BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM

13 January 2011

Free, booking required

The ICA is pleased to present the premiere of the BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM, a group of disc jockeys, engineers and poets assembled around a giant speaker stack.

BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM is the latest sound project from long term collaborators Edwin Burdis (Donatella, Jack too Jack, Longmeg, and Man Like Me), Mark Leckey (Donatella, Genital Panic, and Jack too Jack), Kieron Livingston (All New Accelerators, London Poor, Jack too Jack and Longmeg), and Steven Claydon (add n to x, Jack too Jack and Relaxed Muscle).

BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM is a machine for speaking the mind, generating noise and physical bonding. http://www.ica.org.uk/27483/Music/BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM.html                                           THIS IS MAINLY FOR JONAS BUT OBVIOULSY ANYONE. JUST SAW SOUND ART AND THOUGHT ID LET YOU kNOW

Sid Charity

Site Sculpture-Patricia Dahoui



Dear Pierpaolo,

My name is Patricia Dahoui. This is the work I made for the Site Sculpture. I call them my bacteria.

This idea all started when I started looking into the history of Back Hill. I realized there had once been a fire in this building. So I began researching into decay, moss, broken objects, infections, decomposition. I knew I wanted to work with a door and block it.

The works I started looking at were Surrealist artists like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I wanted the door to look threatening, melting, different from its usual shape so there is no escape. I bought wax and I decided I wanted to change its structure. But because of H&Safety reasons I was asked to stop. I looked into the material I had bought and I realized how easy it was to change its shape with just the heat of my hands. I created ball like figures of different sizes which I later called them my bacteria.

Now thinking about it. I think I wanted people to feel threatened and disgusted. Maybe it was not enough bacteria objects or maybe it was the fact there were two other doors and they knew they had a way to escape. I would have liked to have expanded this project more.

Some bits and pieces for your kind attention

Hi,
It was delightful to meet with you all (mostly) on Thursday,  firstly thanks to all those who very kindly put up some work for me to see here on the Blog, and for your comments, very useful indeed. Secondly I am very excited about the prospect of supporting you with your work over the next 3 months,  there seems to be a very palpable engagement and eagerness to produce work.......

I have put down a few bits and pieces below, links and orgs and venues for you to have a look at.


http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/
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Stephan Collini's  response to the Browne Report

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble
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How do we organise our ideas, our stuff and our materials when 'Everything is Miscellaneous"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wOhXsjPYM
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http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/

A couple of interesting events/workshops going on here this month.

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More from me soon, see you Monday

Pierpaolo

The Trouble with Sculpture

Photo: Mark Whitaker, www.mainwavephoto.co.uk

The Trouble with Sculpture

19 January 2011

£12, £11 concessions, £10 ICA Members, £5 Special price for Students / Members under 26 (call the box office to book) Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Box Office+44 (0)20 7930 3647

Bookshop+44 (0)20 7766 1452

The two main historical practices in art, painting and sculpture, endure today. But while painting expands modestly from its place on the wall from time to time, sculpture has exploded or evaporated into those art forms that painting cannot accommodate. What sculpture has come to mean today is partially indebted to the impact of ‘performance art’ which conversely influenced it too, just as it spawned installation and environments, land art, sound and time based art, and any art forms that inhabit real space are rooted in sculpture.

Given its capacity to originate and absorb the conventions of art in so many ways, is sculpture viable as a category in contemporary art? And is the term any longer relevant to artists? Joining the discussion will be artists Martina Schmücker, Haroon Mirza, Keith Wilson and Nathaniel Mellors as well as curator and chair of New Contemporaries Sacha Craddock.

Calendar

Date	Time	Venue	Book
Wednesday 19/01/2011	6:45 pm	Cinema 1

This is a lecture that is unmissable. It comes a week before CSM portfolio day and it will help your critical awareness of the field hugely.

Adrian

room project

The thing about this piece is that the sound of it is crucial so a photo doesn't quite do it in terms of getting the full experience.  Essentially, it is a hollow clay circle(about a foot in diameter) filled with water.  Inside there's a small electric pump which keeps the water constantly circulating.  You can hear it sort of gurgling as the water rushes through.

       I came up with this concept when we had the opportunity to get some background information on the building and neighborhood.  The fact that, beneath the streets and buildings, theres a river constantly flowing, really intrigued me.  This idea of an underlying currant, of an invisible constant which never enters into our topical perception, our everyday experience, and yet, i think, on some level is an intrinsic part of it, really appealed to me.  So the actual object is quite crude in appearance, heavy and motionless-looking but, through the sound of the water,  our perception of it is altered by the fact that we know, even though we never see, that there is movement inside of it.

   burke

      

Show to see...

Hey guy's
I really think we should all go to see this on one Wednesday when it starts . We could make it another class trip. It sounds like its going to be a really interesting exhibition and well worth a visit.

See for more info : http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/modernbritishsculpture/about-the-exhibition/

Samuel

Hi Pierpaolo!

I really loved experimenting with different materials when creating cubes and was particularly drawn to using balloons to transform 2D squares into 3D cubes by forming the space between the planes - with the metal squares acting as a tension on the balloon and causing it to form interesting organic shapes (influenced by imagery of obesity). I then developed this idea from "cube" into "room" when looking at the space in between the pipes of the room - as if the pipes were compressing the space into the room - echoing the tension explored in "cube". I liked contrasting the light nature assumed of a balloon and recreating it using denser materials such as plaster and sweets (the exploration with sweets stemming from research I carried out trying to quantify fat in cubic volumes) - making the forms ambiguous and tactile (influenced especially by the works of Louise Bourgeois, Lynda Benglis and Alina Szapocznikow). I felt that trapped within these pipes on the floor, the forms gained character - like living beings being restrained.

Hope you had an amazing Christmas and New Year!
Emily Motto