Thursday 13 March 2025, 7.30pm
London-based artist, writer and musician Morgan Quaintance presents an evening of performance and improvised music. Featuring an audio-visual performance from the duo of artist and filmmaker Chiemi Shimada and composer Jamie Man; spoken word from artist and filmmaker Sophio Medoidze; DJ sets from artist and filmmaker Stanley Schtinter; and two live sets of improvised music from a group including Milips (samples and electronics), Pharaoh Russell (drums), David Chin (Bass and electronics) and Quaintance (guitar).
Commissioned by Outlands Network and supported by Arts Council England.
https://outlands.network
Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist, writer and musician .His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. As a composer and performer of electronic and alternative music he’s been active nationally and internationally since the early 2000s, while his writing on contemporary art and culture has helped shape and influence the UK’s new landscape of progressive cultural discourse and debate.
Jamie Man/ 文珮玲 uses the forms of opera, live performance and dark room installations to create works primarily concerned with music and the poetic mystery of the transtopian body.
Chiemi Shimada is an artist and filmmaker currently based in London. Working with analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her videos and installations explore and interrogate memory, intimacy, liminal states, climate and late stage capitalism.
https://cargocollective.com/chiemishimada
Sophio Medoidze is an artist and filmmaker whose work interrogates the boundaries between cinema and art, focusing on the concept of periphery. Her poetic filmography delves into the tensions between ancient and modern, local and global, frequently using her native Georgia as both a setting and subject. Her filmmaking practice also extends into writing and publishing as alternative forms of image-making.
Stanley Schtinter has been described as an ‘artist’ by the Daily Mail and as an ‘exorcist’ by the Daily Star.
