and...CUT!

and...CUT!

Saturday 27th November, 8pm
The Common Place

Collaboration between Stuart Bannister and Chris Hall. Cut-up film and live noise performance.

Portions of the performance were recorded on tape by Kieron Piercy to be cut up and re-assembled later.Kieron's reel to reel set up.

The night brought together artists, musicians and filmmakers in collaboration - a direct response to the current crisis...and a chance to dance

Second collaboration of the night saw Kevin Sanders and Andrew Forknell perform using an array of instruments, contact mics and tapes.

"Elequently Dumb clarinet and Violin squarks squeaks and skronks."

Visuals on a French revolution tip from Violaine Bergoin.

and...CUT!

and...CUT!
Saturday 27th November, 8pm
The Common Place

As the 'coalition' government's economic shock therapy starts to bite, join us for a night of experimental performances, cut up films, live noise and unique collaborations along with "DJ's" playing industrial, electro, trash, riot grrrrl, punk, dark 80's tunes for you to dance and drink all night.

Noisy collaborations and live cut ups featuring Stuart Bannister, Chris Hall and special guest George Osborne. Kieron Piercy’s live analogue tape recording and live cut up. Politically engaged and humourous songs on ukulele....Unique collaboration between Kev Sanders and Andrew Forknell performing Elequently Dumb clarinet and Violin squarks squeaks and skronks.‘Digital Marlene’ analogue meets digital and back again as Marlene is resurrected for one night only! More to be confirmed...

From 11pm onwards will have DJ sets and visuals from Chris Cox, Ueno, LadyViola and others.

A night of trash, fun and awareness with visuals, not to be missed!

£2 Members/ £3 guests of members.
Doors: 8pm- til late.
Dress code: mauvais chic, mauvais genre, cheapsters, glitters and wigs.

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Please note the Common Place is a members club. Guests must be introduced by a member at the door. Membership is just £2 a year, you can do it online at www.thecommonplace.org.uk

Thumbs up from the Yorkshire Evening Post's Oliver Cross...

Now...This (2006) Oil and acrylic on eighteen individual gesso panels 20cm x 30cm x 2.5cm each. Total size variable

Eighteen snapshot images painted in oil and acrylic on gesso panels. Many of the images are painted reproductions of photographs that were donated as part of a project concerning the demise of conventional 'analogue' photography in the digital age. 

As a starting point, influenced by my working methods with film, I had the idea of using found imagery bringing in an element of chance and working from images that each had their own self-contained narrative. The format would be uniform and set so the final results could be arranged in different configurations.

I sent a call out requesting photographs but with the stipulation that I was only interested in those that people had considered to be mistakes; the photos that hadn’t turned out, where heads were cropped, colours over-exposed, etc., in many ways, photographs that people simply hadn’t got round to throwing away.

The response was huge and the conversation I had started brought some amazing stories and insights. As a result I amassed a varied (and sometimes bizarre) selection of images that spanned many decades.

I became fascinated with the idea of these photographs capturing a moment, perhaps insignificant, sometimes by accident, and what these particular images could tell us about how we see ourselves, how we document our lives and what of our past we choose to preserve. A moment recorded, albeit in error, revealing much about small aspects of a life lived - recorded at a level of detail deemed insignificant enough to throw away. 

To me these became important images in their own right, images that, with the advent of digital photography, the ‘re-touched’ photographs of glossy magazines, and the knowing self consciousness of the Facebook era, would either not exist in the first place or would be erased at the point of shooting for being less than perfect.

Oliver Cross, Yorkshire Evening Post, Friday 9th July 2010

The Waste Land exhibition

The Waste Land preparatory work on display in Leeds Central Library as part of the REAL-TIME exhibition

Artefacts from The Waste Land including Mdm. Sosostris' bust of Alexander and a portrait of T.S. Eliot.

The Waste Land notebooks

Reproductions of The Waste Land notebooks

Artefacts from The Waste Land viewed as museum objects

An exhibition of paintings and other recent work

REAL-TIME

An exhibition of paintings and other recent work by Christopher Hall

Opening from 6^th-31^st July 2010

1^st Floor Exhibition Space

Leeds Central Library

Calverley Street

LS1 3AB

Private view Monday 5^th July 6-8pm

Real-time - when things respond to events as they occur.

For this new exhibition Christopher Hall brings together, for the first time, a selection of paintings and short films that seek to explore the space that exists between the analogue and digital world – the real and the unreal.

The selection includes bold and colourful paintings produced through semi-automated means, traditional figurative works and short experimental films where digital information is pushed through analogue processes. There will also be an opportunity to view previously unseen work relating to The Waste Land expanded cinema performance which took place in May as part of oko’s C I N E M A P O V E R A weekend and Art in Unusual Spaces.

Opening from 6pm Monday 5^th July, there will be refreshments and opportunity for informal discussion.

See you there!

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See artist’s profile on http://www.axisweb.org/

Exhibition opening hours:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday, Friday 9am – 5pm
Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 1pm – 5pm

Leeds Central Library info and map:

www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=4fd2cd531cfe7d0980256e1d004b5f46

'The Waste Land: The Poetry of Super 8'

'The Waste Land', originally uploaded by oko-lab.

Photos from 'The Waste Land' performance can be found here. Thanks to OKO for taking them!

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OKO and EXP24 present 'The Waste Land'
Part of C I N E M A P O V E R A

An expanded cinema performance of T.S. Eliot’s epic poem by Chris Hall and Ian Harker with live reading and musical accompaniment.

Published in 1922 in the aftermath of the First World War, T.S Eliot’s epic poem of the 20th Century still divides opinion and remains as mysterious today as when it was first written. Against the backdrop of a devastated Europe with the portentous rise of nationalism, social fragmentation and growing economic turmoil, The Waste Land was written in an atmosphere of uncertainty and creative experimentation. Europe had seen the unparalleled horror of the First World War with death on an unimaginable scale and the seeds of fascism were firmly planted in the ruins. This was a period of economic turmoil, hardship and desperation yet paradoxically it was also a time of unparalleled wealth and technological advance.

Written over a number of years and dedicated to his close friend Ezra Pound, The Waste Land is a complex work, yet it contains some of the most intense and beautiful lines ever written.

Chris Hall and Ian Harker present a new interpretation of the poem finding a striking resonance in today's confused and turbulent age of flickering images, financial crises, and permanent war.

Although in later years Eliot distanced himself from interpretations of the poem as social commentary, the poem can be seen as a desperate search for the affirmative and a refusal of a barren society.

The Waste Land will be read as part of a multi-sensory expanded cinema performance incorporating live projection and a live soundtrack performed by Violaine Bergoin, Lee Hooper, Andrew Staveley and Harry Wheeler.

'Reflections on the Brave New World' Live@KiNETIKA! 2008 (1/3)

'Reflections on the Brave New World' Live@KiNETIKA! 2008 (1/3), originally uploaded by exp24.

This was my response to a recording of the writer Aldous Huxley addressing an audience at Berkeley in the sixties. It was performed as part of exp24's night for Leeds International Film Festival in 2008. The work consisted of a prepared film loop and soundtrack using found footage and hand processed super 8. This was projected alongside an educational 16mm film featuring an earthworm undergoing dissection. The piece is suggestive with both the body of the earthworm and the face of the woman undergoing external manipulation. The power of the piece is dependent on the duration and the interplay between the two on screen images as well as those suggested by the soundtrack. Portions of the original voice recording could be heard along with live audio intervention interference and selected readings from Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.