7 June 2008
A Night At the Music Hall
A co-promotion with Spitalfields Festival
Venue: Wilton’s Music Hall
Rational Rec presented A Night at the Music Hall, part of Spitalfields Festival. This special, one-off event took place at Wilton’s Music Hall .
Encounter the spaces and histories of Wilton’s Music Hall as you’ve never seen them before with Rational Rec’s inimitable take on the Edwardian variety show, including a programme of artists film curated by LUX.
Wilton's Music Hall is the world's oldest and last surviving grand music hall. Here, in the 1850s and 60s, classical overtures, opera and operetta, choral, contemporary and folk songs were enormously popular, long before "old time music hall" evolved. John Wilton built this theatre behind his public house, The Prince of Denmark in 1858, in Graces Alley, E1. The pub was locally famous as the first to use mahogany fittings. Wilton's was described as the Wilton's Music Hall "Handsomest Room in Town".
A performance lecture from The
Vacuum Cleaner, a cultural resistance collective of one fashioning
radical social and ecological change.
By employing various creative legal and illegal tactics and forms the vacuum cleaner attempts to disrupt concentrations of power and reverse the impending ecological collapse of planet earth.
the vacuum cleaner has intervened, disrupted and ocassionally shutdown corporate and public spaces like Selfridges, Starbucks, Virgin Megastores, Barclays Bank, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco, Waterstones, The City of London, Wall Street and the Nokia HQ’s.
the vacuum cleaner is a co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and founder of the very cooperative.
New performance work by Sheila
Ghelani.
Ghelani's practice addresses ideas that stem from notions of ‘mixing’ or being mixed and attempts to engage with words and ideas that she finds difficult like mule, mongrel, half-caste, monster, the in-between.
She is interested in hybridity, ‘crossings’, migration, blood, skins, skinning, carefully controlled experiments, well-oiled machinery, genetics and love.
Ghelani works regularly for Blast Theory and Pacitti Company.
An exclusive from Brian Catling. Catling is a poet, sculptor and performance artist who is currently working in video and live work. He has been commissioned to make solo installations and performances in many countries including; Spain, Japan, Iceland, Israel, Holland, Norway, Germany and Greenland.
His solo show Antix at Matt's Gallery drew much
critical acclaim. In 2002 he founded the international performance group
The Wolf In The Winter. His monument at the site of execution at the Tower of London was launched in 2006
He is professor of fine art at The Ruskin School of Drawing & fine art, university of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College.
Musical enlightenment from Plus Minus ensemble, Michael Finnissy, Andrew Toovey and Adam de la Cour
Perfomances of:
- Diana Burrell - One Man Band
- Michael Finnissy - Dust (world premiere)
- Christopher Fox - Generic Composition No.3, No. 7, No. 8 and You, Us, Me
- Chris Newman - assorted songs
- Trond Reinholdtsen – 13 Music Theatre Pieces (world premiere)
