Exhibition
Always Coming Home | Chapter 3+4 | A---Z at Matt's Gallery
13 Sep 2024 – 14 Sep 2024
Regular hours
- Fri, 13 Sep
- 19:00 – 22:00
- Sat, 14 Sep
- 19:00 – 22:00
Free admission
Address
- Nine Elms
- 6 Charles Clowes Walk
- London
England - SW11 7AN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nine Elms, Vauxhall
- Vauxhall
A---Z at Matt's Gallery Friday 13th & Saturday 14th of September, 7-10pm
Always Coming Home Chapter 3 + 4
About
Friday 13th & Saturday 14th of September, 7-10pm
CHAPTER 3 + 4
Feat.
VIVIENNE GRIFFIN X JOSH WOOLFORD
A---Z at Matt's Gallery, 6 Charles Clowes Walk, Nine Elms, London SW11 7AN
FREE TICKETS: Friday 13th of September | 7-10pm
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FREE TICKETS: Saturday 14th of September | 7-10pm
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The third and fourth chapters in the A---Z programmed series Always Coming Home (in four Chapters) explores nostalgia, love, friendships and deep feelings.
On Friday, Fuyuhiko’s film Love Exercise opens the event in a perverse and humorous role play, to then dive into teenage feelings with BUST by Emily Pope, a new performance-lecture. In the second part of the evening, Stefan Jovanović will perform a new reading When the Clarion Came to Call, a work in progress sharing, a contemporary and epic form of parrhesia on experiencing an otherworldly character and voice; to end on a latest collaboration between Vivenne Griffin and Josh Woolford who will present a new musical set.
On Saturday, the 2021 moving image by Babak Ahteshamipour, Post-coded Thoughts on the Never-upcoming Foreshadowed Li(f)e, a dystopian machinima conceived with The Sims presenting a world populated by A.I., avatars, algorithms, and programs where human beings have vanished. Followed by Jennifer Lauren Martin new performance reading, a little choke, where after a heated argument, sees three characters and their frinedship challenged, leaving one of them, June, gasping for air after a betrayal.
After a short break, Philomène Pirecki will present an immersive live set followed by Abbas Zahedi’s performance.
This series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and world building as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths.
In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions.
A---Z, Always Coming Home is a new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), as a development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative, featuring works by:
Babak Ahteshamipour, Bliss Carmxn, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, Stefan Jovanović, utopian_realism, Matt Carter, Vivienne Griffin,Billy Klotsa, Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Josèfa Ntjam, Philomène Pirecki, Harold Offeh, Emily Pope, Fuyuhiko Takata, Josh Woolford, Abbas Zahedi, A—Z.
Always Coming Home is supported by a Research Project Grant from the Royal College of Art, London
The title is an hommage to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, where the rder follows the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed.
A---Z aims to impose a collaborative, inclusive and critical practice/praxis – this demands a responsibility to decolonise programmes, build on positivity towards/and inclusivity in terms of gender and race discourses, and demonstrate openness, intersectional, responsive and critical juxtaposition methods.