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20.03.25 Athens is CALLING!

Join us for @billy_klotsa solo show «Something Holds Me» Exhibition and screening continues until the 16th of April.

On this occasion @a___________________________z z is invited to programme in collaboration with CYPHER and presents a screening – which will then be running for the duration of the show.

Feat.: @babeworld3000 x @utopian_realism@jordanbaseman@tareklakhrissi , @mariostamatis@_iria___

Alpha (A- - -Z) will perform a soundscape on the opening night of the show. Cypher Gallery invites Billy Klotsa, a multidisciplinary artist who’s practice weaves together film and painting practices. Opening 21st of March and running until 16th of April, this exhibition of new works, reimagines the myth of Icarus, transforming it into a poignant meditation on power dynamics, desire, regret, loss, and hope.

The works presented in the screening in response to Klotsa’s work explore the ideas of loss, transformations, embracing of darkness to light – the moving image works will be running on a showreel for the duration of Klotsa’s show.

Special thanks to @butterstudiosathens for the poster design

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Exhibition Announcement: You Make Me Feel Guest curated by A—Z 📅Preview: 4 April, 6-8pm Featuring artists: Jeanie Crystal (@jeanie_crystal) Zein Majali (@zeinxmajali) Emily Pope (@emily_pope90) A—Z (Anne Duffau) presents a new version of ‘You Make Me Feel’ which was originally displayed at XY Gallery, Czech Republic, in association with the 23rd edition of PAF Olomouc – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art 2024. Relating to the theme of diaries and self narratives in all forms – including stories, notes, self-reflection, social networks and periodic writing – ‘You Make Me Feel’ is a chunk of emotions, a bundle of affects, a note to your future self. The exhibition runs from 5 April - 29 June 2025 Wednesday - Sunday, 12-5pm This exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England. With thanks to @pafpafpafpafpafpafpaf and @galeriexyolomouc.

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Gratitude post to all people who joined the Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy Series at Somerset House Studios Immense thank you to all the artists and to the Somerset House Studios Team (@marie_mcpartlin @emmahannon @marina_doriti5 @jesiilou #josieedwards @huw_parry @mrlaurentjohn @barrybeek @petermiller.a) ♾️❤️‍🔥 Repost• @somersethousestudios Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy series in January, commissioned and produced by Somerset House Studios. ⁠ ⁠ This year’s programme was curated by Anne Duffau (@a___________________________z) in collaboration with Somerset House Studios and it explored the ways in which virtual spaces are reshaping our experiences of sex and desire: through friendships and romantic relationships to eroticism and automation. ⁠ ⁠ A huge thank you to all our incredible contributors: ⁠ ⁠ Alex Quicho (@amfq), Vex Ashley (@vextape), Feona Attwood (@feonaattwood), Four Chambers (@fourchambers), Sophie Cundale (@sophie_cundale), Lewis Walker (@lewiswalker_x ), Helen Hester (@helenannhester), Shu Lea Cheang (@shulea2) , Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (@ladydangfua), Kate Cooper (@katecooper2), Candela Capitan (@candelacapitan), Malik Nashad Sharpe (@marikiscrycrycry), Black Venus in Furs (@ladyblackvenusx), Jao (@jaoxjaox), Marissa Malik (Manuka Honey/ @mariimals), Lotte Latham from SWARM collective (@swarmhive & @mybabyallgone). ⁠ ⁠ 📷 Swipe through for highlights from the series.

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28th, 30th of January and 1st of February 2025

« Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy » - programmed by A—-Z in collaboration w/ Somerset House Studios Team @marie_mcpartlin@emmahannon@marina_doriti5@huw_parry@mrlaurentjohn

Repost>>> @somersethousestudios Tickets are on sale for Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy 🌐 ⁠ ⁠ Our biannual series dedicated to examining the intersections of well-being and societal shifts. We’re diving into how virtual spaces redefine sex, desire, and connection. This year drawing inspiration from Grumpy, a new digital commission by Sidsel Meineche Hansen (@no_sid) ⁠ ⁠ Join us for talks, screenings and performances: ⁠ ⁠ 28 Jan: Bodies and the Industrial Complex ⁠ ⁠ A screening of Grumpy by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, an in conversation by Alex Quicho (@amfq) and Vex Ashley (@vextape) chaired by Feona Attwood (@feonaattwood), concluding with the screening of A Cyborg Manifesto by Four Chambers @fourchambers ⁠@lovermanagement ⁠ 30 Jan: Future Fantasies: Intimacy and Fiction ⁠ ⁠ A performative reading by Sophie Cundale with performer Lewis Walker (@sophie_cundale & @lewiswalker_x ). Sophie Cundale will then be joined in conversation with Lotte Latham from SWARM collective (@swarmhive & @mybabyallgone) and author Helen Hester (@helenannhester). Concluding in a screening of Shu Lea Cheang’s (@shulea2) Virus Becoming. ⁠ ⁠ 01 Feb: A New Love: Machines and Love ⁠ ⁠ The day will start with the screening of FROM BEING LOST by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (@ladydangfua), and Infection Drivers by Kate Cooper (@katecooper2). Both artists will then be in conversation chaired by Johnny Golding (@johnnydephilo). Concluding with a series of performances featuring Candela Capitan (@candelacapitan), Malik Nashad Sharpe (@marikiscrycrycry), Black Venus in Furs (@ladyblackvenusx), Jao (@jaoxjaox) and a DJ set by Marissa Malik (Manuka Honey/ @mariimals). ⁠ ⁠ Link in bio for tickets ⁠ ⁠ This year’s onsite edition of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy is curated by Anne Duffau (@a___________________________z) in collaboration with Somerset House Studios.

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"𝒴ℴ𝓊 ℳ𝒶𝓀ℯ ℳℯ ℱℯℯ𝓁 is a chunk of emotions, a bundle of affects, a note to your future self…" 💌🔏

curated by Anne Duffau for PAF Olomouc 𝒹𝒾𝒶𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓈 & @galeriexyolomouc w/ 🗝️ @jeanie_crystal 🗝️ @zeinxmajali 🗝️ @emily_pope90

PAF OLOMOUC ~ 𝒟ℐ𝒜ℛℐℰ𝒮 ~ 5–8 December 2024

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14.11.2024 PULSAR at Ormside Projects, Penarth Centre, 32 Ormside St, London SE15 1TR

Feat. utopian_realism Zein Majali Philomène Pirecki Imran Perretta Babeworld

Tickets 🔗 in bio

The experimental curatorial platform A—Z invites new and old collaborators for a celebratory night for its 12th year anniversary.

Expect an immersive soundscape with Babewworld, and DJ sets by Imran Perretta from grime to electronic music leading to a set of heavy and light rhythms with Philomène Pirecki, to a floating hard sounds with Zein Majali, ending the night with utopian_reamism 180bpm selection.

@utopian_realism @zeinxmajali @philomene.pirecki @imranperretta @babeworld3000 @ormsideprojects

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For this year's edition of the PAF Olomouc festival, A—Z presents four screenings of both recent and older works exploring the theme 𝒟𝒾𝒶𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓈 5–8 December 2024

𝐶𝒽𝓇ℴ𝓃𝒾𝒸𝓁ℯ𝓈

Feat. Babak Ahteshamipour, Babeworld x utopian_realism, Jordan Baseman, Mel Brimfield, JJ Chan x Sarah Howe, Nina Davies, Elise Guillaume, Sophie Hoyle, Maria Joranko, Billy Klotsa, utopian_realism, Martha Rosler, Peter Spanjer, Kialy Tihngang, Josh Woolford

Act 1 will explore inner and digital spaces, Act 2 will expand into the surreal and poetic world, Act 3 imposes a narrative and activist view, Act 4 expands into eerie, aesthetic and absurd realms.

@babakahteshamipour@babeworld3000 X @utpoian_realism@jordanbaseman@mel.brimfield@jjchan.co.uk@sarahhowe.co.uk@influential_bro@elise__guillaume@semhoyle@foxy_azucar@billy_klotsa@utopian_realism@martharoslerstudio@peter.spanjer@kialytihngang@jshwlfrd

PAF OLOMOUC ~ 𝒟𝒾𝒶𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓈 ~ 5–8 December 2024

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How to Destroy Angels The Horse Hospital, London, WC1N 1JD 
Private View: 8th of November 7-9pm 

Exhibition continues: 9th - 30th November 2024 | 12-5pm Thursday to Saturday

Thank you @taishani for inviting me ❤️‍🔥& to all the artists ❤️‍🔥

Feat. Alex Margo Arden / Ron Athey / Chaney / Club 82 / Francesca Dolor / Tessa Hughes Freeland R.I.P Germain / Dew Kim / Sin Wai Kin / Mark Leckey / Rene Matìc / Bruno Pelassy Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan / Xiuching Tsay & Andy Rolfes / Sibylle Ruppert / Katie Shannon / Thirza Smith / Nils Alix-Tabeling / Paul Thek / Nicolaas van de Lande / Ajamu X / Contemporary Wardrobe  Collection

The Horse Hospital, one of London’s most iconic and independent art venues, is proud to host How to Destroy Angels programmed by Tai Shani, artist and Horse Hospital programmer 2007-2017, and creative producer A—Z (Anne Duffau).  Bringing together artists from across disciplines and eras that share sensibilities with the various aspects of the venue’s rich and complex 31 year history, this exhibition will be a tribute to the radical power of subculture, underground movements, and DIY culture, reflecting on the legacy that has defined the venue for over 3 decades. Curated as a joyous celebration of The Horse Hospital,  the exhibition will feature the works of artists who have embraced the the fringes of mainstream culture to push boundaries and experiment with new forms and narratives.  The exhibition will also feature a selection of artefacts and rare fashion pieces from the Contemporary Wardrobe Collection, which is housed in the Horse Hospital building, set up in 1978 by Roger K.Burton as a specialist hire company to supply vintage street fashion. This exhibition will capture the vivid and life affirming spirit that defines resistant cultural production.  @olddrag @ronathey_4 @chaney_dms Club 82 @francesca_dolor @tessahughesfreeland @ripgermain @dew_needs_you @sinforvictory @mark.leckey @rene.matic Bruno Pelassy @rosiehastings & @hannah_quilqn_ @chyvenne & @andy.rolfes Sibylle Ruppert @katieshannon23 thirzasmith.com @nilsalixtabeling @paulthek @nicolaasvictor @ajamustudios @contemporarywaredrobe @taishani @thehorsehospital

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Futur.Shock returns this October with Chapter Two “True Stories”.

Continuing its collaboration-focused season, @Futur.Shock has invited two hybrid curatorial platforms to join the evening; Czech based arts platform PAF (@pafpafpafpafpafpafpaf) and London’s exploratory platform A—Z (@a___________________________z).

The chapter is set to feature ‘SNAP’, a dynamic dance performance co-created by visual artist Valentýna Janů (@valentynajanu), dancers Monina Nevrlá and Zizoe Akopjan Veselá, with music by DJ New Magic Media.

Also showcased will be an intimate live sound performance by Johannes Tröstler (@dj.bingoo), The Stream Which Flows Upwards, as well as an experimental video ‘Cauchemar: Spectral Shapes on Infrared’, by Lukáš Prokop (@h5io6i54k), Holy Similaun, Seraphim, DJ YTP (@djytpisvibin) and Ronce (@itsronce).

Weaving together the event will be DJ sets from the prolific Kenichi Iwasa. 

Futur.Shock “True Stories” will begin at 19:00 on Thursday 10th October.

Early Bird tickets are now available via the link:

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💫🪐next week we release free tickets for Always Coming Home Chapter 3 + 4 at Matt’s Gallery 🔉💫🪐

Feat. 13 September: Fuyuhiko Takata, Vivienne Griffin X Josh Woolford, Stefan Jovanović, Emily Pope 14 September: Babak Ahteshamipour, Jennifer Lauren Martin, Philomène Pirecki, Abbas Zahedi

✨2 x evenings of performances, sound and moving image ✨

Always Coming Home A new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A—Z (Anne Duffau)

The third and fourth chapters in the A---Z programmed series Always Coming Home (in four Chapters) explores nostalgia, love, friendships and deep feelings. 

On Friday, Fuyuhiko’s film Love Exercise opens the event in a perverse and humorous role play, to then dive into teenage feelings with BUST  by Emily Pope, a new performance-lecture. In the second part of the evening, Stefan Jovanović will perform a new reading When the Clarion Came to Call, a work in progress sharing, a contemporary and epic form of parrhesia on experiencing an otherworldly character and voice; to end on a latest collaboration between Vivenne Griffin and Josh Woolford who will present a new musical set.

On Saturday, the 2021 moving image by Babak Ahteshamipour, Post-coded Thoughts on the Never-upcoming Foreshadowed Li(f)e, a dystopian machinima conceived with The Sims presenting a world populated by A.I., avatars, algorithms, and programs where human beings have vanished. Followed by Jennifer Lauren Martin new performance reading, a little choke, where after a heated argument, sees three characters and their frinedship challenged, leaving one of them, June, gasping for air after a betrayal.

After a short break, Philomène Pirecki will present an immersive live set followed by Abbas Zahedi’s performance.

Always Coming Home A new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A—Z (Anne Duffau)

This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and world building as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths. In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions. Additionally, references and inspirations are worth mentioning: such as the “title-hommage” to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, where we follow the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed. And also the work by Pauline Oliveros with the Deep Listening method aiming to explore expanded consciousness – “Acoustic space is where time and space merge as they are articulated by sound.” A—Z aims to impose a collaborative, inclusive and critical practice/praxis – this demands a responsibility to decolonise programmes, build on positivity towards/and inclusivity in terms of gender and race discourses, and demonstrate openness, intersectional, responsive and critical juxtaposition methods.

@fuyuhiko_takata@vivienne.griffin@jshwlfrd@studiostefanjovanovic@emily_pope90@babakahteshamipour@jenniferlauren_martin@philomene.pirecki@abbzah

@mattsgallerylondon@a___________________________z

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28 June 2024 | 7-10pm 

Bliss Carmxn with Trans Voices co-founders ILĀ and Coda Nicolaeff, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, Billy Klotsa, utopian_realism

 The second chapter in the A---Z programmed series Always Coming Home (in four Chapters) explores affect and deep emotion in our broken world from Sarah Howe and JJ Chan a new video work titled Doncaster By The Sea touching  on national, familial relation, gender nonconformity; to then dive into the marks on your head look like stars in the sky  by utopian_realism, a new performance-lecture on dolphins, their representation through pop culture and John C. Lilly’s obsession. In the second part of the evening, the myths of Icarus in Billy Klosta’s latest moving image work is explored as a queer tender, melancholic poem; to end on ‘Andromeda’, a first sharing of an alt pop live set by Bliss Carmxn with Trans Voices co-founders ILĀ and Coda Nicolaeff, touching on explorations of love and longing, of connection out of time, and of the return of a collective galactic love letter.

A---Z, Always Coming Home is a new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), as a development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative, featuring works by:

Bliss Carmxn, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, utopian_realism, Matt Carter, Vivenne Griffin,Billy Klotsa, Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Josèfa Ntjam, Philomene Pirecki, Harold Offeh, Emily Pope, Fuyuhiko Takata, Josh Woolford, Abbas Zahedi, A—Z.

Supported by a Research Project Grant from the Royal College of Art, London

@blisscarmxn @transvoicesuk  @hausofila & @codanicolaeff

@jjchan.co.uk @sarahhowe.co.uk @billy_klotsa @utopian_realism                                                                                                                                

@mattsgallerylondon @a___________________________z

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Always Coming Home

in 4 Chapters

31st of May | 28th June | Autumn 2024

at Matt's Gallery, 6 Charles Clowes Walk, Nine Elms, London SW11 7AN

A new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), featuring works by 

Bliss Carmxn, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, utopian_realism, Matt Carter, Vivenne Griffin,  Billy Klotsa, Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Josèfa Ntjam, Philomene Pirecki, Harold Offeh, Emily Pope, Fuyuhiko Takata, 

Josh Woolford, Abbas Zahedi, A—Z

This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. The first iteration of Always Coming Home took place at Iklectik in September 2023, as a starting point for ambient sensorial experimentation, a threshold for furthering the ideas of immersion, speculative world and conscious listening.

Each chapter at Matt's Gallery will start with a reading as an introduction followed by a live performance, a moving image and a live musical set. 

Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and world building as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths. 

In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions.

The title is an hommage to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, where the reader follows the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed. 

@blisscarmxn @jjchan.co.uk @sarahhowe.co.uk @utopian_realism @mr_mr_carter @vivienne.griffin @billy_klotsa @tareklakhrissi @jenniferlauren_martin @josefantjam @philomene.pirecki @harold_offeh @emily_pope90 @fuyuhiko_takata @abbzah @jshwlfrd   

@mattsgallerylondon @a___________________________z

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Thursday 9th Nov. 

8 - 10.30pm

Quasar

A---Z at Iklectik

Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/o0856a0ca324

A—Z comes back to Iklectik to present Quasar – Expect a night of live sets including immersive ambient sounds, from mystic, dark noise to electronic pulsar chaos. The event presents three acts that explore sensory/textural sounds, syncretism, displacement, cathartic tremors.

8.30 - 9pm Gisou Golshani (live)

9.15 - 9.45pm GAKKO (live)

10 - 10.30pm Manuka Honey (live)

Manuka Honey

Marissa Malik, best known by her stage name Manuka Honey, is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ and producer at the forefront of Latinx-infused club music coming out of the UK. US-born and London-based, Manuka’s adoration of the Latinx diaspora’s sounds is exuded by her beautifully chaotic DJ sets that have pummeled the sound systems of clubs and festivals internationally.

GAKKO

Carolin Schnurrer is a London and Berlin-based artist, DJ (alias GAKKO), designer, and instrument builder, producing sensory experiences with a variety of media, from sound performance and installation art to moving images. In her artistic research, she creates electronic instruments that incorporate human skin into her music-making process: Providing a platform for the audience to actively shape and manipulate the sounds she produces in real time by engaging in tactile interactions with one another on a transformative odyssey through synthetic, sensual, and otherworldly sonic landscapes.

Delving into the depths of profound vulnerability and resilience, this approach allows her not only to investigate the potential of healing through the powers of human touch and sound, but also challenge traditional notions of music creation and club experiences – inviting listeners to embrace the symbiotic fusions between the organic and the synthetic, to forge a path towards a speculative and fictional future where these connections transcend the confines of borders, culture, language, and other categories of exclusion that we construct.

Operating under the name GAKKO, she has cultivated an unwavering passion for seamlessly blending genres spanning from 130 to 160 BPM, weaving together sets that pulsate with the raw energy of bass-heavy music, unexpected club edits, and thunderous drum breaks. Through radio shows on Foundation FM, Refuge Worldwide, and [sic]nal, she aims to showcase forward-thinking and marginalized electronic producers within the experimental and DIY realm. Carolin Schnurrer’s artistic journey is characterized by collaborative ventures with musicians, artists, writers, and dancers like KLEIN, AUDINT (Kode9, Eleni Ikon, Toby Heyes), Julie Cunningham, and Haroon Mirza; she has performed at events such as Tate Lates, Oram Awards at Kings Place, Hyperdub’s Night Ø at Corsica Studios, intonal in Malmö, the YARD theater, 925 in Colombo and the MIRA Festival in Barcelona.

Gisou Golshani

Gisou Golshani is a London-based Iranian artist. Their work depicts abstract narratives from seemingly disparate elements. Through multilayered editing and playful uses of sampling, they investigate the intimacy of the voice, the effects of sound on the body and their mother tongue Farsi’s complexities in translation. Looking into archival found material, Gisou creates multi-sensory, immersive installations and performances. Previous work has been shown at Disturbance (Ugly Duck), London, Studio/Chapple for Deptford X, London, Nottingham’s New Art Exchange, Mimosa House, London and internationally including their home country. 

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Always Coming Home*

Saturday 2nd September | 4 - 12pm A- - -Z at Iklectik

Johann Arens, Matt Carter, ex.sses, Man Like Alex, Zein Majali, Proteus, utopian_realism, Guy Ronen, Mohammed Rowe, Josh Woolford 

Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/c8752fbf3387

Considered as a small A—-Z festival, this all day event revolves around speculative landscapes from the synthetic to the sensual and otherworldly. Mainly AV Sets and live performances will explore embodied practices through sound and visual sensories, the acts will expand on affective elements shared together. https://linktr.ee/A___Z

Iklectik Kiosk opens 1 hour before staring (3pm) If you can’t afford the tickets please email: aduffau1@email.com

*Always Coming Home is a "title-hommage" to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Its written style alternate a narration, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.

Johann Arens Johann Arens uses installation and video to survey the documentary properties of public interiors and their inherent social textures. These site-related interventions are enquiries into the multiple ways social policy can impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. He has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, BSR in Rome, Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and realised a number of public art commissions assigned by Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Jerwood Space London and Kettle’s Yard Cambridge. 

https://www.johannarens.com

Matt Carter

Matt Carter is an artist living and working in London. His practice comprises and often combines different forms of cultural production, including video, sound, text, performance, design and curation. His work draws from the everyday, remixing video, images and sound recorded on-the-fly into newly formed environments which act as points of departure from, or sites of critical interrogation into, the physical and socio/cultural structures we inhabit. https://www.mrmrcarter.com/audio

ex.sses

ex.sses (she/they) is an experimental sound artist, electronic producer and DJ. She initially came on the scene in 2018 as the founder of Earwax, an ongoing project based platform for sound artists of marginalised genders. ex.sses’ ties to experimental sound and club culture have since manifested in EP releases Relic (Cherche Encore, 2021), Buried (Hard Return, 2021) and most recently Scanner (TT, 2022) which premiered on DJ Mag. As well as singles for compilations including Pollination and Earful of WAV’s out this year. These releases, in addition to their online presence, have gained attention over the past year, resulting in dark, club-focused DJ sets for Keep Hush, Circadian Rhythms and Platforms (Corsica Studios), and electronic live performances for Comic Sans label tour, Hidden Door Festival and Iklectik that expand on ex.sses’ exploration of sonic intimacy, hauntology and the gendered body. https://soundcloud.com/ex_sses

Man Like Alex ManLikeAlex a self taught, hybrid shooter, based in London. His practice often documents events related to music and behind the scenes of everyday life. Collaboration and documentation are central to his practice. Underpinning themes of research encompass personal experiences, performances and blackness. A previous member of the Playmaker team working as production assistant. Alex s role varies from producing social media and digital content, (BTS photography to videography)

Zein Majali

Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist currently based in London. Through video, sound and installation, Zein examines the accelerated cultural shifts online and in the Arab world.  https://zeinmajali.com/music

Proteus

Feral Sound Proteus explores industrial and modernist electronics. Intimate//Challenging soundscapes, ritual catharsis. https://www.instagram.com/proteus_jk/

utopian_realism

utopian_realism (Alessandro Moroni) originates from a fascination with the aesthetics and communities revolving around internet-native music genres and explores concepts of nostalgia cycles, controlled escapism, commodified utopian narratives and collapsing myths of progress. https://www.instagram.com/utopian_realism/

Mohammed Rowe

Mohammed Rowe is an artist born and raised in London, who uses sound as a medium of expression and communication. His works include elements of found sound, experimental and improvised music, and his compositions tend to draw from the immediate environment. He uses an array of processes and recording techniques in order to capture and mould different forms of composition. His approach has also incorporated his sound into interactive installations, moving image, theatre and performance through collaborations with artists from different disciplines which continue to enrich his own approach. https://soundcloud.com/Tekfis

Guy Ronen Guy Ronen is an artist working between video, sound, text, technology, and installations. Across different mediums, they question and explore the potential of storytelling as a capacious tool for expression and a path through which to negotiate existing fictional and embodied structures. Weaving together found footage, lived experience and speculative material, Guy begins with a search after a common language punctuated by intimacy, slippage and difference. https://guyro.xyz/recent-works

Joshua Woolford Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Born and raised in the South of England with mixed Waitukubuli* British heritage with African roots, Woolford has been actively seeking community and understanding of the world(s) around them from a young age.  ‘Calling out and addressing experiences of violence, aggression and misalignment is central to my work; often starting from cultural research, recounting literature or a personal experience (being of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora and living in Europe). States of reflection, transition and action are instrumental in disrupting existing narratives and enable me to process my sociopolitical context through and within my practice’ Woolford graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture), and more recently with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice). Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Habait theatre in Tel Aviv, and Gallerie V in Cambridge. As well as exhibiting and performing in multiple institutions across London, including HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Soho House, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives and the V&A.  * Waitukubuli is commonly known as Dominica and was labelled so by Spanish colonisers https://joshwoolford.co.uk/

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- THE STARS BELOW hosted by Anne Duffau (A- - -Z) – this week, A---Z interviews Josh Woolford and Proteus on their current works and their participation to 'Always Coming Home' A---Z mini festival at Iklectik 2nd of September (https://iklectikartlab.com/always-coming-home-part-1/)

- Josh Woolford (@jshwlfrd)

Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Born and raised in the South of England with mixed Waitukubuli* British heritage with African roots, Woolford has been actively seeking community and understanding of the world(s) around them from a young age.

‘Calling out and addressing experiences of violence, aggression and misalignment is central to my work; often starting from cultural research, recounting literature or a personal experience (being of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora and living in Europe). States of reflection, transition and action are instrumental in disrupting existing narratives and enable me to process my sociopolitical context through and within my practice’

Woolford graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture), and more recently with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice). Woolford work and live performances have been exhibited at: the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Soho House, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives, The V&A, Copeland Park and Tate Britain.

*Waitukubuli is commonly known as Dominica and was labeled so by Spanish colonisersUpcoming performance: 29th of June

Books recommandations:

- PROTEUS (@proteus_jk)

Feral Sound

Proteus explores industrial and modernist electronics.

Intimate//Challenging soundscapes, ritual catharsis.

Forthcoming DJ Set:

https://ra.co/events/1599128

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Always Coming Home*

Saturday 2nd September | 4 - 12pm A- - -Z at Iklectik

Johann Arens, Matt Carter, ex.sses, Man Like Alex, Zein Majali, Proteus, utopian_realism, Guy Ronen, Mohammed Rowe, Josh Woolford 

Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/c8752fbf3387

Considered as a small A—-Z festival, this all day event revolves around speculative landscapes from the synthetic to the sensual and otherworldly. Mainly AV Sets and live performances will explore embodied practices through sound and visual sensories, the acts will expand on affective elements shared together. https://linktr.ee/A___Z

Iklectik Kiosk opens 1 hour before staring (3pm) If you can’t afford the tickets please email: aduffau1@email.com

*Always Coming Home is a "title-hommage" to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Its written style alternate a narration, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.

Johann Arens Johann Arens uses installation and video to survey the documentary properties of public interiors and their inherent social textures. These site-related interventions are enquiries into the multiple ways social policy can impact our communal life and shape civil behaviour. He has been resident at Fondazione Antonio Ratti, BSR in Rome, Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and realised a number of public art commissions assigned by Arnolfini Bristol, Bold Tendencies London, Jerwood Space London and Kettle’s Yard Cambridge. 

Matt Carter

Matt Carter is an artist living and working in London. His practice comprises and often combines different forms of cultural production, including video, sound, text, performance, design and curation. His work draws from the everyday, remixing video, images and sound recorded on-the-fly into newly formed environments which act as points of departure from, or sites of critical interrogation into, the physical and socio/cultural structures we inhabit. https://www.mrmrcarter.com/audio

ex.sses

ex.sses (she/they) is an experimental sound artist, electronic producer and DJ. She initially came on the scene in 2018 as the founder of Earwax, an ongoing project based platform for sound artists of marginalised genders. ex.sses’ ties to experimental sound and club culture have since manifested in EP releases Relic (Cherche Encore, 2021), Buried (Hard Return, 2021) and most recently Scanner (TT, 2022) which premiered on DJ Mag. As well as singles for compilations including Pollination and Earful of WAV’s out this year. These releases, in addition to their online presence, have gained attention over the past year, resulting in dark, club-focused DJ sets for Keep Hush, Circadian Rhythms and Platforms (Corsica Studios), and electronic live performances for Comic Sans label tour, Hidden Door Festival and Iklectik that expand on ex.sses’ exploration of sonic intimacy, hauntology and the gendered body. https://soundcloud.com/ex_sses

Man Like Alex ManLikeAlex a self taught, hybrid shooter, based in London. His practice often documents events related to music and behind the scenes of everyday life. Collaboration and documentation are central to his practice. Underpinning themes of research encompass personal experiences, performances and blackness. A previous member of the Playmaker team working as production assistant. Alex s role varies from producing social media and digital content, (BTS photography to videography)

Zein Majali

Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist currently based in London. Through video, sound and installation, Zein examines the accelerated cultural shifts online and in the Arab world.  https://zeinmajali.com/music

Proteus

Feral Sound Proteus explores industrial and modernist electronics. Intimate//Challenging soundscapes, ritual catharsis. https://www.instagram.com/proteus_jk/

utopian_realism

utopian_realism (Alessandro Moroni) originates from a fascination with the aesthetics and communities revolving around internet-native music genres and explores concepts of nostalgia cycles, controlled escapism, commodified utopian narratives and collapsing myths of progress. https://www.instagram.com/utopian_realism/

Mohammed Rowe

Mohammed Rowe is an artist born and raised in London, who uses sound as a medium of expression and communication. His works include elements of found sound, experimental and improvised music, and his compositions tend to draw from the immediate environment. He uses an array of processes and recording techniques in order to capture and mould different forms of composition. His approach has also incorporated his sound into interactive installations, moving image, theatre and performance through collaborations with artists from different disciplines which continue to enrich his own approach. https://soundcloud.com/Tekfis

Guy Ronen Guy Ronen is an artist working between video, sound, text, technology, and installations. Across different mediums, they question and explore the potential of storytelling as a capacious tool for expression and a path through which to negotiate existing fictional and embodied structures. Weaving together found footage, lived experience and speculative material, Guy begins with a search after a common language punctuated by intimacy, slippage and difference. https://guyro.xyz/recent-works

Joshua Woolford Joshua Woolford is a transdisciplinary artist working between performance, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Born and raised in the South of England with mixed Waitukubuli* British heritage with African roots, Woolford has been actively seeking community and understanding of the world(s) around them from a young age.  ‘Calling out and addressing experiences of violence, aggression and misalignment is central to my work; often starting from cultural research, recounting literature or a personal experience (being of the queer Black Afro-Caribbean diaspora and living in Europe). States of reflection, transition and action are instrumental in disrupting existing narratives and enable me to process my sociopolitical context through and within my practice’ Woolford graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven (Media and Culture), and more recently with an MA from the Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice). Notable exhibitions include live performances at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Habait theatre in Tel Aviv, and Gallerie V in Cambridge. As well as exhibiting and performing in multiple institutions across London, including HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, Soho House, Somerset House, Black Cultural Archives and the V&A.  * Waitukubuli is commonly known as Dominica and was labelled so by Spanish colonisers https://joshwoolford.co.uk/

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Alyse Stone | THEBLACK ALCHEMISPHERE

July 13th – 16th 2023 at The Truman Brewery 

July 13th – 15th 2023 at House of Annetta

July 15th 2023 at Shoreditch Arts Club

Enter The Black Alchemisphere, a walkable time-parallel universe in Shoreditch powered by a book written by Alyse Stone

RSVP:

https://theblackalchemisphere.splashthat.com

July 15th - Performance reading by Alyse Stone 7pm at Shoredithc Arts Club:

https://theblackalchemisphere.splashthat.com/