People Like Us, events
Off The Page - The Wire / Sound and Music
Date: Friday 24 - Sunday 26 February 2012
Venue: The Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable
Produced by: Sound and Music and The Wire
People Like Us will be participating in a panel discussion at Off The Page, an event co-produced and curated by The Wire and Sound and Music, in Whitstable, UK on Saturday 25th February 2012.
Off The Page is the UK's only literary festival devoted to music criticism and audio culture. Taking place in the seaside town of Whitstable in Kent, this unique weekend-long event looks to expand the discourse surrounding contemporary sound and music by bringing together leading critics, authors, musicians and artists in a programme of talks, presentations and panel discussions.
Panel debate
Collateral Damage: Music in a Digital Economy
In recent years, the internet and a raft of new technologies have transformed the ways in which we produce, perceive and consume music. And as the reality of music's new digital economy starts to bite, musicians and labels are having to rethink both philosophy and practice, addressing the issue of how they create and disseminate work - while some decry the free movement of music across file sharing networks and the collapse of traditional record industry models, others look to exploit the new possibilities offered by crowd sourcing and social networking. For this panel discussion chaired by The Wire's Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Tony Herrington, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Chris Cutler (ReR Records) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) discuss possible responses to the challenges posed by music's changing eco-system
AV Festival Programme now up, Boredcast Schedule to follow...
Just a quick update to tell you that the AV Festival 12 Programme is now up at
The Radio Boredcast schedule is still being foldered and typed up after initally putting together with post-its and an A2 notepad. It will be published in the coming weeks, probably the beginning of February.
There will also be a Radio Boredcast podcast to subscribe to from some point in February, all depending on how long the schedule takes to complete first!
For background information on Radio Boredcast please go to our initial post.
Interview about Radio Boredcast with Pixel Palace/Basic.fm
Pixel Palace, who co-commissioned Radio Boredcast along with AV Festival, recently interviewed Vicki to see how she is getting on with creating a one-month long radio station to compliment AV Festival 12 and the festival them As Slow As Possible.
http://www.thepixelpalace.org/basicfm
Radio Boredcast and AV Festival 2012 Programme Preview
Coming soon... Radio Boredcast
Vicki Bennett is currently curating a 744 hour long radio station called Radio Boredcast, to run for the duration of AV Festival 12.
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2012
"AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible is a Festival in slow motion. For the first time the Festival runs for a whole month from 1-31 March 2012. It's the most adventurous edition to date including over 15 major exhibitions, more than 50 film screenings and music events, weekend walks and an online radio broadcasting for 744 hours. The programme takes place at different speeds, paces and times of day across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, including an accelerated 24 Hour Launch. Programme highlights and our new website will be launched in November, sign up to our email list to keep in touch and follow us on facebook and twitter".
Magical Misery Tour at Brighton Film Festival
People Like Us "The Magical Misery Tour"
Brighton Sallis Benney Theatre
8pm
Cinecity / Brighton Film Festival, UK
Saturday 19th November 2011
People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Cinecity, part of Brighton Film Festival.
http://www.cine-city.co.uk/films/the-magical-misery-tour-people-like-us-live-set/
Bristol Encounters International Film Festival
People Like Us - Magical Misery Tour at Bristol Encounters International Film Festival.
Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol, UK BS2 8NQ
20:00 17/11/2011
Doors 7:30 £6:00 advance (watershed only) £8:00 on door.
People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Bristol Encounters International Film Festival 2011.
Look Behind You!..... She Is Back! Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us raids the tombs of HORROR films, plundering the Un-Dead and cutting up scared suburban teenagers amongst many victims into a delicious perverse A/V set which premiered at The Sound of Fear at the Southbank Centre under the working title of Horror Collage.
The source material is 95% from horror movies, with the content portraying not so much a scary nightmare but a journey through the underworld of everyday human experiences. It is not true to say you do not relate to this kind of horror movie. Truth is stranger than fiction. Having said this, People Like Us, as ever, see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the most ghastly scenarios, and by accompanying the edited found feature film footage with new sample collage pop songs, elevate you from the swamp.
Also on the same night:
AKI ONDA
Aki Onda is an artist whose musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. He captures field recordings with the cassettes and then physically manipulates the tape machines with electronics in his performances to mesmerising effect. Strikingly poetic with ghosts of the physical, and invisible captured in his sound world, Onda re-examines moments of time he has spent wandering and recording. Maximising the micro-narrative/diary-like elements contained in his performances Onda fits perfectly a film festival.
Onda started making music with the sampler and computer, and formed Audio Sports with Eye Yamatsuka (of The Boredoms) and Nobukazu Takemura in Osaka in 1990. He then became a sought after producer before starting his travels and recording his cassettes, taking photos and collaborating.
http://www.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#6203
Magical Misery Tour at Cork Film Festival
People Like Us "The Magical Misery Tour"
Corona Cork Film Festival
Friday 11th November 2011
We are very pleased to present The Magical Misery Tour at Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Details of time and venue to follow shortly.
People Like Us on WFMU
Wednesday November 2nd from 9.30am to 11.15am NY time
(that's from 1.15pm, UK people!!) on Ken Freedman's show on WFMU
wfmu.org
Ken airs two videos live on the air and the website. From 9:30 to 10am, listeners can watch and listen to People Like Us's new horror collage The Magical Misery Tour. Then, at 10:15 Ken previews Radio Soulwax's new Brazilian video/audio mashup-sterpiece, Batutas Disco. Listeners can listen over the radio, or watch and listen over the website. Links will appear at wfmu.org when each video goes live. People Like Us and Radio Soulwax will each discuss their work following their videos.
RadioVision + Record Fair NYC
RadioVision Festival
28th, 29th and 30th October, 2011
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NYC
WFMU presents a festival celebrating radio's future as it takes on new forms in the digital age for the medium's fans, tinkerers and future thinkers. A special opening night performance with Radio Legend Joe Frank, a day of talks, panel discussions and performances, and a hack day for programmers and digital media makers. The festival runs concurrent with the WFMU Record Fair.
Vicki will be speaking at the conference on Saturday 29th October.
Full details at http://radiovision.wfmu.org
Sunday 30th October - People Like Us present The Magical Misery Tour at WFMU Record Fair, NYC
3.15pm The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
http://wfmu.org/recfair/rf_livebcasts.html
Please pledge to WFMU and DO or DIY this month
This month of October we are doing an online/mail-only fundraiser at WFMU. To mark this, there will be an extra special bunch of events going, including Singles Going Steady week (Oct 24-30) where WFMU DJs play nothing but 7 inch singles, the WFMU Record Fair (Oct 28-30) and WFMU's RadioVision Festival (Oct 28-30). In fact there are special events going on every day, with more being added to the schedule all the time:
Regular listeners will know that DO or DIY has been on the air every June-October (Summer Schedule) since 2003, with archives that cover every show since it started, and without wanting to toot my own alphorn, I'm playing a lot of things that you just wouldn't hear elsewhere - and if you do a google for it it's my show that comes up as the first result in playing it! DO or DIY also does a 24-hour audio stream which can be accessed from the WFMU frontpage and also on the free WFMU iphone app.
Just this season alone we've had DO or DIY Specials from JG Thirlwell, Daniel Menche, Brian Joseph Davis, Wobbly, Gwilly Edmondez, Alex Drool and Nico Teen, Jennifer Walshe, Irene Moon, Osymyso, Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen & Walkmen), Carl Stone and on Wednesday 5th October from Graham Duff, creator of BBC TV's "Ideal" (amongst many other things!). WFMU is never a dull place, earlier this year I ruined my clothes and other peoples appetites covering fellow WFMU DJ Bryce with mayonnaise and baked beans. Where else would have us? We need you to help us continue this kind of ridiculous programming!
In previous years have had specials and exclusives from Ergo Phizmiz, Dave Soldier, Felix Kubin, Rank Sinatra, Blanketship, Borful Tang, Freddy McGuire and RIAA as well as having co-hosted with Kenny G on numerous occasions and putting albums and albums worth of FREE DO or DIY mixes online, without asking for anything except that you share further!
WFMU is a wonderful place to be treasured and not taken for granted. We ARE listener sponsored, and we do need your support. However dedicated we are as DJs and you are as listeners this is NOT enough unfortunately, this thing will not look after itself alone.
Some of you may remember that on WFMU we also did the lovely and ever-so-informative Codpaste podcast on WFMU in collaboration with Ergo Phizmiz!
Since I only broadcast during the Summer Schedule each year, this will actually be my first opportunity to raise money for my own show while on air in quite some time, so please consider donating to DO or DIY for this reason also!
Without listener support we would not exist, and it would be impossible to build something like this up again should it be allowed to fade away.
DONATE NOW - we have some new swag too!!! For instance if you pledge $50 you will get this brand new design WFMU t-shirt: 
Feast your eyes on the full list of swag here http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml
So far this month DO or DIY's extra-curricular activities will be a Graham Duff Special on Wednesday 5th October, a 7"-only show on Singles Going Steady Week on Wednesday 26th October, participation in WFMU's RadioVision conference on Saturday 29th October, a free People Like Us concert in the AV Lounge at WFMU Record Fair on Sunday 30th October, and just after the marathon People Like Us will appear on Ken Freedman's show with a video special of The Magical Misery Tour, a streaming radiovision premiere!
If you are an active listener to my show then really... don't be passive with your support - please help us continue.
Please go to my show page now and pledge. http://wfmu.org/playlists/PL
Two film screenings at Merge Festival, London
People Like Us will screen two films at Merge Festival 2011 on London's Bankside. Both films "Trying Things Out" and "Skew Gardens" are London-themed/based.
Date: 20th October 2011
Website: tapeworm.org.uk
Address: The Bear Pit, Bear Gardens, SE1 9EB London
Announcing a special evening of Bankside performances curated by The Tapeworm, as part of the Merge Festival.
London Town's finest cassette-only label, The Tapeworm, presents its third annual event in the Capital. Exemplary music and much excitement is to be expected from a line-up of the label's mates.
Mr Ken Hollings, a writer of note, shall be reading his text from the first Bookworm publication, to be launched on the same night. Sweden's BJNilsen will be flying in and making a splendid noise for you all. A second Swede, CM von Hausswolff (he's a King, dontchaknow…) will share a stage with Touch's Mike Harding, in a reading of Edgar Allen Poe like none before… Cult vs. occult - former Medicine Head man Peter Hope-Evans and illustrator Savage Pencil will whip up a dark blue storm. Mr Pencil's fine drawings shall also be on display. Hopping on the bus from Elephant & Castle is Zerocrop and his band; pop perfection from a local lad. And finally, a London eye - video installation by Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us.
Exhibition featuring work by Savage Pencil and Vicki Bennett Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd October 12 – 6pm
http://www.mergefestival.co.uk/programme/worm-eats-bear-special-evening-performances-tapeworm
People Like Us play Genre Collage in Ghent, Belgium
People Like Us perform Genre Collage
Almost Cinema at Vooruit, Ghent
11 October 2011, 8pm
http://vooruit.be/nl/event/2905
Also on the bill - the film about Ken Kesey "Magic Trip".
Magical Misery Tour excerpts screening in London
Happy Halloween!
Thursday 6th Oct 6-9pm
at MAIDEN
188 Shoreditch High Street
E1 6HU
People Like Us will be showing a 15 minute edit of The Magical Misery Tour through the month of October at Maiden on Shoreditch High Street, London.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN is a month long celebration of horror and classic horror figures in popular culture. An exciting group of artists, illustrators and graphic designers have been invited by MAIDEN and EAST END PRINTS to re-imagine classic horror characters in an innocent and playful way. Artwork featuring well “loved” characters from all of our favourite scary movies will cover the walls of the basement at Shoreditch’s favourite shop MAIDEN.
Philip Sheffield/People Like Us/Bangkockney Belle/Jennifer Camilleri/Jess Wilson/Anthony Peters/Dan Kitchener/Miguel Martin/Nicole Thompson/Dale Edwin Murray
EAST END PRINTS is a part of First Thursdays.
Contact info@eastendprints.co.uk
www.eastendprints.co.uk
Horror Collage at The Southbank Centre
People Like Us are currently developing a new live A/V set with a working title of Horror Collage*.
*Please note - this new live set now has a permanent name of "The Magical Misery Tour" - more details here.
People Like Us - "Horror Collage"
Live A/V performance from Vicki Bennett/People Like Us.
Sourcing from over 100 horror movies, People Like Us reflect upon narratives that occur and repeat within the horror genre. By grouping common concepts, and creating contextually related sample music compositions, entirely new stories emerge.
Horror Collage will be premiered at The Purcell Room in London's Southbank Centre on 3rd September 2011 at "Sound Of Fear".
We recommend you book tickets NOW for Sound Of Fear Part 1 via the link below, or contact the Southbank Centre box office on Box Office on 0844 875 0074. The Purcell Room isn't that big and the festival may be quite popular - so you have been warned!
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/sound-fear-musical-universe-horror
Interview with Sound and Music here
http://www.soundandmusic.org/features/sound-film/five-questions-people-us
Documentation of The Doors of Perspection
More details here: http://www.peoplelikeus.org/2011/the_doors_of_perspection_people_like_us_exhibition.html
The Doors Of Perspection - People Like Us Exhibition
Vicki Bennett
The Doors of Perspection
Vitrine Gallery, Bermondsey Square, London
Fri 29 July – Sun 04 Sep 2011.
Daily 24‐hour. FREE.
Preview: Thursday 28 July 2011. 6‐10pm.
Vitrine Gallery presents The Doors of Perspection, an exhibition of new digital collage works by Vicki Bennett. The works are created using a unique technique developed by Bennett to expand film scenes beyond their conventional screen ratio. The finished results reveal beautiful panoramic views of the background landscapes as captured by the panning camera, effectively allowing film scenes to be seen as never before.
Bennett’s new works bear a relation to the British Vorticism movement of the early 20th Century, taking a Futurist approach to image making whilst attempting to capture dynamic movement with still images. Bennett often utilises digital technology to apply analogue techniques and for more than a decade has used rotoscoping in her short films and live audio‐visual performance to mask, cut and place objects elsewhere on screen. During her commission for The Great North Run Cultural Programme 2009 she developed the process for expanding film outside its frame and began work on this new series shortly after.
This exhibition not only features large prints for sale on site at Vitrine Gallery, but also a special print edition featured here:
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/2011/print_edition_by_vicki_bennett.html
Title: Streetwalking
Medium: C-Type Print on Matt Fuji Archive Paper
Dimensions: 914mm x 321mm
Year: 2011
Edition: 100 + 5 A/Ps
Title: In Retrospect
Medium: C-Type Print on Matt Fuji Archive Paper
Dimensions: 671mm x 392mm
Year: 2011
Edition: 100 + 5 A/Ps
Co-published by Modern Empire and Vitrine Gallery
Bennett is renowned for her audio‐visual collage, successfully releasing albums and touring her live performances under the name People Like Us since the early 1990s. Her Surrealist approach to creating moving image work involves subverting elements of found footage in order to create new meanings and connections. This is reflected in the titles of her works, albums and exhibitions, where letters slip around and one slight twist can create an absurd change of meaning.
The Doors of Perspection is curated by Iain Pate. The exhibition is commissioned by Touch.
Since 1991, British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio‐visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use, and have made work using footage from the Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive, and A/V Geeks. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, Barbican, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show ‘DO or DIY’ on WFMU has had over a million listen again downloads since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.
People Like Us are currently touring their live audio‐visual set ‘Genre Collage’ and a new album, ‘Welcome Abroad’ was released on Illegal Art in May 2011.
Preview Event: Thursday 28 July 2011. 6‐10pm. Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey Square. FREE.
A collection of short films by Vicki Bennett/People Like Us ‐ including Excerpts from "Genre Collage" ‐ will be screened on loop throughout the evening, with an introduction by the artist at 7pm. There will also be musical accompaniment provided by Osymyso and Mainwaring & Jurgensen in the bar.
Full list of films being screened at the Preview Event ONLY:
"Burning" [1999]
"Discovering Electronic Music" [1999]
"Music Of Your Own" [1999]
"We Edit Life" [2002]
"Nothing" [2003]
"The Remote Controller" [2003]
"Resemblage" [2004]
"Story Without End" [2005]
"Trying Things Out" [2007]
"Live Excerpts" [2002-2007]
"Work, Rest & Play" [2007]
"Skew Gardens" [2008]
"Parade" [2009]
"Mull of Kintyre" (with Ergo Phizmiz) [2010]
Excerpts from "Genre Collage" [2009/10]
"The Keystone Cut Ups" (with Ergo Phizmiz) [2010]
"2'00" The Movie" [2011]
Press Enquiries: Alys Williams VITRINE GALLERY alys@vitrinegallery.co.uk - 07988239300
VITRINE GALLERY Bermondsey Square, London SE1 3UN (tube: London Bridge) www.vitrinegallery.co.uk ‐ info@vitrinegallery.co.uk
Review: http://www.frontrowreviews.co.uk/news/vicki-bennett-the-doors-of-perspection-preview-report/9758
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-doors-of-perspection--picture-preview-2328362.html
People Like Us - Exhibited at Maxxi in Rome
People Like Us are currently exhibiting at Maxxi gallery in Rome. It includes a 20 minute screening of a previous People Like Us live a/v set entitled "Live Excerpts", and also in the gallery space there is a monitor showing/airing People Like Us downloads from UbuWeb, and the video "The Sound of the End of Music".
The exhibition is called Expanded Video.
EXPANDED VIDEO
21 April - 5 June 2011
curated by Anne Palopoli and Oscar Pizzo
Expanded Video presents an Italian preview of a number of video works and live performances by Jacob TV, Masbedo, Martha Colburn and People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett). Organized in collaboration with the Music for Rome Foundation, the series arises from the confrontation and interaction between different forms of creativity that define a common idiom in which listening and seeing become analogous and equivalent episodes. The works of the selected artists, in which the diverse idioms fuse and integrate perfectly, are linked by a shared emancipation from the ties and conventions of the individual media. Sound becomes narration and the image dissolves in an ever-different rhythm.
EXHIBITING:
MAXXI, Gallery 5
Masbedo
Theorem of incompletion, 2008
5'38'' - Music by Lagash, Borgar Magnason - editing Giuseppe Domingo Romano for Except s.r.l. - courtesy Noire Contemporary Art
Masbedo’s work stages the difficulties underlying the relationship between man and woman and the consequent destruction of intimacy: pieces of glass abandoned on a table in a desolate Icelandic landscape are destroyed by shouts and gunfire. Filmed in Iceland, a location in which the limits are tangible, the work tackles the theme of the conditioning to which man is subjected in contemporary society.
Jacob TV
THE NEWS, a reality opera, 2011 in progress
17' circa - Jan Boiten, videos, scenography; Kristen Kerstens, videos - Courtesy Jacob TV
The News is the latest work by the Dutch musician that will be presented at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 2012. At MAXXI Jacob Tv presents a preview of a selection from this opera in which images taken from the media are deconstructed and reconstructed with a syncopated rhythm.
Martha Colburn
Dolls VS Dictators, 2010
11' - Musica/music composed by Greg Saunier (of Deerhoof) and foley sound by Michael Evans - courtesy Martha Colburn
In this video Martha Colburn stages the killing of a number of dictators from history. Thanks to the stop-motion technique, dolls and puppets traverse a fantastic landscape causing the spectator to fall into a surreal world in which the laws that inform reality are overturned.
Cosmetic Emergency, 2005
8' - Musica/Music Jad Fair, Mick Hobbs, Hilary Jeffery, Coco Solid - courtesy Martha Colburn
Cosmetic Emergency focuses on contemporary society’s obsession with appearance. The idea of beauty is analysed through the presentation of images taken from current affairs and old films, paintings and documentaries. In a collage of sounds and representations the video investigates the motivations that push contemporary society in this direction.
People Like Us/Vicki Bennett
Live Excerpts, 2002-2007
16'27'' - courtesy Vicki Bennett
People like us assembles scenes and sound familiar to us from films, documentaries and archive images in a sequence the breaks up the linear cinematographic narration. This work brings together five live tracks of significance from the British musician’s output.
The programme also included a live performance of Genre Collage at Auditorium of Rome.
24 May, 21.00
People Like Us - GENRE COLLAGE
Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Teatro Studio
Download more info:
Maxxi website 1
Maxxi website 2
Expanded Video exhibition info pdf
About Genre Collage
About Genre Collage 2
Genre Collage at The Sage, Gateshead
People Like Us - Genre Collage
Monday 20 June
Venue: Northern Rock Foundation Hall, The Sage, Gateshead
Last minute addition - People Like Us will play a 20 minute edit of Genre Collage at The Sage Gateshead on Monday 20th June as part of the ECHO Digital Conference.
Details on the conference here
People Like Us talk at Baltic, Newcastle
KINETIC COLOUR: ANIMATION & ROBERT BREER SEMINAR
Saturday 18 June / 14.00-17.00
£8.00 (£6.00 concessions)
http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/activities/index.php
BALTIC and Star and Shadow Cinema present a seminar based on the work of Robert Breer and artist animation. Speakers include Paris based film maker and champion of the avant garde, Pip Chodorov, Gary Thomas (Animate Projects), Mat Fleming (Film Bee, Newcastle) and Vicki Bennett (People Like Us).
Star and Shadow will show a related screening on the evening of 18 June (bookable separately from www.starandshadow.org.uk) Book tickets at www.wegottickets.com or buy in person from BALTIC SHOP
DO or DIY returns to WFMU
DO or DIY will return to WFMU's airwaves and ether on Wednesday 15th June.
The show will be on each week at 8pm NY time throughout the WFMU Summer Schedule, 2011, and each show will be archived online for further listening. As ever, it will also be available as a podcast.
The new WFMU Summer 2011 Schedule is here http://www.wfmu.org/table?period=28
Listen live on WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/
Subscribe to the podcast here http://wfmu.org/podcast
Listen to archived shows and view playlists here http://wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
The show will run through to the beginning of October 2011.
Welcome Abroad by People Like Us
"Welcome Abroad" by People Like Us
Release date: 24 May 2011
Illegal Art IA124 http://www.illegalart.net
UK - price including P&P: $11.00
EUROPE - price including P&P: $12.00
ELSEWHERE - price including P&P: $13.00
Download as mp3s, FLAC, plus some video downloads
"Welcome Abroad is the soundtrack to a dream - overlaying a cabaret with the circus, a music hall with the radio, a nightclub with the movies. Finely tuned sounds from the collective unconscious, fitted together with care and clarity and skill, producing a hallucinatory landscape that shifts and slides, shimmering with each new sample. Julie Andrews duets with Jim Morrison? Damn." -Steinski
Vicki Bennett, under the People Like Us moniker, returns from several collaborations for her first solo album in several years. Stranded in the United States for an extended period after the Icelandic volcano eruption blocked her British homeland's airspace, Bennett derived thematic material of displacement, travel, and a longing for elsewhere, from the natural disaster that caused her own predicament. Volcanically marooned in Baltimore and NYC, Bennett utilized some of her "free" time to work on the album and even gained audio contributions from fellow experimental musicians Jason Willett (of Half Japanese) and M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos) via her extended stay.
Taking a glance at just a few tracks from Welcome Abroad, songs from The Beatles, Ennio Morricone, Danny Kaye, Bob Dylan, Rod McKuen, Elton John, Gene Pitney, Elvis Presley, Dionne Warwick, John Denver, Julie London, and Queen are all amalgamated. While recent mashup culture often centers on the instant gratification of seamlessly juxtaposing hooks, People Like Us tracks transform the source material into collages that are equal parts dissonance and pleasure, making artful commentaries on our culture and Bennett's own existential amusement within such a wondrous world.
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audiovisual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio.
People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use, and have made work using footage from the Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive, and A/V Geeks. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over three quarters of a million hits since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.
With the release of Welcome Abroad, Illegal Art continues to embrace a pay-what-you-want business model for high-quality downloads. All label releases over the last five years have been issued (or reissued) under a the flexible payment system. People Like Us also have a history of offering free downloads of entire projects, both new and old. Vicki Bennett is such a firm endorser of the gift economy that she is the top downloaded audio artist on UbuWeb.
Press Quotes:
"... a freeform, unfolding imaginary landscape that is liberally peppered with slapstick." - Phil England, The Wire
"Bennett has continued to impress us with her technical ability and her wonderful sense of the ridiculous." - Olli Siebelt, BBC
"... beautiful, compelling, funny, crazy stuff. I listen to [People Like Us] while sitting at my drawing board." - Matt Groening
"... it is that delirious adventure to tune in Disney cartoons while we administered a strong dose of amphetamines, LSD, and any other lysergic cocktail." - J. Carlos Vellamueva, Rolling Stone (Mexico)
"... after prolonged exposure to the alchemical work of Vicki Bennett, we see and hear our own everyday world as one big joke which is already cut to pieces. You'll laugh, you'll cry." - Drew Daniel, Matmos
"... warped-out easy easy-listening goddess and sample abuser extraordinaire." - Ben Willmott, NME
"Bennett has taken Eisenstein's montage collisions and refashioned them as bumper cars at a seaside carnival." - Jim Supanick, Film Society of Lincoln Center
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New work in La Scatola Gallery, London
‘Modern Empire’ at La Scatola Gallery
24.05.2011 – 04.06.2011
La Scatola is pleased to present “Modern Empire” a group show with artists
Vicki Bennett, Charlotte Bracegirdle, Alec Finlay, Sandy Grant, Susie Green,
Russell Maurice and Inken Reinert
Modern Empire commissions and produces print editions by emerging and established artists.
Modern Empire’s first public exhibition, at La Scatola, includes original drawings, paintings, collage, photography, and sculpture, illustrating the broad range of practice among the artists they work with. The show celebrates the launch of new print editions by Sandy Grant, Russell Maurice and Inken Reinert.
For some of the artists the process of creating a print is a complete departure from their regular artistic output, providing new techniques and tools to explore in order to express artistic ideas. For others, printmaking is already an existing aspect of their output and the opportunity is one in which the relationship to a print publisher creates a new context to develop an idea.
Modern Empire fosters a close relationship between the artist and an established print workshop or technician. The results are affordable, limited editions prints, which are available to purchase through Modern Empire online.
PRIVATE VIEW
Tuesday 24.05.2011 - from 6 to 9PM
Further information about the artists and editions at www.modernempire.co.uk
La Scatola Gallery, 1 Snowden Street, London EC2A 2DQ (Entrance through corner of Worship St with Appold St)
Genre Collage in Rome
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage in Rome on 24th May 2011. There will also be film screenings by People Like Us accompanying this in the exhibition Expanded Video at MAXXI from April 22 to June 5, 2011.
The museum exhibition will be at MAXXI
http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/en/schede/expanded-video-exhibiting
Genre Collage will be performed as part of the above exhibition at
Auditorium of Rome
Teatro Studio
http://www.auditorium.com/eventi/4983131
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale Pietro De Coubertin, Roma, Italia
People Like Us play Geneva
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at Mapping Festival in Geneva on 21 May 2011
http://mappingfestival.ch/2011/
Kenny G at The White House Today
Our friend and collaborator Kenny G, aka Kenneth Goldsmith read his amazing poetry at The White House today, 11 May 2011. As well as being beautiful and engaging in its own right, Kenny's work has been a gateway to understanding of so called "higher" forms of writing and reading to People Like Us and many other allies.
Watch and download the video archives here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/11/president-obama-poets-white-house
and
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/11/poetry-student-workshop-white-house
More inspiration:
Kenneth Goldsmith
And from the larger umbrella:
UbuWeb
A People Like Us & Kenny G collaboration:
Nothing Special (CD)
Induction Is A Draft Is A Gust Of Air (2009) on Vimeo.
Watch and Listen to People Like Us Live on WFMU
Genre Collage - live on the internet and radio
Wednesday 4th May 2011 on WFMU at 11am, NY time
(broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, US)
and on WFMU.org
People Like Us will be performing a live video/audio feed of their current concert "Genre Collage" on Ken's show on WFMU on the above date.
Ken's show runs from 9am-noon NY time (that's 2pm-5pm UK time) - and you can check Ken's playlists and archives at www.wfmu.org/playlists/KF
Vicki co-hosted with Ken recently for the WFMU 2011 Marathon.
Open Ears Festival, Canada
27 April 2011
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, Ontario. There's an amazing line up in the festival, including John Oswald, Tanya Tagaq, and also Tony Conrad.
More Soup and Tart, Barbican Theatre, London
More Soup and Tart
15 April 2011
Barbican Theatre
Tickets: £15–£25 ****SOLD OUT!!!!****
Includes food
Time: 7.30pm
For one night only! Over 30 of the most exciting artists working across visual art,
film, music, dance and theatre each give a two-minute performance that follows a
light dinner of soup and tart, in the spirit of Jean Dupuy's legendary 1974-75
events at The Kitchen, New York.
Featuring:
Penny Arcade / Edwina Ashton / Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / Simon Bookish / John Butcher / Rosemary Butcher / William Cobbing / Martin Creed / Jeremiah Day / Dog Kennel Hill Project / Tim Etchells / Marcia Farquhar / Stewart Home / Mikhail Karikis / Hilary Koob-Sassen / Andrew Kotting / Sam Lee / Christian Marclay / Frauke Requardt, Tai Shani / Holly Slingsby / Ryan Styles / Simon Vincenzi / Mark Aerial Waller / Jennifer Walshe and Tom Woolner and more. Plus a special film contribution by Michael Clark.
For more information, click here
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11727 .
Tickets £15-25, and includes a dinner of vegetable soup and apple tart, made by
Searcy's restaurant.
Book now... http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11727
People Like Us at Satellite Vitrine Gallery, Covent Garden London
People Like Us will be showing films as part of the private view (only) at Replica, an exhibition by Satellite Vitrine Gallery at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London on Friday 8th April 2011.
RELICA launches Satellite Vitrine Gallery, showcasing mixed media work by five artists: Edwin Burdis, Katherine Gardner, Ludovica Gioscia, Rennard Milner and Robin Kirsten. The show brings together works that use found media material re-imagined.
LAUNCH EVENT & Private View
Satellite Vitrine Gallery presents a series of screenings, performances and music. Works included use found media footage, creating montage from film clips, TV, lyrics and music; expanding the exhibition premise into time-based media.
Cinema at 5.30pm (30 minutes)
'GLUE GUN' Screening with works by Andrew Gaston, George Barber, Noah Angell and People Like Us; artists who use found film, TV or internet footage cut, pasted and re-wroked.
Games Room from 6pm
6 – 9pm: Private View & Performances by James Stopforth and Leah Capaldi happening intermittently.
9pm til LATE: Dean Brannagan and Natasha Rees will present a continuous, collaborative sequence of music, video and sounds that echo the themes of RELICA.
Curated by Alys Williams and Katherine Gardner.
satellite VITRINE GALLERY at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ
The Keystone Cut Ups at Flatpack Festival
Sunday 27th March 2011
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz will perform The Keystone Cut Ups at Flatpack Festival, at The Electric Cinema, Birmingham UK.
http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/the-keystone-cut-ups
http://www.flatpackfestival.org/blog/2011/02/07/a-few-dates-for-the-diary/
peoplelikeus.org/keystone.html
People Like Us play and screen at Ambulante Film Festival, Mexico
Week beginning Monday 14th March 2011
People Like Us will be performing Genre Collage at Ambulante Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico. There will be also be a 12-city tour of short films by Vicki Bennett/People Like Us as part of the festival, but Morelia will be the only place where there will be a live performance and the other 11 cities will have film screenings alone.
Genre Collage will take place at the CMMAS on Wednesday 16th March at 8.30pm.
The film screenings will take place at various venues in various cities, and once again Vicki will be present for the screenings in Morelia - please check the Ambulante Festival site. http://www.ambulante.com.mx/
Please note - the film screenings are a 52 minute collection of short films, and "Genre Collage" is a 45 minute live set.
Bryce with co-host Vicki - WFMU Marathon 2011
FRIDAY 11th MARCH Noon-3pm (NY TIME)
Update - the show is archived on video and audio here:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13251636
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/39526
As part of the WFMU 2011 Marathon, BRYCE will be on the RADIO and WEBCAM w/ co-host VICKI (DO or DIY with People Like Us) endeavouring in a spot of culinary hairdressing for pledges, bringing a whole new meaning to "cut and paste". The more you pledge, the more food will be applied to Bryce by Vicki, your hostess with the most mess.
Please lend your support by "attending/liking" this event - by "attend" you mean you will be listening and watching at wfmu.org. Please also support us by sharing this event.
Add water, mix, wait 180 minutes, throw away.
Please follow the links below to really ever so exciting playlists and archives and a lot of swag which can be yours in return for your pledges, and help keep WFMU on the air for another year.
TUNE IN AND WATCH ON WEBCAM: http://wfmu.org/
PLEDGE / SWAG: http://wfmu.org/mara
PHONE-A-PLEDGE: 1-800-989-9368
LISTEN TO BRYCE'S ARCHIVES: http://wfmu.org/playlists/BK
LISTEN TO VICKI'S ARCHIVES: http://wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
Full version of the stream (thanks to John Dalton for videocam archiving this)
WFMU Marathon and co-host schedule 2011
WFMU Marathon - 28th February-13th March
It's the most wonderful time of the year, WFMU Marathon Time! The marathon runs from February 28th to March 13th 2011, but you can make a pledge below, check out our new Tim Biskup T-shirt and other swag, or marvel at our new line of DJ Premiums!
If you follow and like the work of People Like Us you will be well aware of the influence that WFMU has had on us, as well as knowing how hard we work to make DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU. We've been broadcasting since 2003, and playlists and archives are still available of every show.
People Like Us will be co-hosting with two WFMU DJs in the second week of the marathon. Please listen, pledge, maybe win a prize, get some swag and know you helped us achieve good thing!
WEDNESDAY 9th MARCH 2011
9am-Noon (NY time): Ken Freedman with People Like Us
FRIDAY 11th MARCH 2011
Noon-3pm (NY time): Bryce with People Like Us
Tune in at http://www.wfmu.org
Pledge here:
Once the marathon has started you can also phone in your pledge while your favourite shows are on at 800-989-9368. If you live outside the US, phone your pledge at 1-201-413-9368. These numbers will ONLY work between 28th February and March 13th 2011.
The whole co-host schedule is here
Genre Collage at Transmediale 2011
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at Transmediale in Berlin on Wednesday 2nd February 2011. The performance venue is Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.
Genre Collage in Stockholm
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage live on Swedish Radio at Södra Teatern in Stockholm on Saturday 15th January 2011. More specific information will be available nearer the time.
Post-concert review here:
http://www.tidningenkulturen.se/kritik-mainmenu-52/musik-mainmenu-36/8112-musikkonsert-arts-birthday-party
Archive: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3676
People Like Us and The Aunties fill in for Ken on WFMU
DO or DIY with People Like Us will fill in for Ken on Wednesday, December 29th, 9am - Noon on WFMU, NY time. That is 2-5pm UK time.
This time around, the special guests returning to the mic will be Aunty Pat & Aunty Ellen.
http://www.wfmu.org/upcoming/fillins
Please Support WFMU
WFMU will be taking pledges to send Station Manager Ken aloft with helium balloons on Wednesday, December 8th, 11am-noon (pre-game show starts at 9am)! For every $1000 we raise, we’ll fill up a balloon and tie it to Ken's lawn chair. If we’re successful, Ken will lift off! We'll host a live video feed of the whole debacle, so you won't want to miss out.
Help keep WFMU and Ken aloft by using the brochure that will be hitting your mailbox soon, pledging online, or over the phone on December 8th. We’ve got a brand new t-shirt and a baseball cap up for grabs, too!
Prints of Darkness travels to Dundee
We are pleased to present Prints of Darkness at Matthew Gallery at DJCAD and
look forward to seeing you for a drink and chat at the preview on the 12th
November if you can make it.
Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 13 Perth
Road, Dundee.
More information on our print and record in the exhibition Prints of Darkness
http://www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/gallery/44a.htm
PREVIEW/// 12 November, 5-7pm
EXHIBITION/// 13 November 11 December
Andrew Cranston, Tommy Crooks, Malcy Duff, Duncan Marquiss, Lee O¹Connor, Christopher Orr, People Like Us, Norman Shaw, Edward Summerton, The Lonely Piper, Andy Wake, Mark Wallace.
This touring exhibition, which originated at Edinburgh Printmakers, celebrates the vinyl record as an abiding audio-visual artifact and recalls the golden age of the record cover in the thick of the post-psychedelic, goth-surrealistic, Art Nouveau, apocalyptic landscape explosion, now being revived in a current resurgence of collectable limited edition records with original artwork.
http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/programme_coming_soon.html
Generator, the Dundee's artist-led space, also has an exhibition preview
that night (7-9pm) which you could catch if you are in town: 'BE THE HAMMER
OR THE ANVIL', Rachel Adams, Solveig Einarsdottir, Mairi Lafferty, Rose
Ruane.
People Like Us play The British Film Festival 2010, Kiev
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at the opening of The British Film Festival 2010 at the Ukraine Cinema, 5 Horodetskogo St, Kiev, Ukraine on 11th November. There will also be an artist talk on the same day.
More information here:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ukraine-arts-film-festival-2010.htm
http://www.britishcouncil.org/ukraine-arts-film-festival-2010-guests.htm#people-like-us
People Like Us play Supersonic Festival, Birmingham
People Like Us will play the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham on 23rd October 2010, scheduled at 9.30pm.
Supersonic Festival is located at the Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, B9 4AA
ATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER
GODFLESH + MELT BANANA
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI / CAVE / CLOAKS (exclusive solo DJ set) / DOSH / EAGLE TWIN / GNAW / GNOD / KING MIDAS SOUND / LASH FRENZY vs KK NULL / LICHENS / OvO / PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES / PEOPLE LIKE US / STEVE TROMAN & DAN NICHOLLS DUO / STINKY WIZZLETEAT / TWEAK BIRD
The Keystone Cut Ups
THE KEYSTONE CUT UPS by PEOPLE LIKE US & ERGO PHIZMIZ (2010)
VIDEO TRAILER
Below is the "Magic" section:
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Also, watch Blue Moon here - http://vimeo.com/16885429
The Keystone Cut Ups was commissioned by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in July 2010, created in 9 weeks, and premiered at The Maltings Theatre, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK, at the festival Opening Gala. For background on the Berwick commission please read here.
DESCRIPTION
The Keystone Cut Ups is a live performance that combines video-collage with an original musical score, created using sampling and live instrumentation, to explore the aesthetic, contextual and stylistic relationships between early silent-comedy and early avant-garde cinema.
Using the influence of slapstick comedy on the Surrealists as a starting point, the piece takes us on a madcap journey, combining the techniques and popular imagery of the two genres.
The Surrealists took to cinema easily, using it as a device to show their disdain for established artistic tradition. In their quest to liberate the imagination, they believed that the process of juxtaposing unrelated elements would create images of great emotional and poetic power. Thomas Pynchon wrote, “one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical and startling effects”.
In early silent films the actors often came from the Vaudeville tradition. They used flamboyant body language and facial expressions, a style suited to melodramatic comedy, which was popular at the time for its escape value. The earliest films were influenced by the presentation methods of theatre and the stage sets and inclusion of orchestras and dancers were motifs of entertainment that stuck throughout cinema’s evolution.
The Keystone Cut Ups employs a surrealist approach, presenting images side by side on the screen at the same time. It includes the everyday objects, such as top hats or umbrellas that were utilized as props by both slapstick comedians and the Surrealists, as well as reflecting the concerns of the day like mass industrial automation, and the stories made popular through film at the time, which included clunky monsters and the fantasy of trips to the moon.
The work reflects simultaneously on the histories of these two distinct schools of cinema and how they inform one another, whilst producing a work whose structure and format is informed by both silent comedy and early experimental and avant garde cinema. - Iain Pate
TOURING
This work is now available for touring (cinemas and theatres only), please contact us for further details.
Like my favourite pieces of Art, it fuelled my imagination as I got lost in both the images and often fantastical music on stage. When it ended, I felt like I had been rudely awakened from one of those cool, euphoric dreams we sometimes have: disappointed to be woken up so soon. - Observealot
The duo couldn't have hoped for a better reception as they took their bows and to quote one man sitting behind in the audience, "it was absolutely fantastic." - Berwick Advertiser
REVIEWS
The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in Aesthetica Magazine (September 2010)
The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in The Scotsman (September 2010)
The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in IDMb News (September 2010)
The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in The Guardian Guide (September 2010)
Interview and feature about The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in Berwick Advertiser (September 2010)
Interview and feature about The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in Kyeo TV (September 2010)
Review of The Keystone Cut Ups (People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz) in Observealot (September 2010)
RELATED ITEMS
"Perpetuum Mobile" and "Ghosts Before Breakfast" - album download and a new soundtrack to Hans Richter's film
"Rhapsody in Glue" - album download
"Screen Play" - live soundtrack to Christian Marclay's film
PEOPLE LIKE US & ERGO PHIZMIZ BIOG
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”.
People Like Us website - http://www.peoplelikeus.org
Ergo Phizmiz website - http://www.ergophizmiz.net
"... a freeform, unfolding imaginary landscape that is liberally peppered with slapstick." - Phil England, The Wire
"Bennett has taken Eisenstein's montage collisions and refashioned them as bumper cars at a seaside carnival." - Jim Supanick, Film Society of Lincoln Center
“Genuinely astonishing” - Boomkat
“Hilarious, but also fascinating...audacious, kaleidoscopic pop assemblages” - Brainwashed
“Beautiful, compelling, funny, crazy stuff” - Matt Groening
Press Play Festival, Newcastle
SATURDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2010
£8
PURCHASE TICKETS
8PM - LATE
Star and Shadow, Stepney Bank, NE1 2NP, Visit Website, 0191 261 0066
People Like Us will play at Press Play Festival in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, performing a mixture of material from both Genre Collage and also snippets of earlier live sets from the past few years.
For more info on the entire Festival and this particular event go to
http://www.pressplayfestival.org/programme/saturday-2/eject-party
Tickets now available for the World Premiere of The Keystone Cut Ups
Opening Gala - The Keystone Cut Ups
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz
15th September 2010
Location: The Maltings Theatre, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK
UK / 2010 / 40 min / Cert. Suggested 12
World Premiere
The premiere performance of the new commission from artists People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz opens the Festival. The Keystone Cut Ups is a live performance that combines video-collage with an original musical score, created using sampling and live instrumentation, to explore the aesthetic, contextual and stylistic relationships between early silent-comedy and early avant-garde cinema.
Using the influence of slapstick comedy on the Surrealists as a starting point, the piece takes us on a madcap journey, combining the techniques and popular imagery of the two genres.
The Surrealists took to cinema easily, using it as a device to show their disdain for established artistic tradition. In their quest to liberate the imagination, they believed that the process of juxtaposing unrelated elements would create images of great emotional and poetic power. Thomas Pynchon wrote, “one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical and startling effects”.
In early silent films the actors often came from the Vaudeville tradition. They used flamboyant body language and facial expressions, a style suited to melodramatic comedy, which was popular at the time for its escape value. The earliest films were influenced by the presentation methods of theatre and the stage sets and inclusion of orchestras and dancers were motifs of entertainment that stuck throughout cinema’s evolution.
The Keystone Cut Ups employs a surrealist approach, presenting images side by side on the screen at the same time. It includes the everyday objects, such as top hats or umbrellas that were utilized as props by both slapstick comedians and the Surrealists, as well as reflecting the concerns of the day like mass industrial automation, and the stories made popular through film at the time, which included clunky monsters and the fantasy of trips to the moon.
The work reflects simultaneously on the histories of these two distinct schools of cinema and how they inform one another, whilst producing a work whose structure and format is informed by both silent comedy and early experimental and avant garde cinema. - Iain Pate
Don’t miss this unique event (which we have slaved over for the past two months!!!), followed by a drinks reception in the Maltings’ Stage Door Bar.
http://www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com/events-and-films/8/10/opening-gala-the-keystone-cut-ups#
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'.
The other commissions by other artists are:
Mat Fleming, Deborah Bower and Harriet Plewis – Mat has been making films since he was 18 with a special enthusiasm for 8mm and 16mm film. In 2001 he co-founded Cineside, which became the Side Cinema, and then Star and Shadow Cinema collective. Deborah is an artist, film enthusiast and zine maker. Having studied fine Art, she works mainly with film and the pieces often involve lone characters performing to camera in a cinematic manner. Harriet is a performance artist, movement director and co-founder of experimental theatre collective, The Awkwards. She trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris and frequently performs with companies including Zephyr in Zanussi Dance Collectif and Factory Party Productions. Her work, often comic, is concerned with the representation of authenticity and modern approaches to protest.
Corin Sworn – originally from Canada, Corin now lives and works in Glasgow. Her practice examines shifting ideals and understandings from one period in history to another. Sworn examines these themes through the production of objects, ephemera and films. These films use various historical events and understandings to construct loose narratives that wander among fragments of the past. Through the use of appropriation much of her work is built from these 'fragments'.
BJ Nilsen - is a Swedish sound and recording artist. His work is primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. Nilsen has created worked for documentary film, television and sound designer. He has collaborated with, among others, Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, Hildur Gudnadottir, Semiconductor, Brandon La Belle, Phillip Jeck and Jon Wozencroft.
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 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
Here is a presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage - at AV Festival 2010.
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.
Here is the presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage - at AV Festival 2010.
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
"GENRE COLLAGE" by VICKI BENNETT
the new A/V performance by PEOPLE LIKE US (created March-October 2009)
Media: Music and Moving Image
Length: 45 minutes
By combining compositing techniques, audio/music collage, and animation, People Like Us (in collaboration with Tim Maloney) examine the concept of "genre". By manipulating patterns, syntax, moods, narrative elements, recurring icons, 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 are creating a humorous, surrealistic, yet informative take on the content held within. The sound is partially taken from the films and partly from music holding corresponding messages, mood and lyrical content. The moving parts are cut around and collaged into each scene, complete with the source's accompanying audio and added contextual musical collage.
This project, complete with trailers and stills can be viewed online at
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/2009/genre_collage.html
People Like Us - The Sound Of The End Of Music [2010] from Vicki WFMU on Vimeo.
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use, and have made work using footage from the Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive, and A/V Geeks. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou left and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over a million "listen again" hits since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.
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 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.
Here is a presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage - at AV Festival 2010.
Recycled Film Symposium: 08 Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) from AV Festival.
Genre Collage has been screened at:
May 2011 - Auditorium of Rome, Italy
May 2011 - Mapping Festival, Geneva
April 2011 - Open Ears, Kitchener, Canada
March 2011 - Ambulante Festival, Mexico
February 2011 - Transmediale, Berlin
January 2011 - Swedish Radio, Stockholm
November 2010 - The British Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
September 2010 - Press Play Film Festival, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
August 2010 - Vintage Goodwood Festival, UK
August 2010 - Genre Collage in the Ukraine presented by Forma and the British Council
July 2010 - Bristol Arnolfini in conjunction with Encounters Film Festival
June 2010 - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
May 2010 - Liverpool Sound City, in conjunction with Sound and Music
May 2010 - Musraramix Festival - Jerusalem, Israel
April 2010 - Baltimore Transmodern 2010
April 2010 - Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
March 2010 - AV Festival, Newcastle
December 2009 BFI Southbank, London
December 2009 – Grand Café Zum Rothen Krebsen (IFEK Institut für erweiterte Kunst), Linz, Austria
November 2009 - NEW NEW! 2009 – Fleda, Brno, Czech Republic
October 2009 WFMU Record Fair, Manhattan
October 2009 Vancouver New Music Festival
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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
Parade is also on Vimeo.
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
Parade has been screened at:
March 2011 - Ambulante Festival, Mexico
July-Oct 2010 - In The Long Run: 30 Years of Great Running - Great North Museum: Hancock, UK
September–November 2009 - Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
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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