Selfish Cunt live at The George – Friday 29th Feb
See Selfish Cunt in all their glory at The George Tavern on Friday 29th February
LoveHowlMuse Artists Archive
The Documentary Imperative
Screenings of three new films by Jordan Baseman
Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 6pm
Saturday 1 March, 2pm & 4pm
The three films, Inside Man, An Event In The Village and The Documentary Imperative, continue Baseman’s research into ideas around contemporary portraiture and narrative structure, but also explore the nature, and experience of documentary filmmaking.
The Documentary Imperative
Monday 3 March, 6.30pm
Screening followed by an informal and open discussion about The Documentary Imperative with Amanda Ravetz, Rupert Cox, Steven Connor, Bryony Bond and Jordan Baseman.
For more information and forthcoming events go to www.alchemy.manchester.museum or email bryony.bond@manchester.ac.uk
All events take place at The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. To reserve places for events please call 0161 275 2648.
Look What They Done To My Song goes to the Arnolfini, Bristol
Michael Curran’s video work Look What They Done To My Song is touring to the Arnolfini in Bristol, from November 17th 2007 to January 6th 2008, 10am to 6pm, entrance free.
Featuring a number of musical performances played out against an improvised theatrical backdrop, the work investigates how music and songs become a means of defining our experiences as we use them to relax or inform our moods and emotions. During the editing process the recorded footage of the performances has been manipulated, creating a series of new rhythms, counterpoints and silences, which explore the construction of songs and narrativity and provide an atmosphere almost like that of a séance.
The songs are sung by three performers, each from a different genre. The work takes its name from a 60s folksong by Melanie Safka – a song that could suggest the unravelling of a singer and song. Look What They Done To My Song was commissioned by Matt’s Gallery, London, and will be accompanied by a free publication that includes a CD of the performances.
Jordan Baseman – Joy On Toast exhibition
Joy On Toast, A Story Of Botanical Collection, is a new exhibition of work by Jordan Baseman at the Manchester Museum Botanical Storerooms. There are only six screenings, from the 15th to the 24th November. All screenings are free, but places are strictly limited – please phone 0161 275 2648 to reserve a place. For more details of screening times etc. click here to download a Joy On Toast Flyer (PDF, 800K).
Jordan Baseman exhibitions
Jordan Baseman – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
15th September – 7th November 2007
Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction showcases a collection of new single-screen film and sound works by Jordan Baseman, including a new Hatton Gallery commission, Voice Hearers (2007), created in collaboration with Douglas Turkington, Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Northumberland Tyne and Wear Trust and funded by Arts Council England.The works consider portraiture, identity, the study of ourselves, aspiration, belief, and the nature of our very existence, dealing equally in notions of false starts, mistakes, errors and failures. How do all of these ideas and states manifest themselves in our lives? In (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Jordan Baseman seeks to question something of the broad spectrum of human experience.
Artist’s Talk: Jordan Baseman and Professor Douglas Turkington
Wednesday 3rd October 2007, 6 – 8 pm / FREE
Roaming tour of the exhibition with Jordan Baseman, including an informal discussion with the artist and professor Douglas Turkington. Numbers limited: please contact the gallery to reserve a place.
Gallery Information
Monday to Saturday, 10am – 5pm, Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays
Admission Free
The Hatton Gallery, The Quadrangle, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU – Telephone: 0191 222 6059 – Email: hatton-gallery@ncl.ac.uk – Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/hatton
Jordan Baseman will also be in the group show Grain, an exploration of the contemporary landscape using sound, in Grain Power Station, Kent.
Michael Curran Exhibition – Look What They Done To My Song
19th September – 18th November 2007 / Wednesday – Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm
42-44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR / Mile End Tube
Telephone: (020) 8983 1771 / Website: www.mattsgallery.org
This is the first time that Michael Curran has shown at Matt’s Gallery and is his first solo exhibition in London. For this new commission Michael Curran presents a site-specific installation exploring filmed spectacle, performance and the dynamic that is created between a sculptural composition and video projection.
Three songs – The Devil is Afraid of Music, What Have They Done To My Song Ma? and How Does It Feel To Feel? – were performed and filmed in the exhibition space of Matt’s Gallery making it into an open recording session and film set for a three-day period. Through the subsequent editing process the material was subjected to radical temporal shifts in the form of loops, overlays, speeding, slowing and repetition creating a series of rhythms, counterpoints and silences, all exploring the construction of song and narrative expectation forming a drama (or crisis) of performance. The songs themselves are literally at stake, their survival questioned through these processes of translation.
The overall feeling is that of a séance in which the enquiry is: what have they done to my song?
This exhibition is accompanied by a free publication, the 14th in the second series of Matt’s Gallery booklets.
The film Look What They Done To My Song will tour to the Arnolfini, Bristol.
Sexy ectoplasmatic – cult artist Marc Hulson is on LoveHowlMuse
If you are in London, you can see Marc Hulson‘s latest work in the flesh at his show this weekend and next weekend at the Five Years Gallery. THIS is a show that you shouldn’t miss!Drop by the gallery on your weekend prowl in Hackney. The Five Years Gallery is around the corner from the Columbia Road Flower Market and just off Broadway Market on Regent’s Canal.If you are not in London, or can’t make it to his show, or just want a sneaky peek into the dark then click here to see his page on LoveHowlMuse.
Selfish Cunt opens for Motorhead – Show me your fucking money
Imagine your lover teases you into a position you never dreamed possible – you discover a passion you never knew you had – you flail and plead – and scream for a god – and surrender and surrender – you are undone. Selfish Cunt in all its innocence knows how to take you there – this is not an idea – this is not an image – this is your undoing.
What do you do when you put THAT before an unadventurous lover – someone who secures power in their routine? What do THEY do when their power is shown to be a pastiche?
So many questions, so many questions, when all that there really is, is desire.
The Royal Festival Hall wakes up to desire…
Selfish Cunt take the stage dwarfed by Motorhead’s Marshall stacks – that probably go up to 11 – and render them irrelevant. A black hole opens – and screams – YOU’VE GOT IT ALL WRONG! Right from the start there’s a misunderstanding about what you’re expecting and what you’re going to get.
Selfish Cunt release “Avocado” – artwork censored
This week, Selfish Cunt released Avocado as a digital single. The band are now hitting their stride – faster, angrier and more confident – and you can hear it. Martin Tomlinson sounds like he’s shouting at his wayward children from the open balcony of a housing estate – urgent, wise and ain’t gonna take no shit. Patrick Constable’s guitars achieve the seemingly impossible by sounding speedy and louche at the same time. Their electronic drum machine has been replaced by Bambi, who drums like the hammers of Hades. Youth, a founder member of Killing Joke, holds down the fort with his bassline and deft production skills.You can listen to an excerpt on Selfish Cunt’s page.On submission to iTunes, the artwork was deemed to be “not in good taste” and the track was “hidden” from public view. Here is an excerpt from their email rejecting the artwork:
“The image of a woman laying on her back with exposed breasts, spread legs, holding an avocado (?) over her genitalia, combined with the word “cunt” is not felt to be in good taste. Due to differences in definitions there is a chance that this cover art would be okayed for a European release… A playlist under North American or world wide release is subject to different scrutiny. We are dealing with why the hide notes only said “nipples” when this was obviously not the only problem.”
So here’s the artwork in question:
