Omar Kholeif and Morgan Quaintance discuss the culture of online curating and the phenomenon of virtual lives based on their texts in the February issue of Art Monthly
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings
Paul O’Kane, Mark Harris and Reuben Fowkes discuss their texts in the April 2013 issue of Art Monthly
Life and Death- Paul O’Kane on art and being. If art in secular societies plays some part in defining humanity, how have artists such as John Akomfrah, Nick Broomfield and Patrick Keiller met the challenges laid forth by globalisation’s increasingly pervasive and invasive brand of technocapitalism?
‘When, occasionally, the shameful excesses, inadequacies and inequalities underpinning consumerism are glimpsed in news media, these “shocking facts” become yet more fleeting images, commodified emotions of momentary indignation and injustice.’
Maja & Reuben Fowkes on the return of the East European. When the coalition government recently proposed running an anti-UK advertising campaign in Eastern Europe with the aim of discouraging immigration, it brought an outmoded cultural categorisation back to life. Perhaps Number 10 might have looked at the work of Adam Chodzko, Roman Ondák, Dan Perjovschi and Nedko Solakov before returning the generic ‘East European’ to the discourse around identity.
‘In the 2000s these artists were likely to feel at home in the post-identitarian circuits of a globalised art world which abandoned the cult of origins in favour of a universalist outlook, but now they are faced with the return of the East European.’
Mark Harris on The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns at the Barbican, London in Spring 2013
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings
In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London International festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, guest presenter Matt Badham talks to comic creators David Hine, Al Davison, Tom Humberstone and Tony Lee about starting their careers in independent comics, how that influenced their style and choices when breaking into the ‘mainstream’ industry and the advice they have to give creators starting out now. Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch (Originally broadcast 22/04/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Excerpts from Ellipsis by Tom Humberstone, Danger Academy by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, The Alchemist’s Easel by Al Davison, Strange Embrace by David Hine
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
PLAYLIST
Sian Dorrer (Power Lunches founder) – ‘interview 1’
Bastard Sword – Ship Canal (LIVE SESSION)
Bastard Sword – Great Faces (LIVE SESSION)
Bastard Sword – Stalin (LIVE SESSION)
Bastard Sword – No Forgiveness (LIVE SESSION)
Sian Dorrer (Power Lunches founder) – ‘interview 2’
Golden Grrrls – Paul Simon
Yola Fatoush – Vibrant
Phat Trophies – Bass In Yr Face
Man With Feathers – Body On The Moor
Bastard Sword – ‘interview’
Shopping – Shopping Theme (LIVE SESSSION)
Shopping – In Other Words (LIVE SESSSION)
Shopping – Hard As Nails (LIVE SESSSION)
Shopping – You Are A Sort (LIVE SESSSION)
Shopping – Santa Monica Place (LIVE SESSSION)
The Wharves – Renew
Dog Chocolate – Abilities
Ravioli Me Away – Hit By Love (LIVE SESSION)
Ravioli Me Away – Cat Call (LIVE SESSION)
Ravioli Me Away – Runaway Train (LIVE SESSION)
Ravioli Me Away – Pedigree Mouth (LIVE SESSION)
Shopping – ‘interview’
Presenter: deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin + Joe Oldfield
Googling my own name, first past the post is William Hill Bookmaker even though I’ve Googled William English. Second by a short head is William English filmmaker and broadcaster (me) and then running into third place by a nose is William English Post Punk group from somewhere near Thetford. The idea of a group calling itself William English is quite strange and intriguing. I briefly surmise that a group of Estuary Post Punks are avid Wavelength listeners and are so impressed that they decide to call themselves after me but it turns out they’ve never heard of me and are named after William English Walling the radical American socialist. After contacting the group I now have a printed tee shirt with two crossed flintlock pistols and William English emblazoned across the front and a CD. William English, the group, have a new CD coming out soon and they will be guests on the programme in October. Playlist: Nelson’s County from Home by William English (not me) 2010. Sequence of short ads from 78rpm Victrola Favourites. Melancholy, debut single from Louise and The Pins (featuring Martha Wainwright). Chair, debut single by Big Deal. Never in my Life, by Mountain. Final Alert (Euro Jaxx) by Mixed Bizness. Monad by Bruce Gilbert. Beauty Strange by Louise and The Pins, flip side of debut single.
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
Today he talks about his personal love affair with opera and wonders how listening to opera can actually save your life. Featuring empowering classics from Mozart, Purcell, Bizet and Jimmy Somerville, tracks that had the power to inspire and save the younger Richard when he was a bullied London teenager.
This week’s episode will be just like a rock concert, except it won’t have the singers, the instruments and the crowd noise is ‘kinda missing’ too. It’s disappointingly sad. Are you beginning to understand? It sure covers a lot of material in one place, doesn’t it? That’s awesome. You’re very smart. Let me give you a frosty drink from my thermos…
Join Robin The Fog as he digs up a plethora of inspirational, aspirational and instructional recordings of highly dubious vintage and embarks on a cut-and-paste odyssey that is by turns amusing, absurd and, on at least one occasion, almost unbearable.
Panel Borders: Young Graphic Novelists, Spring 2013
Continuing a month of shows looking at small press and independent publishers, Panel Borders looks at two titles that rework familiar pop-culture tropes in new comics by young creators. In an interview recorded at Comica Comiket, Alex Fitch talks to Louis Roskosch about his video game inspired graphic novel The Adventures of Leeroy and Popo, published by Nobrow. Also, Dickon Harris speaks to Matt Fitch and Mark Lewis of ‘Dead Canary Comics’, about their collaborations in the worlds of advertising agencies and comic book creation as they discuss the production of their first superhero title, the Spider-Man spoof Frogman.
Nobrow and Dead Canary Comics will be among dozens of exhibitors at this year’s Comica Comiket, taking place at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, Handyside Street, King’s Cross, London N1C 4AA on Saturday April 20th, 2013 – more info at www.comicafestival.com (Originally broadcast 15/04/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Extracts from Frogman by Matt Fitch and Mark Lewis / The Adventures of Leeroy and Popo by Louis Roskosch
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Pages 1, 2 and 3 of Leeroy and Popo by Louis Roskosch
Info about the collected edition at nobrow.net
Dead Canary Comics website, including info on Frogman
Recommended events:
COMICA FESTIVAL COMES TO CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS APRIL 19th and 20th!
In an exciting new co-operation, Comica is working with Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (or CSM) to stage two days of talks, events, exhibitions, a fair day, live drawing and an exclusive painting and music performance, all in the adjoining spaces of The Platform Theatre, Foyer & Bar, Studio and White Lab at CSM’s spectacular London headquarters, mere minutes away from King’s Cross rail, tube and Eurostar stations.
On Friday April 19th, from 2.30-6.30pm, Comica is working with CSM to programme a practical, informative afternoon of professional development talks and panels designed to help students, graduates and aspiring writers and artists to break into the comics and graphic novel world. Among those taking part will be CSM alumni Brian Bolland, famed for his iconic renditions of Judge Dredd and Batman, Nobrow co-publisher Alex Spiro, and acclaimed manga creators Chie Kutsuwada and Inko. Also participating will be graphic novel commissioners from Knockabout, Myriad and other publishers, Julie Tait, director of the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival, and 2000AD, Marvel and DC superstar illustrator Frazer Irving.
Then from 6.30 to 7.30pm, also in The Platform Theatre, Comica welcomes principal sponsor Sequential, the deluxe digital graphic novel storefront app for the iPad, bringing together literary graphic novels from the world’s leading publishers and creators. Sequential’s Tokyo-based pioneer, Russell Willis, will be joined by Brian Bolland, Hunt Emerson, Terry Wiley and others on the roster to launch the deluxe digital versions of Bolland Strips!, The Essential Hunt Emerson, VerityFair and more. Followed by signings and a launch party in the Foyer. Tickets will be on sale soon, details to follow. There will also be exhibitions including brand new work by CSM students, such as a multi-path hypercomic, Black Hats in Hell, masterminded by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.
Saturday April 20th brings our second Spring Comica Comiket, bigger and better than ever. Come to our Independent Comics Fair where publishers like Jonathan Cape, Knockabout, SelfMadeHero and Walker Books will be joining indie presses and self-publishers, and it is still admission free to the public. Fraser Irving, Viviane Schwarz, Gary Northfield, Stephen Collins, Warren Pleece and Oliver East are among the Drawing Paraders on board promoting their brand new books, and we’ll be announcing the full line-up in our next Newsletter. We’ll also have details of the thrilling Sequential comics competition which will see one lucky winner on the day walks away with a highly covetable and nifty iPad.
And for our grand finale in The Platform Theatre on the Saturday night, Comica presents Battle Of The Eyes in The Noise Of Our Art, the first amazing collaboration between live performance painters Chris Long and Edwin Pouncey and leading musician and DJ Trevor Jackson. The evening ends with our Comiket after-party in the Foyer till 10pm.
When: Friday April 19th, 2.30 to 10pm, and April 20th, 11am to 10pm.
Where: The Platform Theatre, Foyer, Studio & White Lab, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, Handyside Street, London N1C 4AA
PLAYLIST
Flame Proof Moth – Women should be in charge
Psychic TV – Just like Arcadia
Joe Gideon and the Shark – I’m ruined (LIVE SESSION)
Joe Gideon and the Shark – Higher Power (Where have all the good times gone?) (LIVE SESSION)
Joe Gideon and the Shark – You, the Pole and the Rastafarian (LIVE SESSION)
Elton John – I’m still standing
Joe Gideon and the Shark – ‘interview’
Yeberobo – About teeth and grip
The Fall – Hilary
Rollin Hunt – Some kind of holiday
Alma Nofear – Mother of misfits
Gun Club – Mother of Earth
The Flying Lizards – The Window
David Byrne – Dura Europus
Victor Dimisich Band – It’s cold outside
The Zombies – Beechwood Park
Dog Chocolate – I want to give birth (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Wish for a cat (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Strange Train (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Be a bloody river(LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Give chance a chance (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Building Dens (LIVE SESSION)
Presented by: deXter Bentley & Serafina Steer
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp
I recently screened my short film “Mini-Cars” in a garden behind the Danielle Arnaud Gallery. The film features Messerschmitt bubble cars along with Goggomobils, Peels, Trojans, Heinkels and various other miniature vehicles, two examples of which I once owned. To accompany the film I played a CD called “Messerschmitt” by Michael Esposito which employs recordings based on David John Oates’ experiments and theories of Reverse Speech Phenomena. The CD was released in 2010 by Firework Edition Records. Michael Esposito is a descendant of Alfred Vail who invented Morse Code and several early telegraph devices with his partner Samuel Morse. Another ancestor, Jonathan Vail was office manager and assistant to Thomas Edison in his later years when Edison attempted to develop a device for communicating with the dead. Over the years, under the Phantom Airwaves institution, Michael has participated in hundreds of paranormal investigations all over the world. He has conducted extensive research at many active locations and has developed a great deal of unique theory and devised many unique experiments within the field of Electronic Voice Phenomena which is basically the recording of inexplicable voices. Focusing primarily on EVP research, he has collected tens of thousands of EVPs and video. Working extensively with EVP’s relationship to experimental music, Michael combines EVP with field recording and related frequency tones of research sites. Michael is currently published by Touch Music UK. I’ve recently been in touch with Michael Esposito and hope to have him on as a guest probably in October. It is worth remembering that the Messerschmitt had a unique reversing system which involved stopping the engine and then turning the ignition key anti clockwise which restarts the engine in the opposite direction. For the skilful or foolhardy this offers the interesting possibility of travelling just as fast backwards as forwards because of course top gear can be engaged with the engine spinning in either direction.
