Join Rita Says and The Jerico Orchestra for their album launch and a film screening of three seminal classics of experimental performance by Arseeny Avraamov, Cornelius Cardew and The Scratch Orchestra, and Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti.
Doors 7.15pm
Suggested donation £5
Rita Says and The Jerico Orchestra invite you to re-experience three live events originally performed at Limehouse Town Hall during 2017 to 2019. Each film (directed by Roland Denning) records a unique version of three seminal classics of experimental performance:
Symphony of Sirens (Arseeny Avraamov, 1921-1924)
The Great Learning (Cornelius Cardew and The Scratch Orchestra, 1969-1970)
Zang Tumb Tumb, The Siege of Adrianople (Fillipo Marinetti,1912)
Advance copies of the new album by Rita Says and The Jerico Orchestra can also be ordered
at this event.
Program:
Doors 7:15
7:45 Introductory talk.
7:50 - 8:00 Film screening Symphony of Sirens followed byThe Great Learning.
Intermission 15/20min
8:30 Short introductory talk to be followed by screening of Zang Tumb Tumb, The Siege of
Adrianople.
9:30 end.
Rita Says is a London based British artist who uses performance, sculpture, projection and sound. She is the director and founder of The Jerico Orchestra and has shown work at The Berlin Art Fair, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Shunt Lounge, The A&D Gallery, and Hundred Years Gallery.
Her work references the history of performance practice, Giallo film and early Modernist sculpture. She has also been a participant in performance pieces by Tino Sehgal at Tate Modern and Palais de Tokyo.
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