Friday 25 November 2022, 8pm
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is an visual, sound and performance artist born in Akureyri, Iceland in 1977. He studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory Den Haag, Holland in 1997 to 1998, and received MFA at Fachochshcule fur bilende kunst Hannover, Germany in 2004. Sigmarsson exhibits his paintings & drawings internationally but is probably most known for his energetic performances at a wide array of venues.
His approach is that of the trembling artist, struggling to make sense and direction out of a creative impulse. Regardless of the medium, there is a continuous search for order and chaos throughout his body of work. For some time he has been releasing solo recordings with albums on Trente Oiseaux, ERS, Helen Scarsdale, Fire Inc., Hanson Records, Bawag Contemporary Vienna, Korm Plastics, Bottrop Boy, Ultra Eczema and De Player.
Also on the bill, a trio of Sue Lynch, Adam Bohman, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, plus a solo set from Jackson Burton.
Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.
Sue Lynch works as an experimental saxophonist and a visual artist. She curates The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover. Performs with Psychedelic Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’. Has performed at 3 Klange Tag Festival, Switzerland with Hildegarde Kleeb, Womad BBC Stage, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performances at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre, SuperNormal Festival 2025 and collaboratively at Light Sounds Festival 2024.
Releases include, ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdyrecordings) with Crystabel Efemena Riley and N.O. Moore, ‘Blue Tapes-Minaru’,with LA based artist Anna Homler as featured in an interview in October 2023 Wire Magazine on bluetapes.bandcamp.minaru. 'Sax & Drums' on Scatter archive with Regan Bowering and ‘Orbit-Son’ with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Adam Bohman on the Infantree Label. Upcoming release with Adam Bohman and Crystabel Efemena Riley on Café Oto label OTOROKU.
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, born 1988, is a Southend-on-Sea-based writer, local journalist, and artist. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, London, where she teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies. Her latest book. Code: Damp - An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms (2024) is published by Repeater. Her ongoing work invokes an occult connection between magic and place that is distributed across writing, printmaking, spoken word and cassette releases.
https://www.sophiesleigh-johnson.co.uk/
https://thequietus.com/culture/books/marshland-surrealism-rising-damp-code-damp-sophie-sleigh-johnson-review/
https://repeaterbooks.com/authors/sophie-sleigh-johnson/
https://purgexxx.bandcamp.com/album/collapse
