Play for Today: Cornelius Cardew Conference

21 – 22 Nov 2009
The final weekend of Calling Out Of Context focuses on the legacy of the British composer and activist Cornelius Cardew (1936-81), a figure who helped question artistic boundaries in the 1960s, but whose politics brought him back to more traditional and accessible forms of music-making in the 1970s.

This two-day symposium on Cardew, involving participants from the worlds of art and music, is co-organised with The Drawing Room , and coincides with an exhibition at their east London gallery. Through talks, performances and panel discussions, thesymposium aims to remake – rather than repeat – the legacy of Cardew, examining the questions and contradictions of his practice for their contemporary relevance.

Filmed by cc Media

Related Articles

• Cornelius Cardew: ‘Bun No 1’ at the Proms (and at Five against Four) (netnewmusic.net)
• Proms 2010: Cornelius Cardew interview – what does a bun sound like? (telegraph.co.uk)
• Cardew’s Treatise | Classical review (guardian.co.uk)

CinematICA: Q&A with Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper © cc media 2008

To accompany the screening of The Last Movie on 25 October, the ICA presented a Q&A with its legendary maverick director and artist.  cc Media caught the conversation between Dennis Hopper and film journalist Nick Roddick.

Made Up Weekend at Liverpool Biennial

BANANA Performance by Orion Maxted

Music! Talks! Performance! Art! Smoke! Film!

cc Media were present at the fantastic Made Up Weekend, hosted at A Foundation.

Under the title ‘Made Up’ – meaning ‘happy’, ‘ready’ or ‘pleased’ in Liverpool – we explore in conversations, performances and screenings ‘making things up’: utopias and dystopias, narrative fiction, fantasy, myths, lies, prophesies, spectacle and subversion. Mischievous, constructive or iconoclastic, ‘Made up’ speaks about the power of the imagination and art’s capacity to transport us, to suspend disbelief and generate alternative realities.

Challenging the idea that rationality and enchantment are incommensurable, Made Up Weekend invokes the spectres that haunt not only the artistic imagination. A vision of the world familiar yet often disturbed by occultural visions, scientific anomalies, magic, or sublime irrationality. Unbound by critical orthodoxies Made Up’s aporia will entertain many and exasperate some, no doubt encouraged by the multitude of explanations resonating with the city itself.

A programme out of joint, criss-crossing the uncanny valley at a time when ‘experience has fallen in value’ to truth in make believe.

With:
sjcurtis, Daniel Odier, Tony White, Tomas Saraceno, David Blandy, Mingering Mike, Dori Hadar, Dorit Chrysler, Super Nase & Co, Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, Artists Anonymous, Richard Wilson, Anne Bean, Lois Keidan, Rachel Withers, Tai Shani, Ulf Langheinrich, Mike Stubbs, Jiyoon Lee, Yeondoo Jung, Sally O’Reilly, Ian White, Stewart Home, Gods Enteritainment, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Manuel Vason,  Rob La Frenais, Amelia Jones, George Chakravarti, Orion Maxted, and Courtney Martin, James Lawyer, Chila Burman, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Jim Holland, Patricide and others.

More to follow shortly…

ICA: A-Frame

We filmed and edited the launch of A-Frame at the ICA, featuring a special edition of Figures of Speech by creative and corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, with 5 minute presentations by

• Mark Cridge, Glue
• Chantal Coady, Rococo
• David Kotler, Lazard
• Munira Mirza, London Mayor’s Office
• Elizabeth Passey, Morgan Stanley

A Frame is a new programme of talks, workshops and mentoring partnerships developed for a special network of the UK’s most outstanding creative and corporate leaders and entrepreneurs.