Saturday 13 December 2025, 7.30pm
@xcrswx is the duo of Crystabel Efemena Riley (human/drum-skin) and Seymour Wright (saxophone) both also working with digital, analogue and ANDROID technologies – live and in the studio. Together they create sound works, and ideas that they explain, are to do with: “(REFERENCES) a span of human traditions, technologies and applications from the menstrual-bloody origins of cosmetics through evolution of reeds/drumskin ritual/musics, to Samsung and Audacity tools and attachments, Crunchyrolls and sub-woofer succulence. It’s committed, collaborative work that draws on decades of other association (past and present: X-Ray Hex Tet, Maria & The Mirrors, GUO, أحمد [Ahmed], XT trios with Anne Gillis and RPBoo) and (MORE REFERENCES) glamour/talent, clean-beauty, smart-boards, teaching-teams, stages, studios and solos, but in terms of what comes out is a sui generis, exciting, radical, extreme, tender, physical and fresh synthesis, of beats, layers, and patterns of raw and polished sound”.
MOODBOARD is @xcrswx’s first 12” LP, following on from FIXES a 10” split (with Lolina) from 2023 and CALLTIME/HARD OUT, a 7” single from 2020 it completes a trilogy of releases on Feedback Moves. It extends the previous releases in exciting, new ways – presenting things on a scale where everything is greater, with extremes wider, rawer and deeper than on previous recordings. MOODBOARD is one long-form piece played across two sides, and, a suite of discrete, overlapping songs – OKIE EFE, NPC, P2W, REFERENCES, MORE REFERENCES, UFFIZI, THE CREATIVE DECK, OKIE EFE IVẸ – pulsing with the intensity of one of @xcrswx’s extraordinarily intense, physical, caring and socially-situated live shows, but employing hi- and lo-tech studio assembly, intervention, and re-invention to keep these two sides very much, and meticulously, produced – a record made.
Shamica Ruddock is an artist working with sound and moving image. Previous presentations include festivals Margate Now (UK), Abandon Normal Devices (UK); group shows with the Barbican (UK), Durham Gallery (CA) and live performances at Silent Green (DE) and Madeira Dig (PT) alongside long time collaborator Hannan Jones. Solo shows also include Treasure Hill Artist Village (2019, TW) and South London Gallery (2022, UK). Shamica has held residencies with QO2 (BE), and was previously an Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow at the British Library researching Maroon sound cultures.
Jackson Burton was born in Scotland, lives in London and works with scores, text pieces and action-based performances that deal with issues of class, labour practices and community. Recent live output has included performances at Cafe OTO, The Fruit Market Edinburgh and YDP Gallery London. He usually performs in solo or duo combinations and has performed pieces with Graham Lambkin, Aine O’Dwyer, Yan Jun and Rory Salter. Recently he’s released on Infant Tree in 2023, with Adam Bohman, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Sue Lynch and a live solo LP on OTORoku in 2025.
Keira Fox is an Artist based in London, working with performance, improvisation, props, sound and curation.
She co-founded the performance duo New Noveta in 2012. She is also one part of the collective TLC23 founded in 2021. Fox’s work explores socio-political struggle, heightened through repetitive actions. She often uses domestic objects and characterizations of banal, everyday work and dress to amplify resistance via bodily penance. Collaboration is key to her practise, working with musicians and artists on productions and events.
Recent exhibitions include: Contrivances of Hell for Blow the Boutique -Group show and performance at Anorak (Berlin 2026) HIAR, Solo performance for Bolding Gallery (London 2026) ‘PFED for Where are the Hackers?’ at Berlin Atonal (Berlin, 2025), ‘Wast hast du mir angetan’ at Gropius Bau (Berlin, 2025), ‘Technoavoidancemanias,’ performance at Faun Festival with Rian Treanor(Brno 2024) TLC23 and the Amber Press performance and publication with TLC23 and Zoe Williams for Kunstverein Dortmund (Dortmund 2024), SHITBRICKHOUSE, Performance and event with TLC23 at Tina Gallery (London 2024) ‘Peine forte et dure Performance’ for Teatro Bastardo Theatre Festival (Palermo, 2023)
