Join us for a night of angels, a celebration of electronic music and filmmaking, premiering two short films by Lolo&Sosaku & Maite de Orbe, alongside performances by Sara Sternberg, Joe Smith and BJ Holy.
Doors: 7:00pm
Tickets: £7.50-£10-£12
poster by Pau Geis!
Lolo & Sosaku investigate the possibilities of sculpture as an expanded field. The nexus that unites their work is the quest for an object in contact with its surroundings and with the spectator, an object that seeks friction and tension, exploring the capacity of creating new meanings.
Their work moves between different artistic languages such as sculpture, installation, kinetic art and painting, often incorporating music and sound. Its modus operandi is to constitute itself as a subject and to reach from its machinic materiality to transcendence, to mysticism and to the unknown.
Electronic music is certainly the highlight of their inspiration as a complex language translated into sound installations and sculptural compositions. Shapes, lines, materials and sounds are assembled together into motion sculptures that perform taking their own voice in an unpredictable continuous transformation. Exploring many artistic horizons and redefining boundaries, their interest is the energy and the hidden forces that guide life in our technological age.
Maite de Orbe is a visual artist working across photography, video and performance. Their work employs a documentary and surrealist language, focusing on identity and community through a queer lens.
Angels that smell of gasoline is a dance experimental film made in response to Lolo&Sosaku’s takeover performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2023, starred by Lewis Walker, Black Venus and Molar.
Sara Sternberg & Joe Smith
Multi-media collaborative duo based in South London. Their work utilizes sculpture, video, performance and sound as tools to explore the multifacted dimensions of control within public space and the collective psyche. They look into mechanisms that shape experiences and interactions as a means to conjure new ways to produce, care and unify.
They have exhibited work in the London Design Festival 2023, SET Woolwich, Biblioteka Kyiv, Milbank Tower and the Cookhouse Gallery, as well as features on Dezeen and Designo Magazines.
There Must Have Been An Angel By My Side is an audio-visual performance that directly engages with the physicalities of hostile architecture. This piece is composed of aluminium wings made from reclaimed anti-homeless armrests, transformed into a mystified artefact. Performers interpret the restrictive nature of these architectures, focusing on motions imposed upon the public through repetitive movement. The sound is intended to guide both performer and spectator into a unifying industrial rave symphony. This curated blend of extensive sampling, sonic fictioning and field recordings summon a ritualised re-evaluation of the collective psyche, attempting to reclaim a sense of connectivity.
