People Like Us, events
A new commission for People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Berwick-upon-Tweed
15–19 September 2010
http://www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/September/091502.html
Now in its 6th year, the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival returns to celebrate the art of film in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Over the course of five action-packed days, we will be offering a whole range of feature and short films, artists' film and video work and specially commissioned pieces. These will be screened at the Maltings and other unique architectural locations across town as part of the Artist's trail.
This year's theme, Stagings, explores the role of the screen as a stage, turning Berwick itself into a platform for screening, projecting and staging moving image. The selected works offer different approaches to the relationship between performer, camera and audience and will include dance on film, music videos and old classics – something for everyone: from children to families to fans of film, art, theatre and music.
There are four new commissions this year, of which one is for the creation of a brand new live a/v performance from People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz to be premiered in Berwick on Wednesday 15 September.
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Over the past five years the collaboration of People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz has produced two full length albums, a podcast series, a live soundtrack to Christian Marclay's 'Screenplay', a 7" single on Touch, and a 10" EP. Their work has been disseminated internationally to widespread critical acclaim, straddling the absurd with the accessible, filtering experimental and avant-garde techniques through the looking glass of humorous pop music. They have come to resemble something akin to the Morecambe & Wise of the avant-garde…
Individually both artists have produced a vast body of work that collectively spans hundreds of hours, across film, theatre, albums, radio and live performance. Most recently People Like Us released the album 'Music For The Fire' in collaboration with Wobbly on the Illegal Art label (with a new solo record due later in the year). Ergo's most recent productions are the new album 'Things to Do and Make' on Care in the Community Recordings, and the contemporary opera about radio, magic and death 'The Mourning Show'.
Two live performances in the Ukraine in August
Forma will be presenting two evenings in the Ukraine this August, which will include People Like Us performing Genre Collage.
People Like Us present Genre Collage
Bill Morrison's Decasia
A Secret Understanding (Forma production including various artists)
at the following two festivals:
13 August Sevastapol Festival Ukraine - ASU, Decasia, PLU
Festival details here - http://www.balaklava-odyssey.com/bb-std/tp/bo10start.html
and
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ukraine-arts-contemporary-media-artwork.ht
28 August Lviv Contemporary Art Week
http://www.arthouse.lviv.ua/anons/?ca_programid=30
People Like Us play Vintage At Goodwood
People Like Us will perform "Genre Collage" at Vintage At Goodwood on Saturday 14th August 2010.
http://www.vintageatgoodwood.com/artists/programme.aspx
Check the Vintage At Goodwood website since they are still updating this, but give or take a small amount of time, this will be the Saturday evening line up at Goodwood.
Saturday LOUNGE House DJs - Karminsky Experience 17.45-18,45
Saturday LOUNGE SWING OUT SISTER 18.45-19.45
Saturday LOUNGE SWINGLE SINGERS 20.15-21.15
Saturday LOUNGE TONY HATCH 21.45-22.45
Saturday LOUNGE PEOPLE LIKE US 22.45-23.30
People Like Us Play The Harbour Festival in Bristol
People Like Us will present Genre Collage at the Harbour Festival at Bristol Arnolfini on Saturday 31st July at 5.15pm, all the details are here. The start time may be subject to slight change so please arrive early.
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/live/details/682
People Like Us new record and print in Edinburgh exhibition
Prints of Darkness Exhibition
You and your guests are invited to the reception for the Prints of Darkness exhibition on Thursday 29 July, 6-8pm.
RSVP to gallery@edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Artist Talk by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
29 July 2010, 4.30-5.30pm, Gallery 2, Edinburgh Printmakers
Vicki Bennett will deliver a talk about her work in the field of audio-visual collage, through her innovative appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives.
Admission is free but places are limited so please call or email to book: T 0131 5572479 or gallery@edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Edinburgh Printmakers presents its world premiere exhibition of new work exploring record cover art, curated by Sarah-Manning Cordwell, Norman Shaw, and Edward Summerton and published by Edinburgh Printmakers. This exhibition will include original prints by eleven Scottish artists and a new LP of music by People Like Us, aka international award-winning multimedia artist Vicki Bennett.
Buy This Is Light Music picture disc LP here
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/shop/
Celebrating the vinyl record as an abiding audio-visual artefact, this project recalls the golden age of the record cover in the thick of post-psychedelia’s goth-surrealistic art-nouveau apocalyptic landscape explosion, now being revived in a current resurgence of collectable limited-edition records with original artwork.
People Like Us illuminates this dark visual ride with ‘This Is Light Music’, an exclusive full-length picture-disc album in a limited edition of only 250. This record is available as part of a lavish limited edition boxed-set publication which houses the record and a pull-out poster in a gatefold sleeve, and includes essays by People Like Us and co-curator Norman Shaw. This publication is on sale throughout the exhibition, together with specially commissioned t-shirts and badges by the participating artists.
Download the essay by Vicki Bennett (pdf)
Information here on purchasing a print (pdf)
Dates of Exhibition: 17 July to 04 September 2010
Opening Hours: Weekly Tuesday - Saturday 10.00am - 6.00pm
CLOSED SUNDAY & MONDAYS
Admission: Free
Venue: Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR
Telephone: 0131 557 2479
Website: www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Press
Preview in The List
http://www.list.co.uk/article/26790-people-like-us-celebrate-record-cover-art-in-prints-of-darkness/
People Like Us play Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
People Like Us will play the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham on 23rd October 2010. More details of times nearer the time, here and at the Supersonic website.
SWANS + GODFLESH + HALLOGALLO 2010 – Michael Rother + Friends present the music of NEU! + NAPALM DEATH HEADLINE SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL 2010
with
PEOPLE LIKE US / DEMONS (W/SICK LLAMA) / OvO/ PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES / DOSH / TWEAK BIRD / DRUMCORPS / CAVE / PCM/ JAILBREAK FEAT. CHRIS CORSANO + HEATHER LEIGH / MELT BANANA / JAMES BLACKSHAW / LICHENS / BONG / GNOD / VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS / NECRO DEATHMORT / GNAW / EAGLE TWIN / BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI
People Like Us to play at MACBA Barcelona
UPDATE...
This concert has now been rescheduled for Thursday 22nd July at MACBA, Barcelona. It was previously postponed due to Volcanic Ash displacement! Please scroll down for the Variations program information on the MACBA site.
Variations Concert Program
Here's a press feature on the season.
MACBA
Watch People Like Us in Copenhagen
People Like Us will perform live on cable TV in Copenhagen on 15th June from 9.30-10pm - the full program, plus how to watch is available here (pdf)
http://tv-tv.dk/soundandtelevision/SOUND_and_TELEVISION_program.pdf
People Like Us play De La Warr Pavilion
People Like Us will play Genre Collage at Bexhill's classic De La Warr Pavilion on Thursday 3rd June 2010 at 8pm. We will be on the bill with Mira Calix.
WE REPEAT...! We are on at 8pm. Please get there in time.
Tickets: £10
Booking & Information
Or call: 01424 229 111
People Like Us play Jerusalem
Musraramix festival / music program curated by Eran Sachs
This years’ guests include Ghedalia Tazartes (FR), Christoph Heemann (D),
People Like Us (UK) and Fritz Welch (UK-USA).
Supported– by Bi-Arts
Tue 25/5-Thursday 27/5 Musrara neighborhood, Jerusalem all day long - we think PLU will play on the 25th, but please check with the organisers if you are in the area.
People Like Us play Liverpool Sound City in May 2010
Genre Collage will be performed at Static Gallery in Liverpool on Thursday 20th May at 7pm, admission £5. This event is presented by Sound and Music as part of Memories are Made of This: Sound and Music at Liverpool Sound City.
The evening features People Like Us, Position Normal and The Pony Harvest
with DJs Strcprstskrzkrk and Igor Hax
Static Gallery, 23 Roscoe Street, L1 9JD
Celebrated collage artist People Like Us, plunderphonic duo Position Normal and far out electro-medievalist The Pony Harvest explore and skew narratives, use and abuse quotations, and draw on a wide range of references from popular culture and beyond.
Event details and tickets:
http://www.soundandmusic.org/activities/events/genre-collage
Parade to be in group exhibition
In The Long Run: 30 Years of Great Running
By Claire Leona Apps, Vicki Bennett, Suky Best, Ravi Deepres and Michael Baig-Clifford, Graham Dolphin, James Edwards, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Julian Germain, Jane and Louise Wilson
Exhibition
Starts: 17th July 2010
Ends: 17th October 2010
Great North Museum: Hancock
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE2 4PT
0191 222 6765
Celebrating the 30th staging of the Bupa Great North Run, this major new exhibition explores the history and significance of this enormously popular event.
In The Long Run looks at significant role this event has played in reflecting and shaping the region's cultural identity.
As well as the well known stories of elite runners, In The Long Run will also explore the huge organisational effort behind the Bupa Great North Run, documenting the event’s community spirit and creating a powerful piece of social history.
Alongside interactive exhibits, memorabilia and star objects, In The Long Run will present artwork from the archives of Bupa Great North Run Culture, with paintings, films, photographs and drawings by Jane and Louise Wilson, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Julian Germain, Graham Dolphin and Vicki Bennett, among many others.
A programme of special events and guest lectures, as well as a special Late Show the night before this year's Bupa Great North Run, will be announced soon.
The plume of smoke and so on
As you all know there are a lot of displaced beings on the planet and that does not exclude People Like Us. As a result we are not going to be able to perform in Barcelona on Thursday 22nd April and are waiting to find out if we can reschedule once people are not trapped all over the place. At present there's not much we can do except enjoy being somewhere else, but we obviously were very much wanting to play in Barcelona. But what can you do about a plume of whatever it is?
Update: we are now back and trying to reschedule the Barcelona concert for July and will keep you posted by updating the old concert announcement when it is confirmed.
People Like Us play Baltimore Transmodern Festival
People Like Us will perform "Genre Collage" at the 7th Annual Transmodern Festival on Saturday 17th April 2010. Tickets can be bought through the Transmodern website.
http://www.transmodernfestival.org/2010/?page_id=481
H&H BUILDING
405 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Directions and tickets
Tickets: $10
Doors Open: 8:30pm
On Saturday, April 17th, the Transmodern Festival will continue major installations in Whole Gallery, Nudashank Gallery, Gallery Four, 5th Dimension. We will be featuring a stage based performance and experimental music program at the critically acclaimed Floristree space. The night will feature an eclectic mix of local and international artists including Carly Ptak (Baltimore), Robby Rackleff (Baltimore), Joseph Keckler (NYC), People Like Us (UK) and Blues Control (NYC.)
Floristree
Carly Ptak
Robby Rackleff
Joseph Keckler
People Like Us
Blues Control
People Like Us play Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
People Like Us will perform "Genre Collage" at Issue Project Room on Thursday 15th April 2010. Also in the evening we've very pleased to have WFMU's Ken Freedman with a DJ set and Aki Onda with a live set.
http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/02/17/people-like-us/
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Doors Open: 8pm
Directions
Admission: $15 door ($12 advance)
People Like Us Play AV Festival 2010
Live Performance at Star and Shadow (NewcastleGateshead)
Saturday 13th March 2010
from 9:00pm until 2:00am
Vicki Bennett has co-curated an evening with AV Festival entitled
Nothing is New, Everything Is Permitted.
The title is a pun on the phrase ‘Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted’, famously quoted by William S Burroughs, who helped popularise cut-up culture. This incredible evening includes live performances by artists, musicians and poets who have creatively dissected, recycled and quoted. Including: Genre Collage the new live audio-visual set from People Like Us that collages film genres using well-known feature films; live improviser Gwilly Edmondez who uses voice, tapes, decks and samples; debut performance of Café Carbon by The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews, Hayley Newman) and whirlwind wizard of the ivories Felix Kubin. With DO or DIY Radio and other visual delights.
Buy tickets here
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/nothing-is-new-everything-is-permitted
Other highlights of the festival that we recommend (which are separate events to the above) are appearances by Rick Prelinger, Craig Baldwin, and Kenneth Anger. Separately, we might add!
The full programme of AV Festival can be found at
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10
Download the AV Festival programme as a pdf here
click on image to view fullsize
AV Festival update
A last minute addition if you are at AV Festival in Newcastle - People Like Us will be speaking at today's Recycled Film Symposium.
Another last minute addition - Craig Baldwin will be joining us to introduce in his special way Nothing Is New, Everything Is Permitted.
The WFMU 2010 Marathon is here!
The WFMU marathon 2010 has begun! If you are a fan of WFMU or indeed listen to DO or DIY with People Like Us please consider pledging, since the station runs on listener sponsorship. We're looking forward to the marathon and hope you are too! Here is the co-host schedule:
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/schedule.shtml
And here's some of the marathon goodies you can get if you pledge:
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml
Take me to the pledge page now!
Live Concert in Linz, Austria
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage on Saturday 12th December 2009
at Good Night Stuff at Grand Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen Linz,
The evening starts at 10pm.
Here are some photos from the concert and Linz visit...
People Like Us play BFI Southbank, London
Tuesday 8th December 2009 at 20:30
BFI Southbank, London - NFT3
Tickets £5
This will be the UK Premiere of Genre Collage, the new People Like Us live a/v set.
BFI Southbank are taking booking now. We recommend booking tickets in advance or you may find yourself without a seat!
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/genre_collage_the_new_live_set_by_people_like_us
Telephone booking is often easier: 020 7928 3232
The Night of the Long Worms
People Like Us are making a short film presentation for and related to the following event. We recommend you come along and be entertained by this great line up. Please note this is not a PLU concert.
The Tapeworm presents its first live event, “The Night of the Long Worms”
8-11PM on Thursday 19 November 2009 at Café Oto, London E8 3DL.
Travelling all the way from Sweden is Leif Elggren, with a piece performed remotely by Joachim Nordwall of IDEAL. The Atlantic Isles are represented by Baraclough, Philip Jeck (Bass Guitar/Effects), Meltaot, Souls on Board (with Bruce Gilbert) and Simon Fisher Turner, plus special guest People Like Us.
Live Concert in Czech Republic
On 21 November, People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at NEW NEW! 2009 Festival
at Fléda
Štefanikova 24, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic
On stage at approximately 10pm.
WFMU Record Fair 2009
We will be doing a little performance of our new live set in the AV Lounge at the Record Fair on the 25 October at 2pm, and so long as you're already in the building at the fair (see website link above), why not drop by at no extra charge.
Genre Collage
Welcome to the new live set by People Like Us, entitled "Genre Collage". Genre Collage (created in 2009, although liable for some updating as time goes on) has this title because collage is indeed a genre - with a long history in the creative arts, being a central part of what People Like Us do. Also, we are collaging film genres in this new set. In the 13 years of performing live, this will be the first live set using well known feature films. Working with universally accepted film genres provides a focussed way to manipulate and edit subject matter because the content is contextually familiar to the audience, which means one can see the journey it's being taken on.
By changing context and content of recurring icons, elements, characters and film stars held within selected movie genres/sub-genres (i.e. action, adventure, comedy, crime/gangster, drama, epics/historical, horror, musicals, science fiction, war and westerns), we hope we've created a humorous and entertaining take on the content held within. The sound is partially used from the films, accompanied by new People Like Us music holding corresponding messages, mood and lyrical content.
We worked with Tim Maloney in the building of moving images, many thanks for that.
If the play button doesn't appear you should be able to control the movie with your space bar.
This work replaces my previous live performance, which you can now only watch and download at UbuWeb.
We are taking bookings for this new concert, which can be performed in cinemas, auditoriums and concert halls. If you are funded festival organiser or curator get in touch through the Bookings link on the front page of our site.
If the play button doesn't appear you should be able to control the movie with your space bar.
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Article on Genre Collage in Film Comment, January 2010
Download the magazine version here
Artist Talk at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Archive material plays a central role within the work of artists Vicki Bennett and susan pui san lok, who both present film installations as part of the group exhibition Hit The Ground exhibition at the Hatton Gallery as part of this year’s Great North Run Cultural Programme.
Rebecca Shatwell, Director of AV Festival, will chair this talk at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle with Vicki and susan as they discuss their latest works. Come along to find out more about how they have engaged with visual archives as part of their practices and receive a complimentary glass of wine.
This event also marks the launch of a new publication celebrating lok’s work Faster, Higher, published by Film and Video Umbrella, which features extensive visual documentation of this major multi-screen installation, alongside specially commissioned essays from critics Adrian Rifkin and Chris Berry.
Event presented in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella.
People Like Us play Vancouver New Music Festival 2009
People Like Us have been working on a brand new live set entitled "Genre:Collage", which will be given a world premiere at Vancouver New Music Festival 2009. Other dates are being lines up for Genre:Collage in these coming weeks, including WFMU Record Fair in October (which will be free once in the fair), BFI Southbank in London, and also Linz, Austria - both in December 2009.
VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009
COPYRIGHT/COPYLEFT
A festival of sonic collagism, and the art of sampled and repurposed sounds and images.
21 - 24 October 2009
Show starts 8pm each night
Free Artist Chats at 7pm each night
Negative Landscapes: free symposium on 24 October 2009, 2:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street
Tickets $20 regular, $15 students/seniors each night; available at Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue), Scratch Records (726 Richards Street), through Tickets Tonight (www.ticketstonight.ca; 604.684.2787; surcharges apply) and at the door.
Passes for all four nights $60 and $40, available only through Vancouver New Music (604.633.0861) and at the door.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Andrew O'Connor and Doug Horne
Jackson 2bears
John Oswald
Thursday 22 October 2009
Eric Hedekar
DJ Tapes
Chris Cutler
People Like Us
Friday 23 October 2009
Sonarchy
Holzkopf
Scanner
David Shea
Saturday 24 October 2009
Mark Hosler
Uri Caine
plus free symposium
Parade
A new large scale AV work by Vicki Bennett entitled "Parade" will be exhibited at Hit The Ground at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. There will also be two photographic montages by Vicki Bennett exhibited as part of the exhibition.
Download Parade at UbuWeb:
http://www.ubu.com/film/plu_parade.html
A word from the artist...
While viewing and sourcing content from the Great North Run film archive, it occurred to me that the huge crowds that come to spectate this event are as important as the participator.
I arranged film frame layers across the screen so that they strayed outwards in the direction of the natural panning of the original shots - much more in accordance with the natural gaze of the spectator, revealing a unique panoramic view of the content. The irregular angles and shifting perspectives bring to mind Cubist photomontage and Cubist/Vorticist painting/collage, with the added dimension of the moving image naturally taking this to another level.
Given that this is a celebration of human achievement, and as a nod of appreciation to the Cubist influence within this work, it seemed appropriate to use "Parade" by Erik Satie as the musical backdrop.
Video interview with Vicki Bennett about the film
Hatton Gallery 16 September – 14 November 2009, 10am – 5pm (Sun 2pm - 5pm)
The Hatton Gallery is based within the grounds of Newcastle University. The nearest Metro station is Haymarket. The Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. NE1 1RU Telephone 0191 222 6059
Click here for a map of the Hatton Gallery.
Part of The Bupa Great North Run Cultural Programme.
Background on the project - commission announcement from 2008:
To celebrate the silver anniversary of the BUPA Great North Run in 2005, the Great North Run Cultural Programme was established, which featured the film broken time by Jane and Louise Wilson. As part of the legacy of this film and part of an ongoing commitment to exploring the relationship between sport and art through, an annual award - Great North Run Moving Image Commission - was born.
Supported by Arts Council England, this major commission awards an experienced artist or film-maker £30,000 to create a new work which responds to and captures the spirit of one of the world's top sporting events and we're delighted to be able to announce the winner of Moving Image Commission for 2009 is British Artist Vicki Bennett.
Vicki will be working with archive footage of the Bupa Great North Run to create a new vision of the landscape and the route of the world's largest half-marathon to be screened as part of the 2009 Bupa Great North Run Cultural Programme.
Gallery booklet (pdf)
Reviews
Chronicle (online), Newcastle
Art Rabbit (online)
Hatton Gallery (online)
Images shot in the gallery
Photo credits for below: Colin Davison
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz Play London 1st August
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz will be playing a joint set at Cafe Oto in Dalston, London on Saturday 1st August.
Doors open 8pm, Tickets £7 - which we recommend you buy in advance now since Cafe Oto is popular!
Cafe Oto site programme/tickets
The live performance will combine material from the last four People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz releases. Vicki & Ergo perform a set that crosses sampling with the English nonsense tradition, traditional composition with electronic music, and contemporary approaches to sound with melodic and textural fragments of orchestral music. The sound of the two artists collaborating has often been compared to circus or carnival music, and stands as a separate and distinct entity to the two artists individual work. It is perhaps best described as "woozy dream circus".
There will be two 25 minute sets preceded by a number of short films by the artists, starting shortly after 8pm.
Special offer: the first 15 people arriving at Oto for this performance will receive a People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz CD.
Want to hear some People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz?
Cafe Oto site programme
Want to see what we sound like?
DO or DIY back on WFMU Summer 2009!
We are very pleased to announce that DO or DIY with People Like Us will return to the radio waves and internet tubes every Wednesday evening starting June 24th, right through the summer to October 7th inclusive, bringing you All Things Avant Retard.
The show will be on after the fantastic "Seven Second Delay" (with Ken and Andy) - between 7pm and 8pm NY time. That is midnight Wednesday evening in the UK.
Generally we do a live playlist and enable live commenting so do watch as well as listen if it's not too much of a distraction from the beeauutiful music. If you live in NY/NJ you can listen on the radio at 91.1fm in New York and 90.1fm in the Hudson Valley. If you're on the internet then listen anywhere by clicking on Live Audio Stream links at the top of WFMU.org.
For those of you unfamiliar with People Like Us' radio show, or indeed if you just fancy another listen, move your mouse over to the DO or DIY archives at WFMU.
We've also made a number of "Best of" compilations available since 2003, including these two from 2008.
DOwnloadable DO or DIY 1
DOwnloadable DO or DIY 2
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