Limited edition cassette compilation. Exclusive material from Half High, Astor, Moniek Darge, Graham Lambkin, Vicky Langan, Jacques Brodier, Matthew P.Hopkins and Call Back the Giants.
Available at the two upcoming London events: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/penultimate-press-call-back-the-giants-graham-lambkin.shtm
PENULTIMATE PRESS AND KYE PRESENT: MATTHEW P.HOPKINS / MONIEK DARGE / CALL BACK THE GIANTS / ASTOR / VICKY LANGAN / GRAHAM LAMBKIN
Friday 17 October 2014
Matthew P.Hopkins / Moniek Darge / Call Back the Giants
Tickets : £10 adv / £12 on the door
Saturday 18 October 2014
Astor / Vicky Langan / Graham Lambkin
Tickets : £10 adv / £12 on the door
Door Times : 8pm
Two days from two great labels Penultimate Press (UK) and Kye (USA) who've put out some fantastic releases from the likes of Graham Lambkin, Henning Christiansen, Stefan Jaworzyn, Jacques Brodier and Matthew P. Hopkins in recent years.
On the Friday, OTO hosts Tim Goss' macabre pop art project Call Back The Giants - who has carved out a unique musical vision over his past four LPs, composer/violinist/performer/audio artist Moniek Darge - who specialises in both soundscapes and live-art performances in which visual and musical aspects are combined and in interactional improvisation on violin, and Matthew P. Hopkins - whose solo work is characterised by processed voice, crude electronics, tape manipulation and found sounds.
On the Saturday, NY-based multidisciplinary artist and KYE label curator Graham Lambkin returns to OTO, alongside Irish artist Vicky Lanagan - whose vulnerable, emotionally charged performances envelop audiences in an often troublingly intense aura of dark intimacy, and Mark Harwood's project Astor - whose works encompass a wide variety of sources and techniques as a means of exploring audio that rubs shoulders with narrative, the visual and the hallucinogenic.
Tuesday September 9th, 6.30 pm, €7,
Filmbase, Curved St., Temple Bar, Dublin
Solus presents Masha Godovannaya's
'Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear'
Experimental Film Society presents
‘Forbidden Symmetries’ & ‘Tangled And Far’
Solus is an independent film collective. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland. Experimental Film Society is a not-for-profit entity that promotes, archives and produces work by a dozen experimental filmmakers operating in several different countries.
The screening of Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear is the third installment of the Solus 2014 tour, covering USA, Russia and Ireland. It is curated and presented by Alan Lambert. For information on the film, please visit:http://www.soluscollective.com/
The Experimental Film Society section of the programme consists of:
Tangled And Far (Vicky Langan/Maximilian Le Cain, 2013, 12 mins)
This video is the most recent in the ongoing collaboration between Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain. Drawing on footage of Langan’s performances over the past two years, as well as scenes specifically shot for this video, it foregrounds the overlap between intimate domestic detail and its reflection in Langan’s performance work. The private and public projections of her presence and actions collapse into each other in this phantasmagoric continuum of alternate selves and self-images to form a fractured dream portrait.
Forbidden Symmetries (Dean Kavanagh/Maximilian Le Cain/Rouzbeh Rashidi, 2014, 97 mins)
This collaborative feature is an ostensibly science fictional trip, arranged in three half-hour ‘phases’, one by each director. They are three witnesses to the invasion giving three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an effort to construct functions known not to exist may on occasion produce interesting frauds. (Please note: this film contains intense strobing effects.)
Rouzbeh Rashdi, Dean Kavanagh, Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain will be present to introduce their films.
Sacred Harp singers Thom and Al wearing the t-shirt I designed for The Wire magazine at a singing retreat in the Appalachian Mountains!
Exhibition at Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
This exhibition entitled ‘Searching for Nick Drake’ features a series of multi-media artworks and performances inspired by Nick Drakes’ work. This exhibition touches upon themes of loss, the inevitable fragility of memories and the tenuousness of recollection. Works range from lens based works to the DIY aesthetics of the Nick Drake fanzine. The exhibition will feature work from the following artists;
A Lilac Decline, A Radience Enemy & Loner Deluxe , Ruth Beale, Burrows, Gavin Bush, Cubs, Jade Gilbert, Francis Heery, Johanna Lecklin, Danny McCarthy, Maeve McElligott and Lisa Barrett, Jonas Mekas, Benn Northover, Mick O’Shea, Tim Pope, Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon, Brigid Power-Ryce, Gavin Prior, Raising Holy Sparks and Vicky Langan, Michael Tanner, the Lonely Anchoress and Yawning Chasm.
About Nick Drake
Following a period of deep depression, the musician Nick Drake died on the 25th of November, 1974 of a prescription drug overdose. Nick failed to find the recognition he had so desperately sought during his lifetime. No moving image documentation of the adult Nick Drake exists. Nick emerges as an enigmatic figure layered by tales and experiences of others who tried to draw him into their lives. As his father, Rodney, said of Nick,
“And I remember in one of his reports towards the end of the time at his first school, the headmaster gave him a very good report, but said at the end that none of us seemed to know him very well. And I think that was it. All the way through with Nick. People didn’t know him very much.”
The exhibition will open on Wednesday 6th August at 7pm and will feature performances by Loner Deluxe, Cubs, Phantom Dog beneath the Moon and Gavin Prior. It will run until the September 28th 2014
web: www.droichead.com
My collaborator Maximilian Le Cain is embarking on his debut feature film and needs your support.
“Ghost love in a haunted landscape: a challenging and darkly poetic experimental feature film.”
Max Le Cain has made more than eighty short, medium and feature length experimental films and videos over the past decade. He is also a film critic and editor of Cork Film Centre’s online experimental film magazine Experimental Conversations. He regularly programmed experimental film for the Cork-based experimental music/film event Black Sun and has presented avant-garde film events in collaboration with, amongst others, Cork Film Centre and Cork Film Festival, involving filmmakers such as Peter Tscherkassky, Pip Chodorov, James Fotopoulos, Abigail Child and Vivienne Dick.
He is currently working in creative partnership with sound/performance artist Vicky Langan. He collaborates with artist Esperanza Collado as ‘The Consecutive Impostors’ in the multi-disciplinary art project Operation Rewrite and with composer Karen Power on the sound / film / performance project Gorging Limpet. He is a member, with Rouzbeh Rashidi and Dean Kavanagh, of the Cinema Cyanide noise project, and of the Experimental Film Societycollective. In 2011, he received an Irish Arts Council bursary award to develop his practice from video to film-on-film work.
For an in-depth account of his work in the context of contemporary Irish experimental film, see New Voices in Irish Experimental Cinema, an article by Donal Foreman.
As a film critic, his writings have appeared in a broad range of international film journals, most notably Senses of Cinema, and in several books, including The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World (Wallflower Press, 2006).
He is based in Cork City, Ireland.
Tangled and Far will play as part of an Experimental Film Society programme in the Fronteira - International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival in Brazil.
A programme of Experimental Film Society films will be screening at Fronteira - International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. The first edition of FRONTEIRA - International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, runs from the 30th of August to September 7th in Goiânia, Goiás - Brazil. FRONTEIRA is dedicated to films that resist to predominant ways of cinematographic language, questioners of prefabricated views of the world that offers new ways of seeing, thinking and experimenting the reality. The idea is reunite unseen films in Goiás and most of times unseen in Brazil, from a various places, in a significant panorama of the contemporary worldwide and Brazilian film.
Special thanks to Toni D’Angela & Rafael Castanheira Parrode
https://www.facebook.com/fronteirafestival
Complete programme and line-up here.
View from the East Village Radio Studio, New York, 2014
July 17th, The Guesthouse. 7.30pm. Free
The Cork premiere of two films shot last year involving members of Experimental Film Society in which The Guesthouse is one of the main locations.
Tangled And Far (Vicky Langan/Maximilian Le Cain, 2013, 12 mins)
TANGLED AND FAR
This video is the most recent in the ongoing collaboration between Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain. Drawing on footage of Langan’s performances over the past two years, as well as scenes specifically shot for this video, it foregrounds the overlap between intimate domestic detail and its reflection in Langan’s performance work. The private and public projections of her presence and actions collapse into each other in this phantasmagoric continuum of alternate selves and self-images to form a fractured dream portrait.
Forbidden Symmetries (Dean Kavanagh/Maximilian Le Cain/Rouzbeh Rashidi, 2014, 97 mins)
FORBIDDEN SYMMETRIES
Emerging from a Guesthouse residency, this collaborative feature is an ostensibly science fictional trip, arranged in three half-hour ‘phases’, one by each director. They are three witnesses to the invasion giving three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate that an effort to construct functions known not to exist may on occasion produce interesting frauds.
View trailer here.
Solus Film Collective, in collaboration with Loft Project Etagi, present the second stage of the American/Russian/Irish touring program of 2014. The show will run from July 4th until October 1st at Loft Project Etagi in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Solus & Guests
Exhibition №8
Curators – Masha Godovannaya and Alan Lambert
This video-show «Solus & Guests» presents a selection of new and recent film-works by Irish filmmakers and international collaborators with previous contributors to collective programs. It reflects a current circle that has emerged in recent years in Irish experimental filmmaking and art, particularly in the presence of the Experimental Film Society, many of whose members are represented here. The programme includes artists such as Maximilian Le Cain, Vicky Langan, Dean Kavanagh, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Michael Higgins, Esperanza Collado, Aoife Desmond, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Moira Tierney and Alan Lambert.
For full titles and programme info please check the Solus website HERE
For venue info and opening times please check the Etagi website HERE
Solus is an independent film collective and platform for filmmakers working in Super-8mm / 16mm and DV. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland.
Opening Reception Screening:
‘Absences and (Im)possibilities: Traces of an experimental cinema in Ireland’
This screening of Abscences and (Im)possibilitites is a condensed version of the full four-part programme.
This programme traces a tradition of experimental film-making in Ireland. It is curated by the Experimental Film Club and commissioned by the Irish Film Institute International. It features the work of artists such as the Lumiere Brothers, Norris Davidson, Vivienne Dick, Paddy Jolley, Barry Ronan, Dónal Ó’Ceilleachair and Jesse Jones.
More info HERE
This Solus event is supported by Culture Ireland, the Irish Film Institute and Dublin City Council.
IFI International is supported by Culture Ireland. The Irish Film Institute is supported by the Arts Council.
Still from 'Tangled and Far' -Max Le Cain & Vicky Langan, 2013
Am pleased to announce that Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, will be hosting a programme of work by Max Le Cain and me this Monday, May 12th. We will both be present for a Q&A after the screening. Full details here.
The programme is:
Evening Ascent
The Mongolian Barbecue
Background
Hereunder
Dirt
Tangled And Far
Tangled And Far, the most recent collaboration by Max Le Cain and I, will be screened on loop during 'Mind in the Flesh, Female Bodies in Contemporary Performance', an upcoming symposium focusing on female bodies in contemporary performance at Dance Limerick featuring performances, workshops and talks. More details here.
Running from 8th - 10th May MIND IN THE FLESH is a symposium focusing on female bodies in contemporary performance. It incorporates artists’ talks and debates, performance lectures and workshops, alongside evening performances by world renowned artists.
How do women portray, represent, stereotype, envision themselves today? How aware are we as makers and viewers about the body images and relationships we create and receive in private and public spheres? How much diversity is there really? And, actually, what are female bodies?
MIND IN THE FLESH, Female Bodies in Contemporary Performance will feature artists' talks and debates, performance lectures and master classes alongside evening performances.
I have recently been awarded a substantial Music Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
The objective of the bursary is to support individual professional artists in the field of music in the development of their artistic practice. The award emphasises the value and benefit to an artist’s development that is derived from an extended process of engagement with their practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
Many thanks to the Arts Council for their support.
-Vicky Langan
Photo by Joseph Carr
Tangled And Far, my most recent collaboration with Max Le Cain, will play twice at the Australian International Experimental Film Festival this May, once in Melbourne and once in Perth:
Perth: 6pm, Sunday 3rd May
Replants, 96 Wray Avenue, Fremantle
Melbourne: 6pm, Sunday 18th May
Goodtime Studios, basement 746 Swanston Street, Melbourne
(hosted by Artist Film Workshop)
We Play Here cover design by Sunless
Portrait by Bríd O'Donovan
Eimear O' Donovan invited me to respond to some questions for her women in music piece in for issue two of We Play Here music zine.
Issue two is released on April 19th (Record Store Day 2014)
More info here: http://www.thepointofeverything.com/2014/03/28/issue-two-of-music-zine-we-play-here-to-be-released-in-april/
Vicky Langan Alto
A new design by the Irish artist/performer.
Printed in black on a light grey shirt with The Wire logo and 'Vicky Langan Alto' printed in black on the back of the neck. Limited edition of
100 shirts.
Price (including postage and packing): £20 for UK, £22 elsewhere.
Subscriber discount: £2 off per shirt.
(Please note the shirts will be printed and ready for dispatch approx. 31st March 2014)
http://www.thewire.co.uk/shop/clothing/vicky-langan-limited-editiont-shirt
Myself and Dave Colohan join Mike and Cara Gangloff this Monday March 10th in Whelanslive. Tickets €12.50
'Southwest Virginians Mike & Cara Gangloff have been exploring the world in the last couple years, playing a personal, rural music that draws on Mike’s decades with Pelt and Black Twig Pickers and extends it into duo a capella harmonies and duets with fiddle, hurdy gurdy, sruti box and banjo for a sound that’s sometimes fierce and clattering, sometimes smooth and sweet. Expect ancient tunes learned from Appalachian masters and an improvisatory songcraft that blends deep drones with unexpected melodic and lyrical turns.'
Full details here: http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/mike-cara-gangloff/
Adam Bohman Exhibition Fundraiser at Café OTO
Donate and get one of the postcards or limited edition prints detailed below in return. All funds raised will go towards the planning, installation and delivery of this exhibition at Cafe OTO’s new project space this summer.
dave phillips live at Extreme Rituals : A Schimpfluch Carnival, Arnolfini, Bristol 30.11.2012.
with Emma Weatherup, Vicky Langan, Kelly-Ann Jervis and Damaris.
Video by Moju.
