Day 3 of Disappearing Images. Featuring a talk from Mark Leckey and screenings from Klein, R.I.P. Germain, and 54 the Gate.
Doors 7pm
Tickets: £10-14 Sliding Scale
Full Festival Pass: £50
Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. Leckey’s dynamic practice takes various forms including video, installation, performance, and sound, to address notions of memory and class, desire and identity. His work focuses on the effects of technology on popular culture, often through the rhetoric of British youth and subcultures.
https://markleckey.com/
Klein is an artist and musician whose work often blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Her music releases, films, and performances are often informed by urban mapping, surveillance, humor, hip-hop, noise, identity, and beyond. Her work has been shown and/or performed at Museums, Galleries, yards, squats, and pubs, including the infamous The Old Blue Last and the New Cross Inn.
https://wahalawahalawahala.org/
R.I.P. Germain (b. Luton) is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist, archivist, lecturer and mentor. He focuses on disentangling the inner and outer wars that pertain to the Black male, through essays, interactive audiovisual installations and performances. His practice traffics in double meanings, deep resonances and a tension between accessibility and occlusion. Trickster and guide, he tries to dance a fine line: making work that speaks to deep truths without cheapening them with explanations or flattening them out for easy consumption. Sedimented with layers dense with cultural meaning and reference, the extensive research undergirding R.I.P. Germain’s work draws from multiple genres of Black experience, history and culture – personal and collective, seeking to make art that is rigorous about his commitments and possibilities as a Black artist.
54 The Gate is an arts and resource centre for people with learning disabilities based in Shepherds Bush, London. We were set up around twenty years ago by Yarrow Housing to cater for the daytime needs of their tenants and anyone else who could make use of us in the West London area and beyond. Largely we're an arts centre but we see ourselves as a base where people can come and be free to be themselves and express that in a creative manner and we think there should be a Gate on every street corner, for everyone.