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Madaleine is an experimental performance artist, whose work resides in an exploration of the body and a fascination with design elements. As her practice has evolved, Madaleine has become increasingly interested in sculptural/architectural costume, specifically exploring how different materials interact and condition the performers’ movements and investigating its potential as a fundamental and poetic language of performance.
David Paredes and Eirini Kartsaki find a passion in exploring repetition in performance. They are interested in the ways that experiences of repetition suspend time and create spaces, where they can lift a suitcase a hundred times never to be able to begin the journey, where they type a love letter a hundred times and things are still left to be said, where one they are constantly denying, believing, failing and beginning again.
Good morning (though you are still in the middle of the 'last night').Now, let’s have a breakfast (though you are about 9580km far away fromhere).
If the machines of the modern world turned you into a ‘dummy’, would you stay silent, or learn to speak again? Featuring ‘Stomunculus the Homunculus’, ‘Dr.Shaboo the Shambolical Shaman’, and many more creatures of the Dummyworld. ‘Dummies’ is a radical rag-bag stuffed with puppets, clowns, automata and porridge, colliding sense with nonsense, adulthood with infancy, sanity with madness.
Butoh-based exploration into Mr Punch and the archetype of the drunken old man.
Ever wanted to own a part of someone else’s body?
Dress up and have a Polaroid photo taken in one of our theatrical sets.
Paint a peculiar portrait and have it framed and displayed on the mis-match gallery wall.
"If words were weapons, i'd have shot myself in the foot by now" -
Journey into my perverted night visions. Surreal and fake animated Lecture accompanied by live comic narration from the bearded lady of tomorrow Sarah Ruff. Absurd questions are posed about the nature of existence. What would the world be like if it were square shaped? Written, performed and illustrated by Sarah Ruff, Animated and sound design by Ed Currie
Abstinence&Sensibility present ‘Train of Thought ‘projected video art with a live prepared guitar, piano and melodikar soundtrack. Featuring a cast of tiny model figures, Hornby train carriages, stories of arrivals, departures and the spaces in between.
Hyrst make music shaped more by ideas than chords.
Kleh picked up a guitar last November and began writing some very qwerky folk music from her bedroom courtesy of a Spanish guitar, a bag of change, a cardboard box drum set, a very nice Macbook built-in microphone and some odd relationships (including one with a "horse head).
P&O = Precise and Olson. Two dj/producers hailing from East Anglia- the home of the Hip. 
In a mixing bowl, combine bizarre movie cuts & vintage adds until smooth.
Sub Secret believe that music, as a 21st century art form, should be involving, intriguing and interactive.
Any good peasant soup has all sorts of good things thrown in.
Miss Electra Cute is Julia Barnett's Burlesque personality.
Maya Levy is a singer, songwriter and actress.
Once described as 'feel-good after midnight music for the disturbed'.
A one-night stand with an over-ambitious Eastern European Immigrant, who believes she can live the dream and is prepared to do anything to get it. She wants to fit in with the glamorous people but is destined to be rejected by everyone. .
Intimate and secret exchange between audience and performer. Post your inner voice in felt tip pen through a secret letterbox. Your anonymous confessions live on in my paper collections. You may see me emerging from my hiding place. but I will never know who you are. Devised and written by Sarah Ruff and Audience. Sound design by Ed Currie.
T-Land, choreographed and performed by Helena Eflerová, alternates between the physical performance and living sculpture, the public and private, the universal and personal.
Amen
Fabyc will present a slow motion series of incremental gestures in relationship to a lifesize fibreglass double of herself.
They say a good man is hard to find but Francesca has found herself a very special man-nequin. From first touch to last kiss this is a love story in a very short time; it is restricted by the (plastic) man who never does or says anything.
A dark tale of desire, death and ... deadliness it involves whips, fire, and a dead horse…
1,2,3..go!
Fields of the city that can be rambled through, as pastures of a forgotten dream scape, those who see the city through such sad eyes,, though who murmur quietly in their sleep of dreams unfilled. The city can act as a container for our dreams, a maze in which we can act out our fantasies in flights of fancy and fluxus of uncertainty.
The Greestone Group is a fluid collaborative of artists whose combined practice interrogates concepts of emotional experience and social representation. Through the centralizing of The Body while recognizing irrational as well as logical processes in communication and experience of life, the artists explore issues of identity along with interpretations of gender, language and power. 
Le Donne are two ardent females of uncertain age and time, with no fixed language or style and an unpredictable mission.
An interactive live art piece, Incomplete Picture explores the nature of storytelling and documentation. Hosted by a lost vaudeville compere who finds herself in the unlikely company of a guerrilla street artist, the piece draws on audience suggestion, whether mundane, superfluous or just plan ridiculous and utilises these to begin navigating a path through a kaleidoscopic landscape of fragmented narratives.
Behind the artist’s production rests the epistemological question : How do we know ?
She is Danger are London based British-Japanese producer/DJ Maya Jane Coles and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Lena Cullen. Lying somewhere between Portishead and Burial with shades of Massive Attack and Goldfrapp.
Steph West is joined by Tori Handsley: two harpists with a shared love of dancing rhythms, vivid chords and a free flowing melody.
Rotkäppchen are an English/German two-piece playing live electronic music (in ‘Nu White Stripes’ style with live drums) as well as doing live laptop DJ sets.
The sweet, fiery warblings of Suffolk singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan have been compared to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Marc Bolan.
Born from a fusion of everything that is good about the rock scene of the last decade, The Amy Trade have hit London hard and fast with their own brand of raw, relentless, good time rock and roll.
Dreamt into being as a challenge to the 20 year long reign of the DJ, the Heads High Soundsystem places the record selector in a whole new context, encouraging him to interact with live musicians as a co-creator rather than placing him on an autonomous pedestal above the crowd.
Blending indie rock with Latin American influences, YATD are back playing shows in London after a year-long hiatus.
Dan Arnold is an artist primarily concerned with the natural world, our place within it and the processes involved. He works with continuous line, film and objects.
Ruth Harrison is a time-traveller who plays with history, memory, sexuality and gender.
Before graduating in Fine Art from CSM, Robin Gardiner worked in animation, film and television.
Tom Graham-Adriani was born in London to Dutch and English parents and graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2005. He has subsequently exhibited in a number of renowned galleries including; The Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, ' A Modern Bestiary' (2006), The Factory Berlin, 'London Contemporaries' (2007), Wiltons Music Hall, 'Book of Phobias' solo show (2008) and most recently, The St Pancras Crypt Gallery, where he both exhibited in and curated 'Tales from the Electric Forest' (2009).
Once upon a time a princess lived in a faraway and almost forgotten country. She had beautiful blonde hair and green blue eyes. Her ladyship was similar to mountain's fairy godmother and night's elf.
Madaleine Trigg is an experimental performer, director and photographer. These interests collide in her work, which is pre-occupied with the images and issues of the female body, using sculptural materials to fashion landscapes and (re) present the body.
GENNAO is a live cinema performance where Carlos Jimenez manipulates films, youtube stuff, noises and music to create a personal universe.
Giada Ghiringhelli (b. 1981) is a Swiss videomaker and new media artist graduated in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and currently living in London.
William Bock is a London based visual artist and theatre designer. His practice combines painting and drawing with collaborative projects as part of the theatre collective StrangeWorks.
“Whatever is perfect suffers no witnesses...”
Mike Wendling is a writer, journalist and radio producer.
Sally Wyatt is a stand up comedian, writer performance poet and character actor. She writes short plays and performance pieces based around the people often overlooked in society.
We are five sirens, who together sing sumptuous a cappella harmonies to classic and modern songs.
Pick, Mix and Stitch - A Workshop in purse making: Pick a design, mix a vintage textile with a transferable original image from artists Gwen Burns and Ella Bryant or bring along a favourite image and stitch together your own unique and perfect art-house purse. Cost: £10-15
Drop in and experiment with recycled and found objects to make a unique corsage to brighten up your button hole.
Nick and Joe spent two months in India with a ukulele and a minidisc recorder. The resulting songs tell of their adventures from the bustling streets of Delhi to the giddy heights of the Himalayas. And Jupiter. Jupiter's a fly.
Tony Volker is a singer songwriter who enjoys the grand as much as the intimate and whose songs are characterised by his intricate acoustic guitar parts wound around into classic pop songwriting structure.
An artist of surprising philosophical depth and lyrical brilliance" (Wears the Trousers Magazine).
dottycrayon jewellery is kitsch, cute and fun. Think bright colours, buttons and barbie shoes!
Take a moment out and come and enjoy a delightful cream tea or splendid quiche and salad in our miniature kitsch cafe.
‘Turning something old into something new’
Ley Ley Designs offers jewelry created by a Canadian artist Shirley Kwok-Choon. Inspired by re-use, and DIY culture her designs integrate these concepts to fashion.
I began painting seriously in the mid nineties when living in Brixton. At that stage I really wanted to change as I was truly tired of trying to escape- the proverbial escape artist!!
Hand-made one of a kind mosaic earings, candle holders and mirrors.Using various coloured glass, ceramic or mirror to create mosaicpieces.
I make a range of colourful and versatile leather goods from bags to belts and hairslides to brooches. Including amazing dog collars and leads! Prices range from £1 to £150. Happy to make work to order.
My work focuses on discarded objects, chosen for their ability to appear both humorous and vulnerable when taken from their normal environments and ejected into the outside world.
Hideout are a hand screen printed t-shirt company who produce original designs and high quality prints at affordable prices. T-shirts will be £12.
We will be selling original drawings, paintings and printed cards. We will also be showing examples of, and taking commissions.
Pikine Accessories - Exclusive Handmade Accessories. Each piece is uniquely crafted using recycled beads and findings, making it an ideal gift for the Eco-friendly woman of today.
Hand stitched felt brooches, animal rings, iron-on patches, mini art, cards, zines and books.
Screen Printed and Letterpress prints from an eclectic range of designers and illustrators.
At by-louise we handmake ceramic jewellry, homewares and accessories all adorned with vintage floral, fluffy animals and tweety bird prints.There is a huge range of all so we know something will take your fancy!
My Little Boutique is a treasure chest of beautiful things from cute to kitsch we have a great range of costume jewellery and handbags including beautiful delights by independent designers.
My work is largely based on the many inscrutable faces of my character "Crueletta"-here seen representing the traditional theatrical
I shall be selling a range of Limited Edition prints of quirky characters,
Inspired by dream - paintings, drawings, wood engravings and pastel works - originals and prints by Greg Wood.
Lady and Small - Little company, a lot of fun. Like British gingham nostaligia? Paris weekends? Holidays in Hawaii? Home ware and accessories with a make do and mend feel influenced by places and passed era's.
Petit Chou-Fleur - Beautiful hand crafted textiles from faded vintage fabrics and hand-embroidered tray cloths, along with gift sets made from magpie vintage finds and other beautiful home items.
Crumpet & Skirt. Vintage style Gifts, Cards and Wrapping Paper inspired by the 50's Pin Up Girl.
CristalinaIC's shop features handmade recycled vintage jewellery, classic vintage bags and other vintage treats such as as cocktail glasses and floral teacups.
I am selling paintings and prints, figurative paintings mainly, with text also. My work is about life and death and the contemplation of it.
Glittermouse works with reused materials to create richly decorated items which brighten and enhance interiors in a sustainably aware way. Each item is a unique piece and more than 90% of materials are sourced from household waste or other second hand sources. Mouse has even been known to ‘rescue’ items such as discarded bottles and glasses from the streets in the aftermath of a Saturday night!
Miss Amy Phipps, knitwear graduate and lover of all things Vintage. Inspired by Russian folk and twenties circus performers Amy uses recycled yarns, vintage uniform braid and hand dyed vintage linens to create a selection of decorative collars, brooches/Accessories 'Sleepy Circus' peg doll characters and quirky trinkets.
Adeel Ahmed combines Eastern Astrology and dream interpretation with the mystic art of the Tarot in his unique readings, offering you guidance and direction to help you achieve your objectives with ease.
A collection of individual, colourful and tactile knitted and hand worked/embellished accessories.
Carte Couture tailors together a combination of unusual materials (including pvc, vintage lace, metallic foils, flocked wallpaper, snake skin and mock croc) and it's tongue-in-cheek sense of humour to create original artwork and products.
I'm an illustrator from London making original handmade and unique paper goods as well as bags and t-shirts all designed by myself.
Brouhaha by Alexyi Reneece. My individuality and style come from expressing myself and who I am and not what others think I should be.
Small books, nice prints and tea towels in good colours of animal costumes, fighting, camping, murking, shamanism, magic, charming talisman type drawings.
Panda Kite - a range of products that feature illustrations/designs of Mariko Otake includes greeting cards, screen-printed T-shirts, organic cotton bags, hand-made items such as small soft toys and card holders.
Paula Smith is an award winning photographer based in East London. She'll be showing urban images from East London and beyond.
We make bags, purses and phone/iPod pouches from recycled ties, as well as bead jewellery using glass beads, shell and buttons. Our prices range from earrings and hair slides for a few pounds, up to £50 for sterling silver and semi-precious stone jewellery.
Saffron Reichenbacker, Brighton based artist and illustrator.In her work, Saffron attempts to create a world born out of obsessions with early cinema, vamps, flappers, vintage erotica, Mexican folk art, sultry sailors and fallen stars.
Papasavva marries together sculpting, designing and filmmaking; feeding of the tension it creates to inform his methodology of making. A constant outcome of his practice is the building of wooden and bespoke filming equipment, using craft and carpentry techniques to produce alternatives to standard industry equipment. These devices include things such as a compactable animation rostrum or a camera dolly that both dismantles and demonstrates joinery principles.
Suzie Crisfield is an emerging talent in the textile design world and is a pioneer of unusual and unique constructed fabrics. Her innovative silicone-based material has numerous qualities which lend itself to a multitude of ideas: it is hard-wearing and long-lasting; it can be used for playful and sophisticated designs; it is UV-active and every design is unique.
Taz creates create delicate brooches made from discarded paper, plastic and buttons.
Tigz is a recent illustration graduate from Westminster University and her work is not for the faint-hearted!
Sarah & Tania are two designers who are collaborating on new idea's for homewareand stationary products. This new and exciting range focuses on hand crafted textiles and bespoke products. With over 10 years experience between them within the design industry they havenow created this new line of products.
I would like to show my small paintings: oil and acrylic on canvas and painting on glass. The range price from £10-£50.
We will be selling homemade colouring books and poster books, gift cards, postcards and prints, original print silk scarves, tote bags and stationery.
I am a Fashion Illustrator, I have been exhibiting and taking private commissions for the past 3 years. I also do live illustration at events and parties where I draw quick sketches of guests for them to keep.
Jessica Jang has designed a series of limited edition, ethical, silkscreened t-shirts and totes featuring images inspired by psychedelic hair strangulation versus classical. Also on display are small drawings and paintings based on natural disasters.
Paintings and etchings of saints and animals, plus hand made books from recycled materials.
Kaya Boo is a London based jewellery designer producing limited edition pieces for women and children.
Nik Jones Artwork (Painting/Drawing) and Prints by Catherine Shinerock.
Exclusive designs by Holly-Anne Rolfe & Sarah Bardsley.We love fabrics; our cushions, bags and accessories are available in a pick 'n' mix patchwork of vintage, african, liberty and modern scandinavian-style prints. We've got original illustrations, greetings cards and fabulous necklaces too...
I have hand-printed tea towels and cards. They are inspired by old 50s food adverts and cook book illustrations. My hand drawn images are made into screens and printed on linen/ cotton.
Lucy's Little Curiosity Shop consists of handmade jewellery and art pieces which are inspired by Lucy's curiosities. Amongst these you will find Dorothy shoe necklaces, thaumatropes earrings and inedible 'Eat Me' goodies.
I would be selling beautiful patchwork cushions. These luxurious cushion covers are a combination of screenprints, carefully selected fabrics and heat transfers. The price range is £25 to £50.
Damon Hall and Sarah Orme design and make unique, contemporaryjewellery using damaged antiques as their source material. Working primarily in silver, copper and bronze, they produce striking,individual pieces for every pocket.
Zippy Lovelock designs and handcrafts one of a kind leather handbags and accessories made from recycling leather clothing.
SewSmitten provides handmade accessories: bags and purses made with original designed and silk screen/digital printed fabrics, leather hair clips, brooches, jewellery and quirky Oyster/bus card holders.
Andrea Morreau's unique needlefelted objects and pictures will be available for sale with prices ranging from £30 -£150 and prints from £20.
My illustrations are inspired by a love of the 1920’s, fairytales, nature and most importantly a sense of humour. My images always have a story to tell and although it sounds cheesy I like the idea that one of my pictures has brightened up someones day. I will be exhibiting limited edition prints, greeting cards and badges.
I will be displaying a diverse collection of large canvasses and sculpture dealing with movement and colour/ containment and emotion. My work is colourful, enthusiastic and bold.
imagebykatie gives a colourful, creative & unique perspective on your everyday world. Enjoy prints, gifts, soft furnishings, cards, postcards and much more from £1 to £60.
Ready to hang, hand sewn, lovingly picked vintage button embroideries.
Caron is an artist who lives and works in Kent. She works predominantly with print and her practice explores memory and identity using family snapshots, postcards and children's books. She is currently making hand-printed ceramic brooches using images that resonate from her childhood.
Marianne Cheesecake is an international burlesque performer with a name that brings smiles and sudden cravings for dessert. 
Oliver Hymans is a theatre artist, performer and a teacher.
Think John Martyn meeting a young Van Morrison and you’re in the Blue Rose Code alt-folk sound- space which has a growing legion of fans that includes James Yorkston, Lou Rhodes, James Yuill and Polly Paulusma.
Madarms is a group of performers who first met and worked with New York-based sound artist, Marina Rosenfeld, in 2005. We compose, play and perform outside the constraints of ‘traditional’ musical forms, using graphic scores, recorded sound and live accompaniment.
Changing Pace looks at the desire to move forward versus the attachment to the past.
Ditsy Daisy and Domestic Doris declare their undying love for Cary Grant.at The Rag Factory
16-18 Heneage Street E1 5JL (off Brick Lane)
Tickets £8 On the Door or £6 Guestlist
email 15ticket@gmail.com list closes midnight 29/05/09
Over the last ten years Jont, the singer-songwriter and creator of “Unlit” (a unique mixture of a party and a gig that has recently become a global internet phenomenon), has grown from unknown to an artist and cultural catalyst attracting critical acclaim and on the brink of mainstream success.
Eirini Kartsaki writes and performs from time to time. Her work, which is about and from the body, explores the thrill and wonder of eroticism, discovering, through the physicality of movement and the repetitive storytelling that, ultimately, what we want is to want.
'The Typewriters' is a minimalist dance theatre performance with a unique soundscape. A dark and yet comical comment on the absurdly impersonal relationships in post-modern societies.
"Make me of what you wish, why else am I there? Only, don't throw me away."
Daniel Somerville is a performer working in live art and neo-burlesque with influences from butoh and opera.
Vivian Coma was born in london on august 2008 out of Nikoloaos Paravatos' need for exposing folk roots expressed on a city landscape.
Rosie Carr is a visual artist from London by way of Brighton, who makes works on paper, canvas, film and video.
A performance for the navigator, the Black Gaffa Tape Experiment is a continuing investigation into ownership and marked territories.
London based artist Benjamin C. M. Backhouse's existentialist photographs explore the isolation of the psyche.
The installation will invite participants to wear miniature cameras and interact in a space comprised of props, performers and projections showing the live feeds produced by the participants.
Through interfacing with the multi-media apparatus participants will compose the artwork’s narrative. Enjoining objects, things and others to form an estranged encounter, an intimate, questionably, ocular relationship between the real space and the imaginary site of the screen.
Sound Artist: Jose Sanchez Rivas
Performers/Facilitators: Coromoto Power, Catlin Harrison, Sam Clorley
Film Crew, Hold That Productions: Daniel Stepney, Justin Hodgett, Ben Titchmarsh, Thom Martin
Photographer: Alan Framil
Sally Wyatt is a stand up comedian, writer performance poet and character actor. She writes short plays and performance pieces based around the people often overlooked in society.
William Bock is a London based visual artist and theatre designer. His practice combines painting and drawing with collaborative projects as part of the theatre collective StrangeWorks.
Sick and tired of getting your comments ignored? Liam Herne is offering the public the chance to have their say in a more personal way. Scrawl, scribble, doodle on Liam’s body, have your opinions seen by all and help him become the Human Notepad.
Yoko Ishiguro is a performance maker, performer and actress. She studied psycholingistics in University of Tsukuba and participated in experimental theatre companies in Japan.
Butoh-based exploration into Mr Punch and the archetype of the drunken old man.
Rotkäppchen are an English/German two-piece playing live electronic music (in ‘Nu White Stripes’ style with live drums) as well as doing live laptop DJ sets.
Two women, a man and a canvas. 
