Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protests. Show all posts
Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017
My film 'Why is this happening?' is an Official Selection for this years Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017. Shows September 27th in Hsinchu City...
LonDADA June 23rd 2016 Cinema Museum London
June 23, 2016
Doors 6pm / Event from 6:30pm / Tickets £15
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Venue: The Cinema Museum 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road) London SE11 4TH
Box Office: +44 (0)20 7840 2200
LonDADA – Celebrating 100 Years Of Dadaism
LonDADA is the world’s first dedicated Dada festival, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Dadaism at the historic Cinema Museum in London. Join us for an evening of live performance, music, film, a video poetry recital by Brian Blessed and a programme of experimental, surreal and Dadaist shorts by Helmut Herbst, Francis Thompson, John Smith and Bob Georgeson.
On June 23rd 1916, German poet Hugo Ball performed his poem “Karawane” at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and the Dada movement was born. Over the past century, Dadaism has influenced every conceivable art form, from graphic design to punk rock. Leave your expectations at the door and celebrate the Dada centenary in style at London’s historic Cinema Museum, built in a former workhouse where Charlie Chaplin was sent as a boy.
Programme
- A video performance of Karawane by Brian Blessed, actor, adventurer, raconteur and all-round legend
- Hans Richter’s seminal 1928 short film Ghosts Before Breakfast, with a new score composed and performed live by Austrian musician Vinzenz Stergin
- Slapstick & Slaughter, a Dadaist theatrical performance by the amazing duo Desperate Men
- Germany DADA: An Alphabet of German Dadaism, a 1968 documentary about Dadaism by Helmut Herbst
- Spam Slam, an audience participation poetry slam using spam emails (bring your own or use ours)
- Short films by award-winning British artist John Smith, experimental German director Helmut Herbst, American pioneer of cinema Francis Thompson and Australian Dadaist Bob Georgeson.
- The musical stylings of David Goo, frontman of The 150 Friends Club.
- A whole host of hidden surprises, waiting to be discovered by your eyeballs!
June 23, 2016
Doors 6pm / Event from 6:30pm / Tickets £15
Tickets available now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/londada
Follow the Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lon_DADA
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Venue: The Cinema Museum 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road) London SE11 4TH
Box Office: +44 (0)20 7840 2200
Je suis Charlie: four points of a compass (a view of the world)
Bob Georgeson, East, 2015, Digital print
Bob Georgeson, West, 2015, Digital print
Bob Georgeson, North, 2015, Digital print
Bob Georgeson, South, 2015, Digital print
Bob Georgeson, Four points of a compass, 2015, Digital print
Happy New Year! Not. Last year ends with mindless violence in Martin Place in Sydney. This year begins with it in Paris. These photos seem to sum up the situation. I have generally avoided politics in my art and on this blog (Twitter is a different matter if you want to follow me). There have been a few exceptions: the Worlds in Collision series and the Why is this happening? video to name two, but it does raise the question of whether there has been (or perhaps should be) a link between politics and art, and ultimately what purpose that might serve. And do artists have a responsibility as the eyes of the world to address the socio-political situations that we find ourselves in?
I don't have an answer for this any more than I have a solution to the Islamic problem, or any other issue you choose to pull out of the hat. What I do know is that silence and a reluctance to, or fear of speaking out against injustice will always play into the hands of the perpetrators. And so we set the tone for the year ahead...
Why is this happening?
This video is a result of my concerns over what is happening in the world in places like Ukraine and the plight of asylum seekers in Australia. It seems that 50+ years after the youth rebellion of the 60's that nothing much has changed. The fight for freedom of speech and expression goes on...
I am indebted to Hyaena Fierling Reich (aka Ana Cordeiro Reis) for the use of Dog Day Sunrise as the soundscape. This was originally released as part of the Classwar Karaoke - 0019 Survey compilation available for free download from the Free Music Archive here...
For more information about Ana go to her website here...
You can download the video from the Internet Archive here...
You can view all the videos here...