Make me yours again will be screened in the UK for the first time at the South London Gallery. Iain & Jane recently made the piece during a trip to New Zealand, and it currently features in their solo show at MIC in Auckland.
Make me yours again will be screened daily at 3.30pm.
For two weeks this Summer the SLG will be transformed into 'The Weasel': a music venue showcasing artists working with popular music. Presented on a stage specially designed by Assume Vivid Astro Focus, 'The Weasel' combines artists' film and video with live performances, which reflect upon and investigate the cultures and sub-cultures of popular music. The project will be documented with a unique 'bootleg' of photography and sound.
Art colleges have been notorious breeding grounds for some of the most influential bands in pop such as David Bowie, Pulp, Franz Ferdinand and the Artrocker phenomenon, while the impact of MTV has brought together image and sound more closely today than ever before. From protest song to electro pop, cabaret to rave, 'The Weasel' presents a series of artists’ films exploring social, personal and political meanings of the soundtracks that surround us.
Assume Vivid Astro Focus will transform the SLG in spectacular fashion with their psychedelic stage hosting performances by artist bands including Maxi Geil! & PlayColt, The Errorists and Slackers. Fresh from supporting the Scissor Sisters on tour, Maxi Geil! & Play Colt will launch their debut album of seedy glam pop as well as present their feature length film 'Nausea II'.
A programme of artists' films during the day complements the live performances, with works that use and abuse the pop video format. Wilhelm Sasnal's Vincent Award winning gritty documentary 'The River' features a series of studio recordings of New York bands. Other films include contributions from kitsch Californian pop stars Los Super Elegantes and Charles Atlas's visually overloaded collaborations with Leigh Bowery.
On the final evening of 'The Weasel', Beck's Futures winner, Matt Stokes will host a closing party with DJs playing music from the last three decades from old school house to Nu Rave. Live performances by Alexandra Bachzetsis and Giles Round will be incorporated with sound pumping from Stokes's replica of a mid-eighties acid house sound system.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Alexandra Bachzetsis, Kulwinder Bajar, The Errorists, Maxi Geil! & PlayColt, Giles Round, DJ Rubbish, Saltpeter, Slackers, Matt Stokes
FILM
Charles Atlas, Kulwinder Bajar, Johanna Billing, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Judith Hopf, Kitsuné, Los Super Elegantes, Maxi Geil!, My Barbarian, Jason Nelson, Esther Planas, Wilhelm Sasnal
INSTALLATION
Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Ludovica Gioscia & Karen Tang
POP MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY ART
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY 14–29 JULY 2007
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH
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posted:1st July 2007 |
