The Odditorium presents: Nothing Short of a Total War!

David Bramwell

Events

28th May 2024
8:00 pm
Brighton Spiegeltent
Brighton
Tickets
£ 15.00

Exist beyond so-called norms in this unique evening of startling and transgressive performance art that looks to the future but also pays tribute to the legacies of sound pioneers Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P.Orridge, Fist-F***, the anti-art happenings of Coum Transmissions, the occult and sex magick themes of Coil and the sigil-driven ‘modern primitives’ cult of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth.

DEER PARK (DIR. ANDREW FINCH)
Tracing a psychogeographic link between East Sussex, London and Somerset, Andrew’s newest work weaves through landscapes inhabited by Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Coil, unearthing a treasure map into the dark woods of British industrial music. Live accompaniment from Ghostlore of Britain.

SOFT BODIES (MIKE SEFTON)
Mike Sefton performs with film, electronic music, his own not-voice, and the disembodied voices of the neither dead nor living to interrogate the vulnerability of the body – how it holds the surfaces and depths of our psyche and the place of our mysteries, subjectivities, pleasures, harms and histories.

RAW UNKNOWN (JILL WESTWOOD)
An audio-visual-poetic encounter as Jill Westwood (ex. of female power electronics duo FistF***) delves into the materiality of her ‘life as art’ experiences, feeling into the sacred and RAW UNKNOWN and asking, “What lies hidden in the depths of the unconscious waiting to be felt by the touch of art?” ‘

COUM FLAKES
Led by Foxtrot Echo – one of Coum’s early offshoot members – this live collective hold dear the COUM mission to shake up expectations using light, sound, noise, filmic, spasmodic, fluidic, balletic and the artistic’ .