Good Morning Freedom

13 June 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
£7/ £5 concession

Sonia Boyce discusses her work
Artist Sonia Boyce presents a lecture on her own practice and long term interest in sound in the context of Scat.

Sonia Boyce works in a wide range of media to address contemporary urban experience and the relationship between sound and memory. She rose to prominence in the 1980s for her work questioning racial stereotypes in the media and in day-to-day life. Boyce's more recent work has shifted to explore social practice and collaboration, with the audience as an integral part of the artwork.

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Detail of Good Morning Freedom (2012) ©Sonia Boyce, courtesy the artist

Scat: Curator's Tour

6 June 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA

Co-curator and Chief Executive of Iniva, Tessa Jackson, leads a tour of Scat, introducing Sonia Boyce's work and her use of the building.

The tour starts outside PS1 the downstairs gallery and will move through to PS2, the Education Space and the Stuart Hall Library.

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Tessa Jackson leading a tour of the Peter Clarke exhibition | Photo: Christa Holka

Nonsense: Working with Voices

20 June 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
£7/£5 concession

Mikhail Karikis discusses his work
Mikhail Karikis, co-collaborator on the work For you, only you, explores his work as a sound artist through performance, film and discussion with Sonia Boyce.

Mikhail Karikis is a Greek/British artist. He trained at Slade School and his work in video, performance, drawing and sound is equally embraced by the art gallery and concert halls.

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Mikhail Karikis | Photograph: Stuart Bunce

Talking about artists making records*

27 June 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
£7 / £5 concession

A panel discussion on sound practices and the sonic in contemporary art
Through conversation and selected sound-based and video material from artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Charlotte Prodger, the event explores questions of the manifestation of musical and sonic cultures in artistic practice.

Does contemporary art offer a particular space for irreverence or critical discourse? What is this exchange: what are the specific vocabularies that are at stake; how do modes of production and distribution translate across disciplines and contexts?

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:-* | 2012 |Courtesy of Charlotte Prodger and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow | Photograph: Adam Reich

Ode To No. 6 | The Pitch Sisters Live!

4 July 2013, 6.30pm
Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA
£7 / £5 concession

Sound artist Ain Bailey presents an electroacoustic exploration
Ain Bailey, who colloborated with Sonia Boyce on Oh Adelaide, performs two recent works.

Ode To No. 6, is a meditation on the ‘unheard' that exists within the artist's personal domestic space. The Pitch Sisters Live was originally composed as a multichannel response to a line contained in Leslie Thornton's film Peggy and Fred In Hell: The Prologue. What would a female sonic universe sound like, if we all vocally hung around an A flat below middle C? For this premiere performance, Bailey, together with four invited vocalists, explores this question in a live context.

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Still taken from Oh Adelaide (2010) © Sonia Boyce, courtesy the artist

Moochin' and Messin' : Black Bottom Dance Workshop

17 July 2013, 7pm-8.30pm
Rivington Place

Taking inspiration from the artist Sonia Boyce's Oh Adelaide! (2013), and the Vitaphone Pepper Pot short: An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), this workshop gives a taste of America's south, of smoke-filled, late night "juke joints" of Prohibition.

Lindy Hopper Christine Checinska will show you how to dance classic Black Bottom steps like the Mooch, the Mess Around and the Spank the Baby - all with a blues feeling. Bring your dancing shoes!

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