Latest in the series devoted to auto-destructive art; guest Michael Landy talks about Jean Tinguely, his Breakdown installation on Oxford Street and other auto-destructive topics.
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Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 4 with Michael Landy
Published by May 19th, 2012 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments
Dave Russell – If you discover him – then you will not forget him. Dave is editor of Poetry Express, mainstay of Survivors Poetry and Core Arts. This is a rare opportunity to hear some new songs by Dave, performed live, with all the unpredictable technical holdups – highly enjoyable I hope. Dave stops to [...]
A live session from the Talented Losers, comprising the notorious Sexton Ming and poet Colin Shaddick. The Losers conduct an unusual session, in the sense that, Ming is in the studio whilst Shaddick collaborates via telephone. The whole episode ended in a complete meeting of minds, we were united in self-realisation and found our way [...]
Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 3 with Mathieu Copeland
Published by May 12th, 2012 in Shows and Wavelength. 0 CommentsMathieu Copeland, co-curator of the 2009 exhibition at the Pompidou Centre and Kunsthalle Bern: Voids, A Retrospective in the studio to talk about Voids and Yves Klein. Part 3 of the ongoing series about auto-destructive art.
Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 2 with David Toop
Published by May 5th, 2012 in Shows and Wavelength. 0 CommentsThis week’s guest is David Toop, distinguished musician, curator and writer on music and sound art, author of The Rap Attack and Haunted Weather as well as numerous articles for The Wire, The New York Times and The Village Voice. In 2000 he curated Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery. (Sonic Doom, the conference scheduled [...]
Robert Beer in conversation with James Tregaskis – discusses topics including near-death experiences, life between lives, his LSD-induced kundalini crisis and how he became a dealer in buddhist art. Robert Beer, has studied and practised Tibetan Art for the past forty years and [...]
Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 1
Published by April 28th, 2012 in Shows and Wavelength. 0 CommentsPart one of a series on auto-destructive Art and Music coinciding with an exhibition curated by David Toop and Tony Herrington at The Flat Time House, South London called Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise, London/Brighton 1959-1969. David Toop will be along next week to talk about the exhibition. The July edition of The Wire [...]
Guest Rhonan O’Reilly aka James Tregaskis almost delivers a lecture on hydrogen and Gurdjieff but fate and a temperamental laptop force an anticipated change of direction. Chants of the Native American Church of North America featuring Alfred Armstrong and Ralph Turtle provide a backdrop to some information about Gurdjieff before the laptop sulks into silence. [...]
Soliloquies by Gabriel Severin 2008. Another Sub Rosa release in their series of Outsider Music; Music in the Margins. Last track; She’s Alright by Muddy Waters from Electric Mud 1968. This was my birthday.
Wavelength – Maurice Seddon’s Injunction
Published by April 7th, 2012 in Shows and Wavelength. 0 CommentsCaptain Maurice Seddon in telephonic conversation. He was faced with an injunction at the Royal Courts of Justice to silence his numberless pack of dogs but thanks in no small part to his Mackenzie friend (me) the case has been adjourned for 3 months. Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wolfli paintings by Baudouin [...]