L U P A 1 3 - FRIDAY, 23 / NOV / 12 - 7:30PM

FRIDAY || 23 / NOV / 2012

AN EXPERIMENT! --- AT LUPA (LOCK UP PERFORMANCE ART)
_________________________________ _ _ _ _ _

Testing the development of my Neuro-Positron
Acceleration Helmet System, this experiment will test
the outer limits of an abandoned Intelligence project to
locate and amplify impossible states of trans-molecular ecstasy.
_________________________________ _ _ _ _ _

LUPA (LOCK UP PERFORMANCE ART) IS AN
ONGOING PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE
CURATED BY JORDAN MCKENZIE AND
KATE MAHONEY.
_ _ _ _ _ __________________________________
LUPA is located behind James Campbell House, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9QE
Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green, head north up Cambridge Heath Rd, turn first right onto Old Ford Rd. The venue is located behind James Campbell House (If you get lost go to the Approach pub and they will tell you directions!)

Beverages will be available from a tepid boot.

Studio Explosion

Note from a small space - housing a set for a music video, production suite for Karaoke Codex, research library, and future temporary residence of potent Hawaiian mystic.

Introducing: KARAOKE CODEX

This summer, one man, a disparate community unknown to itself, and a variant cast of trans-galactic (m)animistic interlopers, will set forth into an timeless voyage of discovery...

(( (  (   (    (     K    A    R    A    O    K    E             C    O    D    E    X     )    )   )  ) ))

KARAOKE CODEX invites adventurous audience by-standers to participate in a performative de-ciphering of arcane algorithms.  

The traditional karaoke-book, littered with the sonic detritus of a hegemonic sentimentality (chimerized in mud as an inverted Cock-Wolf, spewing mutant opera-tics out of externalized and flatulant organs), is mutated from its general status as an accessible repository of song-options into an archive of  heretofore undreamt high-action theatrics. From hybridized populisms to occultic conjurations, the Karaoke Codex is designed to be immediately and accessibly performable. 

In an attempt to develop the work as an open collaboration, Karaoke Codex is also extended as an invitation - to potential participants, conspirators, initiates, and troglodytes - to submit material to be transmogrified into a performative cypher. Developed into performance operations, the intention is to orchestrate performances based on submitted, selected research material (such as instructions for  summoning Gods, libretto for Space Operas, aerobics instructions for somnambulists, etc) that might be mediated via the paced-and-plotted textual instruction of the karaoke video. Collaborators will be cited in participation with the project, and will receive a commemorative multiple, signed photograph, t-shirt, or ritual implement in recompense. 

Future venues to include remote fields throughout the UK, abandoned pubs and train tunnels throughout London, and at the Camden Arts Centre, London.

Note: *All performers will be assisted by a Wizard.*

To submit material, please email mr.joeyryken@gmail.com

MICROPHONIC SUBTERFUGE AND PSYCHO-POLITICAL TRANSMUTATIONS: THE BYSTANDER AS REVOLUTIONARY

Towards Common Ground
28th, 29th April & 5th, 6th May
Clapham Common Bandstand 
_____________________________________ 

Towards Common Ground brings together performance, open-air lectures, documentaries and moving-image works in the public space of Clapham Common Bandstand.

Alice Tatge, Catherine Long, Caroline Smith, Emma Leach & Siân Robinson Davies, Freee, Lucy Reynolds, Joey Ryken, Prof. John Hutnyk, Jordan McKenzie and The Precarious Workers Brigade & Enemies of Good Artwill take to the bandstand to scrutinize strikes, protest and the politicalisation of public space.

Towards Common Ground is curated by Amy McDonnell & Ying Tan
in conjunction with the studioSTRIKE | Bread & Roses Film Festival, supported by BFI & Film London Community Pilot Fund and with thanks to Contemporary Films. FREE Admission, see www.studiostrike.com/bandstand/ for full programme details
_____________________________________

Chronotopic Invocation 1: 

Profane Articulations of the Autosarcophagic Orchestra (BZZHHHHJT!!!)

On Sunday, 6th of May, at 8pm, a site of ritualized karaoke duets will inhabit the bandstand at Clapham Common in South London. Transmuting the cultural distinctions betwixt and between sites of protest, occult ritual, and performative art practice, the context of karaoke will be used as a vehicle to form experimental models of collectivistic equinimity. Participants will be invited to deliver songs and addresses ranging from political speeches, anthemic ballads, to attempts at abstract vocalisations via teleprompt. The work formulates a futurological psychometrics, eradicating subjective perception of space-time in order to propose new territories of the social, answering (speculatively) whether or not methodologies of disorientation can function in the service of radical knowledge production.

Text to accompany event.

 

SCHIZO-TRANSMISSIONS: APOCALYPSE RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

Apocalypse Research Collective: Installation of collaborative research, involving text, sound, comics, and participatory hoola-hoop karaoke. Gasworks, London; May, 2011.