat 10am - 5:30pm) | | @ Richard Salmon, 59 South Edwardes Square, W8 (020.7602.9494) Tube: Hight St. Kensington |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Phyllida Barlow |
| Believe it or not, Phyllida Barlow's sculptures are made from house paint, plaster of paris, brown paper, odd bits of wood, in other words the detritus of school art-teaching turned into FINE art -- i.e. luxe. If that's not bad enough, the best way to describe these sculptures is that they're four-legged, shambly, over-painted, breathless, rambling things! If there was a case of dust being turned into gold, this would be it. Imagine Richard Deacon as a mad genius who made abstract, scatological, low-tech sculptures -- put 'em on legs and you'd have something akin to a Barlow. That's not to say that there's no order to the chaos, nor method to the madness, but perhaps it's just madness to the chaos -- but as with the work of Tomko Takahashi -- it's always the adventure of finding out that makes the art work. | |
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FILM
| 10 | | Ends Thursday 31 October (Check ICA Website For Times) | | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £6.50 | concessions £5.50 |
| Links: ICA | Article On Kiarostami | Review |
| Iranian master director Abbas Kiarostami (of Through The Olive Trees) is back with a new movie -- and it took Cannes
by storm. 10 (aka Ten) is another exploration of contemporary Iranian life. Through ten sequences, of unequal length, Kiarostami investigates the lives of his characters. The setting is a taxi, its driver our "heroine", her passengers our insight. Kiarostami uses the taxi to create a small world in which the characters can explore the world outside the cab as well as the world outside the film. | |
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DESIGN
| GIO PONTI | | Ends Sunday 6 October (Daily 10am - 5:45pm; Fri until 9pm) | | @ Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020.7940.8790) Tube: Tower Hill |
| | Price: general £6 | concessions £4 |
| Links: Design Museum | Pearman On Ponti | DesignBoom on Ponti |
| A painter, poet, writer and teacher as well as an architect and designer, Ponti was an extremely important figure of the post-war Italian design renaissance. He also founded the acclaimed Domus Magazine that still exists today. You are thus likely familiar with his work without realising it. Also, the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, Italy that he designed in the 1960s, has been used in numerous fashion shoots recently and continues to be a popular location. The increasing interest in his work has even prompted Manifattura Ceramica's Richard Ginori to manufacture Ponti's neo-realist hand painted designs again. This carefully curated exhibition is a pleasure to visit -- you will see why the design world is reacquainting itself with Ponti's elegant and colourful work. | |
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CONCERT
| QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE | | Monday 28 October (7pm) | | @ Forum, 9-17 Highgate Rd., NW5 (020.7344.0044 ) Tube: Kentish Town |
| | Price: £12.50 |
| Links: QOTSA | Crud On QOTSA |
Showcasing songs from their top third album, Songs For The Death this show will be notable since QOTSA's drummer is now non-other than Dave Grohl (their last London gig sold out very quickly and this time they play two dates, Friday's is already sold out...). It's the first time he has manned the sticks since Nirvana, and perhaps Grohl was aware that the Foo Fighters that he had been fronting since '95 were descending into self parody. Whatever the reason, Grohl's legendarily robust percussive style is a welcome addition to The Queens eclectic road movie rock-as anyone who saw them at Glastonbury this year will attest to. The band also now cite Mark Laneghan (former leader of Screaming Trees) as full time member, whose guitar licks and occasional vocals provide a downbeat foil to Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri's hyperactive garage leanings. A supergroup? New songs like Millionaire and No One Knows certainly suggest so. Prepare to be amazed.
NB: QOTSA play two shows -- Sunday 27.10 and Monday 28.10 (Sunday is already sold out) | |
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THEATRE
| THE RED SHOES | | Ends Saturday 5 October (Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri & Sat 7:30pm; Thu Mat 1:30pm) | | @ Lyric Hammersmith, King St., W6 (020.8741.2311) Tube: Hammersmith |
| | Price: general £12 - £16 | concessions £9 |
| Links: Lyric Theatre | Seating Plan | Tickets | BBC On The Lyric | Guardian Review | Kneehigh Theatre Company |
However sober-footed you approach The Lyric, as part of their season of work by new generation cutting-edge theatre, Kneehigh Theatre Company's adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's alarmingly relevant classic The Red Shoes will assure that even the most balanced among us will dance out with blood-red souls. A devilishly gorgeous transvestite narrator and her set of enormously talented human marionettes sing and twirl us through a tale which becomes a painful trajectory set within both our outer and inner worlds.
Watching our victim tip-toe over the edge of her naive circus of child-like fantasy, into the gaping pit of an adult world, we witness the soul-wrenching obsession with her red shoes provide the only palliative to harsh victimization. A never-ending dance into eternity is the cursed punishment which finally leads her to the bloody slaughterhouse of confrontation and loss. And with Emma Rice's powerful production, toes are sure to tap at the doors of all our demons. Beware.
NB: This run ends this Saturday 05.10 (so you have 5 nights to see it!)
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ART / TALK
| DAVID BYRNE | | Wednesday 9 October (7pm) | | @ Whitechapel, 80-82 Whitechapel High St., E1 (020.7522.7888) Tube: Aldgate East |
| | Price: general £6 | concessions £4.50 |
| Links: Whitechapel |
Best known as the baggy-suited lead singer of Talking Heads, David Byrne has never quite fit. Not content with creating lyrics which in their oddness seem to convey a sense of ice cool poetic beauty, he has also turned his head towards film, photography and cultural criticism. Tonight he will be speaking exclusively at the Whitechapel Gallery where he will discuss his most recent visual arts projects, which have included work in New York and Japan. In an age of mass advertising and consumer culture, he questions the images which surround us, offering a glimpse at his own brand of quirky subversion -- which is sure to byrne down the house.
NB: David Byrne gives this talk on Wednesday 09.10 | |
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GROOVETECH STREAMS
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HOUSE:
Electric Chair presents The Una Bombers (Inspirit)
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ELECTRONIC:
Council Folk with Riz Maslen (Council Folk)
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ELECTRO:
The Sound Burger with Carbon Imprints
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BOOK REVIEW
Noise 4 is not brand new (1 year old), but it packs a mean punch with 500 pages of ideas and stunning images. It's by the Attik,
the English multi-disciplinary design company (with offices in Huddersflield and London in the UK; New York and San Francisco in the US; and in Sydney, Australia). The Attik has worked with clients such as BT, DLJ,
Microsoft, MTV, Nike, General Motors and Sony. They work on all levels of communication and are a one-stop shop for ideas. This book showcases their commercial and conceptual work. These guys are cool and trust
us if you have a remote interest in design then you will want to own this book.
Giveaway: We have one copy of Noise 4 to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can tell us the name of the car company that Attik created a concept car with.
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Julien Dobbs-Higginson, Andreas Hesse, Iain Macleod, Simonida Tomovic, James Waite
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Elia-Shaul, Thom Falls, Eamon Hamilton, Chris Harman, Clifford Leo Harris, Magnus
Larsson, Ingrid Lunden, Perry Mason, Sarah McDermott, Jo Osborne, Kevin O'Sullivan, David Rhodes, Graeme Ross, Ingvild Rytter, Sherman Sam, Charlie Sorrel, Henrietta Thompson, Jane Tobin, Mo White
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