EVENTS 2003-2004
18/12/04 OMSKXMAS
FILM VIDEO PERFORMANCE BAR
+EXTRA SOUND MAYHEM
www.area10.info
Come burn the roof of your mouth on a sonically biased
festive soup of experimental sound, film, installation and live performance. An
OMSK nativity, set in the Area 10 stable, served up one week before Christmas
day.
LIVE SOUND
« Live
Permanent Bag System are an experimental death hoover quartet.
God (and possibly baby Jesus) only knows what to expect from these guys.
However, with breakcore's rising star DJ SHITMAT at the helm, ensuing madness is
guaranteed. Hoover hoover hoover, distortion.
« Super Group
Extreme - Bristol cube
band, often featuring backing from Richard Whitely and a change of T-Shirt.
« John E.
Cashmoney and the Cowboys form Hell - Sonic Youth impact with Texmex Peckham
voodoo triphop as Cashmoney and his guitarfreak gangstas of love lay siege.
« Devotchka's
Conumdrum - real life vision and noise orchestrated.
DJ SETS
« Future Beat
Alliance (Peacefrog / Versatile / Suicide / Void) quality street
electronique
« Hannah
Missinthemix (OMSK resident supreme) 7" vinyl and inaudible
air-Karaoke
« DJ OMSK (Exalt Records) probable vinyl swimming plus special guest
DJ SHITMAT (Planet Mu / Aural Addiction / Death$ucker)
LIVE PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION
« Paddy
Kernohan – Reprise. Durational processing of detritus
« Eva Weaver
– Strip! 4-3-2-1. A mission impossible in which Burlesque meets Grotesque
and nothing is quite what it seems…
« Beth Elliot & Harald Smykla
– Melting Pot.
Projected over heads, a hand-animated translucent cast merging on acetate and
ice.
« The Vacuum
Cleaner - Dr Branson
« Tom Walker in a corner somewhere
FILM & VIDEO
A programme of shorts from the snowy wastes of Buffalo, including...
« Concoction
(Robin Brasington)
« Deep and Wide (Robin Brasington) I (Soyeon Jung)
« The Masked Marvel (Alan Rhodes)
« The Great Success (Alan Rhodes)
« Rozi! Rozi! Rozi!
Roy! Roy! Roy! (Steven Eastwood)
« The Swan (Holly Johnson)
« Hotel Lenox
(Esther
Johnson)
Plus...
« There's One Born Every Minute (Tzanda Recordings/Monkey Rations
Prods)
« CALMA oder Als mein Telefon klingelte, dachte ich die Vogel zwitschern
(Alex Heim)
« Failed, Emerging & Young (Flavia Muller Medeiros)
« You Can Wake Up
Now (Helen Murphy)
« Tango Folk
(Teresa Whiting)
« Closet Case (Wrik Mead)
« The Waltz
(Tanya Axford)
« Coruscation
(Rachel Cornish)
« In Charge (Rosalind Peters)
Collected Stories of Her (Sally Irvine)
location: JAMM, 261 Brixton Rd, LONDON, SW9
25/07/04 OMSKROAM
A COBBLED PROMENADE, CURB TRIPPING, A STREET
PARTY IN WHICH THE STREET IS ART
OMSK paves the way for a six hour collaborative
event featuring the OMSK Collective, plus a programme of London Artists.
ROAM
involves the participation of local residents - telling stories, compiling car
stereo concerts, walking cinematically, skipping durationally, plus all this...
«
Video Oral HIstories (Clare Moloney) Collected stories recorded and projected.
« Dolly and
Track Cinematic Walks (Steven Eastwood) A film camera on dolly and
track shoots passers-by in cinematic walks, later projected back into the
street.
«
Mass Skipping Rope and Rhyme (Hannah Jones) The longest skipathon,
involving recollected play rhymes
« The Hooded
Horse (Helena Hunter)
«
Quartet Elecktronishe Cafe - A greasy spoon of electronic samples in which members of the
public place their orders and then sit down for an audio snack or feast.
«
Missinthemix Skip Salvation - local detritus reanimated
« Parked Car
Stereos -
compiled audiotapes or CDs for parked cars, creating miniature music venues for
a one hour music jam jam.
«
Talkaoke - The 21st century light entertainment
phenomenon
«
I Want to Have Your Baby (Caroline Koebel) a collective conceptual
performance action repopulating the world with humane beings
« Geffrye's Secret
(Anya Lewin)
« Zones 2-6 - Bill Aitchison will be around and about throughout the
day, relating experiences of zones 2-6.
« Paddy Kernohan - durational performance.
« VJ Gunieapiguana
« DJ OMSK
« Shaun Cromin - Sonic London Cinematic state of mind - floor triggers activate
sound and images.
Plus a Programme of East
London Filmmakers and Soundmakers.
location: Outdoor in Geffrye Street, Dunloe Street and Cremer street Just
off Kingsland Road
03/07/04 SEOMSK
CLOSING PARTY FOR THE DEPTFORD X FESTIVAL
OMSK hunkers down for Deptford X with a party to shake the living soul of the
South East. Immerse yourself in film, video, live art, music (live and
re-animated) and all the strange mutations of the boundaries between.
FILM & VIDEO
« Film Different Systems of Chaos (Steven
Eastwood and Anya Lewin)
« A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the
beautiful and sublime (Mark Glassner)
« Hey Nicky, (Guy Edmonds)
« Clive Shaw
film
« Don't call us, well call you! (Mark Glassner)
« It's Hard to Face That Open Space
(Richard Turner Walker)
« The Collected Stories of Her (Sally Irvine)
« Sex in the City
film
PERFORMANCE AND SOUNDS
« Room 1: Mark Glassner loop
« Room 2: The End (looped)
« Room 3:
Twice Excluded: Paddy Kernohan performance
« Sponde
- sonic art performance
« Simpletext Orchestra - a chorus of
four speaking macs, conducted by Rudi
« Waveswarmes
« DJ MissInTheMix
« DJ Niall
« Treliks with vinyl
location: Princess Louise Institute,
closiong party for the Deptford X festival
26/03/04 LimeOMSK
OMSK MANIFESTS AGAIN
Invite yourself to a citrus sharp slice... take a
bite of lime and let OMSK be your slammer. Please be sour, and succour...
PERFORMANCE & SOUNDS
« Helena
Hunter - furry installation, in the big
room upstairs
« Sonja Todd
- sew a sexual position workshop (durational) and suspended heart paintings
« Tom Flow
- Spoken word recordings set
« Amy Prior
and Kapitol K - London Routemaster
« Alison and
Jackie - Songs that Hum - screechy violin music with chatter
« Noriko Uno
and Karen Gunnarsson with Simon Bookish - C Loopseend - hybrid layers of
melodic fragments
« Garyoke (three
blokes)
« Talkaoke -
convivial host round table rant chatter
« Scissors
paper stone - Tim, maybe Tom with his Cornish rules
« James Little
- Bin Ray - laptop exothermic jellied chaos
« Kwartet
Electronik - Tom Tim Ollie and Chris- samples, drones, gestures
« Super
Group Extreme - bristol cube band
« Paddy Kernohan
- The I for Myself- performance with milk, blood and roses
« Songs that
Hum - Alison and Jackie - screechy violin music with film & glockenspiel
« Treliks with vinyl
«
DJ MissInTheMix - fresh sounds from OMSK's
other resident DJ
FILM AND VIDEO
« 101 DAMNATIONS
- a spaghetti hoops
western - Owen Oppenheimer
« Lost in Masturbation - Joanna Callaghan
« Chris
Crossing - Chris doesn't get cross in a film by Steven Eastwood
« The Outsider -
sally Irvine
« Dress Film - Rosalind Peters
« La Dolce Vita - Annis Joslin
« Christmas
1952 - David Leister
« Shrapnel - Greg Pope
« Film number four - Charlie
« Sterilised - Ben Hemming
« 3 Excerpts from
the Bear Project - Anya Lewin and Lara Odell
« Work, Play, Bed All Day - Jemima
Brown's video loop with mannequins
+ gorilla
++plus a sugar lie mouse for every
entrant
OMSK. NOTHING GOES TO PLAN AND EVERYONE HAS A GOOD TIME
Steven Eastwood was the compere in the hallway, while
Sarah Gray compered
downstairs, with appearances by
Dick Turpin.
location: secret Limehouse venue
18/12/03 OMSKlog
UNWRAP A PARCEL OF VIDEO, LIVE PERFORMANCE AND
SOUND
Come spend the seventh day before Christmas with
the motley of OMSK.
« The
Quartet Elektronishhe play back Santa samples
« Sarah Gray and Anook perform
« Steven Eastwood will show the 'I Make Things happen trilogy'
« Hannah Metcalfe will
chart
There will be vinyl petitioning...arguments over the manifesto...mulled
wine plus further boos and then some with no entry charge
location: Reception Space, Acava Studios, Studios 17 - 25, Cremer Street, London,
E2 8HD
00/09/03 Anthology Film Archives NYC
OMSK MOVIES
GO TO THE BIG APPLE
PROGRAMME 1:
Performance shorts (57 mins)
The Three Theories of Vernis Canoot (Greg Pope/Louise Stevens. 4 mins)
Passionate About (Robin Deacon.
5 mins)
Baby Girl (Louise Stevens. 5 mins)
Accordion Crossover (Richard Coldman.
6 mins)
Shyness Video (Karen Hickman. 15 mins)
Sound Effects of Death and
Disaster (Rob Hardy and John Rowley. 10 mins)
Love is Randomly Arranged (Annis
Joslin. 2 mins)
Film, 2001 (Mairead McClean. 5 mins)
PROGRAMME 2:
Experimental
Narrative (59 mins)
I Make Things Happen (Steven Eastwood. 6 mins)
Headgear
(David Leister. 8 mins)
The North Sea Circle (Richard Coldman/Alexander Gorlizki.
22 mins)
The Problem with She is Me (Annis Joslin. 4 mins)
Peg Leg Man (Nick
Gordon Smith. 10 mins)
The End (Steven Eastwood. 9 mins)
Location: NYC