Monday 16 January 2017, 7.30pm
Benedict Drew (b. 1977, Kyneton, Australia) lives and works in Whitstable and Margate, UK. He has made installations, video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and music. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome (Whitechapel Gallery, 2017), KAPUT (QUAD, 2015), and Heads May Roll (Matt’s Gallery, 2014). Drew has released music on labels such as Mana Records and Bloxham Tapes, he often collaborates with artists and musicians, Currently active collaborations include a duo with Arianne Churchman, who have released two LP’s on Love’s Devotee & Folklore Tapes, the art collective Plastique Fantastique and the quartet Decentred (with Tom Chant, Angharad Davies and John Edwards). Drew founded the label Thanet Tape Centre in 2020 and regularly makes works for radio. He is a lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art and is represented by Matt’s Gallery.
http://www.benedictdrew.com/
https://thanettapecentre.bandcamp.com/
Tom White is an artist focusing predominantly on sound-based practices such as live performance, installation, recordings, composition for dance and film. He is interested in the physicality and phenomena of sound; how it can be felt by the body and experienced in architectural space. Past projects include commissions and appearances for Radiophrenia, Glasgow (CCA); BRAUBLFF (KRAAK & De Player); Whitechapel Gallery, London & Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton. Recent collaborators include Surface Area Dance Theatre, Maya Dunietz, Ben Knight, Renato Grieco and Lia Mazzari. He has performed extensively across the UK and Europe, travelled to North America and Japan and had work published by labels such as Takuroku (Cafe OTO), Glistening Examples, Vitrine, Chocolate Monk, Calling Cards Publishing and South London Gallery. He won the British Composer Award in 2014 (Sonic Art) for Public Address, commissioned by South London Gallery.
In 2016 he founded Apologies in Advance; a
platform for artists presenting work in progress performances.
https://tomwhitesound.com
http://tomwhite.bandcamp.com
Marc Matter is a sound-artist and researcher, former member of Institut fuer Feinmotorik, studied at Art Academy for Media Arts in Cologne. Since 2010 working on a solo-project Voiceover producing text-sound-poetry by means of experimental turntablist manipulations of voice- and speech sounds, searching for speech-effects and semantic collisions. A mangled sound of language which is executed in live-performances, on recordings (chocolate monk, tanuki) and radio-broadcasts (german WDR and SWR). Collaborations with several artists, i.e. poet Dagmara Kraus, performance-artist Veridiana Zurita, visual artists Haseeb Ahmed and Tris Vonna-Michell. Curator of exhibitions about Henri Chopin and OU Review, lecturer about text and sound.
'Wonky song, magical spoken word and electronic-squelch squeezed into semi-improvised story forms. With a stubborn rejection of the classic ‘rock’ or ‘jazz’ group structure (the sweaty quartet, the junked trio) the HUMAN HEADS settle on the synth-trio as their medium of choice but turn that Yazoo strictly inside-out'.
Rob Lye is an artist and musician based in London. Recent work has explored technology, landscape and psychotropic drugs, specifically Lithium and the burgeoning 'green' economy.
He recently received an ACE research grant (2019) to travel to Bolivia to visit the Salar de Uyuni and the Bolivian Amazon rainforest .
Recent releases include 'Modern Living' (2021) Takuroku, 'UN' Stairwell Editions (2021)
He has exhibited and performed internationally in venues such as TATE Britain, Cafe Oto, Whitechapel Gallery, APT Gallery, OUTPOST, ASC, FUSE, Caraboo etc.
www.robertlye.co.uk
https://stairwelleditions.bandcamp.com/
