VICE INTERVIEW
Regarding Reely and Truly
A few guys we know are putting on the third of their regular film events at the Notting Hill Arts Club. Reely and Truly is a series of screenings of old and new short films followed by a party. Sounds like fun. We had a chat with Ali about tonight’s film spectacular so you can know what to expect. Vice: So, tell us about the event. What is it, where is it, and who is behind it?
Ali: The idea was to resurrect Mark Lebon’s film night, Reely. He set it up in the late 80s in what used to be Kensington Market. I approached Tyrone, Mark’s son and the brains behind DoBeDo, and we came up with Reely and Truly. The Reely and Truly team consists of Tyrone Lebon, Mark Lebon, Phoebe Collings James and Alexander Hislop – that’s me. Each month we open with an hour of short films curated by DoBeDo, featuring the work of both young filmmakers and some of the original Reely contributors. We also invite a guest photographer each month to shoot and project an exclusive slide show that plays as the visual accompaniment to the party that happens after the screening. No VJs, we promise.
Thank Christ for that. So the event will be a monthly mix of old and new films?
Yeah, we have a load of films by some of the original contributors, lots of Super 8 and then a bunch of new stuff from DoBeDo contributors. This month’s highlights include an animation of a woman and her excrement, a sexy animation and a short about Yuletide indigestion. There is no brief; we end up showing a pretty eclectic range of stuff.
And after the films you have a party? Sounds like a nice way to round off some excrement animation.
Yeah! Fun. Lots of drinking and playing records. You should come.
I can’t, because I am at the premiere of this, but if I could I would.
The guys also produce a great-looking zine to accompany each of the shows, which they give away free to the first 50 film lovers through the door.
FERVENT MOON
Fervent Moon was founded in 2007; its online ambition is to promote and provide rare music to a wider audience and more recently the distribution of photography books and zines.
Fervent Moon began its formative years offering music from its creators and friends. In our eyes there was lots of music that was neither easily available or given the appreciation it deserved. We addressed this situation by offering a weekly selection of overlooked tracks - one mp3 a day (for a period of 7 days) selected by our in-house or guest contributors. The projects development has resulted in the creation of a catalogue, growing daily and viewed by an increasing audience.
Fervent Moon’s physical presence has grown through various exhibitions and productions, including films, sculptures, installations, prints, and photography publications.
2010 sees the further development of both online and physical releases, with a selection of exciting collaborators to a growing audience.
In the coming weeks we have a fantastic array of guest contributers offering their selections for your pleasure, keep stopping by for the daily updates.
Fervent Moon will be playing a the next Reely and Truly , Dec 8th , more info soon ...
Posted by Get Me in WordsMAGIC AND HAPPINESS
18 NOVEMBER - 22 NOVEMBER 2009
PRIVATE VIEW 18 NOVEMBER 6 PM
VULPES VULPES
UNIT 4, PROUT ROAD, E5 9NP, LONDON
Ceylan Projects is pleased to present Magic & Happiness, a group show curated around an essay by Giorgio Agamben.
BEN CATON, STAN IORDANOV, ED LEHAN, ROY NNAWUCHI, ANNA MARGRETHE PEDERSEN, BEN SCHUMACHER, EMMA SHERIDAN
‘Whatever we can achieve through merit and effort, cannot make us truly happy. <...> What a disaster if a woman loved you because you deserved it! <...> [T]here is only one way of achieving happiness on this earth: to believe in the divine and not to aspire to reach it (there is an ironic variation of this in a conversation between Franz Kafka and Gustav Janouch, when Kafka affirms that there is plenty of hope - but not for us). That apparently ascetic thesis becomes intelligible only if we understand the meaning of this “not for us”. It means not that happiness is reserved only for others (happiness is, precisely, for us) but that it awaits us only at the point where it was not destined for us. That is: happiness can be ours only through magic.’
- Giorgio Agamben, Magic and Happiness
Famous for his original readings and interpretations of texts, Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher. His work, be it political theory or his early essays on art, stems from an interest in the relationship between the notions ofwork and happiness. Magic and Happiness, from which this exhibition takes its name and vocation, is an essay that brings Agamben’s thought to its very roots and now more than ever appears as a strikingly accurate criticism of the modern condition. In a moment where currencies like merit and effort are devalued precisely because they no longer stand as guarantees for the Western ideal of happiness, we are once again to reconsider what happiness is and how to achieve it.
Magic & Happiness group show showcases new work by seven artists who have challenged mainstream perception of happiness through different mediums including sculpture, installation, painting and sound. The work is as naive as it is cynical expressing both fascination and distrust towards the decadence of contemporary culture.
Curated by Aliina Astrova / Ceylan Projects
http://WWW.CEYLANPROJECTS.ORG
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REELY AND TRULY ZINE
CALIFORNIA UPDATE : HALF MAN , HALF ANIMAL
Last weekend was the Manimal Festival in glorious Pioneertown, California, located on the outskirts of Joshua Tree National Park. Performing bands included the wacky Rainbow Arabia, Hebrew chanteurs and my personal favorite Fool’s Gold, and the band of merrymakers known as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, all playing to a crowd of hundreds.
Pioneertown is apparently a fake Wild West town, erected for the purpose of shooting Westerns. Hence the row of old-timey buildings.
The region is also home to the exotic Joshua Tree, a tree that grows nowhere else in the world but here. They are everywhere, and they sort of look like a palm tree that’s been sipping that purple stuff (drank, drank).
The event was primarily a celebration of this new music sensibility that’s sweeping LA. I’m not sure it has a name yet, but it is typified by bands with lots of people in them, many of them bearded, playing happily earnest music with lots of percussion. It’s a movement that’s sure to sweep the nation/world. I recommend looking into it and getting down with it, because it’s pretty fun.
Right before the music kicked off, I walked out in the desert and got slightly (heavily) stoned with the guys from the band Pizza! so there is no video footage to peruse.
WORDS / PHOTOS : ALEX KLEIN
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Posted by Get Me in WordsCOMPLETELY ADORABLE
GETME! contributor Bob Foster has a new blog called completely adorable , you should check it out
Posted by Get Me in WordsPALACE : A SKATEBOARD COMPANY BY PWBC
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Posted by Get Me in WordsGETME! Interviews Mimi Leung
Mimi Leung studied at Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art in London.
Her work has featured in Vice magazine, Dazed and Confused, Time Out (HK), MiLK and The Guardian. In 2008 she was shortlisted in Vice’s Creative 30 Competition and in May 2009 she performed a night of live drawing for Heavy Pencil at the ICA London. The Lürzer Archive lists her as one of 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide. Mimi has exhibited in solo shows in London and Hong Kong, between which she currently shares her work and life.
Posted by Get Me in WordsBeing a Pussy Hurts
I have never had a knife pulled on me, found a burglar in my house in the middle of the night, or even broken a bone in my body. In fact, nothing bad has ever happened to me. Whereas you’d be inclined to think that’s ‘a good thing’, one look at this picture of me on a rollercoaster is enough to convince you otherwise. See, whilst other people know the intense, nauseating pain of breaking a leg, or the bowel-wrenching horror of discovering your house has been broken into I have, hitherto, lived a fairly cosseted life. The most frightening thing that has ever happened to me in my formative years was wearing white swimming shorts on a school trip to the Loire Valley which turned see-through in water. My tolerance level for fear was never tested and so has remained unnaturally low. The result being that I am now, and forever will be, a complete pussy.
You only need to look at the other people in the picture to realize that I wasn’t in such a dangerous situation as I appear. My friend Ben, sitting next to me, is a good bit more ‘streetwise’ – to the point that he probably doesn’t say words like ‘streetwise’. He didn’t even flinch on Saw (I saw the picture and even watched the video). He is so completely lacking in respect for the power of this ride to frighten him that he’s flicking the V’s at it. And the guy in front – although you can’t see his whole outfit, you can see enough to tell he’s wearing a full tracksuit. He’s not going to be a stranger to the old ‘fight or flight’ scenario. Indeed, he’s so used to far more dangerous situations that he’s comfortable enough to cheer away quite happily with both hands in the air. And he was on the front row.
No, I’m afraid my central nervous system is nowhere near as robust as I might want it to be. Hard as I try, I’m now hardwired to become completely terrified at the drop of a hat. Should I ever encounter something that is genuinely truly fatally scary, like being woken up at gunpoint by a leprotic rapist, I can’t even imagine how I might react. I think it could only rank as being so infinitely off my scale of fear that it would in fact turn negative and leave me cool as a cucumber and not the least bit panicked. Either that or I’d just piss my pants.
Posted by Chris in WordsGETME! TALKS TO MARTIN CREED
Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, in 1968, and from 1986-90 attended the Slade School of Art in London. In 1993 his Work No. 81, ‘a one inch cube of masking tape in the middle of every wall in a building’ was installed in the offices of the London firm, Starkmann Ltd, and since then Creed has had eighteen solo exhibitions or projects in Europe and North America and has participated in numerous group exhibitions world wide. He lives and works in London. He won the 2001 Turner Prize with Work No. 227, the lights going on and off. An empty room in which the lights periodically switched on and off. Artist Jacqueline Crofton threw eggs at the walls of the room containing Creed’s work as a protest.Creed won the prize.
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