Saturday 15 October 2022, 8pm
Two days of criss crossing connecting collaborations between Rob Churm, Malcy Duff and Fritz Welch. Glued together by staples, comix and zines have been mixed by these three wooden spoons to create one soup for all to taste.
On October 15th they will present individual sonic performances based on or influenced by drawings, comix and printed works.
Malcy Duff and his Trouser Orchestra will perform a new version of his 'live comic' from 2010, The Simpsons!
Ecka Mordecai/Ash Reid/Fritz Welch will combine cello, 8-bit molecular words, percussion and voice in a first draft collaboration intended to open up text & tone tension. They will interrogate their individual instumental manifestations by reimagining a score initially devised through hand drawn and printed soundscapes by Welch.
Rob Churm will present a performance based on the strip 'The Researchers' from his comic The Exhaustion Hook, wherein the artist constructs layers of moving image and animation with the aid of a digital environment, playing with improvisation, mishap and delay.
Glasgow based artist Rob Churm makes drawings, prints, comic strips and performances that explore new ways of seeing and describing the world.
Churm’s practice takes in a variety of references from science and weird-fiction, post-human thought, and cult film, layering them to construct stories that echo the life he is living.
Many of his comic strips and drawings elaborate on research into the workings of the brain, psychological phenomena and scientific experimentation – forming semi-fictionalised narratives about artists’ and practitioners’ obsessions and working processes.
Tendencies toward obsessiveness are reflected in his often mathematical and scrupulous approach to composition, but this is set against an ever-present sense of irony and the depiction of multifarious, humorous and bizarre fates that await his characters.
Churm’s recent work focuses on the sequential aspects of his drawing practice, allowing ideas to cascade and weirdness to grow. Strange stories and characters emerge from the work as actors. For example, attempts to organise the flow of imagery become symbolic of a dialectical argument and complex compositions are generated by consistently breaking a simple set of rules.
Fritz Welch is percussionist & vocalist determined to stretch the escalator of possibilities into the bloodshot eye of results. He has most recently played with Re-Ghoster Extended (quintet with Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Jérôme Noetinger & Nate Wooley), Hexakaidecagon (with David Moré), Dome Riders (quartet with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Mike Parr-Burman & Armin Sturm) and in duo formation with Olivier DiPlacido. Welch and David Moré co-organize the monthly music/sound/performance series Baked Beans On The Doorstep at The Old Hairdresser’s…. A longtime Brooklynite of Texas origins, he is now based in Glasgow.
http://www.humansacrifice.net/
Malcy Duff is a cartoonist and performer from Edinburgh, Scotland. His comix include ‘The Liminal Sneeze,’ ‘The Pineapple,’ 'The Heroic Mosh of Mary's Son,' and ‘A 52 Second Silence for Topsy.’ His work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including MAP, The Wire, Giant Tank Offline, Product, Art Review and The Comics Journal. He plays and records in the duo Usurper, and has been performing his ‘live comics’ since 2010.
Ecka Mordecai is a London based artist working with sound, scent and performance.
Her mode is improvisational and driven by a desire to explore the feel of things, be it through touch: making and preparing instruments (cello, horsehair harp, psaltery, eggflute, Bluetooth speakers), or emotionally: exploring the way different sounds, scents and gestures feel and produce feeling.
Notable projects include her solo album Promise & Illusion (Otoroku, 2022), Sound perfumes (Aequill, 2022), soundtrack and voiceover for filmmaker Kamila Kuc’s I was there (plus a written passage in accompanying book published 2025, Delere Press), and musical composition for Voyage Through the Diamond Realm (De Beers at Frieze Art Fair, 2025/2026).
Her viral Instagram project Cable Queen is an ongoing spite-piece inspired by the grind of her job working as a sound technician in a male-dominated industry/world, in which she silently coils audio cables whilst looking into the camera. The comments, written by strangers, expose the conditions of her labour.
She has performed and released music with David Toop & Christian Kobi, Valerio Tricoli (as Mordecoli), Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott (as Circaea), and as a cellist with Vanishing, Thurston Moore and Alexander Tucker. She has performed the works of Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Antoine Beuger, Yoni Silver and Taku Sugimoto.
Ash Reid is a performer and sometime writer, avid texter, current bar tender and former thought owner
