Benedict Drew

There are so many reasons to love Benedict Drew's work - his current show at Zabludowicz' spot on new project space is just one. He did an amazing 'artists presentation' today at the gallery - where he essentially made a cut and paste Adam Curtis-like film about his influences and interests - ranging from entropy and decay to early electronic music techniques and film screams.

Check out past installation documentation of The Persuaders (I pasted the vimeo below too) and Notes on the Ecstatic. His website is rather amazing too. For the brave, look at this epilepsy-inducing 'Appendix' to his site.

THE PERSUADERS from benedict drew on Vimeo.

sludge manifesto from benedict drew on Vimeo.

Fatima A Qadiri

I've discovered Fatima A Qadiri today and her inventive internet plundering. I heard her alter ego track 'WARN-U' by Ayshay above out and about a couple of weeks ago and then today drifted to 'Hip Hop Spa' below - which crossed the neo-web, hip hop, weird line beautifully. Love the hardcore art text accompaniment when you see video on YouTube. Its all very DIS Magazine (where she has a column) but nowt wrong with that.

Fact mix available here and Muslim Trance on here (though the word trance always makes me want to tear my skin out)

Born to Curate

I'm taking part in a funny sounding performance game show on Thursday - Born to Curate - connected to the current show at Nettie Horn. Free but RSVP.

Picks from the past last week

Hex and Xeroxlore at SPACE Studios

Ilja Karilampi's Hoodumentary at Wilkinson Gallery

Philip Lai at Stuart Shave Modern Art

An invite of sheer genius

Bubblebyte + The Sunday Painter + LuckyPDF. One word. Excited.

LuckyPDF ñ BubbleByte from LuckyPDF TV on Vimeo.

Flashback

I have been doing way too much research on rave and acid house as background for an upcoming exhibition, resulting in a feeling that time is disintegrating and I dont know what decade it is. Here's a flashback from the post-modern blur of music in my psyche. Dirty party records! (with a beautiful bit of ghetto house from Cajmere above)