People Like Us will present Genre Collage at the Harbour Festival at Bristol Arnolfini on Saturday 31st July at 5.15pm, all the details are here. The start time may be subject to slight change so please arrive early.
People Like Us new record and print in Edinburgh exhibition
Prints of Darkness Exhibition
You and your guests are invited to the reception for the Prints of Darkness exhibition on Thursday 29 July, 6-8pm.
RSVP to gallery@edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Artist Talk by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
29 July 2010, 4.30-5.30pm, Gallery 2, Edinburgh Printmakers
Vicki Bennett will deliver a talk about her work in the field of audio-visual collage, through her innovative appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives.
Admission is free but places are limited so please call or email to book: T 0131 5572479 or gallery@edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Edinburgh Printmakers presents its world premiere exhibition of new work exploring record cover art, curated by Sarah-Manning Cordwell, Norman Shaw, and Edward Summerton and published by Edinburgh Printmakers. This exhibition will include original prints by eleven Scottish artists and a new LP of music by People Like Us, aka international award-winning multimedia artist Vicki Bennett.
Buy This Is Light Music picture disc LP here
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/shop/
Celebrating the vinyl record as an abiding audio-visual artefact, this project recalls the golden age of the record cover in the thick of post-psychedelia’s goth-surrealistic art-nouveau apocalyptic landscape explosion, now being revived in a current resurgence of collectable limited-edition records with original artwork.
People Like Us illuminates this dark visual ride with ‘This Is Light Music’, an exclusive full-length picture-disc album in a limited edition of only 250. This record is available as part of a lavish limited edition boxed-set publication which houses the record and a pull-out poster in a gatefold sleeve, and includes essays by People Like Us and co-curator Norman Shaw. This publication is on sale throughout the exhibition, together with specially commissioned t-shirts and badges by the participating artists.
Download the essay by Vicki Bennett (pdf)
Information here on purchasing a print (pdf)
Dates of Exhibition: 17 July to 04 September 2010
Opening Hours: Weekly Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 6.00pm
CLOSED SUNDAY & MONDAYS
Admission: Free
Venue: Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR
Telephone: 0131 557 2479
Website: www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Press
Preview in The List
http://www.list.co.uk/article/26790-people-like-us-celebrate-record-cover-art-in-prints-of-darkness/
People Like Us to play at MACBA Barcelona
UPDATE…
This concert has now been rescheduled for Thursday 22nd July at MACBA, Barcelona. It was previously postponed due to Volcanic Ash displacement! Please scroll down for the Variations program information on the MACBA site.
Variations Concert Program
Here’s a press feature on the season.
MACBA
Watch People Like Us in Copenhagen
People Like Us will perform live on cable TV in Copenhagen on 15th June from 9.30-10pm – the full program, plus how to watch is available here (pdf)
http://tv-tv.dk/soundandtelevision/SOUND_and_TELEVISION_program.pdf
People Like Us play De La Warr Pavilion
People Like Us will play Genre Collage at Bexhill’s classic De La Warr Pavilion on Thursday 3rd June 2010 at 8pm. We will be on the bill with Mira Calix.
WE REPEAT…! We are on at 8pm. Please get there in time.
De La Warr Pavilion
Tickets: £10
Booking & Information
Or call: 01424 229 111
People Like Us play Liverpool Sound City in May 2010
Genre Collage will be performed at Static Gallery in Liverpool on Thursday 20th May at 7pm, admission £5. This event is presented by Sound and Music as part of Memories are Made of This: Sound and Music at Liverpool Sound City.
The evening features People Like Us, Position Normal and The Pony Harvest
with DJs Strcprstskrzkrk and Igor Hax
Static Gallery, 23 Roscoe Street, L1 9JD
Celebrated collage artist People Like Us, plunderphonic duo Position Normal and far out electro-medievalist The Pony Harvest explore and skew narratives, use and abuse quotations, and draw on a wide range of references from popular culture and beyond.
Event details and tickets:
http://www.soundandmusic.org/activities/events/genre-collage
Parade to be in group exhibition
In The Long Run: 30 Years of Great Running
By Claire Leona Apps, Vicki Bennett, Suky Best, Ravi Deepres and Michael Baig-Clifford, Graham Dolphin, James Edwards, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Julian Germain, Jane and Louise Wilson
Exhibition
Starts: 17th July 2010
Ends: 17th October 2010
Great North Museum: Hancock
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE2 4PT
0191 222 6765
Celebrating the 30th staging of the Bupa Great North Run, this major new exhibition explores the history and significance of this enormously popular event.
In The Long Run looks at significant role this event has played in reflecting and shaping the region’s cultural identity.
As well as the well known stories of elite runners, In The Long Run will also explore the huge organisational effort behind the Bupa Great North Run, documenting the event’s community spirit and creating a powerful piece of social history.
Alongside interactive exhibits, memorabilia and star objects, In The Long Run will present artwork from the archives of Bupa Great North Run Culture, with paintings, films, photographs and drawings by Jane and Louise Wilson, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Julian Germain, Graham Dolphin and Vicki Bennett, among many others.
A programme of special events and guest lectures, as well as a special Late Show the night before this year’s Bupa Great North Run, will be announced soon.
The plume of smoke and so on
As you all know there are a lot of displaced beings on the planet and that does not exclude People Like Us. As a result we are not going to be able to perform in Barcelona on Thursday 22nd April and are waiting to find out if we can reschedule once people are not trapped all over the place. At present there’s not much we can do except enjoy being somewhere else, but we obviously were very much wanting to play in Barcelona. But what can you do about a plume of whatever it is?
Update: we are now back and trying to reschedule the Barcelona concert for July and will keep you posted by updating the old concert announcement when it is confirmed.
People Like Us at Baltimore Transmodern Festival
People Like Us will present “Genre Collage” at the 7th Annual Transmodern Festival on Saturday 17th April 2010. Tickets can be bought through the Transmodern website.
http://www.transmodernfestival.org/2010/?page_id=481
H&H BUILDING
405 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Directions and tickets
Tickets: $10
Doors Open: 8:30pm
On Saturday, April 17th, the Transmodern Festival will continue major installations in Whole Gallery, Nudashank Gallery, Gallery Four, 5th Dimension. We will be featuring a stage based performance and experimental music program at the critically acclaimed Floristree space. The night will feature an eclectic mix of local and international artists including Carly Ptak (Baltimore), Robby Rackleff (Baltimore), Joseph Keckler (NYC), People Like Us (UK) and Blues Control (NYC.)
Floristree
Carly Ptak
Robby Rackleff
Joseph Keckler
People Like Us
Blues Control
People Like Us play Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
People Like Us will perform “Genre Collage” at Issue Project Room on Thursday 15th April 2010. Also in the evening we’ve very pleased to have WFMU’s Ken Freedman with a DJ set and Aki Onda with a live set.
http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/02/17/people-like-us/
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Doors Open: 8pm
Directions
Admission: $15 door ($12 advance)
Buy tickets
People Like Us Play AV Festival 2010
Live Performance at Star and Shadow (NewcastleGateshead)
Saturday 13th March 2010
from 9:00pm until 2:00am
Vicki Bennett has co-curated an evening with AV Festival entitled
Nothing is New, Everything Is Permitted.
The title is a pun on the phrase ‘Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted’, famously quoted by William S Burroughs, who helped popularise cut-up culture. This incredible evening includes live performances by artists, musicians and poets who have creatively dissected, recycled and quoted. Including: Genre Collage the new live audio-visual set from People Like Us that collages film genres using well-known feature films; live improviser Gwilly Edmondez who uses voice, tapes, decks and samples; debut performance of Café Carbon by The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews, Hayley Newman) and whirlwind wizard of the ivories Felix Kubin. With DO or DIY Radio and other visual delights.
Buy tickets here
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/nothing-is-new-everything-is-permitted
Other highlights of the festival that we recommend (which are separate events to the above) are appearances by Rick Prelinger, Craig Baldwin, and Kenneth Anger. Separately, we might add!
The full programme of AV Festival can be found at
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10
Download the AV Festival programme as a pdf here
Here is a presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage – at AV Festival 2010.
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AV Festival update
A last minute addition if you are at AV Festival in Newcastle – People Like Us will be speaking at today’s Recycled Film Symposium.
Another last minute addition – Craig Baldwin will be joining us to introduce in his special way Nothing Is New, Everything Is Permitted.
Here is the presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage – at AV Festival 2010.