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Dear Serge is a FREE bi-monthly event at the De La Warr Pavilion showcasing the best in cutting-edge live music, performance and art.

Named after one of the forward-thinking architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Dear Serge is an afternoon and evening of eclectic live performances. From live music, art, and live performance pieces to the more diverse artistic practices, you can’t afford to miss it. Dear Serge will take you on a visual, auditory and experiential journey with performances taking place in a variety of spaces around the building.

All welcome, free parking on seafront and bar/cafe open.

FREE

Sunday 15 February 2015 (11am to 5pm)

Hypnotized // LIVE MUSIC
Performance at 3:35pm

Psychedelic electronica band Hypnotized use warped visuals, strobes, face paint and masks to make their shows intense and unpredictable.

Their influences range from Electronica, Krautrock, Hip-Hop, Dub, Noise, Space Rock, and Psychedelia.

“One of the things that make Hypnotized so compelling is their refusal to stand still. Every gig they play a completely different set…one of the most promising bands in Brighton” Brighton Noise
http://www.brightonnoise.co.uk/interview/?p=73701

Anneka Warburton // LIVE MUSIC
Performance 1: Recursive: De La Warr 1.40pm
Performance 2: Anneka live set. 3.15pm

Anneka is a Brighton based vocalist, whose unmistakable vocal harmonies have already graced records by Forest Swords, Falty DL, Ital Tek and Lone, on labels such as Tri-Angle, Planet Mu and R&S, and seen her feature on a Mary Anne Hobbs BBC Radio 1 Live Session from the legendary Maida Vale Studios, alongside Starkey. Her recently released apocalyptic a capella ‘End Of It’ gives a taste of what’s to come in 2015.

For her performance of Recursive: De La Warr, Anneka has worked with audio recorded in and around De La Warr, sampling every day sounds as well as sung notes in order to create a rich bank of material. She has then experimented with this audio in order to create a brand new experimental sound piece specifically for Dear Serge.

Anneka will also play a 20 solo live set of her electronic alt-pop music project of the same name. Armed with drumsticks, sample pads, a keyboard, vocals and more.

http://annekamusic.co.uk/

LAST STATION LOCATED:BEXHILL-ON-SEA /ROYAL SOVEREIGN
Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge // Performance & Workshop

Last Station, located&dislocated.

Performances at 12:30pm, 1.15pm and 3.05pm // Foghorning Workshops at 11.30 & 2pm // Installation open 11:30am to 5pm

As part of an ongoing and developing national tour, Mary Hooper and Elise Liversedge have been exploring the heritage and legacy of Light Vessels, and the theme of ‘location & dislocation’. These ships were in effect, floating Light Houses in service from 1738 – 1989 to warn seafarers of the dangers of the shifting sandbanks off the coasts around the UK. Light Vessels are a little known about and important part of the Maritime history of the UK and the communities they served.
At Dear Serge the artists will present some of the works inspired by the sights, sounds and stories they have researched and collected over the course of the project: 2 performances by local singers conducted by John Langridge, of ‘The Light Vessel’ choral work commissioned by Elise & Mary in 2013 from Trevor Watts; a fun open singing workshop led by Claire Hamill to recreate the sounds of ship’s foghorns with the human voice, followed by a BLAST to the Sovereign Light Station from the DLWP balcony; and “Located” a red steel sculpture which references the construction and symbolic presence of the Light Vessel.

To take part in the Foghorning workshop please attend the rehearsal sessions which will be running at 11.30 or 14:00 on the day. Please sign up to be involved at the eventbright listing here: http://tinyurl.com/Laststationfoghorn

Jamie Griffiths // Installation

Primal Orb – IN and OUT (air & paper)
Running 11:30am to 5pm

Jamie Griffiths is an interdisciplinary artist working with lens-based mediums, computers, live performance & interactive video installations that often include sound and audio-analysis, wireless control systems and motion tracking.

For Dear Serge Jamie will be presenting an interactive digital artwork, including a 3D HD projection installation. Installed across the main foyer and a second space this ambitious work explores Big Data, Surveillance, and the uses of these systems in contemporary society.

Custom 3D software has been developed for use in the project, in collaboration with Dr. Rob Scharein, a computer vision specialist based in Vancouver, Canada.

Joan Alexander // Installation
Shadow Dial Studies XII
Open 11:30am to 5pm

Joan Alexander studied Philosophy at Queens University of Belfast and the Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven, before moving to Brighton to
complete her Masters in photography. In her practice Joan uses philosophy, photography and drawing in equal measure. For Dear Serge the artist has been commissioned to use her Shadow Dial process to create a new work specific to the De La Pavilion. Working with shadows cast at various locations around the building, these investigations of time and finitude offer a delicate and beguiling way of examining the Pavilion and its occupants.

www.joanalexander.net

Venetia Nevill // Painting Performance
Perfomances at 2.20pm & 4pm

Venetia’s practice incorporates painting, sound, film and performance. She is drawn to multi-sensory and experiential work and her current practice encompasses activating unusual transition spaces. Staircases symbolise renewal and spiritual transformation and she accesses the underlying rhythms of them through paint and sound.

Using the powerful resonance of the North Staircase she will collaborate with live musicians to celebrate the Celtic festival of ‘Imbolc’. This marks the beginning of spring with its promise of renewal and release of hidden potential. The earth’s awakening will be evoked by the heartbeat of shamanic drumming and the artist will spontaneously paint in response to the music of Frances Shelley.

www.venetianevill.com

John Strutton in collaboration with Riccardo Carbone // Live Performance
Performances at 2.45pm & 4.20pm

Over the past 12 years Strutton has been making a series of drawings using an old wind-up gramophone to produce facsimiles of 7″ records. recently this activity has developed into a performance in which the emphasis will shift from the product to the process, and focus more on the ritualistic aspect of making; a kind of séance in which Carbone and Strutton attempt to give voice to the information being inscribed on the paper.

John Strutton is an artist and musician living and working in London. Over the past few years Strutton has been working on a growing archive of short video works with soundtracks drawn from material recorded by Strutton’s band “Arthur Brick” and fellow musician Riccardo Carbone. In 1999 he formed the “The Band of Nod” which performed and exhibited at Camden Arts Centre, Reading Festival, Tate Britain and The Whitechapel Gallery. Recent solo exhibitions include “Grease Madonna” (2014) and “Opus Dopus” (2012) at Domobaal, London and “Donderslag” at Volta NY, New York (2009). Recent group exhibitions include “The Right Hand Gives, The Left Hand Takes Away”, Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands (2013), “MK Calling”, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes (2013) and “Parkhaus”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (2008).

http://johnstrutton.com

Riccardo Carbone is a musician and sound engineer living and working in Bristol. He writes and records his own material under the name of “Our Carbone” and has worked and mixed tracks with Bishi, Micko Westmoreland, Piper’s Son, Peter Harris & Lee Perry, Adrian Sherwood, Appleseed and Arthur Brick.

http://rickcarbone.com

John Fewell // Foley Presentation
Performances at 12:45pm and 2pm – duration 30mins

John is a professional ‘foley sound’ artist who has worked on some of the best known film and TV shows of recent times. For Dear Serge he will be demonstrating some of the classic techniques live, explaining some of the secrets of the trade and offering young an old the chance to join in and create sound effects for well know TV sequences.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275464/

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You can view videos of past Dear Serge artists in Dear Serge presents…here at dlwp.tv

Past Dear Serge events can be found on our archive pages here

     

Dear Serge is a FREE bi-monthly Saturday event at the De La Warr Pavilion showcasing the best in cutting-edge live music, performance and art.

Named after one of the forward-thinking architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Dear Serge is an afternoon and evening of eclectic live performances. From live music, art, and live performance pieces to the more diverse artistic practices, you can’t afford to miss it. Dear Serge will take you on a visual, auditory and experiential journey with performances taking place in a variety of spaces around the building.

Sunday 14 September

London creative music venue Cafe OTO take over the De La Warr Pavilion with five simultaneous, extended duration performances across the building.

Open 12 – 6pm.
(Performances taking place from approximately 1 – 5pm)

All welcome, free parking on seafront and bar/cafe open.

Free

OREN AMBARCHI & JOHN BERTHLING

It’s been more than 10 years since this pair issued their last collaboration of weighted, throbbing stasis ‘My Days Are Darker Than Your Nights’ on Berthling’s Häpna label. In that time, both musicians have created a massive body of work that stretches from krautrock ecstatics and rocketing noise (notably together when Oren joined FIRE!) to the most subtle, liminal tone float. Armed with guitars, electronics, drums and hammond organ and performing through the monster PA of DLWP’s main auditorium this duo return promises to scale all kinds of auditory heights.

Oren Ambarchi is a guitarist and drummer from Australia who has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Fennesz, Charlemagne Palestine, Thomas Brinkmann, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Merzbow, Jim O’Rourke, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, John Tilbury, Evan Parker, Fire! and many more. Since 2004 Ambarchi has worked with American avant metal outfit Sunn 0))) contributing to many of their releases including their Black One album from 2005 and their acclaimed Monoliths & Dimensions release. Ambarchi has released numerous recordings for labels such as Touch, Southern Lord, Editions Mego, Kranky and Tzadik. His latest solo releases are Audience Of One and Sagittarian Domain, which was voted #1 in Spin magazine’s Best Avant albums of 2012.

www.orenambarchi.com

TAPE

Johan Berthling is one of the founding members of Swedish trio TAPE, the bass player for the trio Fire! with Mats Gustafsson & Andreas Werliin and is involved with many other projects ranging from free jazz to rock. His collaborators include Mats Gustafsson, Akira Sakata, Paal Nilssen-Love and many others.

www.tape.se

lll人

lll人 (pronounced /el/) is Daichi Yoshikawa, Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright. Daichi Yoshikawa / Feedback

Paul Abbott / Drums

Seymour Wright / Alto Saxophone

gjērhan, (!)

From subterranea, sweat, haze and dedication emerging out of intimate and intense weekly meetings begun in 2009 – their first, 2012 public performance, squeezed into a London basement was a sheer, vexed and exhilarating smack of organic, heterodyning ideas, and taut, lowbeating lumps.

Reemerge/revanish.

With the economy of familiar/traditional raw tools feedback, drumkit, altosaxophone, time, space and emotion lll人 move from molten musical pasts to grow future pleasures in sound.

The ingredients are familiar, but the listening is not.

At its heart is a still, undecorated concentration fuelling an extreme testing of limbs, language and order. This has no concern with collapsing difference into a vogueish flattened mass froth, but searches – forensically, ceaselessly – for something to chew, in the challenge of discretion and integrity or asylum in the body of its instruments.

Akilsakilan learning, Doughnut.

Finding, twisting and hammering out an expanding musical universe balanced only by its own logics – lll人 have few obvious comparisons. Their performances are consistent radical negotiations of the emotional, physical and social energies of the environments they sound out.

Perfectly Reasonable.

RIE NAKAJIMA

Rie Nakajima is an artist working with installations and performances that produce sound. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of audio materials and found objects.

The works created for the purposes of “playing” the sounds she has in mind are often placed matter-of-factly on the floor or take the form of assembled objects that serve as sound makers, giving rise to inorganic spaces. Listening to the works in such finely honed environments brings to the surface in a pure way people’s imagination, memories, and deepest thoughts. Nakajima graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and received a BA in Sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and an MA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Since then Nakajima has exhibited and performed widely both in the UK and overseas. In early 2014 Nakajima was awarded the Arts Foundation award for experimental music.

“Time passes quickly, in fascination, perhaps because the room has become a complex clock mechanism, hushed and busy, its ticking moving in all directions as if time is a dismembered body, wandering away from itself. There is no such thing as ‘moving forward’; stop using that expression now, or then, or ever.” David Toop on Rie Nakajima (http://davidtoopblog.com/2012/08/23/falling-under-a-charm-rie-nakajima/)

http://www.rienakajima.com

SHELLEY PARKER

Shelley Parker is an artist based in London. Her practice explores the experiential potential of sound and image through the manipulation of technology and the study of structure and material. Live audio feeds, bass frequencies and found sounds are recurring themes within her performance, installation and music production.

In 2003 she joined the Haywire DJ roster alongside Andrew Weatherall, Radioactive Man and Magda. Her distinctive bass driven sets, encompassing elements of old school hardcore, techno and electro led to regular DJ sets at Fabric, The End and also Tate Britain. Since 2008, she has performed her bass heavy hypnotic live sets alongside artists such as Mick Harris, Mark Fell and Chris & Cosey at venues spanning the Barbican, De la Warr Pavilion and most recently The Outer Church at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Her site specific live sets include Beachy Head for the Cerith Wynn Evans’ programme incorporating a live audio feed from nearby Beachy Head (De la Warr Pavilion, 2012) and for her residency at Space, a live performance at the White Building employing sounds of the static hiss of pylons and electricity hum recorded at Dungeness Power Station (July 2012). In May 2013 she also contributed to the Hydroacoustics event (alongside Zoviet France, TVO and Roly Porter) with a performance inside the hull of the MS Stubnitz constructed entirely from audio samples of the ship itself.

Her sound installations include Bird Cage for the John Cage retrospective (De la Warr Pavilion, 2011) and Northfleet in All Saints Church, Lydd commissioned by Art in Romney Marsh in response to a performance by the South Bank’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (2012). Additional commissions include Cast (Cold War Modern Art & Design, Victoria & Albert Museum), Boiler House (Cornelius Cardew retrospective) and film screenings at Supernormal and Latitude. Her music production has received DJ support from Manni Dee, The Black Dog and Ancient Methods and includes remixes for Filter Feeder, Ensemble Adapter and Posthuman. In 2013 she released two solo EP’s: Power Station on her label Structure and Sleeper Line for Entr’acte which was voted by Fact Magazine as one of the best EP’s from Jan – June 2013. Additional releases include Anvil for Acre Recordings and Drill for the Wire Magazine’s Below the Radar series. Since 2007 she has run the label and events programme Structure exploring aspects of found sound, noise and the legacy of British bass music.

http://www.shelleyparker.co.uk

https://soundcloud.com/shelleyparker/01-fixed-connectors-clip

PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES

Manchester ritualistic improvisors/sound artists Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols aka part wild horses mane on both sides present an absorbing and tactile installation-performance work that searches for new ways of experiencing sound while camouflaging the processes of its creation.

The pair tailor each show to the location using bespoke speaker placement, live instrumentation, acousmatic interventions and the subtle deployment of multi-sensory elements, drawing the audience into a bewitching sonic maze. Building upon a core of three looping, simultaneously played tape compositions and a conscious bridling of audio/visual perception, the show’s territory will be mapped in response to each venue’s architecture and acoustics, encouraging participants to explore the space and move through the stageless production generating their own sui generis experience.

Kelly Jayne Jones and Pascal Nichols are part wild horses mane on both sides, a consistently idiosyncratic and adventurous free music group. Hailing from the north of England via France they have the ability to induce hermetic sonic states through a process of ritualistic improvisation. Employing flute, percussion and electronics alongside a vast cache of sonic artefacts that they have collected over the years (field recordings, found objects, old media), they conjure up a bold and evocative ancient/modern sound spectrum. Their compositions/performances traverse epic contours, veering from moments of spare, poetic beauty to unhinged rural psychedelia, unified by an acute awareness of time, space and silence.

They have released countless limited run editions on cassette, vinyl and CD via their own Rayon Recs imprint, Singing Knives, Chocolate Monk, Carnivals and MIE, with a forthcoming release scheduled on Beniffer. Among many projects they have collaborated with Pelt and Michael Morley of the Dead C as Pelt Part Wild Gate and with Ashtray Navigations as Human Horses. They have also worked extensively with the artist Haris Epaminonda on a number of film-sound installations, exhibiting at Tate Modern London, Modern Art New York, Kunsthaus Zurich and Modern Art Oxford among others.

http://partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides.com

Izabela Brudkiewicz

Working outside of our Gallery space we have Izabela Brudkiewicz, who
presents ‘Not so, after all.’

A performance artist based in Hastings who recently graduated from the
Fine Art BA at Hastings College, Izabela’s work is characterised by
extended durational performances undertaken in the public realm. Often
working over a number of days, Izabela’s performances push herself to
the very limits of her physical and mental endurance. Through these
actions Izabela is interested in examining the near endless repetition
of pointless, yet physically demanding tasks, and how these acts can
force her to explore concepts of sacrifice, failure and spiritual
contemplation.

For 7 days, 8 hours a day, Izabela will be pushing a large spherical
object, created from layers of blankets, wire, paper and felt, on a
route along Bexhill promenade and encircling the Pavilion. Through
carrying out these actions in public spaces Brudkiewicz creates an
intriguing intervention, often creating interest and a talking point for
passers by. This human interaction is an important part of the work and
Brudkiewicz will invite people to write notes and thoughts inspired by
her piece. These notes are then added to the ball to remain with
Brudkiewicz for the duration of her task.

The performance will come to an end at the De La Warr Pavilion at 5pm on Sunday the 14th September as part of Dear Serge.

http://izabelabrudkiewicz.tumblr.com/

To keep up to date with artists and acts as they are announced, follow Dear Serge on Twitter or join the Facebook page

You can view videos of past Dear Serge artists in Dear Serge presents… here at dlwp.tv

Past Dear Serge events can be found on our archive pages here

     

Dear Serge is a FREE bi-monthly Saturday event at the De La Warr Pavilion showcasing the best in cutting-edge live music, performance and art.

Named after one of the forward-thinking architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Dear Serge is an afternoon and evening of eclectic live performances. From live music, art, and live performance pieces to the more diverse artistic practices, you can’t afford to miss it. Dear Serge will take you on a visual, auditory and experiential journey with performances taking place in a variety of spaces around the building.

All welcome, free parking on seafront and bar/cafe open.

FREE

NEXT DEAR SERGE: Saturday 15th November (12-6pm)

Cieciura/De Sousa // Architectural Installation for Video and Light
Felt Volume

Cieciura and De Sousa first worked together whilst studying for a Masters degree at the Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton UK 2010/2012. The collaboration formed through a shared belief in the transformative qualities of live art. Through a continually evolving dialogue, Cieciura and De Sousa share and develop their creative practice with a wider audience.

How do we experience space? What is the ‘sensation of space’? Oskar Schlemmer, whilst working on his dance productions at the Bauhaus, considered Raumempfindung or ‘felt volume’ to be complex challenge; the opposition of visual plane and spatial depth. Cieciura/De Sousa – in order to further explore this opposition – will transform the roof space of the De La Warr Pavilion into an experiential artwork. The interchanging relationship between the audience, space and geometric form will be streamed live to the De La Warr Pavilion auditorium. By collating the two experiences, the audience will gain a greater understanding of the sensation of the space: felt volume.

Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. 2nd ed. USA: Thames & Hudson Inc, 2011. Print.

Non-Blank (Oliver Cherer and Riz Maslen) // Sound Installation / Live Music Performance


Since 1935

In a celebration of a genuinely iconic building, non-blank will be performing Since 1935, a semi-improvised suite of music based on recordings, schemes and strategies made and devised in and around the De La Warr Pavilion. Over the summer, Oliver Cherer and Riz Maslen have been in in residence at the pavilion, in both public and private spaces, exploring the sonic possibilities that the architecture has to offer. From the mechanical fire curtain on the stage to the pitch-modulating echo of the auditorium balcony, the claustrophobia of its roof void and the deep natural reverb of the staircases, the building’s very particular spaces have provided samples and inspiration which the duo will use as the basic ingredients of their performance on November 15th.

Recent shows have included spontaneous composition involving church organs, a male voice choir, school children armed with hand bells and game passers-by on massed corrugaphones.

Riz is Maslen well known for her long list of recordings and projects under the Neotropic moniker and Ollie Cherer has been trading for the last decade under musical alias Dollboy and, along with Darren Morris on keyboard instruments and Jack Hayter on steel guitar and viola, they come together as non-blank and will be “playing the building” in a live experiment in sound and music. They will be using old tape machines, organic, analogue and digital instruments, voices and willing members of the audience to improvise around and react to the results of their summer research at the De La Warr Pavilion.

Lynn Dennison // Sound and Video Installation

Waterfall

Lynn Dennison’s installations use film and sound to explore the meanings created when the exterior enters the interior, when the bucolic, arcadian and romantic connotations of land and seascape enter, or encounter in other ways, the built environment. She is interested in the idea of a fear of the landscape, and the creation of an artwork that suggests the enormity of nature.

In ‘Waterfall’, video and sound have been used to create a place where culture and nature converge. This installation invites spectators to experience the De La Warr Pavilion in a new way, creating a connection between inside and out.

Romvelope // Sound Sculpture and Live Music Performance

Located somewhere between electro acoustic music and sound sculptural bricolage, Romvelope aka Bjørn Hatleskog, releases music and makes sound sculpture exploringthe nature of feedback loops and, noise and interference and their relationship with music. These ideas are examined through the construction of modular devices which are combined to form semi-autonomous musical instrument cum sound installations, which function like machines or very primitive computers.

The subject matter of my work is noise and its relationship with music. Interference as it is manifested in electronic communication systems in the form of electromagnetic interference. And feedback, its application sonically as well as its mechanical application as the basis for self-regulating mechanisms like automata.

Christos Fanaras will be joining Romvelope for the live performance aspects of the work. High end electronic drones and weirdness, do not miss…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtgZzXqwb5I&feature=youtu.be

Margarita Gluzberg // Installation and Performance Lecture

*Rock On Bones* was the name of a trend practiced in the Soviet Union primarily during the 1950’s and early 60’s and was a way of cutting records of banned music from the West illegally, using discarded medical x-ray transparencies in place of vinyl. By constructing a collage of new and archival visual material, this performance-lecture adopts the x-ray record as a device to navigate the wider notions of consumption and censorship.

Japanes Sweets // Audio and Live Projections

The solo project of Owen Thomas, Japanese Sweets uses analog oscillators, samples and electronics to create undulating disembodied compositions redolent of past experimenters such as Suzanne Ciani and Cluster; accompanied by video projections incorporating found footage and video synthesizers to create a unique audio/visual experience.

To keep up to date with artists and acts as they are announced, follow Dear Serge on Twitter or join the Facebook page

You can view videos of past Dear Serge artists in Dear Serge presents…here at dlwp.tv

Past Dear Serge events can be found on our archive pages here

     

NEXT DEAR SERGE:

SATURDAY 15TH MARCH 12-6pm – FREE

FREE! Daytime and evening art, music and performance. A real treat this month as Dear Serge also coincides with the opening of the new exhibition I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart with speeches at 3pm.

Dear Serge is a FREE bi-monthly Saturday event at the De La Warr Pavilion showcasing the best in cutting-edge live music, performance and art.

You can view videos of past Dear Serge acts at dlwp.tv

Bar open, free parking on seafront.

Named after one of the forward-thinking architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Dear Serge is an afternoon and evening of eclectic live performances. From live music, art, and live performance pieces to the more diverse artistic practices, you can’t afford to miss it. Dear Serge will take you on a visual, auditory and experiential journey with performances taking place in a variety of spaces around the building.

12-6pm Riz Maslen
Departure Lounge, a film and sound installation, focuses on an illness that led to two weeks in hospital. During this stay I was given the drug Cyclosporine that resulted in a psychedelic trip experience, one that was filled with a never ending black hole that I felt I would never be able to get out of…Departure lounge evokes this journey of both despair and hope of an escape, both from my illness and the hospital bed.

UK, electronic innovator and sound artist, Riz Maslen, has recorded under the guises of Neotropic and Small Fish with Spine and has been described as one of the most prominent women composers working in post-techno experimental electronics. “My work is continually growing and I as an artist which to both challenge and push the boundaries in all aspects of my work. “

http://neotropic.net/

12pm and 3pm Lisa Milroy / Party of One // wearable dresspaintings
As part of the current exhibition, Lisa Milroy’s Party of One (2013) in Gallery 2 includes a presentation of ‘dresspaintings’ hung on handmade display stands alongside a wearable dresspainting of the same pattern. At certain points during the exhibition, and at 12noon and 3pm during Dear Serge, a staff member of the Pavilion will don the wearable dresspainting and engage performatively with Party of One.

http://www.lisamilroy.net/

12.30pm-1.30pm Graham Dunning Workshop
Ghost in the Machine Music:
Build an abstract music making machine using scratched records, turntables and keyboards. Then jump on the controls as a group and free the ghost in the machine with a live mixing performance. (The sounds you produce will be recorded and you’ll receive a digital copy) Email dearserge@dlwp.com to book a place on this workshop

2.15pm-2.45pm Graham Dunning – Performance
Vinyl dissonance for lost memories: a live rhythmical collage made of squeezed record crackle, analogue synthesizer, dubplates of field recordings, dusty shellac records and clumsily triggered drum machines.

Graham dunning creates art in many formats but the common thread across all of his work is the use of found objects and sound.

“My background is in experimental music and this continues into the art I make and how I go about it. I use experimentation and play as a main part of my making process. I also like to set myself restrictions for my projects similarly to the way scientific experiments are conducted. Noise – as unwanted sound like record crackle or tape hiss – often features in my work, and a visual equivalent in dirt, dust or decay. I often try and repeat a visual process with audio, and vice versa.

http://grahamdunning.com/

3PM TO 3:30PM NEW EXHIBITION OPENING SPEECHES

3:30pm-4pm Oliver Coates
For Dear Serge, Oliver is creating a special cello and electronics set which includes a new arrangement of Messiaen’s Ondes Martenot 1937 electronic piece Oraison. He will then improvise music for the resonant space, using generative Euclidean rhythms which permutate rotations of reverse-sampled pizzicato chords in minimalist patterns as well as small processed cuts of folk song.

Oliver Coates’ position as an Artist in Residence at Southbank Centre has lead him to the forefront of curating and performing unique arts events which have built entirely new audiences for live music. Reflecting upon this he decided to explore principles of context and sound, working on a self-produced album Towards the blessed islands released on 12-inch vinyl as the first release for new experimental imprint PRAH, part of Moshi Moshi records.

“an itinerant love letter to the instrument, an album of deep resonance and fleeting harmonics.” The Wire

“subtly devastating results”, “like a message delivered over a sea wind.” The Guardian

www.olivercoates.com

4:15-5pm Soccer96
with lightshow by Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow

Soccer 96 are a London + Brighton-based duo transmitting epic synthscapes over poly-rhythmic, jazz drums in a brutal cocktail of tight electronica & the spontaneous energy of improvisation.

“My new favourite band” Steve Lamacq, BBC

Heavy, mind-melting euphoria meets virtuosity in their inspired blend of electro-funk, jazz fusion & progressive pop.

“Fresh polyrhythmic electro with crisp live virtuoso drums. Highly recommended.” Tom Robinson BBC6

“In these harsh economic times we need bands that deliver bold statements. This is revolutionary pop at its finest. I’ll get my gun.” Toby Rogers, The Generator

http://www.wormfood.co.uk/soccer-96/

Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow

And God said, Let there be lightshow: and there was lightshow. And God saw the lightshow, and it was good.

Innerstrings Psychedelic Lightshow will dazzle with their old school lightshow,using liquid and op-art projections.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/innerstrings-psychedelic-lightshow/119380684745264

5pm-6pm Live DJ

NEWS:

The De La Warr Pavilion has launched a call-out for artists to create a new piece of work or project within the following four areas: moving image, performance, installation and music. However we also welcome ideas that challenge these definitions. We are particularly interested in proposals that engage with the essential properties of our building.

We can offer up to £500 to develop each selected project.

For more details please click here to download the Commissions PDF.

FUTURE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

17 May

5th/12th July (tbc)

27 September

15 November

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FREE! Daytime art, music and performance event.

This month we spoil you with some fantastic live performances including Robert Stilman, composer and multi-instrumentalist from the northeast United States and a one off set of film screenings commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in 2000, accompanied by a programme of live performance.

Dear Serge is a FREE bi-monthly Saturday event at the De La Warr Pavilion showcasing the best in cutting-edge live music, performance and art.

You can view videos of past Dear Serge acts at dlwp.tv

Bar open, free parking on seafront.

Named after one of the forward-thinking architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Dear Serge is an afternoon and evening of eclectic live performances. From live music, art, and live performance pieces to the more diverse artistic practices, you can’t afford to miss it. Dear Serge will take you on a visual, auditory and experiential journey with performances taking place in a variety of spaces around the building.

FREE – NEXT EVENT: 25th January

12-6pm (running all afternoon):

Galleries open // art

Matt Calderwood Exhibition in Gallery 2 – http://www.dlwp.com/event/matt-calderwood-exposure

Alison Turnbull exhibition in Gallery 1 – http://www.dlwp.com/event/alison-turnbull

Live DJs // music

Henry L Collins // kinetic sound sculpture

Location based touring work ‘creating friction’ uses modified consumer electronics to create automaton driven soundscapes. These works draw on the history of sonic experimentation with amplified objects.

Jayne Parker & Anton Lukoszevieze // film & music

A recurring theme in Jayne Parker’s recent film works has been her deepening interest in contemporary classical music – as reflected in a number of fluent and assured chamber pieces featuring performances by the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze.

This series of works, inaugurated by the quartet ‘Foxfire Eins’, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in 2000, is celebrated in this one-off event at De la Warr Pavilion, with screenings around the building, and live performance by Lukoszevieze.

This event forms part of Film and Video Umbrella’s anniversary programme, ‘25 Frames’.

12pm // Sophie Giblin // workshop

Arts and crafts workshop like you’ve never seen before. Work as quickly as possible dealing with challenges faced in the art world, but accelerated. The aim of the day is to create a DIY exhibition on a tiny budget and master the skill of making quick and calm decisions. Sophie Giblin, curator of Kollektiv Gallery came up with Fast Art five months ago as the first step towards opening a her own pop up gallery.

The Fast Art agenda:

• Bring £1 with you to create a small budget.

• Collaborate as a group to generate an idea.

• Make the idea happen from the tiny budget.

• Exhibit the work together.

• Sell the artwork to the public.

This will all take place over the space of 5 hours.

To book a place on this workshop – please email dearserge@dlwp.com asap as places are limited.

2pm // Anton Lukoszevieze // live cello performance

Avant-garde cellist, unique through his use of the curved bow, performs live.

3pm // Dollboy // live music performance

Oliver Cherrer aka ‘Dollboy’ started in 2003 as an ambient electronic studio project with no ambition greater than making music to wallow in the bath to but by a series of quirks and happy accidents found itself on stage at The Big Chill with an album to promote. Since then Oliver has gone on to produce six albums and a number of singles on various labels, (Static Caravan, Different Drummer, Kooky, Second Language) stepping happily between pure electronic styles, jazz influences, freak folk guitar and vocal, instrumental psycho-geographic and rocking no wave synth pop. Performing live with a small ensemble of musicians, this is unmissable.

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/12/tuning-loops/
http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL03.html

4pm // Robert Stillman // live music performance

Robert Stillman is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the northeast United States. His music juxtaposes the archaic with the futuristic, incorporating influences of Folk Americana, Jazz, Minimalism, and experimental electronic music, creating a sound described by the Observer as “lending an avant-garde shimmer to pre-modern American sounds.” Principally a saxophonist, Stillman’s performances have also featured an experimental take on the traditional one-man-band format, utilizing a piano and marching-band percussion modified for the feet in real time with no use of ‘looper-pedals.’

Stillman’s sublime latest transmission sets wordless one-man band pieces conjuring a quaint Americana against mechanical collages…Like drifting off in a saloon bar reverie and waking up beside a locomotive engine. **** MOJO

This performance will feature his experimental take on the ‘one-man’ band of piano and drums modified for the feet in a programme including new works composed for short abstract films, as well as selections from his four-movement requiem for John Fahey, ‘Station Wagon Interior Perspective’, and numbers from his one-man band album ‘Machine’s Song’.

http://www.robertstillman.com

4.30pm // Matt Calderwood // talk

Gallery 2 artists will talk about his current exhibition Exposure Sculpture

http://www.dlwp.com/event/matt-calderwood-exposure

Bar open, free parking on seafront.

Named after one of the forward-thinking architects of the De La Warr Pavilion, Dear Serge is an afternoon and evening of eclectic live performances. From live music, art, and live performance pieces to the more diverse artistic practices, you can’t afford to miss it. Dear Serge will take you on a visual, auditory and experiential journey with performances taking place in a variety of spaces around the building.

NEXT EVENT: 17 AUGUST

ROOFTOP PARTY 1pm-6pm

This Dear Serge will be a party in the sunshine, with DJ’s, live performances, sculptures on the roof space, videos and audio-visual encounters.

Sophie Giblin // performance (1-3pm)

Investigating the neuroscience of memory, this performance of repetition embraces themes of slowness, ritual, meditation, measuring of time and personal concentration.

MEMORPHOSIS investigates the neuroscience of the human memory. This theme originates from a personal anxiety with dyslexia and an imminent dread of dementia. Scientific research led to the discovery that each time a memory is conjured, it is created through bits and pieces of experience and imagination. Every memory a human imagines is fabricated, it changes more and more every time we use it. A constant renewal is taking place; this means we are altering our memories without realising. Consequently all human memories are unreliable and unstable.

http://www.facebook.com/SophieGiblinArtist

These Feathers Have Plumes // performance (2pm)

Andie Brown is a musician from London who began playing music as a bass guitarist, working with experimental band Cindytalk in her late teens. An interest in sound and experimentation led Andie to begin working as These Feathers Have Plumes in 2007, creating sonic landscapes using traditional and non-traditional instrumentation (primarily double bass and glass), found-sound and field recordings.

www.thesefeathershaveplumes.com

Kirsten Reynolds // performance (3.30pm)

Reynolds revels in customising redundant and discarded equipment to form new instruments and unusual musical possibilities celebrating the ridiculous and sublime.

PROJECT DARK

Gullible

Renowned for their explosive performances using high-voltage sparkgenerating record players and rocket-propelled vinyl discs, PROJECT DARK was founded in 1995 in London by artist / musicians Kirsten Reynolds and Ashley Davies.

Performances in locations as extraordinary as the Anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York and the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum demonstrated pioneering use of miniature surveillance cameras and giant video projection to present a stylus-eye view of the legendary Singles Club series: a catalogue of sculptural, playable 7” singles made from unlikely materials such as circular saws, glass, cheese and human hair. Sharing Serge Chermayeff’s attitude towards the dynamic and natural connections between art and science, PROJECT DARK revel in customising and re-using redundant and discarded equipment to form new instruments and unusual musical possibilities celebrating the ridiculous and the sublime.

Continuing PROJECT DARK’s wry and philosophical approach to art and music-making Gullible will attempt to harness the audio-visual power and elegance of the local community of seagulls on the roof and in flight above the architecturally stunning and culturally iconic De La Warr Pavilion.

www.projectdark.co.uk

Billy Roisz // av performance (5pm)

Billy Roisz is one of the best-known figures on the austrian experimental scene.

Active for over a decade as a video- and sound artist , her ability to translate experimental music into visual imagery is particularly noteworthy, revealing tactics borrowed from minimal and conceptual art.

She specializes in feedback video and video/sound interaction by using monitors, cameras, video mixingdesks, a selfbuilt videosynth, computer, a bass guitar and sometimes turntables for video and sound generating.

DJ Terror Wogan // music (throughout)

Achieving airplay on national radio and beyond with his Wrong Music release in 2007,

Wogan has gone on to DJ nationally and internationally with his distinctive sound.

Guy Gormley // film (throughout)

Guy Gormley will present a combination of projected video loops activating material from ‘Vigil’, a document of nocturnal journeys. For the images in ‘Vigil’ Gormley walked from South London to the sea over three consecutive nights, during which his sleeping patterns were reversed.

http://guygormley.co.uk/

Matt Calderwood // sculpture & film (throughout)

Matt Calderwood, Exposure Sculpture, 2013 (detail). Steel, paper, Courtesy the artist and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Photo: Colin Davison

A selection of video works will be screened that relate to the Exposure Sculptures recently installed on the roof of the Pavilion. Careful assemblies and controlled collapses are a recurrent theme in Calderwood’s work.

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2 – 10pm

An evening of free live music, live performance and art. Visitors to Dear Serge will experience the best new thinking within contemporary music, the spoken word, sound and visual arts.

Dear Serge is an homage to the forward-thinking mind of Serge Chermayeff who the Pavilion proudly has as part of its history. It is a bi-monthly programme of diverse artistic practices, all experimental in nature and stemming from curiosity, which will be presented in every part of the building.

Extending the Pavilion’s commitment to interdisciplinary working, the Dear Serge events will champion groundbreaking and experimental artistic production from across genres and generations. The events will provide a unique opportunity to experience exciting and challenging art throughout our iconic building. This programme – to be extended over two years – is made possible by the generous support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Learning To Read

The Artists:
Dan Scott   2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8.40pm
Hollie Lewis  3pm, 5pm, 7.30pm
Hoofus     8pm
Patrick Goddard  All day from 2pm
Unicorndad vrs Robodad  9pm
The Wild Pansy Press  All day from 2pm

Dan Scott

Dan Scott is a sound artist based in Kent. His work incorporates performance, field recording, text and composed listening. Recent projects include The Inaudible Archive for Tate Modern Families programme, On The Sonority of Clay at the Soundfjord Gallery and the Aurality workshop at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

For Dear Serge, Dan will use a selection of ceramics and the architecture of the De La Warr Pavilion to explore Richard G Woodbridge III’s theory that clay pots record sound when being thrown by a potter. Dan will be aided by ceramicist Veronica Restropo

http://www.danscott.org.uk

Hollie Lewis

It’s Never too Late to Learn to Read Between the Lines is a movement and text based performance by Hollie Lewis. It explores how narrative can unfold in the often invisible and inaudible moments of the creative process, using live projection and amplified movement to highlight this.

Hollie is a Brighton based performance artist whose work often revolves around the relationship between dance and language. She is currently developing her research and practice at The University of Brighton, where she is completing a Master’s Degree in Performance and Visual Practices.

Hoofus

Hoofus performs and records electronic improvisations from the undergrowth of rural Norfolk, using fuzzy analogue aesthetics and FM synthesized unease to create visceral ritual rhythms smeared with restless feral yearning and the distant hum of moss covered machinery. Drawing on notions of ramshackle existence on the edges of the wilds, he attempts to express ideas of Arcadian alienation and backwoods neurosis. He has always tried to re-invigorate attitudes to live electronic music by performing in a very physical tactile way rather than hiding behind a laptop screen, and he embraces the instinctual instantaneous freedom of improvisation on clunky electronic hardware.

http://www.hoofus.com/

Patrick Goddard

Patrick Goddard (b.1984/UK) is an artist and writer working in East London, graduating from a Master at Goldsmiths in 2011. Recent works have taken the form of videos, books, performances and sculpture, all with an emphasis on observational anecdotes or research led articles. Recent and forthcoming shows and screenings include: Wendel, Open Your Door (Cafe gallery – in association with the Woodmill GP, London, 2013), Flood (Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, June 2013), This Fanciful Digression (Black Maria, London, March 2013), Flex Festival, (Gainsville, Florida, USA, February 2013), Loco (BFI Southbank, London, January 2013), Minits 4 (Flat Time House, The John Latham Foundation, London, September 2012), Tenderpixle Film Festival, (Tenderpixle, London, October 2012), Perspectivism, (Slakthusateljéerna, Stockholm, September-October 2012).

A process started by writing either observational anecdotes or research led articles and occasionally branching into experimental poetry, Patrick Goddard’s work develops into video and, on occasion, performance where the original writing is adapted or subverted. The films fluctuate between academic seriousness and playfully absurdity, between hypnotic calmness and deliberate aggressiveness – often utilising visual games or puns to offset sociological observances.

Without becoming politically illustrative, many works explore socio-politically loaded issues and although the topics discussed in the videos can be hugely wide ranging – from conceptions of evil to class politics, sociology to anarchy, the uncanny to the absurd – the works are linked via their tone or approach. Saturated with a sense of pathos, narratives undermine themselves with a self-defeating humor, calling into question the sincerity or authority of the narrator. With a minimal aesthetic, (few, if any edits and often plain text or still image) the viewer’s attention is directed to the video’s audio aspects: often spoken word, though music is occasionally used as a conceptual tool.

http://www.patrickgoddard.co.uk/

Unicorndad vrs Robodad

Unicorndad comes from the unsuccessfull relationship between a pony and a narwhale. It was a holiday romance. This could explain in part his romantic whimsy and lack of funds for the gas and electricity.

Robodad comes from a long production line all the way back to his ancestors, the wheel and the microwave. Their relationship was long distance and timeless on full heat and watched before the invention of television.

Unicorndad likes to think he is loving and friendly, but where is he? Is the proof in the pudding? He lives in a museum of his own nonsense craft objects and drinks tea like a Britisher circa World War 2. Being a bit horsey, he revels in athletic acts until his interest is gone, usually after about 20 seconds.

Robodad reads a lot. Binary is like mothers milk to a little goat to him.Stories and theories of human behavior tickle his fancies. Why only humans? What is so important about them? Maybe their delusions of self importance and all the japes that ensue like soap on the tongue. Function is his main protocol and function he does, so long as his AA battery lasts.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/unicorndad-vrs-robodad/137386516354177

The Wild Pansy Press

The Wild Pansy Press is a collective art practice and publishing house; our work explores publication in its widest sense as a way of making and a way of distributing art.

We have built up a catalogue of books and projects which challenge and extend the usual notions of the book format. Our first publications came from partnerships with artists and included short-run or hand-made editions. More recently, we have originated and developed new projects with a particular interest in using digital reproduction and extended print runs to produce publications for wider circulation and accessibility.

We want to break down the boundary between “Audience” and “Artist”; the book or magazine format allows for a very generous mixing and juxtaposing of forms and qualities and provides a platform where the work of experienced and well-known practitioners can be seen alongside that of newcomers, hobbyists and “amateurs”.

Our Portable Reading Room is a social sculpture centred on the activity of reading and the book as an expressive medium. Readers can interact with one another in an unfamiliar but welcoming space and, in a sense, put themselves “into” the imprint.

We hope the result will break down barriers between Literature, Writing and Art and, in the process, extend participants’ and their audiences’ understanding of what these forms can offer.

For our visit to the DelaWarr Pavilion, we will temporarily re-site the Wild Pansy Press office in the Portable Reading Room and work on a special publication exploring the Pavilion with contributions from Gallery visitors. We will put the publication together during the day and have a “book launch” in the evening. We will also be inviting some of our past contributors to come to Bexhill for impromptu readings, talks and performances.

http://www.wildpansypress.com/

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Serge Chermayeff (1900-1996) was the partner architect of Erich Mendelsohn for the Pavilion and responsible for most of the interior design, including the spectacular ceiling of our auditorium, which in the 30s was the height of technology in terms of acoustic science.

Serge was a true polymath. He was an architect, designer, thinker and prominent educator who both influenced and mingled talent from varying disciplines to demonstrate the invigorating possibilities of synthesising art and science. Born into a wealthy family inGrozny(nowChechnya) he was sent toEnglandfor education but never received a formal training in architecture due to the loss of family fortune during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Despite this lack of formal qualifications, he became one ofBritain’s most admired inter-war architects and designers, and a leading figure in developing British Modernism. Joining many other European intellectuals like Gropius and Moholy-Nagy, Chermayeff relocated to theUnited Statesin 1940. It was there that he started the second part of his career as a prolific writer and teacher in both architecture and design at San Francisco Art Institute, Chicago Institute of Design, MIT, Harvard and Yale.