The Light & Shadow Salon
Doors open at 7:00pm, programme begins at 7:30pm sharp
(£5 entry on the door)
presents
ON THE PAVEMENT, DENTED AND SCUFFED
Liver & Lights No 53.
Book launch, with a live performance by Bones & The Aft
“One by one my neighbours seem to be selling up and leaving for Margate and Thurrock, according to the Evening Standard, as the familiar denizens of inner London are exchanged and upgraded. In response to all this, Liver & Lights No 53 is a highly selective chronicle of a world soon to pass. Here is the Railton Road I see every day. It is my road, your road, mythical, real, ordinary, strange, full of life and love and loss and comings and leavings turned into ten illustrated pamphlets contained in a brown card box, each containing a character or an incident observed and condensed for posterity and launched at the Horse Hospital with a rare performance by Bones and the Aft”- John Bently
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The Light & Shadow Salon is a place for artists, writers and audience to meet and share ideas about the past, present and future of the moving image in all its forms.
The Salon is a place for exchange, interaction and cross-pollination and it welcomes active contributions and interventions from all its participants.
The Salon endeavours to support a structured and informed dialogue around film, the moving image and all that it involves: from magic to science, from sound to the eye, from ritualism to storytelling, from myth-making to hypnosis.
The Salon intends to act as a temporary and ephemeral container for all the work, ideas and people with an independent, radical and idiosyncratic nature, who renounce to find a home in existing movements/institutions but rather embrace the nomadic and transitory nature of art.
The Salon supports individual thought, inquisitive minds and a desire to further knowledge through dialogue and exchange.
‘So when you hear yourself invited to ‘see’, it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.’ (Hugh of St Victor)