Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Tapescape Catford




As first featured here last month, Platform 7 are holding a two week art event at the former Blockbusters store in Catford, which closed after being looted in the August riots. They say:
'This April an unusual multi-disciplinary performance and visual art intervention will take place in a disused Blockbuster Video Store in Catford, South East London. The free exhibition, called ‘Tapescape Catford: The Intervention I’, brings together new media and traditional arts in an exploration of the politics of the videocassette. The intervention has attracted international artists and performers among a host of emerging London artists.

Events will include:

• a provocation on Jane Fonda’s exercise videos and female body image
• a documentary film ‘VH-Essay’ of non-return rental videocassettes
• ‘Ext1’ an interactive sound installation around the nostalgic qualities of magnetic tape
• sculpture, photography, live performance, quiz and huge quantities of now neglected and often nostalgic equipment and cassettes and more

Audience members will be able to interact with some pieces and are encouraged to bring in old videocassette and recorders to be completely recycled by Environmental Media Services (EMS) and Lewisham Council. There is a bar serving fresh coffee and little you would expect in a video shop

The show is produced by live performance micro-events company Platform-7 and follows the acclaimed ‘Up the Line’ events (2009-11) and last summer’s ‘Moonbow Margate’ intervention.

Artists include Terry Duffy (Venice and Liverpool Biennale), Berlin’s Rimini-Protokoll (Venice Biennale), Hugh Stoddart (To The Lighthouse, Remembrance), British Pianist Julian Jacobson (Royal College of Music and Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle), Paul Halliday (Urban Encounters: Tate, Goldsmiths, Horniman), Documentary Filmmaker Kai Clear, sound artist Nathan Harmer, Roanna Mitchell (Movement/Artistic Director: Endangered Bodies London), John Pigram (Home Museum).

Local artists include: Darren Sperring, Isabel White, Yeu-Lai Mo, Tom Bresolin, Lauren Lapidge and JC Jazzman John Clarke and more'.

Private View/opening is tonight Tuesday 10th April 2012 from 7pm.

Opening Times are as follows:

April 12-15th Thursday to Sunday 12noon - 11pm
April 17th Tuesday 12noon - 11pm
April 19-22nd Thursday to Sunday 12noon - 11pm

Admission Free.

Address:

‘TAPESCAPE CATFORD: THE INTERVENTION I’
THE OLD BLOCKBUSTERS VIDEO STORE, 95 Rushey Green, Catford , SE6 4AF

More details at:  http://www.platform-7.com/








2 comments:

Tapescape Catford said...

The line up this week. Tapescape ends on Sunday 22nd April

TUESDAY 17TH, 7.30PM
CASSETTIQUETTE
VH-ESSAY DIRECTED BY KAI CLEAR
EXT-1 INTERACTIVE AUDIO VISUAL INSTALLATIONS BY NATHAN HARMER
I LOVE VIDEOTAPE BY JONATHAN PIGRAM
MORE FILMS, AUDIO EXHIBITS AND BAR
TUNES BY DJ NOVA

THURSDAY 19TH, 7.30PM
PROVOCATION: HOW TECHNOLOGY MAKES OUR BODY ITS BUSINESS: JANE FONDA, LEISURE, AND THE EMBODIMENT OF THE GOOD CITIZEN BY ROANNA MITCHELL
HTTP://WWW.PLATFORM-7.COM/APPS/BLOG/SEARCH?Q=ROANNA
VISUAL ART RESPONSE BY DARREN SPERRING
HTTP://WWW.PLATFORM-7.COM/GALLERY#!__GALLERY/2011-EXHIBITIONS/VSTC27=DARREN-SPERRING
DANCE RESPONSE BY MELANIE SIMPSON
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=UD4WRFWQLGU

FRIDAY 20TH (TBC) 8PM
RIOT ACT 2012 (TBC)
PERFORMANCE BY
TOM BRESOLIN & ALEXIS MILNE (TBC)
PIE N MASH FILMS – IF IT IS SAFE TO SHOW (TBC)
HTTP://WWW.PIENMASHFILMS.COM/
PRINCESS BRITANNIA - SHE KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON (TBC)
HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/PROFILE.PHP?ID=100001488826532
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY SCULPTURE
HTTP://TAPEBOX.CO.UK/

SATURDAY 21ST, 7.30PM
EXPLODING CINEMA
VHS EXPLOSION
HTTP://WWW.EXPLODINGCINEMA.ORG/

SUNDAY 22ND
THE MARATHON MAN FILM QUIZ, 3-6PM
HOSTED BY DAN CALLADINE
HTTP://DIGITAL-EXAMPLES.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK/2012/01/RETURN-OF-FERRIS-BUELLER.HTML
VJ LEPKE, 8.30PM (TBC)
AN ORIGINAL VHS VJ
HTTP://SOUNDCLOUD.COM/LEPKE-B

Tapescape Catford said...

PS. Don't forget that we are recycling all old videocassettes brought to the shop

https://www.facebook.com/TapescapeCatford