EVENTS 2001
16/12/01
Cinema into the Real by Steven Eastwood
In Toynbee Arts Cafe hidden video cameras and radio mics were trained on
one specific table two days in late November. Selected subjects of that scrutiny
(two or three people) have been invited back to recreate from tape, word by word
and movement by movement, what they did at that table.
Once rehearsed this will become a 'reperformance', which will occur at a later
date in the cafe space. Everything which was said and done by those people will
be said and done again. This reperformance will than be performed again as a
film shoot, presented as a series of ÔtakesÕ announced by a clapper board, on
December 16th.
This is not a project about surveillance, nor does it require 'performers'. It
is about the relationship between the fictional and the actual, between the
filmed and the real. A film of the real which isn't real because its reenacted
and isn't film because it isn't projected. Steven Eastwood.
Location: The
Toynbee Arts Cafe
21/10/01
EATOMSK
MASTICATE WITH OMSK. THE OFFERING IS PREPARED, WE TRUST IN
YOUR APPETTITE
For your delectation The London Arts has the following creations to be served
live from the OMSK smorgasbord...
Vic Bigoire: Super Supper
Super supper deals with aspirations to success and consumption via the medium of
food and drink using the table as the arena. Vic Bigoire will act as host to a
dinner of epic proportions where he and his guests will create their own
micro-society with its own rules and structures allowing the audience to
participate or stand back in silence as the life of an artwork unfold before
their eyes. Bourgeois dinner chat mixed with game show style bravado performance
and anti theatre will collide in what could be VicÕs last supper. Vic Bigore's
Super Supper in progress
Jo Cripps: The "Wild" Food Party
THE "Wild" Food Party celebrating the Futurist Cook Book, Re: their ferocious
desire to possess all language and meaning - A Live Story Telling, Song Singing
event where each mouthful is to be chewed carefully for one minute, and each
mouthful is divided from the next by vehement blasts on the trumpet blown by the
eater himherself. From within the "Wild" zone of poetry and control Jo+Venus
Cripps will create, perform and rule this radical, ambitious and probably
brittle affair.
Sonic Catering Band: La Crande Bouffe
The Sonic Catering Band will be applying their metaculinary magic to the
corporeal gluttony and fornication of Marco Ferrari's 70's cult classic, 'La
Grande Bouffe'.
'La Grande Bouffe' concerns the plight of four middle-aged
bourgeoisie men who hole themselves up in a mansion with a plentiful supply of
food and women to indulge in one final overdose of culinary and carnal
extravagance.
The lack of music in the film leaves a lot of scope for
The Sonic Catering Band to heighten the orgiastic goings-on with the intense
bubbling, gurgling, sizzling, blending and chopping that will result from
cooking the same dishes as the film.
The Sonic Catering Band won't be providing a soundtrack in the traditional sense
of the word, more an integral stage/screen dynamic that is fused by the
simultaneous action of on and off-screen cooking.
Disclaimer: Any meat dishes in the film will be appropriated as faithfully as
possible in a vegetarian context.
Steven Eastwood: Cinema into Real, Test One
'A film of the real which isn't real because its reenacted and isn't film
because it isn't projected.' ....In a Cafe off Brick Lane, hidden microphones
and cameras are placed, trained on one specific table.
The subjects of that one
hour of scrutiny will be invited back to work with the filmmaker in recreating
from tape, word by word and movement by movement, what they did in that hour at
that table. This 'reperformance' will then become a mock film of itself. The
table and performance will be cinematically lit and sound scored so that actions
and exchanges gradually become more deeply implicated within a dramatic,
narrative mode. A site-specific fusion of the fictional and the actual in three
stages, (the clandestine, the covert , and the cinematically theatrical) fusing
audience with performance, involving video, sound and film lighting. All taking
place in a Coffee House. Cinema into the Real in performance at the Toynbee Arts
Cafe.
Missinthemix 'Scones'
This is a baking/storytelling performance. In the course of the performance I
will make batches of two types of scones. My Grandmother on my father's side and
my Mum are both Scottish, and both bake scones. They learned to bake scones by
watching their mothers. I learned to bake scones by watching them. The
differences in the scones demonstrate two different traditions, two different
lifestyles and the different personalities of my mother and Grandmother. What
they have in common is that both recipes are slightly at odds with life and
customs of today (and my generation).
My Grandmother's scones come from a world
in which the phrase 'more tea, vicar', was no joking matter. My Grandmother used
to stake her pride on her tea table. Her scone making technique produces neat,
square scones of a solid consistency to be eaten off china plates with minimal
crumbs.
My mother's scones are made with sour milk. They come from a world of
'waste-not-want-not' where even sour milk was not to be thrown away. They are
usually baked in haste, large and irregular in shape with a light, crumbly
texture. As a result of being brought up on sour milk scones my brother and I
have a habit of saving milk after it goes sour, harbouring a foreign culture in
the fridge as far as most of our (English) contemporaries are concerned.
The
performance should take about 30 minutes. I will wear my 'MissInTheMix' rabbit
costume with an apron and a tartan headscarf. With the costume, the effect will
probably have something of the 'mad hatter's tea party', which is not
inappropriate, bringing in as it does themes of time and storytelling.
Other performances and works from Otiose, DJ Posthuman, R.Allwood, Robin Deacon,
e.cologni, laurence and sarah, They Came From the Stars, alex+alex, stephanie
Douet, Helena Bryant, eleanor margolies, Ben Sadler and Louise Stevens
(animation)
Cafe
« 6.00 - 7.30 DJ OMSK
« 7.30 - 7.55 Cinema into the Real part
1
« 7.55 - 8.50 Otiose - Dallas described
(performance)
« 8.50 - 9.10 Cinema into the Real part
2
« 9.10 - 10.00 DJ Richard Bevans (Posthuman)
« 10.00 - 10.15 Robin Deacon
(performance)
« 10.15 - 11.00 DJ Ned Beckett
« 11-00 - 11.15 R.Allwood winges
(performance)
« 11.15 - 12.00 DJ missinthemix
Theatre
« 6.10 -. 6.30 spaghetti loop -Sarah
Budzik
« 6-30- 7.00 short films:
« See Me! (Tom Stubbs)
« 9/11 (Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo)
« Fridge (Satu Tuomisto)
« Foot and Car (Steven Eastwood and
Kelly Warman)
« Pussycat (Dan Bibby)
« 7.00 - 7.25 Hannah MissInTheMix -
Scones
« 7.25 - 7.55 short films
« 3 Minute Birth (Rachel Davis & Jo
Parkes)
« Faulter (Tom Kirk) 7 Flight Kats (Tom
Kirk)
« For One Moment (Jo Shaw)
« 45 seconds (Cian O'Connor)
« Blindfold (Spectacle)
« 7.55 - 8.10 e.cologni live video
performance
« 8.10 - 8.30 Break
« 8.30 - 9.00 Caesar Romero Affair -
Band
« 9.00 - 10.45 Sonic Catering Band
« 10.45 - 11.15 short films
« MicroCinema Seattle: Two Minutes on a
Subway Train (Paul Catanese)
« Blow them Up (Laura Purdy & Kristy
Guevera-Flanagan)
« P (Yuri A) 7
« 11.15 - 12.00 Band - They Came From
the Stars - plus Gary Winters video loop
Fireroom closed until...
« 8.30 - 9.30 Jo Cripps Wild Food Party
« 10.00 - 12.00 the rubbish room at the
party, pringles and little stereo and left over installation from jo's piece.
will close the room if it's a bit sparse
Courtroom closed until...
« 8.00 - 11.00 Vig Bigoire's Super
Supper - durational participatory performance outside the courtroom. . .
-Installation in the wall cupboards by Ben Sadler
« 11.30 - 12.00 alex+alex shout till
exhausted
Studio 5
« 7.00 - 12.00 Sharon Smith's very
Lucky Dip + Lou Stevens Animations + Stephanie Douet - sugar flowers. + mini
discs roaming: eleanor margolies- Meringues + charcoal sticks
« 11.30 - 11.45 Helena Bryant - Sauce
lady
Location: Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial
Street, London, E1 6LS
20-23/08/01
OMSK at Edinburgh Festival
FRONT ROOM SURGERY
The OMSK underground front room will be an intimate and unsophisticated area - a
living room which doesn't want to be a daytime TV studio.
Four sixty minute dysfunctional dissections, of: Confession, Failure, Sheer
Noise and Personal Horror. Things that will happen near or at your table: Soap,
Performance, Counting, Films, Daytime TV, Records, Comedy, Video Pictures,
Stories, Mayhem.. As ever, the audience gets messed up in the work and the work
in the audience. All kinds of mishaps lead to something inexplicable. Crane your
necks as the hour happens around you. Sit by as OMSK crashes your table and
steals your date. OMSK - the kind of night your parents warned you about..
Featuring, episodically, across the nights: OMSK URGENT FRONT ROOM SURGERY -
20/08/01 Monday
PERSONAL HORROR:
« 20:15- 20:20 - intro music, sitting
down etc. [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 20:20- 20:30 -
Jo Cripps (speaking
words) "Wild Zone Roller Skates" [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 20:30- 20:35 - Chip Karney (Video) "Zombie Sit Com"
« 20:35- 20:47 -
The Max Factory [loo -
live camera to big screen]
« 20:47- 21:00 -
Jamie+Selvin (Music)
Steven e (Images)
« 21:00- 21:06 -
Robin Deacon (Video)
"Passionate About"
« 21:07- 21:09 -
Jo Cripps shouting
words
« 21:09- 21:13 -
Hannah MissInTheMix -
"Snot" (tbc)
« 21:13- 21:15 - outro music, getting
up and leaving etc. [loo - live camera to big screen]
21/08/01 Tuesday
CONFESSION:
« 20:15- 20:20 - intro music, sitting
down etc. [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 20:20- 20:25 -
Louise Camrass (Video) "Cows"
« 20:25- 20:40 -
The Max Factory [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 20:41- 20:42 -
Ursula Martinez (Video) "Vulvaldi"
« 20:42- 20:48 - Film
« 20:49- 20:52 - Jo Cripps (singing words) "Prostitute Song" [loo - live camera to
big screen]
« 20:52- 20:56 -
Jo Cripps shouting Words
« 20:58- 21:08 -
Jamie+Selvin (Music, sung-duet, embarrassing moment) Steven e
(Images)
« 21:09- 21:11 -
Jo Cripps shouting words
« 21:13- 21:15 -
Hannah MissInTheMix - outro
music, getting up and leaving etc. [loo - live camera to big screen]
« Durational: Confess and Win a Prize
22/08/01 Wednesday
FAILURE:
« 20:15- 20:20 - intro music, sitting down etc. [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 20:20- 20:25 - intro to
Hannah MissInheMix, Durational drawing: "Still I can't
draw Life"
« 20:25- 20:31 -
Jamie+Selvin (Music) Steven e (Images)
« 20:31- 20:34 -
Jo Cripps shouting words [loo- ?]
« 20:34- 20:40 -
Louise Stevens+Greg Pope (Video) "The Three Theories?"
« 20:41- 20:44 -
Jo Cripps (Shouting words)
« 20:45- 21:00 -
The Max Factory [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 21:00- 21:07 - Jamie+Selvin (Music) Steven e (Images)
« 21:07- 21:13 -
Steven Eastwood+Jo Cripps (Video) "I make things happen"
« 21:13- 21:15 - outro music, getting up and leaving etc. [loo - live camera to
big screen]
23/08/01 Thursday
SHEER NOIZE:
« 20:15- 20:20 - intro music, sitting down etc. [loo - live camera to big screen]
« 20:20- 20:24 -
Steven Eastwood to program (Video)
« 20:24- 20:39 -
Jamie+Selvin (Music) Steven e (Images)
« 20:40- 20:47 -
Jo Cripps (lecture) "Anechoic Chamber Experiment" [loo - live
camera to big
« screen]
« 20:47- 20:51 -
Steven Eastwood to program (Video)
« 20:51- 20:53 -
Jo Cripps shouting words
« 20:54- 20:58 -
Steven Eastwood program a video
« 20:58- 21:11 -
Max Factory and Jamie+Selvin (Music) Loo or Steven for Images??
« 21:11- 21:13 -
Max Factory (continue in silence)
« 21:13- 21:15 - outro music, getting up and leaving etc. [loo - live camera to
big screen]
Location: Bongo Club/Out of the Blue 6-14 New Street, Edinburgh, EH8 8DW.
www.outoftheblue.org.uk tel. 0131
556 5204. fringe@outoftheblue.org.uk
06/07/01
h2OMSK part of the LIFT festival
H2OMSK (ship of fools)
OMSK formally invite their guests to a five star evening of film, performance,
installation, live music, d.j's and v.j's - transporting their audience to
unchartered territories, just off the coast of the Thames River. 6th july 2001
PROGRAM (so far so good) ...
Jo Cripps being alone in public a pyjama party, with no guests. Durational.
Louise Stevens and Selvin Cooper 'brown ghost' A ghostly fraction of 'brown'.
a durational haunting sea shanty which never ever seems to end. Accelerating and decellerating, coming in and out like the tide. voice ghost and laptop spinning
out the endless ocean jig.
Hannah MissInTheMix Siren Silent Kareoke
I have discovered that on Vauxhall
Bridge you can sing or shout and your voice blows away. This has drawn my
attention to the amazing potential of singing into the river as a means of
plunging into a performance without being restrained by considerations of 'how
do I sound?'. As a DJ I sing along to records, freed to express myself by using
someone else's voice. On the river my voice can be free in the knowledge that it
is incomparable. Singing out towards the river I can act the siren, teasing the
audience by singing beyond their grasp. I will bring a 'quiethailer'. I will
suggest that everyone has a go.
Quartet Electronishe. improvisation with 4 samplers. set - approximately 40
minutes. space - main performance area. Technical Requirements P.A. and Mixing
Desk. (light for main space)
Sarah Gray Improvisation dance-performance approximately 30 minutes.
D.J.'s unconfirmed.... 3 in mind. Lepke b, Jamiejame, DJ Mikeyyoungbloke, jonnie
Bassett, ben lovely lux ben (two out of these three ain't bad)
FILM & VIDEO (programmed by Steven Eastwood)
LIFT are installing a screen and projector on the
roof of the boat, and it will be decorated with Astroturf, sounds like a
gorgeous way to view the films, but obviously its weather pending, otherwise it
looks like the main space is where films get shown.
Plus Frank Chickens and
Rotozaza
Location: HMS
President, moored on the Thames near Blackfriar's Bridge
26/05/01
No Beats
OMSK, that site-specific soup of live art, low-budget film and sonic
play, has had too much to drink and won't stop talking - for five hours. This
time, at Arcola, the old garment factory, OMSK orates across the whole damn
space. As ever, the audience gets messed up in the work and the work in the
audience. All kinds of mishaps lead to something inexplicable. Featuring...
« I Love Swabia and Swabia Loves Me
(durational borderland performance by Heiko Fischer)
« Marcus Fisher's Wake (Film plus
sewing performance by Oreet Ashery)
« Bill Aitchison (the building is
toured and written upon)
« In Search of the Big Country
(Installation by Ben Sadler)
« Tales from the OMSK Oral Sect (Jo
Cripps, Steven Eastwood, MissintheMix)
« Dot-Dash-Duck
(three piece junk sound
ensemble)
« They Came From the Stars, I Saw Them
(art mess band rude)
« Personal Stereo (DJing for one)
« Enclave (abandoned pill box ambient whoosh sound)
« Films from the Microcinema, Seattle.
« Grace Surman, Robin Deacon and more
Nish (lovely hurtful laptop noise)
« Free Advice Clinic
« Video hacking.
« Abandoned pill box.
« 20 videos of me smoking.
« Jesus residue.
« Inverted silent guided tour.
« Sounds from the WIld Zone of
self-control.
« Marcus doing orthodox sewing.
« White rabbit makes 782 bass feedback.
« Duck says Dash can't make it.
« Horton.
« Laptop carves Nish.
« Big rant I may have to become a
prossie mini disc.
« Handcuffed Hollywood pitches.
« Heiko pushing for edges.
« Papal films.
« Oral Sect.
« Field recordings.
Location:
27 Arcola Street, London, E8
09-13/03/01
OMSKLO
OMSK + OSLO = OMSKLO
OMSK artists involved: Annis, Grace,
Felicity, Sharon, Steven, Jo, Hannah, Lou, Jamie.
Norwegian organisers: Rittik and Jan More info:
www.void.no or www.blaajazz.com
10OMSKLO main event, MAY 10th.
Venue: BLÅ Provisional running order
« 8pm - 2am MC Jo Cripps
« 8.00pm - 8.30pm - DJ Missinthemix
« 8.30pm - 9pm - Films
« 9pm - 10.30pm - The Bad Count
« 10.30pm -
10.45pm - Jo and Venus Cripps Performance
« 10.45pm - 11.15pm - Films
« 11.15pm -
11.20pm - Steven Eastwood
Short Break with DJ OMSK
« 11.30pm - 12.40pm - The Max Factory
« 11 .40pm - 1.30pm - DJ MissInTheMix
« 1.30pm - Close - DJ OMSK
The main
event will be at Blaa - and the second space will be right behind Blaa - it is
not the same as originally planned - but it is at least as big or even a bit
bigger. - Norwegian artists : Henriette Pedersen - Swing Hop Suicide -
huntershut-performance 2 girls, The heartists, will make a work using the river
going by. Accommodation: Annis and Grace could share a double hotel room. Sharon
and Felicity could share a double hotel room. Steven can stay with Mari. Jamie
has a place to stay. That leaves Louise Stevens, Hannah Metcalf and Jo Cripps -
they will probably be happy to stay with some of your friends. Departing
Heathrow: 13.05 Wednesday 9th (arriving 16.15 Oslo) Departing Oslo: 15.10 Sunday
13th (arriving Heathrow 16.20)
Location:
Oslo, Blå Club
04-09/03/01 MOLLOSK at the
Pandemonium Festival
A FIDGETY DREAM OF PERFORMANCE, SOUNDSCAPES
AND FLICKERY
Attached
to the Pandaemonium festival like some MOLLOSK, MOLLOSK is an after-hours mini-OMSK, a
fidgety dream of performance, soundscapes and flickery pictures. Drink, flirt
and be bedazzled late into the night - OMSK will be your barnacle. Each night
will include live performances, an innovative record playing session, slide
projections of photographic artists, vision mixing, OMSK portraits of the backs
of people1s heads and a short programme of film and video. And booze.
05/03/01 Monday
10.00 DannyO ne
10.30 Prog Cleo - film
11.00 Miss Plunkett
11.30 Dannyone
12.00 Robin Deacon
12.30-1am DannyOne and Miss Plunkett play the night out
06/03/01 Tuesday
10.00 Dubversive
10.30 Film by Marina and Stevens student's (1)
11.00 Greg Pope
VHS with The Infant Marmoset - one hour set
12.00 Mr Teds
12.30 Dubversive and Greg Pope play the night out -
Jo Cripps our very own compare all night
07/03/01 Wednesday
10.00 Greg Pope
10.30 DJOMSK collaborating into the Greg Pope set
11.00 Films by Jo Cripps plus Steven's students
12.30 IDK and Jusmusic ending the night and eventually collaborating
with Greg Pope film projections
Ben Hick doing the slide projection all night
long
08/03/01 Thursday
10.00 Hannah Missinthemix
10.30 Miss P
10.45 Film by Stevens student's
11.00 The Max Factory
11.30 Brown
12.00 Jo Cripps
12.30 Jam Scones & Miss Plunkett play out the night
09/03/01 Friday
10.00 The Infant Marmoset
11.00 Jam Scones
12.00 DJ OMSK
1.00 Hannahmissinthemix
-
visuals all night by Marc Kushin and Ben Hick
Artists Involved in MOLLOSK for Pandaemonium The Max Factory Steven Eastwood Jo Cripps Brown Hannah Missinthemix
DJ OMSK Dubversive Jam Scone + guest Ursula Martinez Robin Deacon Peter Arnold
Mr Teds DannyOne Marc Kushin Ben Hick Greg Pope Nish Grace Surman Selvin & Jake
Cooper (IDK) Steven Roberts Miss Plunkett
Location:
The Lux Cinema, Hoxton Square
28/01/01
ARCOLAOMSK
PERFORMANCE & SOUNDS
« Laurence
Harvey performs
« Jo+Venus
Cripps - 'Stories from the English Wild Zone' & 'Fishchipsfishchipsfishchips'
& More
« Steven
Eastwood
« Kelly
Warman - durational performance
« Grace
Surman - more durational performance
« King Mob
Collective
«
Anarcadia
« Gad
Hollander's The Palaver Transcription
« DJ Pete
Smith
« DJ
Missinthemix
« DJ OMSK
« Dan
Powell
« Teowa
(Strings of Mu) incl. performance by Steven Eastwood
«
Posthuman incl. durational performance by Jo+Venus Cripps
« The Vic
Bigoire Show - starring the man himself + special guests. A feast of day
time T.V style entertainment from the secret headquarters of Shock Corridor.
FILM & VIDEO (Programmed by Steven Eastwood)
« Music to Watch Girls Go By (Christine Cynn -
20mins)
« Love Me Tender (Matthias Hoene - 8mins)
« Prosthetic Aesthetics (Emily Richardson -
7mins) 'Hus' (Inger Lise Hausen - 7mins)
« I Make Things Happen' re-edit (Steven
Eastwood, with Jo Cripps - 6mins)
« The Palaver Transcription (Gad Hollander -
37mins)
Location:
27 Arcola Street, London, E8