unit 102 - 103, engine house

past events / projects

12 / 10 / 07 - FREQUENZEN

I will be performing live and/or do some form of arts on the 12th october in London. I will be
appearing alongside my friends Jodi Cave, Igor Hax, triPhaze, John Chantler and Carina Thorén (aka For Barry Ray) at the FREQUENZEN Mini Festival Nacht at the Utrophia Project Space. Record playing support is going to be provided by the Harold Moore's Records Team. Further short films by Brandt, Soukup and Wendt will be shown that night.

 

7 / 10 / 07 - SINDRE BJERGA, ANDERS GJERDA, STEN OVE TOFT, ON FIRE & CHORA

uk and norwegian experimental noise workz all up on us at the utrophia project space. clickety clackety, distortion with banjo effects.

 

6/10/07 - CREEPING NOBODIES : 6TH OCTOBER

Text received from Ben Polhill (Shimmy Rivers and and Canals) by all at Utrophia Thursday 4th of October 23:04:22

'U trophians! I am not with you tonight bcause a band called the Creeping Nobodies is blowing my socks! And here's the thing: they're over from Toronto and have a free day on Sat. I there anything going on yet on Sat at the 'phia'? It wood be gra8 if we cooD do a night on sat there with them! What you think? They are FUCKING good!'

Text received from Ben Polhill by all at Utrophia Thursday 4th of October 23:23:31

'I am not merely transported by frivolity by the way... I truly believe that this must happen! Can someone call me tonight?'

thecreepingnobodies.com

 

4/10/07 - JULIANNA BARWICK, SERAFINA STEER, TILE, LOUP

Julianna plays really great music that has loads of textures to it. You can hear the wood and the rasp of voices and it's coming through to you with a big heart and hope. With chants and computers and yesterdays the music is without time or location but with a lot of 'C'MON', let's do things.

you can check out her website www.juliannabarwick.com

There will also be other performances from 'Loup' who gave a magical performance over at the Viewfinder Gallery, involving a collection of musical trinkets rolling across floors and children intuitively embellishing. Plus some musings from Serafina Steer, Stephen Molyneux and friends.

 

17 / 18/ 19.08.07 - CWM FORTH TO DEPTFORD PROPERLY

Three days of events taking place at our dearly beloved project space, our new cafe, the mindsweeper on the creek and deptford high st itself. With live performances from Coy Carp Burger, I'm Being Good, Alma No Fear, Pocket, Revenge of Shinobi, Limn, The Naciente Quartet, Kenny Process Team, Art Terry, Yeborobo, Shimmy Rivers and And Canal and many many more. With our main space turned into 'The Snug' a giant bed for people to sleep in the weekend was amazing and marked another year of the cwm phenomena.

31.07.07 - RANDI RUSSO AND PAUL MEGNA

Randi Russo and Paul Megna both hailing from New York City played at the Utrophia Project Space as part of their European Tour.

'Randi Russo is a southpaw who spawns unique and interesting chords by playing her guitar upside-down and backwards. Fans have described her music as both "sexy and cerebral” and “pretty and gritty.” As is the mark of the most enduring and adored artists, Randi innately knows how to mix equal parts of toughness and tenderness in her songwriting and performances. Her velvety singing style is as equally intense and beautiful as her guitar playing is edgy and unusual. Her hypnotic, pulsing guitar riffs accentuate her raw emotions and brutally honest lyrics. As Venus Magazine put it, “the intensity of her sound is something to be heard.'

www.randirusso.com

Paul Megna aka The Oxygen Ponies will also be playing songs that have been descibed as 'Gorgeous, hazily atmospheric and intelligently written...' (SALON.COM/AUDIOPHILE) and also (BIG TAKEOVER) 'Poetic, with a grisly style.'

www.theoxygenponies.com

07.07.07 - THE MENTALIST ASSOCIATION

The Mentalist Association have had many links in to the Utrophia network (Shimmy Rivers, Hamilton Yarns etc) so we offered them up our project space to show their wares.

Drawing and paintings on the walls, plastecine club, 77 person orchestra, live acts from the plethora of bands from their network plus 16mm film made for a memorable night.

01.07.07 - THE BLANKKET / AARON FLINT JAMISON

The Blankket is the name of a band with only one person in it: Steve Kado.
Based in Toronto, Steve is in other bands like Ninja High School and The Barcelona Pavilion (with whom he recorded a peel session in 2003, and who were recently on that Colours Are Brighter compilation Belle and Sebastian put together for charity), Internet (with Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy). He is also the founder of the Blocks Recording Club, a worker's co-op that has issued over 40 recordings in Canada including recordings by Final Fantasy, the Creeping Nobodies, Kids On TV, Tradition and of course the Barcelona Pavilion and NHS (naturally). Steven also co-curates and organizes (along with Jon McCurley) the still camera video festival in Toronto.

This year the Blankket released "be your own boss" a short record of Bruce Springsteen covers that details the relationship between Capital. Human Desire and the inevitable futility of 'escape'. Currently, The Blankket is at work on a record about Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics and the Culture Industry. New work seeks to actually work out directly through performance, strategies to analyse and hopefully understand social/economic choice making.
www.myspace.com/theblankket

Aaron Flint Jamison co-founded the artist-run center the Department of Safety in Anacortes, WA. He founded and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Veneer Magazine. He has exhibited and performed internationally. For the brief tour of the West Coast and Europe in 2007, he will be performing the third and final variant of the trilogy Column 12. Jamison often includes various electronics, computer viruses, olfactory sensations, smoke and powerful lights in his performances.

- 18.06.07 - XOR/ XNOR: Utrophia presents intercontinental meeting between UK and US improvisors featuring...

Talibam (Members):

"Ornette Coleman playing on Soft Machine's Fourth in hell"... Talibam!'s brand of shitstorm skronk is grounded in more intelligent thought and dynamic group exchange than many of the more hyped transmissions from the contemporary American 'noise' underground." www.myspace.com/talibam

Peter Evans:

'As a performer, Evans has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of improvisers; each band explores a specific concept or style as much as possible. 'www.myspace.com/peterevanstrumpet

Ben Drew laptop improv dude (www.benedictdrew.com)

- 04.06.07 - Now We've Got Members, Norwegian folk ensemble, supergroup encapsulating the Metronomicon Audio collective and then presenting music which turns everything inside out. These guys implanted colourful pictures in people's eyes at last year's Cwm to the Valley festival. With support from Cyrano and Shimmy Rivers and and Canals this night was incredible with historical sets from each band.

- 26.05.07 - Duets Night 2 - With 13 double acts dotted around the Utrophia Project Space, people were wowed and amazed with an array of incredible performances. With all proceeds going to Resonance Fm we thank everyone for helping us raise £222.22 for this worth cause.

 

- 28.04.07 - Mantouch filming and live performance. Are you ready for the Touch? Utrophia was hit hard by the touch, shivers still run down our spines.

 

- 17.04.07 - Vecture Zoo: A series of lectures from Vecture Zoo and Utrophia aiming to promote the cultivation of the following skill...

basic flash animation

interactive actionscript coding

audio visual interaction

after a projected flash tutorial that will teach basic flash skills, vector farmers will be invited to interact with finished animation works by playing instruments and responding to changing dynamic visual displays, laptop users please bring your laptop and a selection of short samples that can be used for audio visual experiments...

 

- 14.04.07 - Now & Salvatore live. Now and Salvatore have had a long love thing for each other and Utrophia was chuffed to provide a comfy bed for them to play in.

 

- 17.02.07 - Wild Style Party: with lights from Lightning Rod, live music from Muchos Perros and Agaskodo Teliverek, wholesome soup from Angela Last, wild style costumes and records spun by gleeful souls this event saw a belated

- 05.02.07 - Club Mu: Improv evening curated by Craig Cigar Tamlin (Afracadabra, Now) and Collin Webster (Afracadabra, Chik Budo)

- 22.12.06 - utrophia christmas party. what a beautiful night. the main space turned into a arts cafe, chick pea soup served with bread, the newly installed log burner blazing and dj thulani shuku, craig tamlin and justin paton on the decks in the nightclub room. a great way to say thanks to everybody who's made 2006 pretty amazing.

- 10.11.06 - New Folk marking our playing host to these luminaries of contemporary new york folk scene we oragnised a night of music from the bowmans and chris (another dude) all the way from new york, with film and james dunn dj'ing it proved an amazing night.

 

-13.10.06 - Hardcore Night featuring art of burning water, end of level boss and volt. heavy sound heavy ideas and heavy weight of yeahs

-28.07.06 - 'Shungu' an exhibition of work from south african artist thulani shuku, 'shungu' denotes a reclamation of displaced identity, depicting vibrantly energetic scenes from cape town and richmond, south africa, masterfully composed on found objects local where the artist now works, deptford and greenwich, london.

 

-19.05.06 - Fundraising Party fully lit by 'lightning rod' the project space took on a new life, presenting serafina steer, temperatures, dragon or emperor and now. a quite incredible night.

 

-22.04.06 - UTROPHIA COMPILATION 03 starting on the mind sweeper boat moored on the creek opposite the laban centre in deptford, utrophia compilation 03 was unleashed with live sets from dan geesin and hamilton yarns. the party then headed back to the project space for live music from BIB, Rebecca Closure and a Dutch duo who were great

-20.01.06 - thulani shuku south african artist in resident, working on a new show documenting deptford portraits watch here for further details

 

-14.01.06 -'Retrospective screening of Diana Mavroleons' 3 x 16mm films' an evening of film by dianna and her contempories Anna Thew, David Leicester and Tim Cole, poetry by Simon Miles, live music from NUD, Circulus, Helen McCookery Book, Gina Birch, Miasma, Temperatures, Adrian Palka on the Steel Cello and DJ - Dudu Sarr.

 

-09.10.05 - GLEE CLUB 'Bring your instrument and play' unit 102 opens it's doors every fortnight to anyone with an instrument so that they may play together. it is all recorded then featured on the utrophia fortnightly radio show click here for details of the latest GLEE dates

 

-02.10.05 - General use by artists involved in the progression of the utrophia project

 

-14.09.05 - public the unveiling of the public section of the very website you are enjoying right now...

 

-09-11.09.05 - foe recording the remarkable acoustics of unit 102 were fully utilised by foe when recording drums for their forthcoming album.

-07 - 18.09.05 -twoinsix films rehearsals for their latest short film.

-20.08.05 - hotklub a club commemorating the centenary of an all women's club initiated at the time women won the vote in australia. with live performance from rebecca closure of hotklub plus skipping.

 

-27.07 - 16.08.05 - sonic pong An electronic, audio, experimental, visual, circuit bent installation, demonstrating the raw science of sound, within the physicality of an interactive audio playground.

 

- 28-30.05.05 - cwm the second cwm festival held in both spaces of the utrophia project space, showing 'bread.sounds.solitude and shelter.cwm' documenting last years cwm festival in wales, with live performances from an array of different acts, with marching band on the sunday leading those who slept in tents in unit 102 over saturday night into greenwich park for live music and performance art

 

- 19.03.05 - duets in unit 102/03 of the utrophia project space night featuring a range of varied genres exploring the power and dynamics of the duet featuring...

grace and delete,

dominic lash and sandy kindness,

jockelson mcnalty, plus more

- 12.02.05 - edward prince of cats opening for two large scale canvases and assemblage by jono allen

 

- 27.11.04 - fundraising party an audio and visual event combing both units of (r)(h) including film by 'arm and eye' productions, ambient slide projections from ben cummins, music from jockelsson mcnulty, afracadabra and grovesnor.

-23,11,04 - inlightentertainment workshops

 

- 19.11.04 - 'albino arcade ': resonance 104.4 fm show:

starting with the live broadcast of the new albino arcade edition on resonance 104.4 fm, the event offered the chance to play 'old school' arcade games via large screen projector, whilst listening to any of the four live acts that marked the event (moss and jo, patten, bib and now)

 

- 6.11.04 - 'director's commentary': ann-marie james

filming of a new piece by ann-marie james reinterpreting the work of quentin tarantino

- 3.11.04 - 'being mammy': harold offeh

filming of a live art performance piece by harold offeh in which he portrays mammy from the motion picture 'gone with the wind'

-13.10.04 - 'micropolis' : shannon spanhake

talk and installation of 'micropolis' a time based installation by u.s artist shannon spanhake

 

-29.09.04 - albino india : resonance 104.4 fm show:

event marking the broadcast of albino's latest 'india edition' on resonance 104.4 fm

 

-08.09.04 : gav housely

setting up of new installation

 

-18.07.04 - 'frosted glass': stephen molyneux

filming of improvised audio performance to film, by stephen molyneux

 

- 17.07.04 - opening:

featuring performances from 'shimmy rivers and and canal', 'the naciente quartet' and an array of improvised compositions from varied ensembles

 

- (date being sourced) - electro night:

'jockelson mcnulty' premiere performance, opening up unit 102 as part of an event incorporating both of the (r)(h) spaces, including performances from p.j, reece and val of princess 'headbutt'

31.07.07

01.07.07

17.02.07

06.02.07 - ongoing

10.11.06

ongoing

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ongoing

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28.07 - 16.08.05

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19.03.05

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27.11.04

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29.09.04

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