Trash Culture Revue November 2011

This time round our DIY Arts Festival really seemed to reflect what is going on in the wider world with the collapse of the free market economy. There is no going back and our skills exchange is only getting stronger which is reflected in this edition of The Trash Culture Revue

Mutant Shorts Film Competition
This is our fifth Mutant Shorts competition in our ongoing film series called ‘Mutant Rooms’. So far we’ve been in the kitchen, the sitting room, the bathroom and the hallway. This time around its ‘Dark Places’.
As they always have the Cork Film Centre are kindly sponsoring a prize of 3 days free rental of camera and sound equipment to the winner

Mutant Cabaret: Music + Spoken word mash up
Our cabaret is a mash up of spoken word, music, storytelling and poetry with all performers doing a 20 minute slot. The trash this time around are:

MC Carl Plover
WASPS vs HUMANS is a one man performance poetry project. In a commentary based style, observing snap shots of life; political and humorous, his take on the world is delivered with a growl and a smile.

“Plover’s thoughts of life, the world and the celebrity obsessed culture we live in are honest, observant and true”
Hot Press magazine

“WHAT do you get when you mix up Ian Curtis, Dylan Thomas and John Cooper Clarke? One answer would be a very strange individual but he is also a magnetic live performer!”
Cork Independent

Bairbre Flood
Bairbre Flood recently published her second book of poetry, ’On The Click’, which is available online or from Callanans pub in Cork (whichever is handiest). Here’s a sample from her book. She also writes and performs music in a country band called the Van Helens.

Fergus Costello
Fergus Costello is a Performance Poet, Songwriter, Musician, Comic Entertainer and Story teller all in one. He was the cuisle international slam poetry champion 2009. He is the current Munster slam poetry champion and was the runner up at this year’s all Ireland performance poetry final which took place in the international bar Wicklow Street Dublin. In a newspaper article Davin O’ Dwyer of the Irish Times said that Fergus’s performance of his “Hilarious comic monologues” was one of the “highlights” of the event.

getBeRned
getBeRned AKA BeRn has been writing, reciting, singing and slamming, strumming picking and riffing since god knows when! Words of love and anger; political, satirical, lyrical, sweet and sour, spicy and sizzling all thrown up in a heady, edgy mix of Folk, Rock, Country and Punk. Challenging, inspiring and uneasy, she’ll wake you from your reverie.
A seasoned performer she has opened for Patti Smith, The Indigo girls, Shane McGowan, They Might Be Giants and Jane Siberry to name a few. A singer and guitarist with 2 albums under her belt and a new one on the way, BeRn is also a slam poet.

Catherine Cunningham
Heartfelt, political and thought provoking, this West-Cork based songwriter takes you on a journey through terrains beautiful and poignant, lyrical and disturbing, fantastical and irreverent.
Catherine’s songs pay little heed to notions of rules, expectations or categorization, but rather they question these and all the certainties we take for granted. With titles such as “Bothering the Dead”, “No Sheep in Heaven” and √2, you can expect that not only is the subject matter unusual, but so is its delivery.

The Gifted Eccentric
Anja Bakker
Anja Bakker B-Mus is recorder player, harper, singer and conductor who lives in West Cork.
She studied Recorders in the Cork School of Music and has won numerous competitions in the Feis Matthew, the Feis Ceol as well as winning the chamber music competition in CIT. She has been a soloist with the East Cork Choral Society.

She conducted the ‘Famine Commemoration Concert’ in Skibbereen (2009) and played in the National Concert Hall in September of the same year. She programmed and played a celebrated fundraiser for Amnesty International 50th Birthday of the Charter of Human Rights.
In 2010 she carried a 26 string harp from Clonakilty West-Cork to Santiago de Compostela in North-Western Spain. A 2400 km journey about which she is currently writing a show.

Tina Pisco
Tina Pisco’s publications include two best-selling novels, translated into five different languages: “Only a Paper Moon” (Poolbeg 1998), and “Catch the Magpie” (Poolbeg 1999); a collection of newspaper columns: “A West Cork Life”, and a cookbook “West Cork Fusion” (both Random Animals Press). Included in the first Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, she was shortlisted for both RTE’s Storyland project, and Best Documentary and Best of Cork in the 2010 Fastnet Short Film Festival.
Writer-in-Residence at Tigh Filí, Cork, Tina Pisco’s first collection of poetry, “She Be” (Bradshaw Books) – about love life and laundry – will be launched at the Irish Writers Centre on November 4th 2010

Mr. Ebby
Mister ebby. a piano playing songwriter with an eclectic chamber pop style drawing on classical, jazz, folk and musical theatre to tell his stories about invented characters, friends and lovers, heartache and Galway city. His debut album “Wires” was partly paid for by crowd-funding through fund:it where he pre-sold the album and other treats to his growing fanbase online.

Toy Soldier
Toy Soldier is an Irish based Electro pop trio with an addictive groove, capturing a summer vibe. Think of a beach party with Passion Pit, Cut Copy and Hot Chip all invited.
In their short lifespan Toy Soldier have toured in Europe and the USA, featured on an ‘Ireland’s Hottest Acts’ CD in Hot Press Magazine and have been lauded by BBC radio DJ Tom Robinson on his show ‘BBC Introducing’. Toy Soldier is Cian Walsh (Vocals, Synths, Guitars), Ciara Budds (Vocals, Synths) and Fergal McCarthy (Drums, Live Programming).
The US tour saw the band perform at the world famous ‘House of Blues’ venue on Sunset Boulevard in LA as well as feature on popular LA station KCSN fm.

Daily Ritual: Lightbox Exhibition by Carolyn Collier
Carolyn Collier is a graphic designer and Art Teacher. She is currently Artist in residence at Mayfield Arts Newbury House in Cork.
This exhibition is centred around the pattern of our everyday movements through the course of each day (waking, dressing, eating, cleaning, and sleeping) can be viewed simply as processes necessary to complete menial tasks. These photographs illustrate my study of these movements as a carefully choreographed routine of modern life.

Travellers Tales: A One To One Story Exchange
Jenny Williams
Would you like to hear a story? The traveller has lots of stories: sad stories, love stories, adventure stories, sea stories. Tales from her homeland, and tales from her travels. If you visit her, she’ll tell you a story, a story chosen by you and told just for you. But, a story demands a story, and if you want to hear one, you’ll need to tell one in return.
A short, intimate performance for a single audience member.

Critical Times: Talk by The Provisional University
A talk by the Provisional University on Autonomous education. Their commitment to autonomous education stems from the fact that the independent and egalitarian dimensions of study and research are under attack. This attack is not limited to the university. It echoes wherever people act independently of market objectives and, in particular, act on the basis of equality (e.g. community development, public health care…).

Their goal is to express, augment and organise autonomous research and study, to withdraw our energy and curiosity (which in fact sustains the university) in a kind of subjective strike and to rearticulate them in a collective, open and horizontal fashion. Ours is a university open to anyone who wishes to participate in the generation of knowledge, irrespective of the hierarchies and exclusions operated by the 2nd level education system and other inegalitarian forces.

The provisional university marks a rupture with the university-bureaucracy, but also a creative confrontation with it. The state, capital and even the university-bureaucracy do not ‘own’ the university. The university is neither public (state-owned) nor private (capital-owned) but common. As such, we have no intention of allowing the current batch of bureaucrats and managers continue with their destruction of the university.
As researchers and students, we are not ‘at’ the university, we are the university.

Mini Mutant Tea Party by Veg Out
Come find out about our tea party with a twist; delicious, dainty, tasty treats and scrumptious sweeties along with top-notch teas and healthy hot drinks galore. A tea party with vegan, gluten-free options and organic options brought to you by VegOut – the weekly vegan cafe in Solidarity Books, Douglas Street

Roots + Radicals: Drawings by Susan Leen
Much of Susan’s work is issue based exploring topics such as migration, urban renewal and environmental concerns. She works on an ongoing basis with Studio Orta in Paris and most recently worked with them on Amazonia an exhibition for the Natural History Museum London. Previous collaborative work includes projects with the VEC Adult Refugee Programme, Festival of World Cultures, City Fusion for St Patrick’s Festival, the National Youth Council of Ireland, Spirasi and Action for Social Integration London.

Disaster Cork: Cut Up Street Art by Leo Boyd
Since finishing his degree in Fine Art in Context Leo has concentrated mainly on fusing various forms of image styles, from photography to comics and from the written word to graffiti. He enjoys playing with visual tricks and contexts of images to bring new ideas out of a synthesis of old or discarded ideas.
Foremost he sees himself as an image-maker but is not content simply with the 2D aspects of the image. He likes his pictures to tell stories, some of which are transparent and easy to read but others are vague and open for interpretation. He has always had an interest in mythology and one of his primary concerns is to show that the modern world, the supposedly rational world is as rich in myth as it has ever been.

A Vision of Electro Trash: DJs + Film
Sailor Sam
One talented bass player turned to computers to fill in the gaps. Joining forces with a talented sidekick Sailor Sam was formed. Currently promoting thier debut EP ‘Introducing Sailor Sam’. They are now considering 14 demo tracks for their forthcoming Sailor Sam EP ‘Elephant’ have a listen….

Bill Coleman Living Room Gig
Bill Coleman makes music with a guitar, a laptop and a whole load of live recorded loops. It’s reminded people of the work of eels, Talking Heads, Billy Bragg and The Flaming Lips. Time Out London summed it up as ‘electro-tinged, bouncy alt-folk’.

He has released two albums and numerous EPs in Ireland on his own label and shared various stages (Oxegen, Electric Picnic) across Ireland and the UK with Duke Special, Heathers, David Kitt, Ryan Sheridan, Jamie Lawson and many, many more.

His latest album was released in October 2010. It’s called ‘You Can’t Buy Back Your Life’ and comes in a numbered limited edition package. Each album is hand-decorated with individualised artwork; put 1,000 of them together and they spell out the name of the record. Hot Press says it’s “…a hugely satisfying collection of songs … dynamic, punchy and sonically rich … A triumph”.

“majorly jazzed up and spaced out… love that record”
Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

“a seriously energetic piece that should get living people dancing like idiots”
Easy Music for Difficult Ears