Electric Weekend, London, 26 & 27 June

June 25, 2004

Type: event
Starts: Jun 26 2004 at 12:00AM
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ELECTRIC WEEKEND
26/27 June 2004
Electric Avenue Studios & Ritzy Cinema Brixton, London

http://electra-productions.com/electric\_weekend/

Featuring: Emma Hedditch, Learning To Love You More (Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July), low-fi & Rachel Baker's 'node drawing' activity, The People Speak, CyberMohalla (Sarai Media Lab).

Screenings: Destroy All Monsters, Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Paper Rad, Dear Raindrop, Kevy B, The Space Hijackers, Chicks On Speed, Joanie 4 Jackie video chainletter and a brand new programme of videos from Cuba.

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Electric Weekend celebrates the launch of b3 media's Electric Avenue Studios in Brixton with a weekend of free events at the new venue, plus a film programme at the nearby Ritzy Cinema, curated by Electra's Lina Dzuverovic-Russell and guests.

Over two days, groups and individuals with shared interventionist sensibilities will take part in conversations, workshops, interventions, tactical media initiatives, social hacking, noise videos and participatory artworks. These encounters are geared towards mapping, connecting and supporting the diverse media arts initiatives across London and outside, focusing on DIY approaches to the use of public space and technology.

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PARTICIPATORY EVENTS
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Emma Hedditch
Video Home, Come On
Electric Avenue Studios
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 June
12 noon-6pm, free

Have you ever made a video of your friends, family, travel, holidays, sports, music making, loved ones, demonstrations or speeches, local events, community groups? It might be a joyful or sad occasion, but you filmed it because it felt important to record that part of life.

Video Home, Come On builds an archive out of samples of such videos sourced from locally made home movies. The aim is to end up with a montage of clips that reveal the extraordinary actions that shape our lives and our sense of community.

Emma Hedditch invites you to bring your own tapes to be incorporated in the project. Copies of your significant video moments will be made at Electric Avenue Studios over the two days of the Electric Weekend, and the clips will be included in the finished work alongside your name and comments. You are also invited to help with editing.

To take part, simply bring your tape to the Electric Avenue Studios on 26-27 June, or mail it to the address on the right. Tapes should be either Mini DV, VHS, Video 8 or Hi-8 format. Try to find the clips that you think would be good to include, and that you are comfortable about sharing. All tapes will be returned on the day.

To participate, contact Emma Hedditch by email [email protected]
http://www.andiwilldo.net/

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Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July
Learning To Love You More
Electric Avenue Studios
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 June
12 noon-6pm, free

Learning To Love You More comprises a website and series of non-web presentations featuring work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher and guests.

You are invited take part in an assignment - such as photographing and constructing a story around a scar, or plotting a constellation from a photo of freckles - complete it by following simple but specific instructions, and then view your actions online. Like a recipe, meditation session, or humming a familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments liberates you from creativity and allows you focus on what you are feeling and experiencing.

Your contribution will become part of Learning To Love You More as it develops into an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world.

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/
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Sarai Media Lab
CyberMohalla
Electric Avenue Studios
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 June
12 noon-6pm, free

The word Cybermohalla suggests a hybrid location combining the open-endedness of cyberspace with the compression and intimacy of an Indian mohalla (dense urban neighbourhood).

Cybermohalla involves young people living in slum settlements and working class neighbourhoods. It brings together the energies of community-based social intervention, creative (mis)use of text, sound and image, and innovative uses of computers and digital technology.

The Ankur/Sarai Cybermohalla Project is an experimental collaborative initiative for the creation of nodes of popular digital culture in Delhi. Ankur is a Delhi based NGO; Sarai is the New Media & Urban Culture Programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

http://www.sarai.net/

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TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
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The People Speak
Saul Albert & Mikey Weinkove
Electric Avenue Studios
Saturday 26 June
2pm, free

The producer's pitch: It's Easy Rider - set in the cultural landscape of the new Central European states, with Dennis Hopper played by two London Jews in a Peugeot Boxer - meets Apocalypse Now. But instead of the Apache helicopters, OThe Ride Of The Valkyries' blasts out of their ultimate weapon: the talkaoke table of chat!

The explanation: Albert & Weinkove screen the results of their unique and unpredictable roundtable discussions which they recently hosted around Europe, in which everybody gets to be a participant.

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low-fi
Electric Avenue Studios
Saturday 26 June
2.45pm, free

Net art collective low-fi presents an update on their recent activity, including the net art commissioning programme and low-fi.org.uk's current editorial selection called OBroken Histories'.

low-fi considers recent historicisations of net art in the light of both artistic and institutional activity. During the Electric Weekend low-fi will collaborate with the media arts mapping tool project (see below) to make a participatory Onode drawing' - a generative system which will develop over the two days, to reflect and map discussions and connections.

http://www.low-fi.org.uk/
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Rachel Baker
CASHFLOW - Money and Media Art
Electric Avenue Studios
Saturday 26 June
3.20pm, free

In this talk artist and Media Arts Officer at Arts Council England, Rachel Baker, Reveals plans for a 'media arts mapping tool' that both analyses the influence of funding on media art in London and leverages visibility for events, projects adn people across the field.

Referencing existing collaborative mapping tools and discourses Baker will also collaborate with the low-fi node drawing exercise (see above).

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SCREENINGS
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Everyone's Party
Ritzy Cinema Screen 2
Saturday 26 June
4pm

Chicks On Speed, Kevin Blechdom, Paper Rad, Dear Rain Drop, The Space Hijackers, Joanie 4 Jackie, and Learning To Love You More (Assignment #13: ORecreate The Moment After A Crime').

Infected with raw DIY energy, this eclectic film programme gathers together a range of street actions, music clips, animation and collaborative video initiatives. The screening includes videos created through networks such as Joanie 4 Jackie, an independent Network for women movie makers, and Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July's Learning To Love You More project.

Curated by Lina Dzuverovic-Russell & Anne Hilde Neset

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Cuba Libre: Contemporary Cuban Video
Ritzy Cinema Screen 2
Saturday 26 June
6pm

A unique opportunity to witness this brand new programme of Cuban video works from a wide range of Havana based artists. Emanating from the hardships of everyday life in Havana, the videos range from the cinematic to performative, documenting the city's street life, domestic scenes and fleeting moments. Following the screenings, programme curator Cecilia Andersson will talk about the Cuban video scene. Programme includes:

A La Casa De Rosa (Rene Francisco, Cuba, 2003, 19'27 min)
Reportage (Raul Cordero, 1999, Cuba, 7 min)
Nave No Tripulada (Ernesto Leal, 2002, Cuba, 8'16 min)
Cada Respiro (Glenda Leon, Cuba, 2003, 2 min)
The Hope And The Rope (Manuel Pi-a, Cuba, 2003, 8'11 min)
Arte Publico (Alexandre Arrechea, Cuba, 2003, 3min)
Habana Solo (Juan Carlos Alom, Cuba, 2000, 12 min)

Curated by Cecilia Andersson

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Strange Frut
Ritzy Cinema Screen 2
Sunday 27 June
6pm

An evening featuring US psychedelic noise rock aesthetics from MC5 to Lightning Bolt, introduced by writer and artist Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil).

Strange Frut: Rock Apocrypha
(Cary Loren & Destroy All Monsters, 1998, 60 min)
A history of Detroit punk rock through the mad eyes of Destroy All Monsters, the legendary noise collective featuring artists Mike Kelley, Carey Loren, Jim Shaw and Niagara. Inspired by a combination of film noir, monster movies, psychedelia, thrift-shop values and the relentless drone of a crazed popular culture, DAM's influences include Man Ray, The Velvet Underground, Silver Apples, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, The Stooges and The MC5.

Pick A Winner: Load Records
(Load Records, 2004, c15 mins)
Strange Frut will be prefaced by a selection of videos and animations from the new DVD compilation from Providence's Load Records, featuring US noise fiends and cultural anomalies Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes, The Locust and more.
Curated by Anne Hilde Neset

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Electric Weekend is a b3 media production, guest curated by Lina Dzuverovic-Russell.

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Electric Avenue Studios
3B Electric Avenue
Brixton
London SW9 8JY
Tel 020 7274 2121
[email protected]
http://www.b3media.net
Tube: Brixton
British Rail: Brixton
Electric Avenue Studios is the first door on the right as you walk down
Electric Avenue from Brixton Road
Ritzy Cinema (Screen 2)
Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, London, SW2 1LG

Prices (Screenings only):
Before 5pm
Full Price 5.00
Friends 4.00
Concessions 4.00
Senior Citizens 3.00
Children (up to age 14) 3.50
After 5pm
Full Price 7.00
Friends 6.00
Concessions 5.00
Senior Citizens 5.00
Children (up to age 14) 3.50
Box Office opening hours: 11am-8pm (Sundays 1-8pm).
24 hour info line: 020 7733 2229