About this Event
Live Performance: Maggie Nicols x Nimzo Studio x Philipp Ebeling
Expanding on the collaboration between the artists on Sync - Unsync, This live improvised iteration of the work, dives into the idea of tension and release moving things forward via a sonic and visual exercise. Reinterpreting the installations theme of how trauma can throw us out of sync with our own bodies, the artists wil perform collectively in response to each other to create a new experience of the installation.
-Maggie Nicols on vocal free improv
-Nimzo Studio on live sound & spatialisation
-Philipp Ebbling on live multi channel projection
Very limited Capacity of 30 people.
25 tickets through eventbrite - 5 More tickets on the door.
Maggie Nicols joined London's legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble in 1968 as a free improvisation vocalist. She then became active running voice workshops with an involvement in local experimental theatre. She later joined the group Centipede, led by Keith Tippets and in 1977, with musician/composer Lindsay Cooper, formed the remarkable Feminist Improvising Group. She continues performing and recording challenging and beautiful work, in music and theatre, either in collaborations with a range of artists (Irene Schweitzer, Joelle Leandre, Ken Hyder, Caroline Kraabel) as well as solo.
Maggie’s first physical solo release, Are You Ready? (LP, 2022) recalls Nicols’ own compositions from memory, working out tunes and turning them over. New routes down old paths form in moments of improvisation and all wrong turns are played out with joyous discovery. What John Stevens dubbed Maggie's “ability to find the ‘rhythmelodic’” meets a willingness to be understood and to understand. Solo at the piano, Nicols is still firmly rooted in the collective.
Nimzo Studio is the Arts Council-supported collaboration between composers and multi-instrumentalists Lee Westwood and Jules Arthur. Operating out of the recording studios beneath The Rose Hill – Brighton’s artist-led venue and creative hub (where Jules is co-director) – Nimzo divide their time between composition for screen, sound art and live performance.
Recent artistic highlights include: screenings at Museum of Modern Art, New York; AV installation for Magnum Photos / Amnesty International at Nuit Blanche, Paris; soundtrack for BBC4 documentary ‘The Windermere Children’; Australian tour as part of visionary prog-folk band Moulettes.
Philipp Ebeling is an artist working in photography and experimental film. He is also the co-founder of Fishbar, a space for photography in East London that shows young photography and publishes books. He combines his interest in curation with his video and sound installations that experiment with how spaces are activated and experienced by audiences.
His video installations have appeared at the Nuit Blanche in Paris, APT Gallery and 195 Mare Street in London and his experimental short-film TiChan, a collaboration with his wife Olivia Arthur was shown at Traverse festival in Toulouse and Harlequin Cinema in Paris. He has published three books of his personal work and his work was included in group exhibitions at the Museum of London, Haus der Künste Vienna, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Centre Pompidou in Paris and is held in the collection of Tate.
Philipp holds an an MA in Artist Film from Goldsmith College and lives with his family in Hackney.
Lake is a dedicated space for the development of collaborative audio-spatial practices. Through installation, performance and conversations, artists are invited to use the gallery’s native 7.1 sound system, spanning eight speakers. Lake encourages the extension of artistic practices through this site-specific engagement.
Much like the ecological landscape of a lake, supporting life both around and beneath its surface, the gallery seeks to develop collaborative processes beyond individual mediums. The participation of the public forms an integral part of this immersive ecosystem.
Working closely with artists from concept to realisation, Lake supports a process-based approach to making. Multiple iterations are encouraged throughout the duration of the exhibition, nurturing new ideas, interactions, and outcomes.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
lake, ENCLAVE 5, London, United Kingdom
GBP 12.00