EVENTS 2005-2007
21&23/09/06 COLLISION at AREA 10
OMSK PLOTS ITS COLLISION COURSE
OMSK returned to Area 10 to collide and collude
with MAVRYX, The Glue Rooms and
The Light Surgeons, in a programme of film, live
art, sound and other mischief: COLLISION, a three day art event curated by
Area
10.
21/09/06
On Thursday we showed a feisty eruption from OMSK's Film
Archives, please
forgive us for this nostalgia, we have been over 10 years in existence and were
feeling sentimental...Plus delightful noise to set your ears a-quiver from
MissintheMix.
23/09/06
On Saturday we were back firmly in the present to present a rich concoction of
experimental short film, mighty sounds and thought provoking performance
including:
«
Devotcha's Conunudrum - a whirlpool to blend your ears and eyes
«
Kim
eating her own stomach in a final act of consumerism
« Bill Aitchinson
attempting the impossible
« Paddy Kernohan undergoing Trope & Trophy (a rite of passage),
Plus a heap of
sounds from DJ OMSK, aural nourishment from
DJ Scragend, all rounded off
beautifully by OMOMusik.
location: Area 10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill
Street, London SE15
08/06/06
OMNIOMSK
OMSK IS ELEVEN YEARS OLD
Our
unruly and itinerant childhood thus far has involved forty hybrid platform
events where hundreds of emerging artists have tested ideas in diverse contexts.
We've made a bed for ourselves in squatted banks, boats on the Thames, railway
arches, textile warehouses, more railway arches, in Tokyo, along a cobbled east
end street, and other illegitimate spaces.
OMSK has captivated thousands of critically engaged and/or progressively
drunk audience members, combining challenging ideas and art forms with the
revelries of a long night out. The works are experimental, and so is the
audiences' attitude towards them. Nothing goes to plan and everyone has a good
time.
FILM & VIDEO
« S Polly II: Plan
for a revolution in Docklands (Anja Kirschner)
« S Doctor Phallus'
Theatrics (Zohar Manor-Able)
« Lighthouse
(Tom Wolseley)
« Your task will
fail to be realised (I'll do what I can) (Claire Hope)
« Enthusiasms of
the affluent (James Hellings)
« SoundBomb and
Start with the beginning and the end (Toby Clarkson)
« Standing: Part
Two (Wai Yan Chan)
« Wood vs wood
(Aoife Collins)
« Never You Mind
(Steven Eastwood)
« London
(Jim & Heinz)
PERFORMANCE
« Fox (Sam Hacking & Edward Peake)
- an erotic, violent and comic clothes
swap
« Bill Aitchison attempts to juggle by numbers
using tape players, a table and 25 mins
« Hilary Koob Sassen
- THE ERRORISTS: Game
Theory/Tit for Tat Danceable Pizzicato syntax frolic in the landscape of
Culture's Elaboration in Time
« Talkaoke
- speak-off featuring three eager
contenders for the round table chat throne (CANCELLED)
« Plus Robin Mahoney,
Mary Hurrel and
What is Quiztest?
SOUND
« They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them
- playmobil court jests with rumba
plonk
« Electric Assembly - The Velvet Underground plays Boards Of Canada
produced by Kevin Shields arranged by Sun Ra (Syd Barrett in audience)
« Scrag End
- disparate but far from dispirited
found and made sounds
« DJ Tendraw
(Gluerooms, Resonance FM) cut 'n'
paste hand carved vinyl film tracks
« The Comet Project
- laptop knob twiddling
produces semi improvised ear mince
« Plus - resident disc-spinners
DJ OMSK and
MissintheMix
Location: JAMM, 261 Brixton Rd, LONDON, SW9
31/03/06
flikOMSK
OMSK GOES TO THE MOVIES
FILM & VIDEO
« Weather Report
(Laurie Hill)
« 5 Shorts (Allsopp
& Weir)
« She Falls
(Rosalind Peters)
« Come As You Are
(Steven Eastwood)
« To Camera
(Michelle Deignan)
« 2005ad
(Jon Purnell)
« Blind Spots
(Stefani Bardin)
« Shining
Hours/Forgiving Rhythm (Rose Eken)
« Never You Mind
(Steven Eastwood)
« Double Dummy
(Jennet Thomas)
« Blow Up
(Lisa Vinebaum)
« The Perils of
Believing in Round Squares (Sally Irvine)
« Report: The Earth
(Salomon Rogberg)
« The Grand Walk
(Alex Heim)
« Happy Christmas
Mom & Dad (Jennifer Allen)
« Fallen Imperial
(Ursula Meyer)
« Clip/Clap/Clop
(Paddy Kernohan)
PERFORMANCE & SOUND
« DJ Scragend
plays slow stripped down minimal beats travelling from hypnotic acoustic to
harsh electronic
«
MissintheMix - Apocalyptic Karaoke – MISSINTHEMIX hails the future
singing along to records, making the odd lyrical digression about the horrors of
life and offering suggestions for radical solutions
« DJ OMSK
provides A brief glimpse at the end
« Jigoku proffers film slash music delirium LOW
PROFILE presents: d o u b l e a c t s (a work in progress) ant & dec…richard
& judy…chas & dave…cagney & lacey…vic & bob…torvill & dean…
« Low Profile
will be playing a guessing game of twenty questions called "Who am I?"
navigating their way through a collection of double acts to try and figure out
where they fit KIM - Lost down the river or at sea/ how to get there Using card,
fat markers and scissors and that’s all
« Kim
will erect scenery and a cardboard boat, and row and row and row
« Dot Howard
- Untitled durational performance. Performance anxiety takes centre stage. She
has lost her courage. She’s the one that doesn't want to. It might be OK. Take a
deep breath and shout out the words. Centring on her tendency to suffer from
stage fright and redirecting the spotlight
« Mary Hurrell – Breathonica, a new work. Using
costume to restrict the body and extract sound
« Igor De
Quadra - I do things (with g) I am (inventario
de cosas) Concerned with the disproportion of things and their live
representation, De Quadra makes a live recording of objects/actions and plays
them back on a television, unchaining further actions in the process.
« Paddy
Kernohan - Nonsurgence
« Tiamantra - A little lesson in unrequited love
- the macabre burlesque collective who serve petit dingy etherial obsessions
with dark chocolate absurdist torture for dessert. Bit Parts: Eastwood and
Moloney Compère
Location: Corsica Studios, Farrell Court,
Elephant Road, London, SE17 1LB
27/05/05
vibratOMSK
OMSK RETURNS TO LIMEHOUSE TO GET YOU ALL SHOOK UP
WITH AN UPSURGE OF BEWILDERING THRILLS
James Pearson invites you to Please Use [R]evolving Doors, reworking
public notices, instructions and ads into a landscape of confrontations and
associations.
To tempt you further, Dorothy Howard subtly runs her shoe up you
ankle, whispering, flirting and vastly pregnant.
Retreat into music as The
Desperate Ones join us from Brighton to perform a unique blend of chanson and
cinematic country noir, a chance to lose yourself in a sublime and subversive
western burlesque landscape.
Come to your senses with Luiginono - here the
Purpurbahn duo set out with no lesser aim than to Destroy the Empire of
Language, Giving new voice and new body to Mass rhetoric.
Unrelenting we give
you
Devotcha's Conunudrum, tapping into sound and distorting your vision...
Unwind with Igor de Quadra’s /*MeTOLOGY* (part I), nothing but a playful
pseudo Freudian conundrum of an electric night with the TV on. But beware: in
the cathode rays of Jon Acker’s performance, something lurks behind sitcom banal
and routine activities.
It’s all too much for us to reveal right now. There will
be more, more films music performers drinks ideas and sensations. To join us go
to www.omsk.org.uk, we’ll tell you just where and how to get yourself off to vibratOMSK.
EVERYONE HAVING A GOOD TIME...
« Jon Acker
- Daytime TV intervention, short sets between each act
«
Devotcha's Conunudrum
« /*MeTOLOGY part 1
« The Desperate
Ones
« Lovely Jon Jigoku
« Paintings by
Armando
« James Pearson’s
signs - Please Use [R]evolving Doors
« Dot Howard:
‘A Bit Of The Old Inside Out’
« DJ Alex Trelik
« DJ OMSK
EVERYTHING GOING WRONG...
« Jess as Pitta Pan
(Cancelled due to illness)
« The Cult of Kwun
(Cancelled due to technical difficulties)
« Talkaoke
(Cancelled due to last minute restrictions on space imposed by the venue)
« Purpurbahn
(Cancelled due to a faulty signal at Kings Cross)
« DJ MissInTheMix
(Cancelled due to theft of record deck)
location: Secret venue, somewhere in
Limehouse