Adi Lerer is currently performing in “The Dybbuk” by Julia Pascal, which is having its American premiere at the Theater for the New City.
“The Dybbuk,” the 1914 play written by S. Ansky that is a pre-eminent work of Yiddish theater, dramatizes the Ashkenazi Jewish myth of a dislocated soul that inhabits a living person. Ansky’s play itself has something of a shape-shifting spirit, revised many times for the stage, film, dance and even opera. In revisiting the story, the English playwright and directo Julie Pascal, who has often mined Jewish themes for their universality, has framed it in the context of the Holocaust, powerfully elevating a folk tale to an existential meditation.
For the full New York Time review click here. August 25, 2010
A Night-There Lay the Days Between
An Exhibition by Michele Fletcher, Linda Lencovic, Alice Peillon and Gwen Ramsay
242 Gallery 242 Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9DA
Private View Thursday, September 2, 2010 (as part of First Thursdays) 6 - 9pm
1 - 5 September 2010 Opening hours Wed-Sun 12-6pm
Inspired by the poem of the same name by Emily Dickinson, four international artists will explore the personal and cultural mythologies that surround Night.
Last chance to catch Milk Presents 454 Grams this Summer! Which features the multi-talented RVCC member Ruby Glaskin.
After scaling the country Milk Presents return to London for our final performances of 454 Grams at the Camden Fringe festival.
This ''masterful'' production will be performed at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre on:
Saturday 28th August at 8pm
Sunday 29th August at 8pm
To book tickets online for Saturday's performance please click here or for Sunday's performance here
or phone the box office on: 08444 771000
This is our last run of 454 Grams before Milk Presents undertakes a year long residency at The Point, Eastliegh.
About 454 Grams
454 Grams is born out of lines, moments and smells of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, fusing live art with clowning, music and mayhem…Balloons glow and bicycle wheels spin, generating the electricity to illuminate a world of greed, disguise and revelry.
What the reviews say
"454 Grams is an in-your-face reworking" Richard Stamp, Fringe Guru
"they really do tell the story, and tell it rather well. They genuinely care about making the text accessible.The vanguard of this work is a sensory assault – but behind it there's a subtlety and an honesty I truly admired" Richard Stamp, Fringe Guru
"a thought provoking and well executed production" Linda McAlinden, Buxton Fringe Festival
454 Grams was nominated for Best Production at the Buxton Fringe Festival 2010
Nearest tube is Kentish Town or 10 minute walk from Camden Town tube. Just off Kentish Town Road
Tel: 020 7419 6043
August 20, 2010
Co-founder and curator of the Red Velvet Curtain Cult lili Spain is currently working on an event to be held at the Freud Museum London in February 2011. The call for participants is out , for details click here. August 16th, 2010
Two upcoming events that artists duo Genetic Moo are participating in!
Genetic Moo will be presenting 'Mutoscope: What the Biologist Saw' at
UNLEASHED DEVICES Wed 1st Sep - Fri 22nd Oct, Daily 12 – 9pm Watermans 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS
An exhibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects by artists who explore technologies critically and creatively. The exhibition, featuring more than 30 artists, is part of the nodel Autumn season in London. Curated by Watermans and TINT. For more info visit Watermans : http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/upcoming/unleashed_devices
...................................................... Genetic Moo will be presenting 'Animacules - The Drop of Water' in Illumini Event 2010’s Secret Subterranean London Opening Night Thurs 9th Sep 6pm to 10pm 10th to 15th September, daily 11am to 7pm (free admission) The Basement, Shoreditch Town Hall 380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT An Invitation to explore the 'secret labyrinths’ beneath the streets of London, by torchlight. Take an illuminating art journey, through the history of subterranean London. The Exhibition, with over 50 artists, re-creates many of London’s underground secrets. Curated by Jane Webb. August 14th, 201o
Marianna and Daniel O'Reilly are please to announce that their first feature-length video THE DOUBLE is now available for viewing.
On April 9th 2009, maverick video-maker and self-professed ‘outsider’ Arkhip Ippolitov failed in his bid to commit suicide. The investigation that followed revealed a man on the fringes of sanity who had all but erased his identity in favour of living out his life as a fictional character; a character doomed from the outset. Most curious however is that the process of his breakdown was documented and released in the form of the award-winning motion picture ‘Goliadkin’.
This documentary, produced in association with The Institute of Film and Video Studies,Copenhagen, attempts to discern fact from myth and make sensible the question: ‘Who is Arkhip Ippolitov?’
“It is ironic that he [Ippolitov] chose to appropriate the character of Dostoevsky’s Goliadkin as his own, for this is a character driven to desperation by the strange and sudden appearance of his Doppelganger. It is doubly curious when we consider the circumstances of his suicide, his towering resentment toward the success of his movie and the tragic codicil he sought to execute against himself. But what is by far most uncanny is that this movie is a record of his self-destruction and that we, the audience, are capable of taking pleasure in the spectacle.”
Tomas Blauveldt
Video-Critic and Lecturer, Department of Unscientific Research
The Institute of Film and Video Studies, Copenhagen May 30th, 2010
The multi talented Alice Gale-Feeny is performing at this event with 'Medium Rare'. So do pop along if you're in the area...
Hatch: Across The Malt Cross and various venues St. James’s Street, Nottingham Tuesday 1 June 2010 7.30pm until late Free
Hatch is crossing over into St. James’s Street, Nottingham for a night of performance and live art antics. Hatch has invited 21 artists and companies working outside or at the edge of their discipline, or who maybe involved in collaboration with artists from other fields, to show their work across the whole of the street. Venues will range from The Malt Cross to more unusual venues for live art such as a sports bar, a virtual golf centre and a hotel.
Hatch is proud to present the regional premiere of A Western at the Malt Cross, by internationally acclaimed performance duo Action Hero where the audience help to reenact a Western using cowboy hats and ketchup. Save Me by another Bristol-based company Search Party will take place across St. James’s street as two performers try to communicate using bright searchlights.
Regional artists are represented by emerging Nottingham-based company, Gramophones, who are supported by Theatre Writing Partnership and will perform at The Chameleon Café. Hatch is delighted to introduce Medium Rare – a group of first year Fine Art students from Nottingham Trent University, mentored by Hatch, who will present a unique and intimate encounter at the Park Plaza. Cecille Grey and Venom and the Terrortones will provide the live music at The Malt Cross.
February 25th, 2010
Details of our next event 'I Believe (Tales from the Edge of Everything) at the De La Warr Pavilion on the 12th March 2010 can be found here... We hope you can join us!
lili & sarah February 16th, 2010
Thank you to all who send proposals for our upcoming event at the De La Warr Pavilion in March. We're very sorry that we were unable to get back to everyone, but due to the high volume of applications it was simply impossible. Please don't let that put you off applying again... January 22nd, 2010 BROWNIE
Friday, February 12, 2010 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Unit 3, The Factory, Dakeyne St, Nottingham BROWNIE is a memento mori group show of found photography and related artwork, collated in response to an open call for submissions from BOX Facebook group site members, and word of mouth. The 12ft square space will be transformed into a giant camera obscura, into which a film, 'Necrology', by Standish Lawder, will be projected. Photo albums of found images and false histories will be nailed to the wall, there will be a performance of found tape loop music.
If the first BOX show, DIRT, was about sex, BROWNIE is about death. Coincidentally held on the same evening as 'light night', BOX will eschew flash theatrics, in favour of the haunting, spectral qualities of photography. Each image has been carefully selected, both in celebration of the macbre, and as an evocation of loss.
Boozy Hot Chocolate & Brownies will be served.
BOX Is... A new gallery in Nottingham @ The Factory, Dakeyne Street (upstairs in Backlit Studios) BOX is a purpose built 12 foot square space in which 12 shows will open on the 12th of each month in 2010. For enquiries please contact Simon Raven: ravenorama@gmail.com
UNFORTUNATELY BOX IS SITED IN AN UN-RENOVATED VICTORIAN BUILDING WHICH IS NOT CURRENTLY WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. EXHIBITED WORK WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.January 16th, 2010
The deadline for artists submissions for our up coming event 'I Believe (Tales from the Edge of Everything)' to be held at the De La Warr Pavilion on the 12th March 2010 has now passed. Thank you to all that have applied. We will do our utmost to get back to you all by the end of this week.
lili & sarah January 8th, 2010
'Walls of Authority' The Old Police Station, 114, Amersham Vale, SE14 16-24 January 2010
RVCC artist and curator lili Spain is exhibiting alongside RVCC participating artist Poppy Jackson.
December 18th, 2009
Not to be missed...
December 17th, 2009
'Blood on the Snow' - 17/33 Long Wyre Street, Colchester, Essex.
[17 Dec – 10 Jan] a Slack Space group exhibition featuring:
Work which subverts or looks at traditional Christmas iconography in a new way // Work which challenges the consumerism of Christmas and the ‘Christmas industry’// Work which explores the old rituals and festivals which predate the Christmas tradition including sacred items and images.
The event features RVCC participating artist Poppy Jackson, who performed her stunning work 'House' at Voyeur...
Untitled Performance by Poppy Jackson 9.30pm 18th Dec
A performance exploring the pagan origins of Christmas, using contemporary seasonal paraphernalia to perform a ritualistic work citing the ancient rites of renewal and rejuvenation that symbolised physical child birth and the birth of the new sun.
December, 11th 2009
The call is out for submissions for our event, 'I believe (Tales from the edge of Everything)', which is to be held at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea on the 12th March 2010.
Its next Thursday people...! Its bubbling up to be our best event yet...! Hope to see you all there...!
The Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents
‘VOYEUR”
A late night event at The Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Thursday 3rd December 2009
7-10pm.
Free
For their Fourth installment at the Whitechapel Art Gallery the Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents ‘Voyeur’.
An evening of gazing, peeking and lurking with live art, installation, films, readings, audio and oddities inspired
by the works and processes of Sophie Calle.
Expect to be spied upon, interrogated, stalked, perplexed, entranced & mystified by this evening exploring voyeuristic tendencies. You will find works in the shadows, intimate encounters, information overload, your thoughts laid bare and secrets exposed…
Serenaded by 'Love Stop Repeat' & DJ Sy Hackney, compered by Brian Dawn Chalkley.
Click here to see the participating artists. November 24th, 2009.
September 16th, 2009.
The facade of this unassuming Victorian house hides a dark past. A former crack den turned art gallery, WW has a history of dilapidation, violence and paranormal activity. This once rat-infested East London squat was razed to the ground, not once, but twice, as if in an effort to purge itself. Despite being resurrected as a des res in 2003, the new owners were disturbed by strange goings-on and had it 'ghost-busted' before its reincarnation as WW Gallery.
Taking inspiration from this turbulent history, curators Debra Wilson and Chiara Williams present 'Is There Anybody There?'. A seasonal and atmospheric exhibition about the unexplained and 'things that go bump in the night', the show takes in Halloween, Bonfire Night and the gallery's first anniversary.
The directors have transformed the fortunes of 30 Queensdown Rd, situated between trendy Dalston and the infamous Murder Mile, into a positive, thriving and ambitious new project space, which participated in this year's 53rd Venice Biennale, the most important and glamorous event in the art calendar.
The trick or treating artists include Deutsche Bank and Saatchi collected Liane Lang, Jerwood Prize selected Annabel Tilley and Venice Biennale exhibited Eva Lis, Jarik Jongman, Lorraine Clarke, Stephanie Wehowski, Enzo Marra and Natasha Bird, plus special guests.
The show continues until Thursday 5 November. For further information, please contact Chiara Williams wwgallery@gmail.com or 07531342128
Opening Times: Open every Sat & Sun 12-6pm Also open for Time Out First Thursdays: 1st Oct & 5th Nov 6-9pm
September 7th, 2009
A big big thank you!
Thanks to all the artists involved who made, hung, propped, edited, spoke, performed, painted and made a fantastic show!!
thank you to Santi our event manager for keeping it cool (couldn't have weathered the storm without you!), thanks to Ruth for being there & being fabulous, thanks to Sy for smooth tunes, thanks to 6DayRiot for a fantastic set, encore encore! Thanks to Al for stepping in to photograph the nights shenanigans, thanks to our Hostess with the Mostess Dawn for comparing and keeping it all ticking along.
Thanks to Rebecca for letting us in again! and for her support. Thanks to Richard the WAGs soundest sound guy, thanks to Cookie and all the staff at the Whitechapel who were involved, thanks to the great bar staff for keeping the bar well stocked while we tried to drink it dry. Thank you to the audience who came to watch us & be part of it all.
Thank you again to all you artistes, it couldnt have happened without you.
Let us know if you have any feedback, comments, photos of the night. We will put photos up on the website & facebook soon. We will let you know when we do.
Look forward to seeing you all soon...
Lunacy and lightning,
sarah & lili.
August 28th, 2009.
Things are whipping up wonderfully for our next Event at the Whitechapel Art Gallery... 'Storm' this coming Friday 4th September 2009.
If you haven't already bought your ticket, please do asap as our previous events have sold out in advance. They can be purchased from the Whitechapel Gallery website.
Lightning & lunacy,
lili & Sarah x
August 27th, 2009
Memento Mori - 3rd September 2009.
Our very own starlet Ruth Harrison will be performing in this amazing production... Not to be missed!
On the 3rd of September at 5pm GHOSTS will appear on London’s bridges from Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge.
The spooky supernatural existence of the figures will be emphasized by a very strong flower smell (widely associated with “peaceful” ghost appearances), and recorded sounds of wind and steps.
These otherworldly guests will represent different generations of Londoners from different epochs, from Victorian times to 1940s.
The ghosts will appear on a bridge that has a story or legend connecting it to the historic period. They will move up and down on the bridge and disappear after 1 hour into the side streets.
The concept behind the project was inspired by recent statistics that in the current economic situation people are spending more time at work, and less time with friends and families and generally enjoying life. This is a worrying social phenomenon and the project aims to challenge the routine of overwork and question current social values, by reminding us of the fragility and timescale of human life.
Bridges symbolize connection and transformation, a passage to an important place or state of mind. They represent the connection of the past to the present and future, and the possibility of change.
Natalia Skobeeva said: "This is my first live performance piece of such scale and I am looking forward to seeing how each performance will interact with the viewers – I hope to puzzle and dazzle every viewer at least once.” August 24th,2009
The Red Velvet Curtain Cult presents
‘STORM” A late night event at The Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Friday 4th September 2009 8-11pm.
For their third instalment of late night events at the Whitechapel Art Gallery the Red Velvet Curtain Cult will generate a maelstrom of creative peculiarities to the theme of ‘STORM’. Prepare to be blown away by live music from the fabulous 6 Day Riot and serenaded by DJ Sy Hackney whilst being swept away by live art, readings, writings, sculpture, intervention, vj’s, film and everything in between...
Expect storms in jars, woven clouds, wave machines, projected pocket thunderstorms, family photo albums, torrential tales, lightening forks, storms in teacups…
With musical twisters from…
6 Day Riot
DJ Sy Hackney
Visual downpours from...
Riffat Ahmed.
Paul Allcock.
David Berridge.
Rebecca Birch.
Jack Catling.
Lorraine Clarke.
Paul Carr,
Jenna Collins
& Chris Scobie.
Ralph Dunn.
Camila Fiori.
Folie a Trois.
Sarah Grainger Jones.
Katy Howkins.
Fritha Jenkins.
Ian Johnson.
M-O-T-H.
Natalie Sanders.
Lili Spain.
Richard Webb.
Alice & Jo Woodhouse.
Tickets are £7/6 and can be purchase via the link below...
The deadline for 'Storm' @ the Whitechapel Art Gallery has now passed. Thank you to all that applied, we are doing our best to get back to you all.
July 15th, 2009
The call for submissions is out for our next event, 'Storm' to be held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery on the 4th September 2009. Full details can be found on our submissions page... 14th July,2009
Its Jumble time again...Hoorah!
June 18th, 2009
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Founding member and curator of R.V.C.C Sarah Grainger-Jones is showing new works in the following exhibition, along with Rob Logan, who exhibited at 'Lust & Luxuria' at the Whitechapel Gallery.
The Private View is this evening and the show runs from the 19th-25th June 2009.
June 10th, 2009
3rd June, 2009.
Images from "Kill no more Pigeons than you can eat" can now be found in the gallery... May 29th, 2009.
Thank you to all who were involved in, performed and supported us at the Benjamin Franklin House event with "Kill no more Pigeons than you can eat"
We hope you agree that it was a serenely intimate evening... A wonderful antidote to the fracas of central London... With the exception of the Surgery of course... Where much trepanning and amputation was a foot... (pardon the pun!)... Images will be up shortly...
