A night of art, film, live music and Djs
A performance and clubnight to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down with live performance, music, visuals and film inspired by the political history, sub-culture and club scene of this enigmatic city.
Tickets: £6 from SVA/ £7 online / On the door £8 early /9 later
Line up:
Live Music: 8-11pm
Kamura Obscura
Atsuko Kamura (Kamura Obscura), an experimental music project combining electronic and acoustic composition and vocal improvisation. One of Tokyo's most emotive and inventive singers, part of the women's liberation movement, giving birth to the first Japanese feminist punk band. Read more about Kamura Obscura here.
Two Dogs
Two Dogs, featuring members of renowned Birmingham band Pram (Domino Records). Two Dogs occupies the darker, more haunted, fragile end of Pram's spectrum with music boxes, violin, flute, glockenspiel, toy accordion and ethereal vocals. It makes nods to Hammer Horror, public information films, 1970s children's television and Eastern European surrealist cinema. Their live performance marries unsettling monochrome projections with loop pedals, acoustic experimentation, sampled sounds and vintage electronics of Omnichord and car-boot Casios. Read more about Sam Owen and Max Simpson.
Wool Heads
Wool Heads, a musical collaboration between Performance Artist Uta Baldauf, and Sound Artist Sean Roe; narrative tone poems with a glitchy electronic beat.
Dj: 11-2am
moina moin
With a late night afro pop, electronica and techno DJ set from moina moin and guests, inspired by a recent investigative trip into the Berlin nightclub scene.
Art: 8pm onwards
Falling Walls
A Berliner Zeitgeist Mail Art project
'Falling Walls' is an exhibition of mail art by artists and writers from all over the world responding to the theme of 'Falling Walls', as part of the 'Berliner Zeitgeist' project. This year is the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and Britain is facing one of the biggest and most complex challenges in the country's history.
Berlin Wonderland
Wild Years Revisited 1990 -96
Projected Images from "Berlin Wonderland, Wild Years Revisited 1990-1996”, a self-published monograph and testimony on the post-Cold War Berlin. With 200 photographs from 7 photographers that were active in those years of enchantment, mainly pictures from Ben de Biel, the book is a first-hand testimony about the vitality of the Berlin bohême in the 90’s, the squat movement, a counter-culture that largely structured what represents Berlin today, a state-of-mind between club culture and libertarianism. Produced by Anke Fesel and Chris Keller, Bobairport.
Die Mauer Ist Weg
The Wall Is Gone
A film by Clemens Wilhelm
Clemens Wilhelm (*1980 Berlin) is an artist & filmmaker based in Berlin whose practice ranges from film/video to photography and performance. In 2017, the Berlin Wall was gone for as long as it stood. It stood for 28 years – and it fell 28 years before. DIE MAUER IST WEG documents a circular walk around the entire former Berlin Wall in the year 2017. The film consists of photographs which all follow the same conceptual composition: they show the path ahead which represents the Berlin Wall, with West-Berlin to the left and East-Berlin to the right of the image. In 160 km the film leads through the banality of the former “Death Strip”, the demarcation line between the blocks of the Cold War. The film screening is accompanied by a live-sound performance by the artist Joakim Blattmann.
