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The Gluerooms presents Noise on Noise at NewXING Relay 2012
A funny video of myself and others performing at 'The Gluerooms presents Noise on Noise'. Part of the New-X-ing Performance Relay Event at Goldsmiths College, London, Sept 2012. Four noise musicians go head to head with what was once voted the the noisiest road in the UK.
For more info and pics go to www.facebook.com/thegluerooms and www.facebook.com/events/123344967813810/ also see www.newxing.wordpress.com for more.
Be Prepared, Gallery Closed Studio Open, Utrophia, London, 2012
Be Prepared - Michael Shaw Friday 10th August, 11am - 6pm, Gallery Closed Studio Open, Utrophia
London based artist Michael Shaw's often experimental practice occupies the spectrum between found object installation art, performance and noise music. In ‘Be Prepared’ he invites the audience to join him in the construction and execution of new participatory works and compositions using prepared objects and instrumentation from the local area.
Bring: Desktop Fan, Guitar, Busking Amp, Stringed Instruments, Percussion, Mobile Phone, anything and everything - be prepared!
Utrophia and Extra Bones present Gallery Closed Studio Open. Part of Deptford X Contemporary Art Festival.
Lunch Music, Utrophia, London, 2012
DJ Tendraw: Casiocore - Lunch Music Saturday 4th August - 1:30pm, Gallery Closed Studio Open, Utrophia, London
I will be performing as DJ Tendraw this Saturday 4th August - 1:30pm, prior to my participatory project ‘Be Prepared’ which you can join in with on Friday 10th August.
Above: DJ Tendraw - Casiocore at You & Me, Experimentierbühne Heusteigtheater, Stuttgart, DE, 2010
DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog - The Bends, Science Museum, London, 2012
Join us this wednesday at the Science Museum for a very informal circuit bent show and tell. Bring one circuit bent instrument (+ jack lead), present your creation or just join in the clatter! DJ Tendraw & The Gypsies Dog - The Bends @ Science Museum, Wednesday 30 May, 6:45 - 10:00pm For more info click LATES
Soundtracks to Random Acts. Space Hijackers - NHS For Sale, 2012
Thanks to everyone who tuned into Channel 4's Random Acts to watch Leah Borromeo's short film Space Hijackers - NHS for Sale. If like me you don't own a TV or you live overseas, here it is for you to watch again and again at your leisure. Enjoy!
Featuring the track Interfere by DJ Tendraw.
Noise=Noise, 25 February, 2012
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/225855967509471/ Website: http://nnnnn.org.uk/
TMPO - The Mobile Phone Orchestra. Michael Shaw's alternative participatory composition "Feedback - A Score For Two or More Mobile Phones" 2004, recorded at Noise=Noise, London, 2012
Soundtracks for Random Acts, Channel 4, 2012
Just a heads up about my sonic television debut of sorts. Some music I made under the moniker DJ Tendraw is being used on Channel 4's Random Acts. First up is Leah Borromeo's film Space Hijackers. It will be airing Monday 9 January 2012 at 11.25pm after Shameless and will most likely be available here shortly after randomacts.channel4.com
Feedback - A Score For Two or More Mobile Phones, , The Hunerkada Art Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2011
A short clip from "Feedback - A Score For Two or More Mobile Phones" 2004, performed at The Hunerkada Art Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2011 as part of the Bugsplat Conference.
For more info about Bugsplat visit http://www.reprieve.org.uk/investigations/drones/ and like https://www.facebook.com/Bugsplat
Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, 03 Dec - 11 Mar 2012
Exploring the use of humour in contemporary art, Ha Ha Road presents the work of artists who play with a “rupture of sense”.
Taking its title from the name of a street, the exhibition plays on its double meaning. Apart from its connection with laughter, a “ha-ha” also refers to a type of sunken boundary: a wall or fence set into a trench, forming a hidden division in a landscape whilst preserving the scenic view. This invisible frontier serves as a neat metaphor for our relationship to the world of laughter.
Strangely indistinguishable from the familiar terrain of normality, a joke transports us to a place where sense breaks down, where the familiar is turned on its head, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and where the world means differently. Nothing has changed and yet everything has changed. This is the paradoxical condition of humour, and the source of its disruptive power.
The show explores what it means to step over this barrier and to set foot into the inexplicable and illogical world of humour. The selected artworks demonstrate how acts of absurdity, irrationality or playfulness can interrupt reality and momentarily destabilise common assumptions. These strategies, and those of all the artists in ‘Ha Ha Road’, serve to illustrate the liberating freedom of thought at work in humour. They invite us to look at the world from the other side of the fence.
Artists presented in the exhibition: Boris Achour (FR), Chantal Akerman (BE), Bobby Baker (UK), Dave Ball (UK), Anna + Bernhard Blume (DE), Stella Capes (UK), Yara El Sherbini (UK), Fischli + Weiss (CH), Ceal Floyer (UK), Rodney Graham (CA), Ellie Harrison (UK), Debbie Lawson (UK), Mike Marshall (UK), Kirsten Pieroth (DE), Pipilotti Rist (CH), Mathew Sawyer (UK), Ariel Schlesinger (IL), Hank Schmidt in der Beek (DE), Michael Shaw (UK), Roman Signer (CH), Charles Stankievech (CA), Annika Ström (SE), Bedwyr Williams (UK), Dan Witz (US) & Erwin Wurm (AT).
‘Ha Ha Road’ is curated by Dave Ball and Sophie Springer and produced by QUAD in collaboration with Mostyn Gallery.
Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, 3 Dec 2011 - 11 March 2012
(Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 - Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales
Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, 3 Dec 2011 - 11 March 2012
Ha Ha Road, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, 03 Dec - 11 Mar 2012
A second chance to catch my work in the group show Ha Ha Road at the Oriel Mostyn Gallery in Wales. It opens this Friday and will run until 11th March 2011. Artists include: Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, Bobby Baker, Fischli + Weiss, Rodney Graham, Ellie Harrison, Pipilotti Rist, Ariel Schlesinger, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Michael Shaw, Roman Signer, Charles Stankievech, Bedwyr Williams, Dan Witz, Erwin Wurm and many more.
For more info click here
Ha Ha Road Review 2011
Super kind words about my work in the group show Ha Ha Road. Thanks Kieran Harrod!
By far my favorite piece was Michael Shaw’s “Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar” which base comprised of an Acoustic Guitar, a desk fan and some ‘sparkly shred’. The shred was attached to the fan whose projection was set just within reach of the guitar strings, as the shred danced in the fan’s airstream it occasionally lightly plucked a string producing a feint plink or two. Quite hypnotic.
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(Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 - Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby
Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Courtesy of the artist Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby, 12 August – 23 October 2011
Departing from experimental turntablism and circuit-bending, the London-based Michael Shaw’s artistic practice occupies the spectrum between found object installation art and noise music. Amongst many other things Shaw creates unexpected sonic experiences by combining recycled and modified hardware, household items and musical instruments like drum-kits, keyboards and stringed instruments. While his work—whether live on stage under the alias DJ Tendraw, or in the gallery—is often loud, rough, and full-on, for Ha Ha Road he has devised a surprisingly subdued yet highly hypnotic piece. A bunch of silver tinsel woven into the metal cage of a small desktop fan incessantly blows against the strings of an acoustic guitar, which ever so often responds with an almost inaudible “plink”. The work at the same time inheres an air of gentle beauty and pathetic failure.Michael Shaw - (Encore) Prepared Fan & Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Text by Sophie Springer from the Ha Ha Road exhibition guide: http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/fil es/ha_ha_road_booklet.pdf
(Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 - Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby
Michael Shaw (Encore) Prepared Fan and Acoustic Guitar, 2011 Acoustic guitar, desktop fan, guitar stand, sparkly shred Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery Derby, 12 August – 23 October 2011
SpaceShip Earth - Free House Project, The Left Bank Show, Resonance FM, 2011
Spaceship Earth launched our new Free House Project this weekend at Frieze and gave away 100 of our 10,000 free houses. This action was recorded for Leah Borromeo's 'The Left Bank Show ' and will be broadcasted on Resonance 104.4fm.
Spaceship Earth - Free House Project, The Left Bank Show, Resonance 104.4fm, Friday 21st October at 4:30pm: Spaceship Earth meets Leah Borromeo outside this year's Freize Art Fair to talk about, value, free labour, collaboration and launch their new work, Free House Project.
The Left Bank Show on Resonance 104.4fm Leah Borromeo discusses arts and politics with writers, rogues, artists, filmmakers and haymakers. Leah and her guests will spend the day engaging with their art and the politics that drive it. They could go to a demo, they could visit a place, they could confront a politician or they could sit on a park bench like bookends. The Left Bank Show is a casual, probing chat into the lives and motivations of artists, thinkers and drinkers. For more information about Free House Project and SpaceShip Earth visit:
www.facebook.com/FreeHouseProject www.facebook.com/SpaceShipEarthUK