15 minute factory

15 minute factory gets the royal treatment

2010-06-08T06:37:00.000-07:00

Sunday 18th July | 1 Curtain Road EC2A 3JX

£5 on the door | Join facebook group | 15ticket@gmail.com

15 minute factory gets the royal treatment

15 minute factory – London’s favourite music and performance party – is leaving its workhouse past behind and heading to the Queen of Hoxton for an all-day Summer session on Sunday 18th July.

Expect the best new music and outrageous performance art in stunning surroundings with 50 artists spread across 3 floors, a roof terrace complete with ukeaoke pergola, one-to-one encounters, a barbecue and a cornucopia of cupcakes.

15 minute factory is an event like no other. Celebrating acts that blur the boundaries between performance, art and music, it brings together the intimacy of a house party, the edginess of an art happening and the mayhem of a warehouse mash-up.

With a line-up of live music, film, djs, vjs, roaming performers, interactive installation, performance art, stand-up and acoustic bliss, Sunday never sounded so good.

Live Music

K Anderson - www.myspace.com/kandersonmusic
5'lesbian music by a boy'

Fiona Bevan – www.myspace.com/fionabevan
cc‘Soulful and eccentric’ The Guardian

The Budda Cakes – www.myspace.com/thebuddacakes
5‘Vintage Future meets Electro-Accordion and 1984 Walkman’

Katy Carr – www.myspace.com/katycarrmusic
5‘hear these siren songs and you’ll be smitten’ Whisperin and Hollerin

Hyrst – www.hyrst.com
5‘chimes with thugs, beats with drones, and mantras with the space of what cannot be said…’

Island Line – www.myspace.com/islandline
55 ‘beautiful, sunshine folk’ Huw Stephens, Radio 1

Jack Majik – www.jackmajik.com
5‘pop promoting freethought through a fairytale theme’

Maya Levy – www.myspace.com/mayalevy
5‘quirky singer songwriter with a theatrical folk-pop style’

Steph West - www.myspace.com/anenglishharper
5‘harpist with a love of dancing rhythms, vivid chords and a free flowing melody’

DJs

DJ Amila – www.myspace.com/missamila
5minimal techno

PrimaVolta - www.primavolta.org.uk
5 Avant Brutalist Euro Disco!

Performance

Abstinence and Sensibility – Revolutions – http://www.myspace.com/abstinenceandsensibility
Video art with live soundtrack

Phil Burton & Craig Cameron-Fisher – Two's A Crowd
5a new twist on the comedy double act

Nic Chalmers – Between My Face and the Wall
5immersive one-woman show

Dummy Company – Glossia – http://dummycompany.blogspot.com/
...and other less definable acts of ventriloquism

Adam Elliott – The Sandman – be transported back to your childhood by this interactive performance

Jamie Lewis Hadley– this rose made of leather - www.jamielewishadley.co.uk
Don´t try this at home

Infinite Dance Company – Size Zero – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKJy16jIGo
5Infinite Dance Company confront 'Size Zero'

Beatrice Jarvis – http://beatricejarvis.wordpress.com/
A site-specific performance installation

Stavroula Kounadea – Cow - http://stavroulakounadea.com
A witty one-woman performance on the common ground between women and cattle

Kesha Krutskikh – A Watched Pot - www.keshakot.com
Two playful characters looped in time

Francesca Millican-Slater – Instructions for Heartbreak – http://www.francescamillicanslater.co.uk/
5Come, Break Your Heart; it’s easy when you know how

nomo – In-flict – https://sites.google.com/site/00nomo

two women perform to intrude on visual/spatial boundaries

Benjamin Sebastian – Our Lady Violence – http://www.benjamin-sebastian.com/

'Help?...I have fallen and will not get up.' - Enola Mai

Lorraine Smith – Beloved of Henry – http://www.silversmithdance.co.uk/
5interactive performance piece with live cello

Lucy Thane – A Sailor Went to Sea to See – http://lucyt.wordpress.com
The Seven Seas Wherever I Go

Sally Wyatt - The Lithium Laughter Show, The Army Girl & Mrs Elliot
Laughter is an orgasm triggered when sense has intercourse with nonsense

Interactive Encounters

Claire Blundell Jones – Game of Death
5board game meets board room in tales of snakes, suicide and success

MJ Clay – Boogie Box
55A jukebox with a dancing twist, find your perfect partner to tap your toe to

Holly Revell – Light-Painting Photo Booth
5no need to strike a pose, light washes over you creating a mesmerising portrait

Oliver Hymans

Jenna Rossi-Camus

Roberto Sanchez-Camus

2d artworks

Didi Mae Hand - http://didimae.co.uk
young film-grain photographer of the exotic

Dorka – http://coffeeandcigarettes.org
5collages and feminine fashion illustrations fused with 1950s enchantment

Film

Rania Bellou - In Praise of My Shadow - www.raniabellou.com
looped animated video projection

Elizabeth Holly Hurt – In a Sickly Light
5short surreal music film of collected dream accounts

Marcus Orlandi - Triptych 1976
5a solitary moment of drinking becomes a play on Francis Bacon’s famous triptychs

Full Line-Up TBA!
Keep checking site or facebook group for updates!

15 minute factory is the midnight child of Katharine Fry and Jung Eun Yoo

Sunday 18th July | 1 Curtain Road EC2A 3JX
| £3 Advance www.wegottickets.com |

£5 on the door | Join facebook group | 15ticket@gmail.com

Music: Katy Carr

2010-06-07T07:20:00.000-07:00

Katy Carr is a London based performer and songwriter who plays with her group ‘The Aviators,’ and has three albums released on Deluce Recordings. Expect a touch of the 1940s with a dose of 21^st century technology and instrumentation including ukulele, banjolele & an assortment of toy pianos

www.katycarr.com

Music: Fiona Bevan

2010-06-07T07:13:00.000-07:00

The sweet, fiery warblings of Suffolk singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan have been compared to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Marc Bolan.

Her band simmer and shimmer, her folk songs are inflected with jazz, and her award-winning lyrics pry into the dark corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors and forlorn lovers sleeping out in trees.

“Spine-tingling. Fiona Bevan completely transported me” Alex James, Blur

www.fionabevan.co.uk

Music: Jack Majik

2010-06-07T07:02:00.000-07:00

Freethought is the idea that opinions should be formed on the basis of science, logic, and reason, not be influenced by authority, tradition, or any other dogma. Through the easily-understood accessible art medium of pop music I aim to inform people more truthfully of the society we are all a part of. Lies. Money. Slavery. Control. Religion. Hate.

I provide the information. You decide what to do with it.

www.jackmajik.com

Music: Hyrst

2010-06-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

Hyrst make music shaped more by ideas than chords.

Constantly removing the unnecessary, Hyrst marry; chimes with thugs, beats with drones and mantras with the space of what cannot be said.

Hyrst are three people from East London.

www.hyrst.com

Music: Maya Levy

2010-06-07T06:57:00.000-07:00

Maya Levy is a singer, songwriter and actress hailing from New York City.

When she was young, her teachers called her Maya Papaya, which she hated because she hated papayas. Her tastes have changed, she now loves papayas and thinks her teachers were pretty clever.

Maya was most recently seen performing her one woman musical mystery, Troiseaux and is also about to self-release her debut album, Historically Inaccurate.

www.myspace.com/mayalevy

Music: Steph West

2010-06-07T06:51:00.000-07:00

Steph West is joined by Tori Handsley: two harpists with a shared love of dancing rhythms, vivid chords and a free flowing melody.

Each brings influences from her respective traditions: Steph - early music, English & Irish folk; Tori: Jazz, Latin and Classical. Together they explore a funky and percussive sound world of tunes, songs and groove.

www.myspace.com/anenglishharper

Music: The Budda Cakes

2010-06-07T06:39:00.000-07:00

The Budda Cakes are NeoEX/Steampunk Pioneers.
Dead Kids, Sue Denim, Robots In Disguise ... they all want a piece of this new musical style from London.

The Budda Cakes make you happy, make you smile, make you wanna tell the world about their alternative take on modern music. They are possibly one of the most diverse acts you have ever seen. Their popularity is definitely on the up.

www.myspace.com/buddacakes

Music: K Anderson

2010-06-07T06:31:00.000-07:00

K Anderson plays 'lesbian music by a boy' - confessional, conversational songs about the important things in life – getting older, bad sex, and needing a special someone in your life who can shave your back hair for you.

www.myspace.com/kandersonmusic

DJ: Amila

2010-06-06T04:30:00.000-07:00

Dj Amila has been a Dj, producer and promoter for 10 years. Her journey as a creative constantly excites and inspires her and her desire to share this love and passion for mixing and making is insatiable. She is always looking for obscure and rare gems, constantly pushing the sound, the idea and the concept further.

www.myspace.com/missamila

DJ: PrimaVolta

2010-06-06T04:22:00.000-07:00

Electronic music that looks to a wider Europe. Discerning and diverse, profiting from the double efficacy of the Do It Yourself methodology and the provocation established by the activist strategy of Punk. Brutalist Euro Disco, Minimal Wave and Avant Electro. Music of the Euro-aesthete, Habsberg Empire sliding into decadence, historical avant-gardes, constructivism, futurism, science fiction.The synthetic sound of the spiritual-punk-psychedelic soul.

www.primavolta.org.uk

Performance: Abstinence and Sensibility - Revolutions

2010-06-06T04:11:00.000-07:00

Revolutions projected video art with live soundtrack performance

In the middle of the room a turntable spins. Each revolution reveals the transition of the room as time, people and events unfurl. A live soundtrack featuring accordion, voice and piano interacts with the projection exploring ideas of circuits, speed and scale.

www.myspace.com/abstinenceandsensibility

Performance: Phil Burton & Craig Cameron-Fisher – Two's A Crowd

2010-06-06T04:07:00.000-07:00

A taste of a new twist on the comedy double act: where a veritable crowd of characters cross and interact with one another in a variety of character-driven sketches; ranging from the intellectual, to the satirical, to the saucy, to the surreal, to the downright silly.

Performance: Nic Chalmers - Between My Face and the Wall

2010-06-06T04:02:00.000-07:00

Between My Face And The Wall is an immersive one-woman show, written and performed by Nic Chalmers, with design and dramaturgy by Kate Temple. Set inside a house of proliferating rooms, Between My Face And The Wall is a shape-shifting little beast of a tale: a fragile assemblage of horses, houses and horticulture.

Performance: Dummy Company - Glossia

2010-06-06T03:56:00.000-07:00

Dummy Company present a fragment from their new project, Glossia, a series of performances that explore the miscegenation of voices and objects in a series of sound poems, puppet shows, totemic rituals and other less definable acts of ventriloquism.

http://dummycompany.blogspot.com

Performance: Jamie Lewis Hadley - this rose made of leather

2010-06-06T03:51:00.000-07:00

this rose made of leather employs repetition as a strategy to expose spectator’s willingness to observe a violent and destructive act. My interest is in examining and testing the moral, physical and emotional contract between spectator and performer. I consider this contract to be most volatile when blood is drawn. (Contains bloodwork / body fluid 18+)

www.jamielewishadley.co.uk

Performance: Infinite Dance Company - Size Zero

2010-06-06T03:39:00.000-07:00

Infinite Dance is a brand new company started in 2010 by trained contemporary dancers, Amy Rennie and Kayleigh Lush with the ethos to create a social, political and culturally creative dance platform that is diverse and inclusive. Working and collaborating with various artists and people, Infinite manifests boundless expression through collaboration in digital media and live dance performance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKJy16jIGo

Performance Installation: Beatrice Jarvis - Passing the Space of Time

2010-06-06T03:17:00.000-07:00

To walk the city. To walk the hills. To walk the chalk pit; to see and be seen; to perceive and to be perceived.

To disappoint and command expectation through the weight of each step.

The body as it stands still occupies and consumes space; it formulates a spatial code which conducts and enquires.

The weight of breath as it is pushed through the solid heavy air that engulfs.

I stood. Still on a hill top. The wind consumes my body. It took it and allowed it to rest. I stood for what seemed like years; willing the wind the hold me still. A gaze cast to the sea, feet cemented in the heather field. I watched. The land form took passages of flight; the sand dunes erupted in imminent storms; a passage only of stillness.

I continued to stand.

Performance: Kesha Krutskikh - A Watched Pot

2010-06-06T03:15:00.000-07:00

A Watched Pot is a short adaptable performance by Kesha Krutskikh exploring protracted duration, playfulness and miscommunication. Kesha develops characters and the worlds in which they exist, a brand of honest theatre that has a hand-made feel to it. This performance finds two non-characters with overlapping, all in one memories, dreams and gossip, stuck in time, enjoying simple random non-dialogue. The work engages the audience with no dramatic development, contradiction, repetition and/or nonsense.

http://www.keshakot.com/

Performance: nomo - In-flict

2010-06-06T03:10:00.000-07:00

two women will manoeuvre their bodies and objects within a space with a series of obsessive missions. the body will interact with objects to generate exaggerated movement, which will force the viewer to focus their attention on a particular part of the body. this will create an in-flicted relationship between body and vision.

https://sites.google.com/site/00nomo/home

Performance: Francesca Millican-Slater

2010-06-06T03:09:00.000-07:00

Ever had your heart broken? Ever wanted your heart broken? Everybody needs a little heartbreak in their life... Watch 'Heart Break Expert' Francesca Millican-Slater rip out her own heart and show you how to do it-if its been fixed-lets break it!

Performance: Benjamin Sebastian - Our Lady Violence

2010-06-06T03:01:00.000-07:00

Violence is so becoming. Benjamin was born in Australia and has studied in Australia, Germany and the UK. He is a founding member of both The Greestone Group and ArtEvict. The artist’s practice is multidisciplinary in approach and his creative output navigates the dialectic relationships between intimacy and solitude, security and vulnerability, along with individuality and the communal, logic and the irrational. His work attempts to embody a process of Becoming and is greatly influenced by Queer Theory, autobiography and existential/emotional experience. The artist currently lives and works in London.

www.benjamin-sebastian.com

Performance: Lorraine Smith - Beloved of Henry

2010-06-06T02:46:00.000-07:00

Beloved of Henry is an interactive performance piece that embodies the character of Ann Boleyn. This work has developed out of a collaboration between Lorraine Smith and cello player Sophie Rivlin, to create an intimate physical exploration of the volatile involvement with the heir-obsessed Henry VIII.

www.namelessevents.com/sound.php
www.silversmithdance.co.uk

Performance: Lucy Thane - A Sailor Went to Sea to See

2010-06-06T02:40:00.000-07:00

A Sailor Went to Sea to See combines Scripted material, improvisation, costume, props, song and video and invites the audience into a "History-Telling" about my Grandfather, Hubert, who ran away to join the Royal Navy when he was 15 and died when I was 6.

Interactive Encounter: Holly Revell - Light-Painting Photo Booth

2010-06-05T04:24:00.000-07:00

Holly Revell is an artist interested in presenting photography as current; the live experience that photography provides it’s subject, as opposed to the end document of what has (or has not) taken place. Her live light painting booth offers participants a sensual and atmospheric experience resulting in a sumptuous time based image.

www.hollyrevell.co.uk

Interactive Encounter: MJ Clay - Boogie Box

2010-06-05T04:00:00.000-07:00

A video jukebox. Select a song, key in the letter to hear it play and find someone dancing just for you.

Movers and shakers unite to dance your hearts out! Disco diva or mellow mover come and be captured on camera to be included in the Boogie box.

Film: Rania Bellou - In Praise of My Shadow

2010-06-04T05:11:00.000-07:00

A collection of visual image layers to be read as a narrative within itself. This packaging of the collected visual information often parallels with various media systems, drawings, texts, sculptures and animations. These images are reflections from stories, songs and rhymes of childhood that are then woven with a deep concern regarding the character’s life.

www.raniabellou.com

Film: Elizabeth Holly Hurt - In a Sickly Light

2010-06-04T05:10:00.000-07:00

Devised and Created by Elizabeth Holly Hurt. Inspired by surrealist poetry and children’s texts, In a Sickly Light is a surreal music film/installation devised from a combination of dream theory and collected dream accounts. The narrative is ambiguous and interpretive; essentially assessing how childhood manifests itself on the subconscious, the point where childhood fantasy becomes sinister, and the desire to save something that will inevitably be lost.

www.elizabethhollyhurt.com

Film: Marcus Orlandi - Triptych 1976

2010-06-04T05:09:00.000-07:00

Triptych 1976 is a choreographed video work that plays with the concept of framing and composition. A solitary moment of drinking becomes more about the components of spectacle than the act itself. Inspired by David Sylvester’s interviews with Francis Bacon; an artist synonymous with the triptych.

www.youtube.com/lostmyshoes80

2d: Didi Mae Hand

2010-06-04T05:06:00.000-07:00

Didi Mae Hand is a 21 year old student studying the history of the Middle East and Africa. These areas heavily influence the subject matter of her work, often infused with a love of the Bizarre and a fascination with the grainy coloured photographs of the late 70s and early 80s. The grain and wear of the, intentional and contrived, is often achieved by leaving the negatives in dusty areas for short periods of time.

http://didimae.co.uk

2d: Dorka

2010-06-04T05:04:00.000-07:00

Dorka is a Freelance Artist based in east London. Enchanted with the 50's and 60's, she creates very feminine and sophisticated,fashion related art. Apart from many water media like ink and acrylics she uses mixed media (feathers,fabrics,newspapers etc..)as well as coffee and tea. Her art was described as 'Spirit and soul' in the 'Fat Quarter' magazine interview (March).

http://coffeeandcigarettes.org

15 minute factory 2010

2009-12-08T04:02:00.000-08:00

We'll be back in the new year with a new format...

15 minute factory will go after dark as an all-night warehouse party bringing you so much more or the best cutting-edge performance and great new music!

Watch this space for updates......!
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15 minute factory mini-festival program

2009-08-26T15:38:00.000-07:00

15 minute factory

3-day festival

25 - 26 - 27 September

15 minute factory brings together new and cutting-edge acts from across all art forms, blurring the boundaries between performance, art and music.

Following the success of it debut in May, 15 minute factory is back across 5 rooms for a 3-day festival promising to be bigger, better and bolder with a fabulous new line-up!

Friday (5pm to 1am) and Saturday (4pm to 1am) offer a non-stop experience of live music, performance, art, cabaret, burlesque, stand-up and interactive encounters across five rooms.

Music will shift from gypsy to electro, from post punk, to Jazz folk; Performance will include interactive performance, live art, performance installation, live drawing, live casting, burlesque and stand-up. The Gallery will showcase installation, photography, and painting.

Sunday (1pm to 1am) brings an acoustic showcase and a fabulous art market and craft fair of 85 stalls

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Limited Advance Tickets Now On Sale: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/1097

Online Offer- £10 per day : £18 Fri + Sat : £20 all 3 days

On Door - £12 NUS/£15 Friday / Saturday : £20 NUS/£25 Fri + Sat : £25 NUS/£30 all 3 days

Sunday 27th: Door Only £3 before 4pm / £6 after

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Glass Magazine Interview with Katharine Fry and Jung Eun Yoo:

http://www.glassmagazine.co.uk/forum/feature.asp?tid=353

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.More to be announced!

Friday 25th
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Kissed - Fleassy Malay : Louise Simspon : The Dummy Company : Eirini Kartsaki : Sarah Ruff : Lorraine Smith

Missed - Nick Trepka : Poppy Mallow : Abstinence and Sensibility : 00NOMO : Maya Levy : Madaleine Trigg : Erin Kleh : Jessica Grace

Off the Wall - Dan Arnold : Shkembe Soup : Naked With Horses : Hyrst : P&O with They Said They Saw : Subsecret

On the Wall - Tom G Adriani : Rania Bellou : William Bock : Helena Eflerová : Ruth: Harrison : Lisa Hall : Yoko Ishiguro : Madaleine Trigg : Catherine Maffioletti

Upstairs - Ella Bryant

Film - Alice Anderson : Giada Ghiringhelli : Marianna and Daniel O'Reilly

Roaming - Oliver Hymans: Liam Herne: Astrid Breel

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Saturday 26th

Kissed - Mike Wendling : Sally Wyatt : Miss Electra Cute : Adi Lerer : Miss Electra Cute : Sally Wyatt : Deej Fabyc : Francesca Millican-Slater : Betty Bruiser

Missed - Carlos Jimenez : Steph West : Stefania Mylona : The Greestone Group : Tony Volker : Fiona Bevan : The Dead Arms

Off the Wall - Dan Arnold : The Ruby Dolls : The Amy Trade : Young and the Damned : She Is Danger : Heads High : Rotkappchen with Vieciocho : Le Donne : Rachel Parry

On the Wall - Tom G Adriani : Rania Bellou : William Bock : Helena Eflerová : The Greestone Group : Ruth Harrison : Lisa Hall : Yoko Ishiguro : Madaleine Trigg

Upstairs - Ella Bryant : Robin Gardiner : November Games : Sarah Sheerman-Chase

Film - Alice Anderson : Giada Ghiringhelli : Marianna and Daniel O'Reilly

Roaming - Sarah Bell and Alan Sutcliffe: Oliver Hymans : Liam Herne

Sunday 27th

Music Showcase -Jing Wong : The Ruby Dolls : Govinder and the Holy Ukelele : Tony Volker : Steve Smith : Jessica Grace

Roaming - Sarah Bell and Alan Sutcliffe

Art Market and Craft Fair - Creme de la Teas : Fiona Williams : Carte Couture : Jo Cheung : Lucy Cheung & Patrick Gildersleeves : Mariko Otake - Panda Kite : Paula Smith : Rowanne Anderson and Jonelle Leybourne : Saffron Reichenbacker : Savvas Papasavva : Suzie Crisfield : Taz Chappell : Tigz Rice : The Aviary : ZoëDesigns : Ley Ley Designs : Sarah Stokes : Ryoko Takahashi : Sally Miller : Robin Clare : Hideout : Rhiannon Fraser & Amy Proud : Pikine : Momtazbh : Art Is Proof Press : by-louise : My Little Boutique : Joe Whitney : Jasmine Mercer : Helen Bradbrook : Greg Wood : Lady and Small : Petit Chou-Fleur : Crumpet & Skirt : CristalinaIC : Athena Anastasiou : Glittermouse : Miss Amy Phipps : Adeel Ahmed : Flair Design : Orme and Hall : Zippy Lovelock : Lisa Hall and Caron Ottewell : Lucy Noakes : Clara Gomez : fuelled by gin and tea; the work of Harry, Sam and Anna : Marzena Mlodystach-Rudziewicz : Tania Fernandes & Sarah Blick : Kaya Boo : Rebecca Gladstone : Tabatha Gravener : Anitanja Lawaetz : Arts 4 Human Rights : Vicky Scott : Andrea Morreau : SewSmitten : Koiskitchen : Rolfe & Bardsley : Nik Jones : Hayley Bowen : imagebykatie : Sarah Dixon : Jessica Jang, Chie Karakami and Henrietta MacPhee : make do mend

Performance: Inside - 00NOMO

2009-08-20T17:50:00.000-07:00

I n - s i d e
the body
an instrument of expression
two women
a circle created
colour
to communicate with each other
body attachments e x t e n d
movements generate pitches of sounds
communication between
the performers and the audience
a sweet taste
This piece will explore the relationship between the two performers.
Like sculpture, the performance will encourage direct physical engagement with materials.

Asia and Louise are both sculptors forming 00NOMO as a medium by which they could create performance pieces that start a dialogue between two practices that utilize different concepts of materiality and to extend communication from something that is simply visible into something that stimulates senses of taste, hearing and touch and incorporates others in a shared experience.

The performance pieces create a bond of many aesthetics and encourage involvement from members of the audience and other participants. This enables the work to allow others, through becoming part of the creativity and shared experience to tap into a different method of expression within themselves.

Performance: Madaleine Trigg

2009-08-20T17:43:00.000-07:00

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.

Madaleine regularly collaborates with the costume designer, Francisca Rios. Francisca has recently been awarded a Master of Arts in Costume Design for Performance from The London College of Fashion, where she presented her Final Performance Project at Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio. Francisca acts as a freelance designer and has worked with some important members of the industry, such as the renowned choreographer, Marie Gabrielle Rotie.

Madaleine and Francisca's latest collaboration, Sutre, premiered at the Spill Festival’s National Platform on 18th April 2009. Sutre will also feature in Vitoria´s International Theatre Festival (Spain) on the 3rd November 2009, in a new programme which celebrates contemporary Performance Art.

Performance: Little Odds and Ends - Eirini Kartsaki and David Paredes

2009-08-20T17:40:00.000-07:00

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.

Repetition expands time and invites the audience to linger in the moment and enter the duration of its experience, to become part of the process of discovery and explore the clefts between our longings and the reality of the everyday.

David Paredes creates work (constructions, performances, installations, photograph) that deals with the nature of frailty, the economy of survival, the physicality of gesture, object and space, the idea of construction. Playfulness, humour and, in a certain way, childhood are the means through which the work attempts to express itself. David has exhibited in various galleries in France and Perou and has recently moved to London.

Eirini Kartsaki writes and performs. 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.

www.wooloo.org/davidparedes

www.myspace.com/eirinikartsaki

Performance: Good Morning [me, absent project] - Yoko Ishiguro

2009-08-20T17:20:00.000-07:00

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).

“me, absent project” is the attempt to 'perform' where people can not see my body physically exist. In this project, I want to seek the possibilities of various kinds of existence in so-called 'virtual reality’ and 'reality/nature’ and the matters in between intimacy and the physical distance and the digital and analogue communications.

Performance: Dummies - The Dummy Company

2009-08-20T17:00:00.000-07:00

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.

The Dummy Company are a London based performance group with an emphasis on object and vocal articulation. Alongside 'Dummies' they are working on a puppetry piece for children called, 'Trouble', and an ongoing project inspired by James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake.'

http://dummycompany.blogspot.com/

Performance: Six o'clock Swill - Lorraine Smith

2009-08-20T16:54:00.000-07:00

Butoh-based exploration into Mr Punch and the archetype of the drunken old man.

Lorraine Smith, artistic director and choreographer of Silversmith Dance Theatre, is a dance practitioner trained in contemporary and expressive dance, and is part of the Newington Collective, Animate: SPACE and the traditional Palestinian and Lebanese dance troupe Al Zaytouna.

Roaming: Own Me - Astrid Breel

2009-08-20T16:46:00.000-07:00

Ever wanted to own a part of someone else’s body?

Here’s your chance!

Within this performance you will be invited to select a square on my body you would like to own, decorate it and take home a representation of it.

In a society where our bodies are constantly manipulated, both by ourselves as well as the media, can we ever be said to really possess our own bodies?

This interactive performance explores notions of ownership and voyeurism in the 21st Century. What does it mean to give up ownership of your body? How much are our bodies worth?
The proceeds of this experiment will go to charity.

Astrid’s work developed from a practical research project that started while studying her MA in Performance Practice and includes performances, interactive live art and installations which explore the visible and invisible signifiers of femininity and the performativity of gender.

www.astridbreel.com

Interactive: Post-a-Polaroid - Ella Bryant

2009-08-20T16:30:00.001-07:00

Dress up and have a Polaroid photo taken in one of our theatrical sets.

Keep it for yourself or alternatively write a message on the front, an address on the back and we’ll stamp and send it to your special someone.

Interactive: National Poor-trait Gallery - Ella Bryant

2009-08-20T16:30:00.000-07:00

Paint a peculiar portrait and have it framed and displayed on the mis-match gallery wall.

Performance Poetry: Fleassy Malay

2009-08-20T16:00:00.000-07:00

"If words were weapons, i'd have shot myself in the foot by now" -

Performance Poetry by Fleassy Malay explores the world of politics, sexuality and social interactions whilst marching through the warped tolkien-esque labyrinth of her mind.

http://fleassymalay.blogspot.com/

Stand-up: The amazing adventures of the suburban Poo baby - Sarah Ruff

2009-08-19T22:04:00.000-07:00

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

www.sarahruff.weebly.com

Music Installation: Train of Thought - Abstinence and Sensibility

2009-08-19T20:56:00.000-07:00

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.

Abstinence&Sensibility debut E.P. 'Brentford is Well Buggy' (Elementary 2009) available on iTUNES.

www.myspace.com/abstinenceandsensibility

Music: Erin Kleh

2009-08-19T17:36:00.000-07:00

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).

She now performs regularly around London with her band and newest collaborative partner, Tash. Many of the songs are autobiographical and unconventional both lyrically and melodically.

www.erinkmusic.com

DJ: P & O

2009-08-19T17:15:00.000-07:00

P&O = Precise and Olson. Two dj/producers hailing from East Anglia- the home of the Hip.

PAST PROJECTS: Formed Plagiawrsts in 1997 with Daddy Addy and Blast (Kushti) and later Mancini. Toured Europe and UK. Residencies: Trader Jacks, Distinction, 93 ft East (sizzler) Released: Mixtapes "Plagiawrists" vol.1 and vol 2, "Wrist Mechanics" (DC Records) with Skye, "Wristy Business" on Deep Concentration 3 (OM Records), 3 DMC UK team finals (1999, 2000, 2001). Formed "Vinyl Dialect" with Emcee Ezra 1994.

Toured UK and Europe with "Ugly Duckling" and "The Creators", Residencies: 93 ft East, Fabric and regular gigs around UK. Releases: "B-Boys Rock th World" EP 1999 (Bad Magic/Wall of Sound), "Ouch!" 12" 2003 (Bad Magic/Wall of Sound), "Dialect" LP 2004 (Bad Magic/Wall of Sound). CURRENT PROJECTS: Vinyl Dialect LP (Untitled), P & O LP "Ocean Liners", Herschel Road (production).

VJ: They Said They Saw

2009-08-19T17:00:00.000-07:00

In a mixing bowl, combine bizarre movie cuts & vintage adds until smooth.

Add some oneiric shapes to the mixture and mix well. Stir in sweet cartoons and spice with starship like flashes.

Pour into two (the screens area) screens.

Bake at 120 decibels for (show duration) minutes or until dancers exhaust.

T.S.2

www.myspace.com/atomicplaygrounds

DJ: Sub Secret

2009-08-19T16:56:00.000-07:00

Sub Secret believe that music, as a 21st century art form, should be involving, intriguing and interactive.

From deep sorrow to burning passion. Every emotion falls into it’s place, in the music that they produce and perform.

They use these emotions to tell the stories from their hearts aimed at reshaping the audience's expectations of a DJ’s role as a simple player of records..

www.myspace.com/subsecretldn

Music: Shkembe Soup

2009-08-19T16:36:00.000-07:00

Any good peasant soup has all sorts of good things thrown in.

Shkembe Soup is an off the wall, colourful gypsy cabaret band playing an eclectic mixture of classic Pop/Rock/Folk/Romany tunes with camp bizarre belly dancing and dressing up costumes.

Shkembe Soup have been a instant hit, their first own event ‘ Skembe Soup & Friends’ at Jago Art Gallery in Shoreditch in March 2009 was a complete sell out.

Lucia - singing for your entertainment and delight, Tom - on Guitar/Vocals, Seddik - from Algeria on Darbuka, Jules - on Clarinet and Percussion, Sue - on Percussion while providing extra glamour, Sultry Sally - Beautiful dancer /Vocals, Foxy Fiona - Beautiful dancer, Luscious Linda - Beautiful dancer

www.myspace.com/shkembesoup

Burlesque: Miss Electra Cute

2009-08-19T16:19:00.000-07:00

Miss Electra Cute is Julia Barnett's Burlesque personality.

Julia graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2008; Electra skipped class in high school to sit in a Chinese restaurant and chain-smoke.

Julia is a producer, choreographer and performer; Electra is a lush.

Julia works in physical theatre; Electra just works it, baby.

Julia has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the V&A Museum for the Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre; Electra has worked at the Canal 125 Club, the 100 Club in Soho, the Battersea Barge and in Edinburgh.

Music: Maya Levy

2009-08-19T15:12:00.000-07:00

Maya Levy is a singer, songwriter and actress.

She will be singing songs that one day she will put together into a wee show/CD extravaganza.

When she was young, her teachers called her Maya Papaya, which she hated because she hated papayas. Her tastes have changed, she now loves papayas and thinks her teachers were pretty clever.

Maya Papaya also co-directs Open Arts Cafe, an arts evening for young adults, every fourth thursday of the month.

www.myspace.com/mayalevy

Music: Poppy Mallow

2009-08-19T14:15:00.000-07:00

Once described as 'feel-good after midnight music for the disturbed'.

Half-child-like, half-unsettling, the music is created with various assortments of toys, gadgets and found objects, alongside conventional instruments such as violin, guitar and glockenspiel.

www.myspace.com/poppymallow

Performance: Fuck Me Gently Into The Good Night - Rachel Parry

2009-08-18T09:30:00.000-07:00

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. .

This piece was made in reflection to Charles Gatewood's photography, looking at the underground sub-cultures (gay, lesbian, transsexual, drag queens, sex workers, BDSM clubs, Tattoos, Piercing, Rituals) often perceived as controversial images and how his work led onto working for Rolling stone magazine and his high profiled images of 80's power yuppies on wall street.

It made me question where I fit as an artist, teacher (in a high school I hasten to add) as a sexual woman, as a bastard child with a mixed up heritage that isn’t obvious to on-lookers, the secrets I have to hide to fit in because if exposed – would they accept the real me?

Performance Installation: Letters from an unknown source - Sarah Ruff

2009-08-17T18:08:00.000-07:00

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.

www.sarahruff.weebly.com

Performance: T-Land - Helena Eflerová

2009-08-17T16:42:00.000-07:00

T-Land, choreographed and performed by Helena Eflerová, alternates between the physical performance and living sculpture, the public and private, the universal and personal.

The symbolic slow controlled expressive movement offers a narrative: an incisive social and psychological portrait of foetus. Her body is enclosed inside white translucent textile code that pierces the entirely gallery space.

The Rag Factory gives T-Land new form, meaning and perception. Nick Moore has created the music specially for this performance. Helena approaches language as a vehicle to reach an inner dialogue and explores access to a prenatal unconscious experience in the viewer.

www.eflerovah.com

Performance: Amen - Adi Lerer

2009-08-17T16:25:00.000-07:00

Amen

Created & performed by Adi Lerer

Scenographey by Jia Chiann Ingrid Hu

A performance piece exploring the act of bringing the palms of the hands together in the praying position; asking why humans do it and where this act comes from, exploring the ritualistic, religious and secular form of this notion by using text, movement and projection.

www.adilerer.com

Performance: Kiss A - Deej Fabyc

2009-08-17T16:15:00.000-07:00

Fabyc will present a slow motion series of incremental gestures in relationship to a lifesize fibreglass double of herself.

Artist Deej Fabyc has been making work for more than twenty years and has shown in places such as the Riena Sofia Museum in Madrid and El Museo Del Barrio in New York. For the past 8 years she has been dissecting dolls and mannequins and reforming them into members of her family and herself in order to engage in performative relations with them, as one aspect of a practice that engages with multiple strategies at the tasks she sets it.

"Try another handle and you might find yourself moving forward into a period when the invasions of psychology became a significantly established point of view in explorations of feminine madness and hysteria. Growing up with a mother who herself spent time in mental health institutions Fabyc uses the vehicle of performance to explore aspects of her own troubled biography, with a forensic eye for the salient details. Like the revelations of psychosis in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s remarkable short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1899), drawing attention to the decorative detail of the domestic space, this object fetishism, is expanded into the very stealth-like adaptive, animal nature of the feminine self involved in strange rituals of self-debasement and escape into the realm of an overactive imagination." Eve Sullivan 2007

http://fabyc.co.uk/

http://fabycr.blogspot.com/

Performance: Those Little Words - Francesca Millican-Slater

2009-08-17T16:13:00.000-07:00

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.

Francesca is a performer and live artist. She has performed Those Little Words at The Camden People's Theatre, The Arnolfini, Bristol and in a pub in Watford. She took her mannequins to the Fierce! Festival in Birmingham in 2008 under the guise Dr Millicent Milligan, pioneer in Mannequin Therapy. She recently performed Let Me Take You By The Hand at Toynbee Studios where she built London out of cardboard.

Photo Credit: Lindsey Price

www.francescamillicanslater.co.uk

Performance: The Carny - Betty Bruiser

2009-08-17T16:07:00.000-07:00

A dark tale of desire, death and ... deadliness it involves whips, fire, and a dead horse…

Betty Bruiser is The Carny, a dark ethereal ringmaster who has only the skeleton of his horse named Sorrow for company. As the strip progresses she conjures up ‘a murder of crows (did circle round)First one, then the others flapping blackly down’.The body that is revealed is far from the beautiful Body portrayed in conventional burlesque.

Betty has been described as 'The Grand Guignol of the Neo Burlesque and as '(Imagine the)...sordid love child of Mae West and Franko B' High praise indeed for this star gazing gutter dweller.

Liz Clarke is a live artist and performer works with themes surrounding the Body as site and object. She explores the boundaries, constraints and vulnerabilities of the Body in performance; merging a variety of performance forms including live art, theatre, and traditionally lowbrow genres such as vaudeville and schlock. Her work questions the audience/performer relationship, around the nature of the voyeuristic gaze, implication and involvement. Betty Bruiser is her burlesque hating Betty is a backroom brawler, flasher mac poseur, hardcore haus frau and part time ringmaster.

The series of work which includes The Carny explores ‘Beauty’s Dark Double’. The flipside of the Beauty aesthetic, what happens when the Sexualised Body and the Body as Other meet in performance?

Performance: Monster 5 - Stefania Mylona

2009-08-17T10:21:00.000-07:00

1,2,3..go!

Stretch your bum on my legs
your bum my belly
my body your body
her body our body
and their bodies one body.

Are we going to dance or what?

Performance Installation: A Thousand Lost Walks - Beatrice Jarvis

2009-08-17T09:17:00.000-07:00

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.

This piece is an exploration of a series of long walks around the city, walks of contemplation, walks of regret, and walks of certainty, walks home and walks to some where else. I have amassed an archive of memories, movements, footage and images from which I have collated a homage to the spaces I passed. I am keen to develop work that probes this relationship and encourages a more thoughtful and considerate relationship to the gritty underside of the metropolis, parts of the city which have quickly become neglected in favour glossy high rise buildings which are devoid of sentimentality and their only memory as architectural symbolism.

The work explores how movement can be utilized to develop a response to my experiences of the metropolis. The performance will be of calm intense nature exploring both the extremities possible of the human body from stillness to frantic, composed to contorted, breathless and calm, and the extremities of the space, from the darkest corner to the lightest pathway. I am drawing on elements of ballet, Tai Chi, Gyrotonices, Primal Modern Movement and Graham technique to piece together of personal cartography of daily urban experience.

http://beatricejarvis.wordpress.com/

Performance: An Impossible Prison - The Greestone Group

2009-08-17T04:49:00.000-07:00

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.

Founded in 2007 by the artists Fabiola Paz, Joana Cifre-Cerdà and Benjamin Sebastian, the groups’ practice backgrounds span dance, music, science, drama and fine art. The Greestone Group is a signifier of social, emotional and geographic dislocation and marginalization. Collective influences range from Poetry, Myth, Literature and Film, through to Feminist and Queer Theory, Modern/Post-modern and Contemporary Philosophy along with Sociology and an uneasy interaction with Psychoanalytical Theory. The Greestone Group champions the transformative qualities of art and culture and strives to maintain space for change, thought and feeling.

The collaborative’s most recent project: An Impossible Prison turns a conceptual and concerned eye upon the notion of trauma and emotional pain and suggests that while bodies, our bodies, continue to exist and uphold current social systems, such bodies may not (ever) be free. In this context ones own mind and body, ones own heart and existence become a conceptual prison. As the work unfolds, questions of acceptance and futility, imprisonment and liberation, remain open and unanswered.

Performance: Le Donne

2009-08-16T09:38:00.000-07:00

Le Donne are two ardent females of uncertain age and time, with no fixed language or style and an unpredictable mission.

Neo Post-Goth, Post-Hip and Post-Hippy, neo Absurd (but posted) they are unencumbered by their posts alchemising their backgrounds in theatre, live art, music and poetry to the strings of the mandolin.

Inscrutable, wise and never cosy, they leave a little tremble in their wake...

www.myspace.com/le.donne

Roaming: Incomplete Picture - Sarah Bell and Alan Sutcliffe

2009-08-07T02:43:00.000-07:00

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.

Juxtaposing verbal and visual methods of communication, the piece also explores our changing relationship to cultural forms of expression, in particular to counterculture such as graffiti art. Traditionally an expression of rebellion and a statement of individuality, graffiti art and become a desirable aesthetic, decorating clothing and café walls and commoditised by mass media.

Reflecting our struggle to root ourselves in a world where our points of reference are constantly shifting, Incomplete Picture invites you draw on everything you’ve ever known as it embarks on a frenetic scramble to a finish line that doesn’t exist.

Music Installation: The Dead Arms

2009-08-07T02:02:00.000-07:00

Behind the artist’s production rests the epistemological question : How do we know ?

Reality cloaked in a veil upon which we can watch and reflect the projection of its logical structure, a prolific locus for the emergence of chaos. Going behind the scene to find the absence or the presence or light is part of the investigation. Using history of sciences and thought, sound installations, video and graphic works.

Born in France and living in London since 1998 Thibault Autheman has focused his research on reality itself, precisely the relationship between its mythical nature and its quantifiable presence.

Music: She Is Danger

2009-08-06T17:42:00.000-07:00

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.

They produce, write and perform everything themselves with mixes coming from Steve Dub (Chemical Brothers/Leftfield) and can be seen playing everywhere from Yo Yo through to Torture Garden!

www.myspace.com/sheisdangermusic

Music: Steph West

2009-08-06T17:37:00.000-07:00

Steph West is joined by Tori Handsley: two harpists with a shared love of dancing rhythms, vivid chords and a free flowing melody.

Each brings influences from her respective traditions: Steph - early music, English & Irish folk; Tori: Jazz, Latin and Classical. Together they explore a funky and percussive sound world of tunes, songs and groove.

Music / DJ: Rotkäppchen

2009-08-06T16:21:00.000-07:00

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.

Their tunes are strong, captivating, danceable electro-mash and their stage performances are enriched by sinister costumes that abide by the meaning of their band name (‘little red riding hood’).

www.myspace.com/rotkappchenmusic

Music: Fiona Bevan

2009-08-06T15:53:00.000-07:00

The sweet, fiery warblings of Suffolk singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan have been compared to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Marc Bolan.

Her band simmer and shimmer, her folk songs are inflected with jazz, and her award-winning lyrics pry into the dark corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors and forlorn lovers sleeping out in trees.

"Absolutely brilliant" Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

“Spine-tingling. Fiona Bevan completely transported me” Alex James, Blur

"Soulful and eccentric" The Guardian

"Film noir atmospheric, scorpion stinging, saccharine-coated Hell Hath No Fury ditties. Splendid stuff."

www.fionabevan.co.uk

Music: The Amy Trade

2009-08-06T09:57:00.000-07:00

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.

"Brilliant songs" James Jam, NME

The Amy Trade took their song-writing cues from the likes of The Wildhearts, Symposium, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day and Ash, to create a simple ideology: if it sounds great, they'll play it. Pounding drums and thumping bass lines, layered with crunching rhythms and lead riffs to die for. Top it all off with instantly infectious pop melodies and intricate harmonies and you're left with a sound that shows no shame towards its musical heritage but a sound that is still distinctly, uniquely, The Amy Trade.

The Amy Trade: They will pound you with beautiful noise.

www.theamytrade.com/

Music: Heads High Soundsystem

2009-08-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

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.

An ambitious project, the Soundsystem was born out of early Heads High club sessions which saw DJs Duke Etienne and Cal Jader improvise with a host of musicians, producers and vocalists. Striving for a more controlled, repeatable experience, the Duke formed the Soundsystem as the primary carrier of the Heads High message.

Having long been inspired by early reggae soundsystems and movements such as Afrika Bambaata’s Zulu Nation, creating a musical collective based upon the DJ was a natural step. The twist being the inclusion of live instrumentation and interactive visuals. Fronted by vivacious Kingston (JA not UK!) born songstress Connie Bell, the Heads High Soundsystem builds new forms on the solid foundations laid by their musical ancestors. Get on board.....

www.myspace.com/headshighmusic

Music: Young and the Damned

2009-08-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

Blending indie rock with Latin American influences, YATD are back playing shows in London after a year-long hiatus.

Their explosive live shows and swaggering pop tunes have enabled them to support Hard-Fi, The Enemy, The Automatic and The Ripps in the past, as well as residencies at Edinburgh's famous Late 'n' Live nights and The Carlton Cabaret Bar.

'YATD... are a revelation; a free-thinking radical pop entity that has both the charisma and intelligence to be the real deal in modern music. I look forward to hearing about them soon.' -Stefan Brand in The Fly (06/07)

www.myspace.com/youngandthedamned

Art: Forty Lambert And Butler's And Five Scratch Cards Please - Dan Arnold

2009-07-28T17:06:00.000-07:00

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.

The installation was borne out of working in Spar in Bala, North Wales. He needed to do something creative whilst selling fags and scratch cards so built these machines to ‘draw’ during shifts.

Art: Ruth Harrison

2009-07-28T17:04:00.000-07:00

Ruth Harrison is a time-traveller who plays with history, memory, sexuality and gender.

In the Victorian era, she is a lady flower painter with modern ideas and a secret life. Her 19th Century botanical illustrations reveal themselves, on closer inspection, as something quite different.

Ruth’s practice encompasses drawing, collage, photography, found objects and the artist herself. She lives mainly in 21st Century London.

www.ruthharrison.co.uk

Art: Exchange and Presence - Robin Gardiner

2009-07-28T15:20:00.000-07:00

Before graduating in Fine Art from CSM, Robin Gardiner worked in animation, film and television.

She is now an artist working in 3D, painting, photography and performance. The scale of her work ranges from large-scale installations to much smaller wall-mounted pieces, both pictorial and sound-based.

A constant in her work has involved covering, veiling or wrapping objects either to obscure or to memorialise them. In “Exchange & Presence” she gives a foot massage to a subject and in exchange they allow her to take a cast of their feet. She then exhibits the casts.

Art: Tom G. Adriani

2009-07-28T09:11:00.000-07:00

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).

His work is based on the foundation of poetry and illustration. He uses these tools to unearth and explore the tales that creep “unannounced” into his imagination. He sees the work he makes as tangible daydreams and is “fascinated by the process of using pen and ink to render thoughts visible and living a life of their own”.

Art: beautiful fairy tale's prince i'll wait for you under the starlight - Rania Bellou

2009-07-28T09:03:00.000-07:00

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.

But there was a day that her mother, the queen went ill. Few moments before she died, she showed her daughter a golden apple and told her...

Art: Her|She|Me - Madaleine Heulwen Trigg

2009-07-28T08:35:00.000-07:00

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.

Madaleine is currently exploring alternative photographic processes, which enable her to print her images on materials as diverse as glass, wood and metal. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Prague Scenofest (2007) and the ICA (2007/2008).

Live Cinema: GENNAO - Carlos Jimenez (Vieciocho)

2009-07-28T08:17:00.000-07:00

GENNAO is a live cinema performance where Carlos Jimenez manipulates films, youtube stuff, noises and music to create a personal universe.
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The moment when man landed on the moon is the starting point of an introspective journey through life. A man leaves the city for an unexplored land where he walks alone with his thoughts. The barrier between the audience and the man on screen simulate how societies inhabit our minds. Even when the man its alone he is part of a group which will never dissapear.

Carlos Jimenez works as a digital assistant at the V&A Museum, freelance designer and illustrator. His work has been published in different magazines such as Belio (Spain), I/O Magazine (Germany) and Creative Review (UK) amongst others. He has taken part in different exhibitions in Spain and the UK.

He also does VJ sessions under his alter ego “Vieciocho”. As Vieciocho he has performed in different venues in Spain and the UK such as Secret Garden Festival.

http://www.carlosdieciocho.com/

Film: Body Without Organs - Giada Ghiringhelli

2009-07-28T05:36:00.000-07:00

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.

Her works explore the images in motion through the manipulation of space, time and movement, while employing light and the body as main compositional elements. Her videos 'Body without organs' and 'Sonopuncture' have been exhibited and screened internationally.

www.giadaghiringhelli.com

Art: The Last Bock - William Bock

2009-07-28T05:31:00.000-07:00

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.

Currently William is documenting the myriad of stories within his ownfamilyhistory, throughportraiture and the written word. His work is a reaction to thesepersonaldocuments which attemptsto find a visual language to express his place within his family tree.

http://thelastbock.blogspot.com/

Film: Longbridge - Marianna and Daniel O'Reilly

2009-07-28T05:08:00.000-07:00

“Whatever is perfect suffers no witnesses...”
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Copenhagen, St George’s Day 2008. The Institute of Film and Video Studies produced a documentary about a mysterious case of arson somehow connected to the coincidental encounter of three individuals at the famous landmark of Longbridge.

The documentary presents original footage from the only surviving piece of evidence-a video tape recorded by the arsonist who was compiling a video archive spanning years of private surveillance of the citizens of Copenhagen.

www.mariannaanddaniel.co.uk/about

Spoken Word: Mike Wendling

2009-07-28T05:00:00.001-07:00

Mike Wendling is a writer, journalist and radio producer.

He’s a past winner of the London Writers’ Award and has numerous short story and poetry credits to his name.

Originally from the midwest of the U.S.A., he’s currently working on his first novel – a story of drugs, music and the 2008 election.

Stand-Up: Sally Wyatt

2009-07-28T05:00:00.000-07:00

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.

She is particularly passionate around public attitudes to mental health and the concept of social norms. Sally believes that there are two types of people in the world the mentally ill and those awaiting diagnosis. She uses observations from her experiences of working in the mental health field and of having Bi-polar herself.

Her work tends to be darkly comical and centres around engaging the audience to see the world through the character’s sometimes warped reality and through humour to try to challenge people’s perspective of normality.

Music: The Ruby Dolls

2009-07-28T04:39:00.000-07:00

We are five sirens, who together sing sumptuous a cappella harmonies to classic and modern songs.

And we dance.

And perhaps flirt a little.

www.therubydolls.com

Workshop: Pick, Mix and Stitch - Ella Bryant

2009-07-28T04:20:00.000-07:00

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

If you would like to partake in one of the purse making workshops(4-5pm, 5-6pm, 6-7pm, 7-8pm) please email ellamarybryant@gmail.com to sign up, stating which of the workshops you would like attend. There will be a limited number of spaces.

Workshop: Glass Engraving - November Games

2009-07-28T04:06:00.000-07:00

It's fun to engrave onto glass, and not as hard as you might think! Come join us and learn how!

Taught by an experienced, professional prop. maker, you will be led through the engraving process, starting by sketching on a practice piece of glass to get a feel for the tools, before having an attempt at engraving a photo frame.

All for a small cost of just £5

Workshop: Sarah Sheerman-Chase

2009-07-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

Drop in and experiment with recycled and found objects to make a unique corsage to brighten up your button hole.

Music: Govinder and the Holy Ukulele

2009-07-27T17:41:00.000-07:00

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.

www.myspace.com/govindertheholyukulele

Music: Tony Volker

2009-07-27T17:38:00.000-07:00

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.

www.myspace.com/musictonyv

Music: Jessica Grace

2009-07-27T16:33:00.000-07:00

An artist of surprising philosophical depth and lyrical brilliance" (Wears the Trousers Magazine).

Jessica Grace's innovative lyrical reflections set to unforgettable musical hooks, are currently all being carefully re-crafted for her first studio (but second) album.

Her debut album, 'Insert Quirky Title Here...', is available for download now at CD Baby.

www.myspace.com/jessicagracemusic

Stallholder: dottycrayon

2009-07-27T04:44:00.000-07:00

dottycrayon jewellery is kitsch, cute and fun. Think bright colours, buttons and barbie shoes!

Price range: £3 - £15

www.dottycrayon.com

Cafe: Creme de la Teas

2009-07-27T04:09:00.000-07:00

Take a moment out and come and enjoy a delightful cream tea or splendid quiche and salad in our miniature kitsch cafe.

Stallholder: ZoëDesigns

2009-07-26T20:29:00.000-07:00

‘Turning something old into something new’

ZoëDesigns will be selling handmade unique pieces, all very affordable, starting from £1.50. On offer will be greetings cards, purses, hanger bags, cushion covers and some other additions from supporting designers.

Apart from the cards, which are made from about 40% recycled ‘bits and bobs’, all the purses, hanger bags and cushion covers are all made from about 80% recycled material which started off life as something completely different - generally clothes!

Each piece is pretty unique, made from various types of fabric and using buttons and other decorations from old socks to designer dresses!

Stallholder: Ley Ley Designs

2009-07-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

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.

She take items people think are "JUNK" or broken things. Cleans them up, takes them apart, spreads them all over the house and after a few days of reflection she makes them into newly redesigned pieces. Which are never the same and are always one of a kind ..... she uses earrings, brooches, chains, belts, pins, beads and charms. Anything she can get her hands on!

Everything is reclaimed and recycled, they are not NEW. But it's nice to give Jewelry a new life! Who knew recycling could be fashionable! Please enjoy and recycle/reuse and of course refashion!!!!!

Her goal is to create beautiful things and to give the best customer service. So if there is any need for alterations or extensions that is also possible.

Necklaces: 10 to 20 £Bracelets: 4 to 8 £Earrings: 8 to 10 £

Stallholder: Sarah Stokes

2009-07-26T20:18:00.000-07:00

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!!

Now I suppose my storytelling ‘scapes are an expression of an internal world with influences of the sea and space in a free, fluid and playful way. An awakened, learning to be unattached, moment by moment fashion! I play until I feel happy with them and people can form their own unique connections.

Currently based in Whitstable I’ve exhibited around the UK and sold regularly over the last few years and my work has homes throughout Europe, including Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Majorca, Belgium and Norway.

www.sarahstokes.co.uk

Stallholder: Ryoko Takahashi

2009-07-26T20:14:00.000-07:00

Hand-made one of a kind mosaic earings, candle holders and mirrors.Using various coloured glass, ceramic or mirror to create mosaicpieces.

A pair of earing starts from £10. A candle holder starts from £8. A mirror starts from £10.

www.myspace.com/ryoko.takahashi

Stallholder: Sally Miller

2009-07-26T20:10:00.000-07:00

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.

www.tislicious.co.uk

Stallholder: Robin Clare

2009-07-26T20:06:00.000-07:00

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.

The end products are graphically driven images that fuse stenciled pattern, colour and text along with line drawing creating slightly dark humored paintings about issues that crop up in my daily life.

www.robinclare.com