27 April 2011
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, Ontario. There’s an amazing line up in the festival, including John Oswald, Tanya Tagaq, and also Tony Conrad.
More Soup and Tart, Barbican Theatre, London
More Soup and Tart
15 April 2011
Barbican Theatre
Tickets: £15–£25 ****SOLD OUT!!!!****
Includes food
Time: 7.30pm
For one night only! Over 30 of the most exciting artists working across visual art,
film, music, dance and theatre each give a two-minute performance that follows a
light dinner of soup and tart, in the spirit of Jean Dupuy’s legendary 1974-75
events at The Kitchen, New York.
Featuring:
Penny Arcade / Edwina Ashton / Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / Simon Bookish / John Butcher / Rosemary Butcher / William Cobbing / Martin Creed / Jeremiah Day / Dog Kennel Hill Project / Tim Etchells / Marcia Farquhar / Stewart Home / Mikhail Karikis / Hilary Koob-Sassen / Andrew Kotting / Sam Lee / Christian Marclay / Frauke Requardt, Tai Shani / Holly Slingsby / Ryan Styles / Simon Vincenzi / Mark Aerial Waller / Jennifer Walshe and Tom Woolner and more. Plus a special film contribution by Michael Clark.
For more information, click here
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11727 .
Tickets £15-25, and includes a dinner of vegetable soup and apple tart, made by
Searcy’s restaurant.
Book now… http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11727
People Like Us at Satellite Vitrine Gallery, Covent Garden London
People Like Us will be showing films as part of the private view (only) at Replica, an exhibition by Satellite Vitrine Gallery at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London on
Friday 8th April 2011.
RELICA launches Satellite Vitrine Gallery, showcasing mixed media work by five artists: Edwin Burdis, Katherine Gardner, Ludovica Gioscia, Rennard Milner and Robin Kirsten. The show brings together works that use found media material re-imagined.
LAUNCH EVENT & Private View
Satellite Vitrine Gallery presents a series of screenings, performances and music. Works included use found media footage, creating montage from film clips, TV, lyrics and music; expanding the exhibition premise into time-based media.
Cinema at 5.30pm (30 minutes)
‘GLUE GUN’ Screening with works by Andrew Gaston, George Barber, Noah Angell and People Like Us; artists who use found film, TV or internet footage cut, pasted and re-wroked.
Games Room from 6pm
6 – 9pm: Private View & Performances by James Stopforth and Leah Capaldi happening intermittently.
9pm til LATE: Dean Brannagan and Natasha Rees will present a continuous, collaborative sequence of music, video and sounds that echo the themes of RELICA.
Curated by Alys Williams and Katherine Gardner.
satellite VITRINE GALLERY at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ
People Like Us Interview
People Like Us are featured and interviewed here, many thanks to Brian Lamb.
http://abject.ca/about/mashup/
The Keystone Cut Ups at Flatpack Festival
Sunday 27th March 2011
People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz will perform The Keystone Cut Ups at Flatpack Festival, at The Electric Cinema, Birmingham UK.
http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/the-keystone-cut-ups
http://www.flatpackfestival.org/blog/2011/02/07/a-few-dates-for-the-diary/
peoplelikeus.org/keystone.html
People Like Us play and screen at Ambulante Film Festival, Mexico
Week beginning Monday 14th March 2011
People Like Us will be performing Genre Collage at Ambulante Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico. There will be also be a 12-city tour of short films by Vicki Bennett/People Like Us as part of the festival, but Morelia will be the only place where there will be a live performance and the other 11 cities will have film screenings alone.
Genre Collage will take place at the CMMAS on Wednesday 16th March at 8.30pm.
The film screenings will take place at various venues in various cities, and once again Vicki will be present for the screenings in Morelia – please check the Ambulante Festival site. http://www.ambulante.com.mx/
Please note – the film screenings are a 52 minute collection of short films, and “Genre Collage” is a 45 minute live set.
Genre Collage at Transmediale 2011
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage at Transmediale in Berlin on Wednesday 2nd February 2011. The performance venue is Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.
Genre Collage in Stockholm
People Like Us will perform Genre Collage live on Swedish Radio at Södra Teatern in Stockholm on Saturday 15th January 2011. More specific information will be available nearer the time.
Post-concert review here:
http://www.tidningenkulturen.se/kritik-mainmenu-52/musik-mainmenu-36/8112-musikkonsert-arts-birthday-party
Archive: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=3676
People Like Us in UbuWeb podcast
People Like Us is featured in the latest UbuWeb podcast “Avant-Garde All The Time”.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=2780
Many thanks, Kenny!
The Sound Of The End Of Music
Two well-known feature films are edited together to create more than a sum of the parts.
Screenings:
August 2014 – Stockholm Music and Arts Festival curated by David Risley Gallery
August 2012 – Sounds Like Silence – An exhibition by Hartware MedienKunstVerein, HMKV, Dortmund
April 2012 – Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
January 2012 – Transmediale, Berlin
November 2011 – Filmladen Kassel e.V., Kassel
August 2011 – Mitternachtskino – Frankfurt am Main

People Like Us and The Aunties fill in for Ken on WFMU
DO or DIY with People Like Us will fill in for Ken on Wednesday, December 29th, 9am – Noon on WFMU, NY time. That is 2-5pm UK time.
This time around, the special guests returning to the mic will be Aunty Pat & Aunty Ellen.
http://www.wfmu.org/upcoming/fillins
People Like Us in Dandelion Postgraduate Arts Journal
Vicki was recently interviewed by Donatella Valente for the Dandelion Postgraduate Arts Journal about genre and surrounding areas. Read here:
Genre Begets Genre: In Conversation with Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
http://dev.dandelionjournal.org/index.php/dandelion/article/view/12/12
Genre Begets Genre_ In Conversation with Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) _ Valente _ Dandelion pdf
