Contemporary Media Practice Degree Show 

Preview Friday 8 June 6.30-8.30pm,

Open Saturday Sunday 9 -10 June, 11-6pm

Welcome to the world of Contemporary Media Practice, this is what we do and why we do it:  as an inherent aspect of the course, CMP students continually engage with the new and evolving. They strive for unconventional thinking, creative approaches, innovative artistry, and interdisciplinarity. We work with moving image in new and exciting ways from narrative through documentary to animation, with themes tackled including Islamophobia in the UK, a childhood coming of age adventure and a love triangle with a shamen.

collide2018.cmpwestminster.co.uk

FAB FEST - International Fabrication Competition and Public Festival returns to University of Westminster for the third edition.

FAB FEST is a week-long free to attend celebration of design and making, hosted by the Fabrication Lab from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster. For the third year running, creative designers from around the world are invited to envision and build out their ideas about architecture and the city. It will feature over 80 pavilions and installations designed internationally, manufactured in the Fabrication Lab, and assembled and installed in Central London at the prestigious Ambika P3 event and exhibition space in Marylebone Road.

FAB FEST opens its doors to the public on 7th July and closes on 10th July. After five days of making, entertainment and international competition, on July 7 FAB FEST opens to the local community, with lightweight, recyclable pavilions forming the transient architecture for a series of making events, live musical performances and a three-day exhibition. All the materials for FAB FEST are then recycled (98%!), for next year’s event.

FAB FEST forms an international community of makers, where students from across the UK and around the world explore the potentials of digital fabrication under a specific theme. Last year FAB FEST welcomed over 800 visitors for its ‘Pop-Up City’ theme where participants were invited to imagine and build their own Pop-Up City. The theme for this year is ‘Digital City’. The challenge for teams is to propose a compelling and engaging proposal for a pavilion or installation to explore and manifest their ideas of wider aspects of how the digital affects our architecture, cities and daily lives. What does the Digital City mean to you?

FAB FEST ‘18 is hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Fabrication Lab at the University of Westminster. The event is sponsored by the Quintin Hogg Trust, DS Smith and Hawthorn and is partnering with Digital Construction Week.

For further information and festival programme please visit our website  FABFEST.London, and join us on social media for regular updates: 

INSTAGRAM @FABFEST.london

FACEBOOK @FABFEST.london

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Sunday

Contemporary Art Fair 
Thursday 4 – 7 October 

Bass Culture 70/50

25 October to 23 November 2018

Open Tuesdays to Fridays, 12:00-19:00

Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00-18:00

Bass Culture 70/50 is a four-week exhibition exploring the impact of Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on British culture.

The exhibition will feature previously unseen artwork, specially commissioned film, top industry speakers, UK reggae label pop-up showcases, live performances,10 years of Natty, and over 70 hours of individual testimonies, linking – for the first time – the memories and experiences of black British musicians, industry practitioners, academics and audiences.

There will also be an opportunity to witness two exhibition exclusives. The first, a ‘Rude Boy Catwalk’, invites attendees to come dressed as they were when they first experienced a gig influenced by Jamaican music, be it ska or reggae, jungle or grime. Taking place on 9 November, the collaborative catwalk will be the first of its kind to reflect on five decades of fashion inspired by these genres. The second will be a mini film festival that will premiere ‘Bass Culture’, a 60-minute documentary mapping the impact of Jamaican music from a youth perspective.

The exhibition is staged by Bass Culture Research, a three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project set up to explore the impact of Jamaican music in the UK. The project made headlines last year after issuing The Grime Report, which led to the withdrawal of Form 696, a controversial risk assessment form criticised for being discriminatory and targeting genres such as grime.

While Jamaican music has been fundamental to the development of multicultural Britain, its influence has arguably never been recognised. Following recent moves to ramp up police stop and search powers, together with claims that Jamaican-influenced genres such as drill are fuelling gang wars, marginalisation and discrimination risks being on the rise again. Bass Culture 70/50 seeks to challenge these negative interpretations and rather recognise the impact of Jamaican culture on not only the musical canon but on British culture and identity itself.

Partners of the exhibition include the AHRC, Black Cultural Archives, British Library, SOAS, Goldsmiths University, Urbanimage and Camera Press.

Mykaell Riley, Principal Investigator and Director of the Bass Culture Music Unit at the University of Westminster, said “This is the story of the soundtrack to multiculturalism, a hidden history that is still impacting on new music.”

Super Crit

Will Alsop
5 December

LCMF

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

LCMF 2018 x Serpentine Galleries

lcmf.co.uk/Ambika-P3

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.