Sunday 16 October 2022, 2pm
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.
Cafe Oto will host a panel discussion on October 16th led by Jackson Burton with Churm, Duff, Welch and Abby Thomas. They will screen some films and discuss collaboration, self-publishing, influences, and favourite bands.
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.
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/
