BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:84@whiteemotion.com DTSTART:20170218T193000Z DTEND:20170218T230000Z DTSTAMP:20170215T003733Z URL:https://whiteemotion.com/events/strange-umbrellas-16/ SUMMARY:STRANGE UMBRELLAS #16 DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nJoin us at the first Strange Umbrellas of 2017 in Lo ndon. It is this Saturday\, February 18\, at Lewisham Arthouse - 140 Lewis ham Way\, London\, SE14 6PD.- The Nearest station is New Cross\, 5 minute walk to the venue. This fascinating mixed media show features:\n\nCharles Hayward &\; Karel Doing\nCharles Hayward and Karel Doing both work at L ewisham Arthouse and will perform together: a palindromic composition of m anual labour both in sight and sound.\n\nJack Goldstein &\; Mandhira de Saram\nJack Goldstein is a musicologist at Goldsmiths\, a keen free-impro viser and the founding member of the experimental pop quintet\, Fixers. He curates a regular night of experimental music and performance\, Strange U mbrellas\, with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina. For this event he will play in a duo with the violinist Mandhira de Saram. This is a the first ti me they will play together!\n\nRichard Sanderson (amplified melodeon)\nRic hard Sanderson will be improvising on a melodeon (diatonic button accordio n) and effect pedals. His music plays with expectations of such a melodic instrument\, mainly used in traditional folk music- forcing it to do thing s it was never intended to do\, using sustain\, wah\, distortion and pitch change\, whilst also respecting the tradition it\, and where he comes fro m.\n\nJames Malone (guitar) &\; Steve Beresford (electronics and object s)\nLongtime free improviser on objects and electronics Beresford meets re lative newcomer Malone\, playing acoustic guitar beautifully.\n\nCOMEDY\n' Bürger from the Hell’ by Norbert Bürger\nWho is Bürger from the hell? \nBürger from the hell lives in a flat in the Lerchenfeld part of Freisin g\, a small town close to Munich. He has inherited this flat from his gran dmother\, and considers himself the toughest rock guitarist of his generat ion. After his studies in classical zither at the Richard Strauss Conserva tory\, he switched to rock guitar in order to meet more girls. With the he lp of YouTube\, he has carefully collected all sorts of tricks\, attitudes and poses from the great rock legends.\nBürger from the hell can complet ely concentrate on the development of his career as a rockstar\, thanks to an unusual coincidence: the rocker from the ‘burbs is (thanks to an adm inistrative error) sponsored by mistake by a foundation for hygiene produc ts. Alongside building model aeroplanes and looking after his allotment\, he therefore has plenty of time to prepare his big step into the limelight …\nAnd now\, the moment has arrived. Bürger from the hell is ready to p resent his public with a grand rock show\, that will exercise your ears an d your sides\, from laughing so hard! Accompany the bourgeois devil on his way to the pinnacle of rock\, and experience live how Bürger from the he ll turns the stage into a whirling cauldron\, with the help of a guitar\, a loop machine and his beatbox. Wordplay and razor-sharp banter will also lead you alone the previously undiscovered path between cabaret and rock c oncert.\n\nFILMS\n‘Sleepers‘ by Adam Chodzko (2016)\n' Seeing someone sleep always provokes a level of uncertainty\; perhaps this is more than s leep? Are they dead?\nSeeing a still image always provokes a level of unce rtainty\; ('Perhaps\, I see movement?')\nThe sleepers’ ‘withdrawal’ into another world\, of dreams\, also activates and destabilises our abili ty to empathise\, despite our attempts to observe their slumbering state.\ nThe stillness and silence of a sleeping person\, and a still photograph\, creates a vacuum for the viewer\, provoking a consciousness of sound. Sou nd here fragments outwards from the image and is drawn towards it\, trying to connect with it\, to “bring it to life” but never fully adhering t o the image.\nHoles pierce the thin flat membrane of 35mm film\, pouring i n light ( -' time to wake up'? - ) allowing a journey through one image an d into another.\nEqually\, as digital imagery is increasingly in motion ou r expectation from our screens is of activity and not stillness\, as restl ess as we are'\n'Citizen of despair' by Blanca Regina (2017) video-perform ance\n\n' We enter the creation and the performance from listening and dia logue. Blurring\, erasing any border.\nIn the suitcase the skein of crosse d threads of the disciplines are what we work with. Where there are border s\, the physical\, real and virtual themselves blur and spread. The artist without limits\, the sound\, the light\, the senses\, the full and empty glass. From this multidimensionality\, we approach the search for expressi on in several languages. The exchanges are infinite. Knowledge has no limi ts\, it is infinite .... The limits are transferred to the stage space\, w here the fourth wall is broken and proscenium arch disappears\; where the artist is both technical and performer. Duality\, disappearance\, mask\, p rojection. We unfold in space\, sounds\, images\, data. Contemporary issue s infect and contain us. The borders have to disappear\, they do not make sense\, they only make us limit ourselves in categories\, labels\, formats that do not define us and that separate us from the whole...'\n\n'W.I.P. ‘( 16mm film ) by Pierre Bouvier Patron (2017)\nW.I.P (2017) is a visual experimentation on 16mm film. Hand painted\, the film explores shapes\, c olours and the possibilities of perception. Strange Umbrellas #16 will giv e this film\, still a work in progress\, its first screening.\n\nDoors 7.3 0 pm\nPerformances start at 8.30 pm\nEntry 6/4 pounds concessions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://whiteemotion.com/web/wp-content/uploads/ 2017/02/SU16.jpg CATEGORIES:live visuals,performance,Screening&Concert LOCATION:Lewisham Arthouse\, 140 Lewisham Way\, London\, SE14 6PD\, United Kingdom GEO:51.47142050000001;-0.030821899999978086 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=140 Lewisham Way\, London\, SE14 6PD\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Lewisham Arthouse:ge o:51.47142050000001,-0.030821899999978086 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR