July 17, 2003
Hip Survival Bulletin #29 - July 2003
Gentle Readers,
our upcoming programme. AND HOW GREAT IS IT???
check out these puppies :
Salon : This Friday July 18th
Film : TRENT HARRIS / CRISPIN GLOVER :
Literature : 3AM MAGAZINE : Steve Aylett :Nicholas Blincoe : Matthew Collings : Billy Childish : Vic Godard : Kazuko Hohki :
Bertie Marshall : Preethi Nair : Kerri Sharp : Richard Strange : Mitzi Szereto : Matt Thorne : Paul Tickell : Tommy Udo : Steven Wells :
Art : THE FIRST MAINLAND BRITAIN EXHIBITION OF NORTHERN IRELAND'S THE BOGSIDE ARTISTS :
William Kelly; Tom Kelly; Kevin Hasson
September 6th - 4th October 2003, Mon - Sat 12 - 6
FRIDAY JULY 18TH
13 - THE SYMPOSIUM OF EXOTIC REASON
7.30pm onwards
Members and guests only.
featuring - The Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Vampire Association hosted by Suvi, Satu and Adam.
SATURDAY 26TH JULY
Summer party for the best alt.lit whorehouse in the metaverse.
Entrance £5
Leaving The 21st Century
3AM MAGAZINE'S SUMMER EXTRAVAGANZA
3am - Mind Porn For The Chattering Classes
When : 26 July 6-11.30pm
How much? Entrance: £5
Why? Why not?
Who? Readings, live music and performances courtesy of (in alphabetical order):
Steve Aylett
Nicholas Blincoe
Matthew Collings
Billy Childish
Vic Godard
Kazuko Hohki
Bertie Marshall
Preethi Nair
Kerri Sharp
Richard Strange
Mitzi Szereto
Matt Thorne
Paul Tickell
Tommy Udo
Steven Wells
www.3ammagazine.com
Saturday August 2nd and Sunday August 3rd 2003
Doors 7.30pm
THE FILMS OF TRENT HARRIS
kinoKULTURE and The Horse Hospital in conjunction with Chris Campion are proud to present a two day retrospective of the films of TRENT HARRIS.
Underground and cult filmmaker extraordinaire, Harris' work will be screening on Saturday August 2nd and Sunday August 3rd 2003.
" The real lesson to be learnt from Harris' journey as a film-maker is that if you dedicate yourself to following your passions they will lead you on a spiralling path that inevitably circles back to where you came from, forcing you to confront the 'I' enclosed in the pyramid of the world. " Chris Campion
Saturday August 2nd Rubin & Ed 82 min / The Wild Goose Chronicles 25 min
Sunday August 3rd The Beaver Trilogy 83 min / The Cement Ball of Earth, Heaven, and Hell 54 mins
Rubin and Ed stars Crispin Glover & Howard Hesseman and Karen Black, while the Wild Goose Chronicles tells the real life story of the inspiration behind the film.
The Beaver Trilogy ( BEAVER KID, BEAVER KID 2, and ORKLY KID ) stars Crispin Glover, Sean Penn and Groovin' Gary.
The Cement Ball meanwhile is a documentary about Aki Ra, who joined Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rouge army at the age of nine. Twenty years later, the film sees him roaming the minefields of Cambodia in search of redemption. Obsessed, Aki Ra seeks out and destroys many of the six million landmines that infest his country. Armed only with a stick and a pocket knife he works alone, without pay, metal detector or shield.
For further details on Trent's films, please see :
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~th3597
And also check Chris' articles and interviews with Trent Harris and Crispin Gloverwhich are out in Dazed and Confused August issue out July 15th and the Telegraph magazine, out Saturday June 25th.
Tickets £5 members, £7 non-members in advance.
For booking please call 020 7833 3644 or email
popculture@thehorsehospital.com
THOE BOGSIDE ARTISTS
September 6th - 4th October 2003, Mon - Sat 12 - 6
The Bogside Artists are a group of three artists from an area of Derry City, Northern Ireland, known as the Bogside. It was in this area that fourteen people were shot dead by the British army on 30 January 1972. The artists commemorated the event in a large mural situated on the site. This mural is called simply ‘Bloody Sunday’. Situated not far from it are two more murals, one depicts a child in a gas mask holding a petrol bomb. It was named by the artists, ‘The Battle Of The Bogside’, to commemorate the event in October ‘69 when the Catholic Bogsiders confronted the RUC, and their auxiliary force the B-Specials, in a pitched battle. This mural is world-famous and is referred to locally as ‘the petrol bomber’. The mural beside it commemorates the part played by Bernadette Devlin in this historic battle. Just recently the Bogside Artists completed a second mural about 'Bloody Sunday'.
Almost in honour of their endeavours in the dangerous and demanding field of commemorative art the artists were christened by locals as "The Bogside Artists", a title which they have been proud to wear till this day.
William Kelly studied art in Belfast Art College in 1970 and went on to take an honors degree in painting at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1977. He has had fourteen one-man shows throughout Ireland and has published many articles on art.
Tom Kelly is not only one of the triumvirate but is a committed Christian who leads a Celtic Christian community in the heart of the Bogside where the mentally and spiritually scarred can come for the sort of assurance and benediction that medicine cannot help, still less cure. He has been painting murals since long before 1969 seeing in art a means by which Protestants and Catholics can come together. He is well known for his cross-community work and has pioneered the use of art to assuage religious conflict long before it’s efficacy in this respect was fully recognised by the cultural elite of Northern Ireland.
Kevin Hasson has travelled widely throughout the world. He is married to an American, and lived in Frankfurt for twelve years. He painted many murals across Germany. Kevin comes from a family talented in both the pictorial arts and in music. His experiences at a young age in Calcutta, India as a member of The International Voluntary Service awakened his mind to the ubiquity of social injustice and its roots.
These three artists are dedicated to using painting as a means to objectify the past so that its unconscious hold is unravelled. This explains both the style and historic content of their output. Their work is commemorative and in being so it is also curative.
The Artists' Statement
Three individuals make up the group known as 'The Bogside Artists' - Tom Kelly, Kevin Masson and William Kelly. William’s son Paul takes care of video and documentation. The group is famous for their murals in the area of Derry, Northern Ireland, known as Free Derry Corner. These murals depict key events of 'the Troubles' in the city since 1968. The artists have lived in the Bogside most of their lives and have experienced the worst of the conflict. This exhibition of their work is a chronicle of those events that they consider to have been the most significant during the last thirty years. In telling this story they have served a pressing need for their community and Derry people in general to acknowledge with dignity if not pride the price paid by those who became victims of the struggle for democratic rights. Their work therefore is essentially a homage.
As Peter Sheehan, the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, so aptly expressed it in his introduction to their recent exhibition: "The scale of the daily violence experienced by the people of the North of Ireland is not to be assessed just in terms of fatalities and the physical and emotional results of the violence. There is a deeper spiritual dimension that is communicated. I find myself responding most to the overpowering message of the murals: This is our story, where is yours?"
The artists are pledged to continue to express this spiritual dimension on the gable walls of the Bogside. Although they are aware of the parochial nature of the images, they also understand the universal aspect of the conflict. What has happened in Northern Ireland and what has been experienced by the people of Derry is by no means peculiar to either Derry or Northern Ireland.
What confers a unique provenance on our work is the fact that we, both as artists and as citizens, are part of the story we feel obligated to tell. The story of the Bogside is our story and vice versa. Hence our sympathies are with all of the people who have suffered in Northern Ireland whatever their class, creed, politics or belief systems. We believe that only when both communities of Catholics and Protestants have confronted the wounds they have inflicted on each other, and on themselves, can there be the possibility of healing or forgiveness.
To tell it like it is and was is vital to this catharsis. Our murals stand therefore as the not too silent witnesses to the colossal price paid in suffering and brutalisation by a hopelessly innocent people in their struggle for basic human rights. The institutionalisation of sectarian exclusivity is the very essence of the conflict. It is a crime against both Catholics and Protestants. Our fervent wish is that the peace process will give us time to put right what has been so drastically put wrong. To this end we devote our craft and our energy, our imagination, our story and our hope.
The wall murals
The Bogside Artists have produced a range of works of art in various mediums. They are best known for the wall murals that they painted in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. At present there are eight large wall murals on view in the Bogside. The artists intend to produce a number of new murals on the history of the conflict.
James xx
COMING SOON :
THE WORLD'S FIRST POST- ZIONIST FILM SHOW : ROGER K. BURTON @ THE NFT : NUDE MAGAZINE LAUNCH : TAV FALCO : JOHN MICHAEL McCARTHY : PAUL DUANE : TAYLOR MEADE : WRIGHT THOMAS : ANDY WARHOL : MOHAMMED ALI : ELVIS PRESLEY no, seriously...
posted by James on July 17, 2003 12:39 PM