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| 11 March @ iCulture, Imperial College Radio 1134am www.icradio.com hosted by Helen Arney guest : Yu-Chen Wang |
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Helen Arney |
Aris&Lakis Ionas |
Clare Gasson |
Mauricio Lupini |
Wouter Sibum |
Yu-Chen Wang |
Nicholas Vaughan |
Sheena Macrae |
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iCulture @ IC Radio |
It's just shocking sometimes when things aren't the way you thought they were 4'09" 2005 |
The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist 3'52" 2006 Piano: Arne Kolkman Vocal: Wouter Sibum woutersibum.com |
Untitled 2006 his village legend of Danish raiders that invade an old Anglo-Saxon town... |
Fiction in One Minute 1'00" 2002 sheenamacrae.com |
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| Helen Arney | ||
I like to pick and mix all sorts of music on my weekly IC Radio show, iCulture. Anything that sounds good can get on the playlist, whether it’s classical, world, folk, pop, jazz, electronica or some stuff you can’t really call music at all. It’s a bit like listening to a gigantic ipod on shuffle mode. If you listen in between 1 and 3 on Saturdays at www.icradio.com I expect you’ll hear something you hate, a few things you like, and maybe one track that you fall in love with… and some friendly chat to tell you what’s going on.
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| Aris&Lakis Ionas |  |
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| Superman Died Yesterday 1'48" The Callas - Lakis & Aris Ionas Lakis and Aris construct the stage themselves and they present it as an installation. The parts of the installation are deriving from many aspects of the Greek reality, combining experiences from the Greek traditional fairs and the punk-glam-pop-garage-mod-D.I.Y groove of the seventies.The artists don’t care about any specific form or technique, they weather through the restrictions posed by musical knowledge and they are experimenting with their mistakes, they are flirting with a potential failure and at the same time, they realize a teenage dream: They are playing in a band.As musical personas, they create myths, they enjoy their 15 minutes of fame and they make a connection between the artist and the musical idol, by judging themselves and, furthermore, by making a comment on the art’s star system.
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| Clare Gasson | |||
It’s just shocking sometimes when things aren’t the way you thought they were… 4'09" 2005 This piece was made for a hotel. In the middle of ‘Wild at Heart’ by David Lynch there is a film within a film where Sailor and Lula drive through a desert at night and find a girl who has just been in a car crash. It’s a strange part of the film – on its own – hermetic and spatially they seem suspended – everything has been made very close by the headlights – its only via car lights that we see all the action. Because of the blackness around the scenes no other life is implicated – its Sailor and Lula’s interior world – they are in love – and they do the right things – they try to help the girl in distress – and even though Sailor has broken parole they discuss taking her to a hospital – so he risks being caught. The detached spatial (and psychological) sense really interests me. In my piece I describe this part of Wild at Heart with licence to make the car crash more Warhol than it was etc … then in Part II I bring the whole scene into an intense hotel. The hotel is one I stayed at in Liverpool – an old Victorian place with a very eccentric atmosphere. Hotels are hermetic places – they have their own rules, own style etc. On the whole too they are places you visit for a short time – you are rarely at home there. |
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| Mauricio Lupini | |||
Cutucha Cutucha 1'10" 2006 (remix of the song “Tonta, gafa y boba” by Onda Nueva) Diba du da 0'55" 2006 (remix of the song “Agua de beber” by Antonio Carlos Jobim) Inspired in the conceptual art practice of the 70’s, my last works explore language visually and with music. In the pieces the communicative function of language displayed is interrupted: a text that visually disappears (in the series of photographic works called Billboards) or by the use of a kind of “post-babble or pre-language” sound (in the sound/video pieces). The display of a senseless language is necessary to construct, with the help of the audience, a different ‘sense’ away from the immediate meaning of language. I began the sound pieces playing with the music produced by the Venezuelan group Onda Nueva whose aim was to create a new sonority in the 1950’s/60’s, just when Venezuela experienced an extensive process of modernization. The original songs were dissected and the text re-worked, while the melody was left recognisable; I selected parts of songs that present texts without a defined meaning by the use of onomatopoeic words |
The new remixes explore this kind of “post-babble / pre-language”(the “wild” sound as Roman Jakobson, the Russian linguist, defined it), of the music of the modern era. Some other pieces were made using Bossa Nova (Brazilian) music. |
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| Wouter Sibum | |||
The only good fascist is a very dead fascist part of the performance Dance and Laugh and Play Concept: Wouter Sibum Piano: Arne Kolkman Vocals: Wouter Sibum the song is originally from Propagandhi and rearranged by Sibum and Kolkman (album) Less talk, More rock march 1996, Fat Wreck Chords The song 'The only good fascist is a very dead fascist' was part of a performance called 'Dance and Laugh and Play' which consisted of 6 rearrangements of songs by Propagandhi. The perfomance started out with the question: Why are some political punk rock lyrics hard to hear or understand whilst some have great content. Sibum asked Kolkman, a good friend and musician, to work on this idea with him. Both were fans of Propagandhi when they were 16 years old and later started listening to a greater variety of music, amongst which was jazz. They both had a desire to work on a piece that combined both genres. |
'Dance & Laugh & Play' is a performance played at the show "Sequence" at the Space in London, January 2006 |
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| Yu-Chen Wang | Simon Coleman | ||
Space I 1'00" 2006 Space II 1'00" 2006 I work extensively in London (Kings Cross) and Berlin (the East part) on the specific locations, such as construction sites and city re-development project areas. My practice is focused on the social and political investigation of contemporary urban myth. I intend to recontextualize the historical utopia of the city with in a post-modern environment of discontinuity, fracture and re-assemblage. The series of video works are based on deconstructing and reconstructing the citylandscape. They are unscripted made of significant occurrences or event happening on the stage of the metropolitan city. My work explores the new approach to live art in a context of real life. My most recent work, Space series, are interiors of half finished building site. The status of the emptiness without human occupation represents the temporary dis-function and the expectation of being in use again. Space series are combination of sound and image works inserting into spaces which I would like to deliver an experience of bodily conscious of being in an extensive space. They show forth the quasi-present spaces from a voyeuristic position which are reproduced from the existing half of the space. The perception is reconstructed into a new dimension, however, they are fundamentally correlated as the space is duplicated by another one. - - --------- ----- www.basementartproject.com/yuchenwang |
Simon became interested in music at the age of 12 on being both curious and envious of his elder brother’s new guitar. Having then taken up the instrument himself, he went on to study both rock/jazz and classical guitar. After successfully studying at Leeds College of Music and London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in 2003 Simon was awarded a bursary from The Lionel Bart Foundation to study at The Royal College of Music in London on their Masters in Composition for Screen course. Whilst at RCM Simon collaborated with directors and animators from various Film and Art Colleges including The Royal College of Art, The London International Film School, The London Film Academy, Goldsmiths College and Bristol University, as well as having work shown at London’s Curzon Soho cinema and The National Film Theatre. Since completing his Masters, Simon has been pursuing a career in Composition for Screen. |
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| Nicholas Vaughan | |||
Untitled 4'00" 2006 Vaughan's village legend of Danish raiders that invade an old Anglo-Saxon town in the modern day... *Nicholas Vaughan was born in 1977 and currently lives and works in England. After spending a year living and working in Athens, he has recently moved back to England where he is preparing a writing piece under the guise of being English for an extended group show in Manchester.
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| SheenaMacrae | |||
Fiction in One Minute
1'00" 2000 Fiction in One Minute is a reduction that refigures and takes the original Pulp Fiction to its logical intention. By compressing and mapping the structures of cinema the narrative flips into punctuated forms that force alternate readings. As the rush of images flicker by, the viewer is edged towards maximum capacity. The scenes evolve into a series of stills, reduced back into a fundamental construction; a single frame in rapid succession forming a palatable surface tension. Macrae's interests lie in the art of compression, exploring the modern fascination with speed, nostalgia, information and entertainment. I focus on the significance of popular culture employing new digital advances in technology to manipulate and alter the form. My work revolves around the ideas of epic dramas and extended narratives using appropriated cinema and television as a readymade. By using the structures inherent in film language, the work parodies and reconstructs the dynamics of Hollywood clichés, collective memory and standardising of narratives to develop alternative meanings. |
* Originally studying in Vancouver, Canada, Sheena Macrae graduated with a BFA, majoring in Film and Video from Emily Carr Institute. While she made her own films, she worked extensively in the film and television for studios such as Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, Disney and Cartoon Network. She moved to London to study at Goldsmiths College, graduating with a Masters in Fine Art in 2002. She has shown and given talks across Europe, North America and New Zealand and works across a number of mediums including film, video, photography, sculpture and drawing. |
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