Sunday 25 November 2018, 1–3.30pm
Slip present an afternoon with the godfather of Wild Pop: Gwilly Edmondez.
Gwilly will be revisiting the performance installation & exhibition that took place at Vienna’s AfG in 2011, Gwilly Made An Art; extending the principle of the original show, Gwilly will combine image, sound and text connected to the Militant Seed image/text publication,Wasn’t 1: Person to Person Cataclysmics, copies of which will be available to buy and/or give away in a quiz if one happens. He’ll then give a talk on the way person-to-person cataclysmics are manifest in Wild Pop and related precursors like Hip Hop and Jazz, as well as talking to Slip’s Laurie Tompkins.
Gwilly Edmondez emerged in the 1980s from Bridgend, South Wales, where he was a founder member of Radioactive Sparrow, once dubbed ‘the most legendary band you’ve probably never heard of.’ Gwilly practices a form of composition that disavows fixity and rehearsal, preferring an approach that dissolves the line between ‘life’ and ‘performance’ in ways that compromise neither. Having coined the term Wild Pop to describe his aesthetic as both a solo artist and as Gustav Thomas in YEAH YOU (est. 2013), his embracing the age of evaporation is manifest in a relentless autopathology oriented towards devotional sublimation.
Gwilly closes Day 2 of the residency with a special dictaphone karaoke set, a real crowd pleaser.
