A Weekend and 2 nights of Art, Performance, Readings, Film and Discussion Celebrating the Genius and Legacies of Brian Catling, featuring over 40 artists -30th August -1st September at Candid Arts
30th August- 1st September: Brian Catling Event - 3:16
A weekend and 2 Nights of Art, Performance, Readings, Film and Discussion marking the genius and legacies of Brian Catling.
, London, EC1V 1NQ · (020) 7837 4237
6pm - 10pm 30th and 1.00pm - 10pm 31st August
Sunday 1st September 1pm - 6pm
Free entrance
Friday 30th Performances from:
Stewart Home
Calum F Kerr
Matt Sokulsky
Johnny Pulp
Matt Martin
Patrick Cosgrove
Jack Catling
Matthew Luck Gilpin
Cristina Reyes
Films
Andrew Kotting
Melanie Thompson
Films from the Catling film archive
Art
Lisa Ivory
Sophy Hollington
Harry Adams
Liane Lang
James F Johnston
Lorraine Clarke
Simon Monk
Mei Mei
Wayne Chisnall
Jennie Sharman-Cox
Tom Buchanan
Neil Horenz-Kelley
David Bray
Richard Marshall
Sue Williams A’ Court
Ben Oakley
Nick Simpson
Harvey Stafford
Jonny Charles Harris
Fiona Foster
Rowan Righelato
Samuel Webster
Helen Murphy Cristina Reyes Linda Nylind The Mycoleum
Chris Jenkins
Keelertornero
David Tolley
Luke Pendrell
Artem Spivak
Live music Zuza and Niel Maclean
Saturday 31st
Performance:
Aaron Williamson
Trine Lyngsholm
Donna Han
SJ Fowler
Vilde Torset
Melanie Thompson
Simon Raven
Sue Williams
Panel
Victor Rees
Jack Catling
Iain Sinclair
Geoff Cox
Flossie Catling
Matthew Shaw
Andrew Spragg
Live Music.
'Everything Unfolding From Emptiness’ - a set of improvised music for trumpet, gongs and electronics by Alex Bonney and Will Glaser
What we know. The boundaries of what gets sold as comfort were shattered years ago. The wrongness of the occult is merely older gods stretching limbs, and not all of them are their own. That Catling harried implicit violence, dreamed out those dark spaces behind half open doors towards ghosts, spirits, nightmares and the bleak Cyclops, all that is implicit. That he, as a shaman of the macabre and the perverse made art performances to evoke a discomfort that lingers long after the curtains close on Mr. Rapehead , the Shuffle, and the icy landscapes of Migrant, so much is too obvious to be lingered over for any length of time.
What we want. Brian Catling died in 2022 and we are seeking to evoke his presence again by assembling a group of artists, writers and performers who for an evening combine to present their works as shadows of his gigantic presence. We want an evening where obliquely we catch glimpses once more of his imagination, from haunting poetry and dark rituals to mesmerizing paintings and berserk novels, to uncover the necessary occult that lurks within us.
Brian Catling's world is not one of comfort or entertainment, but of red dreams and visceral experience, one probably getting as close as anyone to the one William Blake envisioned centuries ago.
Bad Radio Signal - Johnny Pulp and the Lemonheads
'Cyclops In The Brickwork' - Johnny Pulp and the Lemonheads