Dec
12
3:11 pm15:11
Chamber of Pop Culture

HORSE HOSPITAL TV

HORSE HOSPITAL TV INAUGURAL SHOW! Friday the 20th of January, 7.30pm You haven't got time to sit on the internet all day looking at crap. But David Rage has. And for your pleasure, once a month, the Horse Hospital compiles an hour of THE BEST CRAP IN THE WORLD. For you to come and sit and watch. FREE! Members & guests only.

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Dec
3
3:41 pm15:41
Chamber of Pop Culture

PHIBES RISEN

An exhibition curated by Mark Ferelli Original set stills by John Jay Magic Lantern performances by Mark Ferelli with a specially composed soundtrack by Adele Nozedar Exhibition runs 5th December 2005 – 21st January 2006 Performances upon December 3rd – opening (invitation only) 7.30pm Sunday 18th December, 7.30pm Saturday 21st January, 7.30pm April of this year saw the passing of John Jay, veteran film stills' photographer, internationally renown for his illustrious career of work on many major film productions including 'Straw Dogs', '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Star Wars'. During the autumn months of 1970, while based at Elstree Studios, Jay was assigned to the floor of a new Anglo-American production,'The Abominable Dr.Phibes', a film under the hand of British director Robert Fuest, starring horror veteran Vincent Price in the lead role. As was usual industry practise at that time, John Jay built an extensive portfolio of on-set images for the complete duration of production, destined to become select material for the film's publicity department. It was John Jay's prolonged residency in the haunting ballroom lair of Dr. Anton Phibes, and a lengthy fascination with a single still in particular, that led Magic Lantern artist Mark Ferelli to a very special meeting with John earlier this year. An afternoon of conversation and exchange which would sadly prove to be John Jay’s last on the subject. The later discovery of rare Elstree-era original prints from John Jay's own archive by close friend Vincent Murray was set to play an important part in the gestation of 'Phibes Risen'. More than 30 years on, looking over the number of beautifully wrought stills that survive, it is fair to say that we are witness not only to an invaluable production record of a horror film classic, but a singular body of work that holds a unique, independant value in its craft, quality and artistic integrity, perhaps outside and even beyond the accepted auspices of the film itself. Within his personal selection and showing of a number of these stills, Ferelli places his own mediumistic birthing, "The Angelus of John Mark Jay", amongst their number on the walls, by virtue of the flame and glass operations of a biunial Magic Lantern. The lantern, itself resonant with the very beginnings of cinema, and its prescient echoes of such leading 18th Century phantasmagores as Robertson and Philidor, conveys a performance borne of that pivotal yet seemingly absent Jay still of the hidden, skull-faced Phibes in deathly embrace with his female assistant Vulnavia. All elements expand in folds of correspondence; further meetings, where the supposed historical death and obsolescence of "publicity still" and "magic lantern" find a new plateau of atavistic vigour, risen in that dark, there among the ethereal complexities of each others presence; psychically charged with the inherent, uncanny processes of reproduction. But more than any interpretation, for Ferelli the result is the febrile sum of all his many years of inner maturation, digestion, desire and remembrances of that image, exposed now from the psychic body and made visible within the sombre dissolve and optically diffuse becomings of its projected view.

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Oct
1
4:27 pm16:27
Chamber of Pop Culture

A LONDON TATTOO ART SHOW

Work in other media by working tattoo artists Gala reception Saturday October 1st, 7pm onwards Exhibition 3rd October to 29th October, Monday to Saturday, 12 - 6pm Artists featured Naresh Bhuna, Alex Binnie, Mo Coppoletta, Matt Dita James Glover, Lal Hardy, Zed le Head Steve Herring, Thomas Hooper, Saira Hunjan Seth Larnach, Thomas Loisin, Nikole Lowe Cilla North Luca Ortis, Jason Saga, Duncan X The Horse Hospital is proud to present a group exhibition of the work of 18 London tattoo artists. All of the works on display, from religious shrines inspired by the Mexican Day Of The Dead to paintings inspired by pet iguanas, from carved trees to linen needleworks of tattoos of French prisoners, from jewellery to digital art, are works in other media, of tattoo artists working beyond the body, outside of their work.

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Sept
5
2:29 pm14:29
Chamber of Pop Culture

"THE 45TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MIDDLEMAN AND THE CHERRY BRIGADE"

An installation by TAI SHANI Exhibition runs: 5th September – 24th September Monday – Saturday, 12pm – 6pm Special film screening: Sunday 25th September, doors 7pm The Horse Hospital is proud to present the first solo UK show of performance / video / installation artist Tai Shani. Shani's work concerns the question of what happens to stories after they have been told, of what is left from a process after its production. The artist creates installation as potential for possibility, an eternal no-space within which stories that have been read, films that have been watched, art that has been seen exist. Using the present continuous tense of noir, Shani’s objects - a scorpion with butterfly wings emerging from its mouth, a bleeding fireplace, a perpetual video explosion, breathing - resonate their purpose like a used theatre set, props and sound effects extant, yet divorced of intended meaning. From the 19th century stable gallery of The Horse Hospital, the artist creates a lodge* within which The Cherry Brigade - the public army of amassed evidence, revealed and unalterable - meet the Middleman, that which conducts the brutal negotiations between fact and possibility, the distance between the object and the watcher. To highlight the installation there will be a special kinoKULTURE screening of the artist’s new video work "That Night They Told Us That I Had Seen The Light" alongside Dario Argento’s classic "Suspiria". * Lodge: The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind - Mortimer.

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Jul
6
5:44 pm17:44
Chamber of Pop Culture

Trinity

�TRINITY� "la Jornada del Muerto" An exhibition by Walter Cotten and Michael Sanders. The Atomic Age dawned at 5:29:45am on July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site in New Mexico, U.S.A. The first atomic explosion came less than 50 years after the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 and brought many threads of physics, technology and politics to a dramatic culmination. This exhibition, 'Trinity: la Jornada del Muerto', by nuclear experimental artists Michael Sanders and Walter Cotten, marks the 60th anniversary of the world�s first nuclear test and explores the legacy of the atomic age. Exhibition runs: 14th � 30th July, Mon-Sat, 12 � 6pm Private view: Wednesday 13th July, 7.30pm onwards Special film screenings the weekend of the Trinity anniversary, beginning the 16th July

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Jun
1
3:33 pm15:33
Chamber of Pop Culture

Bjarne Melgaard

Fred [London] LTD and The Horse Hospital present Jasmine La Nuit : Bjarne Melgaard and Andy Warhol at the Horse Hospital Exhibition Sat 4th - Sat 25th June The Horse Hospital Mon- Sat Hours 12 - 6pm or by appointment

Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard will present an extraordinary installation at London's Chamber of Pop Culture @ The Horse Hospital. The installation features new works including especially designed fabric printed with his signature Chihuahua drawings and furniture custom made for comfortable viewing. On to this relaxing backdrop, Melgaard then juxtaposes his own paintings and drawings with a selection of exclusive screenings from episodes from the unique Andy Warhol Television show. In addition to these rare and gripping Factory moments, Bjarne Melgaard will screen the video made by Warhol's Factory For Music performed by Loredana Berte, the then wife of Bjorn Borg. Bjarne Melgaard's intention is to create an amazing environment in which visitors can lounge on his furniture, and enjoy a rare and re-contextualised glimpse into the unseen side of Warhol's world. Melgaard comments: "The show was based upon the idea of re-contextualizing Warhol into a much more marginal and more complex setting than how we are used to experiencing Warhol. The Warhol TV was directed by Vincent Freeman as well as the video and footage they did (The Factory) with Loradana Berte, the wife of Bjorn Borg. The main reason I have chosen this multitude of different references is to find a way of trying to locate the self in something dead, something Warhol used in his work, in his way of portraying the face as a mask of death and the mask of death that Lordedana Berte eventually became.... ............I am working with this idea to forcefully complicate the way Scandinavia [and Scandinavian heros] are looked upon as the purveyors of good taste and minimal gestures making a suffocating and redeemed society seem innocent and pure in its Lutheran spirit."

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Apr
21
2:24 pm14:24
Chamber of Pop Culture

The Rise Of Lo-Fi Culture

Wednesday May 11th 2005 7:00pm til late free MARION BOYARS PUBLISHERS INVITES YOU TO A LAUNCH NIGHT FOR DIY: The Rise of Lo-fi Culture by Amy Spencer At last a well-informed study that champions the unsung heroes and heroines of the DIY scene. DIY: The Rise of Lo-fi Culture traces the origins of the DIY ethic to the sci-fi zines of the 30s, the self-publishing of the beats, the skiffle movement of the 50s and of course the all-empowering punk scene of the 70s. Through interviews with key writers, promoters and musicians Amy Spencer charts radical movements such as Riot Grrrl, Queercore and the ever-flourishing zine-scene. The central message: if you can

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