LCMF 2018 x Serpentine Galleries
1 Dec: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
3pm-9pm
Teaming up with LCMF 2018, the Serpentine Galleries present the second instalment of their year-long ecological symposium and research project. Part of the gallery’s General Ecology project, this day of talks, performances and music will feature anthropologists, artists, robotics experts, historians and more, to address interior multitude, swarming organisms, entanglements, pregnancies, endosymbiosis, microchimerism and metamorphosis — across vegetal, human, artificial, non-human animal and mineral beings
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LCMF 2018 x Musarc
12 December: Musarc Winter Konsert
7.30pm
Artists and Performers:
Musarc
Jenny Moore, Steve Potter, Sylvia Lim, Claudia Molitor, Georgia Rodgers, Edwina Attlee
Cathy Heller Jones conductor
Joseph Kohlmaier artistic director
Over the last ten years, choral collective Musarc has developed a distinct practice of re-assembling traditional choral material through a series of interventions that range from manipulating the original score, instrumentation of lyrics to broader rearrangements. These collages sometimes take in activities on the periphery of the performance space, such as cooking and eating together, and cross the lines between music and other artforms, or the stage and the space of audience.
LCMF 2018
13 December: New Intimacy IV
7.30pm
Florence Peake / Eve Stainton
Slug Horizons (2018)
Maryanne Amacher
Selected electronic works
Michael Pisaro
Grain Canons (2016)
(European premiere)
Lawrence Dunn
Set of Four (2017)
Pascale Criton
Circle Process (2012)
Pascale Criton
Trans (2014)
(UK premiere)
Anon.
Greek mourning songs
Mark Leckey / Steve Hellier
Singing Nobodaddy Sings Songs (2018)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)
Performers:
Apartment House (Pisaro, Dunn)
Florence Peake, Eve Stainton
Silvia Tarozzi (Circle Process)
Duo Lallement Marques (Trans)
Vangelis Kotsos, Nota Kaltsouni, Nikos Menoudakis
Mark Leckey, Steve Hellier (Leckey)
Tonight we return to one of the richest threads of last year's festival - a further exploration of intimacy in art and music.
LCMF 2018
14 December: Structural Faults
7.30pm
Yvonne Rainer
We Shall Run (1963)
(UK premiere)
Laura Steeneberge
Perseus Slays The Gorgon Medusa (2014)
(European premiere)
Olivia Block
Heave To (2006)
(UK premiere)
Hanne Darboven
Opus 17a (1984)
Jacopo Belloni
Slapstick n°1: the preventer (2017)
Sofia Jernberg
Solo Improvisation
Mark Fell
New work
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)
Performers:
An Assembly (Rainer)
Apartment House (Steeneberge)
Otto Wilberg (Darboven)
Jacopo Belloni
Sofia Jernberg
Mark Fell
All good music — most good music — is structural. But only some actively exploits the basic building blocks, the bricks and mortar, of sound and chooses to serve it up for the main course. The Judson Church choreographers like Yvonne Rainer were adamant that bricks and mortar could be the main course. That interest could spring forth from an investigation of the everyday. In Rainer's early conceptual dance work, We Shall Run (1963), we follow a group jog, splintering and commingling, commingling and splintering, while storm-clouds gather, speakers blasting out Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts.
LCMF 2018
15 December: I contain multitudes
7pm
Chaya Czernowin
Day One: On the Face of the Deep (2017)
(UK premiere)
Gerald Barry
The Destruction of Sodom (2015)
(world premiere)
Claudia Molitor / Joseph Kohlmaier
Die Gedanken sind Frei (2018)
Julius Eastman
The Prelude and Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (1981)
(UK premiere)
Elaine Mitchener
New work (2018)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)
Neil Luck
New work (2018)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)
David Jackman
Georgina Cries (1971)
Annea Lockwood
Gone (2007)
(UK premiere)
Klein
New work (2018)
(world premiere) (LCMF commission)
Performers:
LCMF Orchestra (Czernowin, Luck, Mitchener)
An assembly (Barry)
Jack Sheen conductor
Musarc (Molitor/Kohlmaier, Jackman, Luck) Apartment House (Eastman)
Sofia Jernberg (Eastman)
Klein
The orchestra is a microcosm — society in a petri dish. The perfect laboratory for figuring out our thoughts about the pressures and possibilities of the throng. Drunk on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, an ecstatic hymn to the multitudes within us and without, this night will look at how music and art has taken on multiplicity and our overloaded present.
LCMF 2018
16 December: Lockwood / Snow
4-7pm
Annea Lockwood
A Sound Map of the Hudson River (1989)
(UK premiere)
7 — 10pm
Michael Snow
La Région centrale (1971)
To end LCMF 2018, two transcendental visions of the North American landscape in sound and film.
