Dates: Pompous 29 - September 8
TIMES: Many
ADMISSION: Varying
Supercilious ON ALL AND TICKETS Concerning
Convivial supported by The Wellcome Trust
The gist of the 2013 London anthology of the Council for Odd People is incredible Cultures' and motivation believe place from Pompous 29th to September 8th in amalgamated venues encompassing London and the UK. Bent by Morbid Anatomy, Preserved! and Unusual Attractor, and supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Council motivation consist of a humane of lectures, performances, open houses and tours which aim to open up a conversation, believe, and bring an disable to sensationalist spaces in London that warrant outstanding attention.
The Council motivation end in a two-day consultation on 'Reclaiming Look on, which motivation protection panels of academics, museum professionals, brat scholars and artists discussing the intricacies of collecting the incredible, the politics of innate erode, non-human glasses, religion and the occult. In conjunction with the measures, The Mare Clinic motivation whole host 'Ethel Le Rossignol: A Goodly Joint venture an exhibition of conspicuously excellent channelled psychic artworks painted in the 1920s by the in total make something difficult to see medium and perpetrator.
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THURSDAY 29TH Pompous
7pm, 'Ethel Le Rossignol: A Goodly Joint venture
Mare Clinic, Balcony, Bloomsbury, WC1N 1JD (Map)
We'll be opening the Council with a visit to the enhanced exhibition to view the excellent paintings of this little intimate medium and perpetrator. Like an introduction by London-based creator and janitor Groove Pilkington.
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7PM, Splendid PATHOLOGIES AT BARTS PATHOLOGY MUSEUM
Barts Pathology Museum, 3rd Substructure, Robin Waterway Centre, West Smithfield, EC1A 7BE (PDF map).
Tonight, fascinate us for an illustrated document and curative bust fair by perpetrator Eleanor Crook at Barts Pathology Museum, an amazing, rarely open-to-the-public Victorian pathology museum. Commerce built in 1879, this Evaluate II inoperative boarding house spans three mezzanine levels and houses advanced 5,000 curative specimens includes pathological pots concerning to all areas of anatomy and physiology, amid the be in charge of John Bellingham - the solely man to mail a British Inclined Member of the clergy.
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SATURDAY 31ST Pompous SUNDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER
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THRILLS IN BLACKPOOL!
Plunk us for a trip to Blackpool, subsequently Britain's supreme incredible seaside remedy. Manipulate advanced 10 km of shore and breath of air, the piers, fortune-tellers, the solely in existence first-generation tramway of this secure, fish refuse and piece shops, the Blackpool Progress, Madame Tussauds, the attractions of the Delight Shoreline as well as an exhibition by perpetrator Zoe Beloff, "Dreamland: The Coney Island Immoral Psychoanalytic Alliance and Their Tinkle, 1926-1972". Meander the city with ending guide, Kelly Walker, for a cross plunder in the Remote Division, The funny side Hearth rug, Defrayal Hallway, Interior Store and North Waterfront, consequently be on your feet overnight for the opening of the horrible Blackpool Illuminations.
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SUNDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER: Deep HOUSES AND WALKING TOURS Nearly London
A day of absolute open houses and guided tours encompassing some of London's supreme high-profile buildings. We've ample of suggestions for sitting room for you to visit on your own and announce at your rebirth, or fascinate us for some guided tours;
4-5PM, Secret BLOOMSBURY: SPIES, SORCERERS AND SCIENTISTS, with Groove Pilkington, creator and janitor, and Ross MacFarlane, Investigate Supervisor at the Wellcome Store.
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MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER
2-3PM, OCCULT ATLAS: ALEISTER CROWLEY AT THE WARBURG Commence
Assume at the strategic entrance of the Warburg Commence, Academic world of London, Woburn Count, WC1H 0AB (map).
A for one person show of the Gerald Yorke Scrapbooks on Aleister Crowley at the Warburg Commence with librarian Philip Callow and artists Suzanne Treister Groove Pilkington, dramatist of "Phantasm Men", "Far Out", and Unusual Attractor overlord; perpetrator Alison Gill (London, UK) and photographer/independent literary Shannon Taggart (Brooklyn, USA).
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FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER
6.30-9PM, ANTHROPOMORPHIC TAXIDERMY: WALTER POTTER Pilfer Tolerate Role
Break Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Back-to-back, 21 Academic world Toll road, WC1E 6DE (map)
Tonight, fascinate Pat Morris, dramatist of the new book "Walter Potter's Odd Foundation of Taxidermy" (Constable and Robinson, 2013) at The Break Museum for a document on the life and work of the iconic Victorian anthropomorphic taxidermist and museologist Walter Potter. Tailing the tittle-tattle motivation be a premiere of "The Walter Potter Determined" by musicians The Redress Tuesday Thrust, screenings of Potter coupled shorts, and a Potter work blaze. Books motivation be held for sale as well as signing and munchies motivation be served.
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2-DAY Chatter
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SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
RECLAIMING SPECTACLE: A TWO-DAY Chatter
Mare Clinic, Balcony, Bloomsbury, WC1N 1JD (Map)
"The Council for Odd People" motivation receive to a mass with this two day consultation addressing the invention of sight. Subject see the full activities beneath. To download a shorter programme as a PDF, ask crack award. For outstanding information about each chatterer, believe a expose at our participants page.
Tickets are lb20 for the full weekend, lb12 for one day. Snap award to buy tickets.
Naturally, the word sight refers to an reveal that is recurring for the expression it creates. In nineteenth- and twentieth-century award, sight has been habitually described as at the same time inviting, misleading and quick, but enhanced all as the domination of independence media, use and adherence, which reduces the upper crust to listeners by devotee neutralisation. From this elitist view the audiences for glasses embrace been described as still clients whilst the group of inhabit creating favorable is rarely addressed. We choose to a short time ago ask the very opponent amongst show (or message about) and the stage. How one can avidly make sense of and interpret procedural glasses and how can the limits amongst looking and work be blurred: So can we learn from an meet up with performers, facts and spaces that produce spectacles? Can counter-spaces and interfering critiques be created?
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SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER
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10.00 REGISTRATION
10.30 Respond to Accommodation
Aaron Beebe (Coney Island Museum), Joanna Ebenstein (Morbid Anatomy), Petra Lange-Berndt (Preserved!), Groove Pilkington (Unusual Attractor).
Splendid CULTURES (MODERATED BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN, Morbid ANATOMY)
11.15 RICHARD BARNETT, Warfare Guy, WELLCOME TRUST: ALL THE FUN OF THE Fair
Richard Barnett's tittle-tattle motivation realize the story of the fair. This is a story of abruptly encounters, gaudy pleasures, and the (short-lived) breakdown of the bonds of everyday life. We motivation get our feet dusty at medieval patronal fairs, divide at Victorian freaks and strongmen, and savour the neon and candyfloss of expound funfairs. We motivation expose for traces of a pre-Christian f?te culture, and put to the test what this endeavour reveals about worried attitudes towards the very notion of tradition. And we motivation end by asking: Who are the true modern inheritors of the ferias spiritus?
12.00 Discrete
12.15 Reservoir discussion: subconscious Splendid, Collecting the Splendid
This panel motivation international relations a bulk of incredible practices. Speech motivation believe place amongst artists who dabble in the incredible and archival and museum professionals faced with looking following and caring for the remnants of incredible practices and facts with, at period, thick-skinned histories. Player BRIAN CATLING turns fashionable a Cyclops using the special effects of latex rubber masks; artistic duo CLAIRE AND BOB HUMM similar to carnivalesque false piety such as the luxuriousness rites of Hasting's Jack in the Green; Will FOWLER is janitor of artists' moving images at the BFI; SUBHADRA DAS is janitor of UCL's biomedical Command CARLA VALENTINE works as janitor of Barts Pathology Museum.
13.30 Lunch Discrete
14.30 Simon Werrett, Lecturer, Science and Machinery Studies, UCL: 'Fireworks: Subsequently the Bang!'
There's faraway outstanding to fireworks than meets the eye. We use fireworks today for revels, but in the exterior fireworks had tons nothing like uses. This tittle-tattle motivation blaze how fireworks were recycled for incredible deep and devotee festivals in European history, as tools of people on voyages of traveling around, as individual parlour-games and as ominous weapons for radicals and rioters. Look on served tons ends. Nominated the way, fireworks moved scientists, artists, and poets and provided models for all kinds of inventions that embrace become part of the modern world. The gift of these glasses baffle in everything from home-lighting to space traveling around.
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Singular BODIES (MODERATED BY MATT LODDER, ART HISTORIAN)
15.45 Robert Mills, Lecturer, Proof of Art, UCL: talking Heads, or, A Fable of Two Clerics'
Nearly the appointment 1000, two churchmen, Gerbert of Aurillac (following Pope Sylvester II) and his expound and erstwhile foe Abbo of Fleury became attached with tales of talking heads. Gerbert is the nationalized of the story, accused of commerce a examiner that magically issues prophesies and leads to his critical fold down. Abbo is the dramatist of the story, a gossip commentary the martyrdom of St Edmund of East Anglia, whose examiner astonishingly announces its image to the king's subjects following its removal from his vastness by gory Danes. This tittle-tattle motivation use these stories as the starting dash for an suffering of the experience of talking heads in the Core Ages, paying blockade attention to the motif's ambivalent associations. Positioned on the ambiguous borderland amongst magic and incredulity, unaffected and lethargic, image and idol, medieval and modern, talking heads speak in tons nothing like voices.
16.30 Balance MACLEHOSE, Lecturer IN Proof OF SCIENCE AND Remedy, UCL: Vestiges OF JESUS FORESKIN
17.15 Discrete
17.30 Ross MacFarlane, Investigate Supervisor, Wellcome Library: 'Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the 'Freaks' of the Wellcome Store
Work or entertainment? Highlighting handbills and journals, postcards and posters, this tittle-tattle motivation earth fashionable the exposing world of the freakshow, as seen sooner than the collections of the Wellcome Store.
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SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
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NONHUMAN Spectacles (MODERATED BY PETRA LANGE-BERNDT, Lecturer, Proof OF ART, UCL)
10.00 'The Micro-Spectacular'
We motivation go underground the films "An Enveloping Violation "(2008) by perpetrator TESSA Farmer, and "Serenading to Spiders" (2012) by perpetrator ELEANOR MORGAN. Being Farmer engages in point endeavor openness of dead insects and scary pale fairies, Morgan tries to attract a living spider by singing part to the animal.
Afterwards, BERGIT ARENDS (Superintendent), GAVIN Chock-a-block (Manager Superintendent, Hymenoptera, Immature Proof Museum), CATRIONA MCARA (Investigate Guy in Cultural Vision, Academic world of Huddersfield) and ELEANOR MORGAN (Player) motivation chatter the consequence that strange crawlies and parasites embrace on us and how artists embrace been addressing the micro-spectacular come to light.
11.15 Tim Cockerill, perpetrator and zoologist: 'The Flea Circus: The Least amount Suggest on Secure
"the lot our bedbugs are harnessed. You don't believe any outstanding out than you bring in yourself' "(From a sign in John Torp's American Flea Exhibition, 1950s)
Rattle up and see the world-famous acting out fleas! For advanced 150 lifetime, audiences embrace been paying their sixpences to be flabbergasted by whole troupes of real, up, acting out bedbugs. Confine it, or not? In this tittle-tattle, Tim Cockerill motivation right mind you that the flea impartial, until very soon, was a 100% pure sight, through up of up bedbugs pulling chariots, riding tricycles and even strife duels with simply crafted petite swords. Rule out how the Flea Exhibition 'Professors' fed their bedbugs, which board claim spelled the demise of the Flea Exhibition in the 1950s, and how a flea can make a Victorian peer of the realm believe all of her clothes off. Tim motivation teach you how - subsequently you embrace found your bedbugs - to put in and train them yourself, so you can start a flea impartial of your very own! As soon as some lifetime researching the history and techniques of the flea impartial, Tim has stripped early disregarded video recording and photos of the bedbugs in action. Tim has both tracked down the rest leftover Flea Exhibition Professors, who embrace taught him the secret techniques of flea training. All of this and outstanding is included in the tittle-tattle you can insubstantial to see, but cannot insubstantial to miss!
12.00 Discrete
12.15 Dietmar R"ubel, Mentor of Art Proof and Vision, Art Academy Dresden: 'Blobjects: Void can point it!'
Splendid B-Movie terrible nature scenarios label us to momentously conduct with anxieties in relate to suspension facts earlier material subjectivity. R"ubel motivation see the profile "The Gobbet" from 1958, a terrible nature profile classic, in which a gooey, life-forms-devouring independence from exterior space is brutally growing and spreading. Out of this made-up story in the exterior decades high-profile human-thing-hybrids embrace been developed: So called "Blobjects" advertize from the realms of art, design and architecture fashionable voters spaces and choose our typical lives. As one can spot in Burt Bacharach's strategic crown song: "Attention of 'The Gobbet, it creeps / And leaps and glides and slides / On the cross the establish / Unerringly sooner than the access / And all encompassing the wall / A splotch, a feature / Be polite of The Gobbet."
13.00 Lunch Discrete
Association AND Look on (MODERATED BY Groove PILKINGTON, Poet AND Superintendent)
14.00 Chiara Ambrosio, filmmaker and illustrative artist: 'Tarantism: Step, Firm footing and Exorcism in Southern Italy'
Tarantism is a form of caper matter that illustrates the well along hostility amongst Pagnism and Catholicism in the South of Italy. Its move and come out of - from Greek and Roman period, sooner than the wish ages and renewal, unfasten sooner than to the modern day - traces a story that transcends the history of remedy and religion to convene a endless and arduous tell about the devotee and socio-economical outline of a land, and the continued dispute for publish and liberation in an extremely emotional and unadorned alight, all physical and psychological. This tittle-tattle motivation scrutinize Tarantism as a ritualistic sight that, sooner than caper and music, offers a form of opposition and continuation of expert ending histories beliefs and outline.
14.45 Shannon Taggart, photographer and nonaligned literary, environmental Mediumship, Psychic Association and the Lair for Ectoplasm'
The handiwork of film making coincided with the procedural traveling around of a humane of barely visible armed. Disembodied call was through feasible with the telegraph, the power of electricity was harnessed, radiation was bare, x-rays were created and worlds within worlds were subconscious revealed via microscopes and telescopes. Here this era of expectation, film making was recycled in procedural attempts to blaze look after and morale, authenticate the period of a widespread life power and cogitate testimony of the material soul. This recital motivation begin with an generalization of in the future camera-less photographic test amid the improvement of what is now intimate as the Kirlian film making formula. We motivation consequently set up a Kirlian timepiece for a fair and everyone motivation embrace a relax to get their hand photographed.
15.30 Discrete
16.00 Reservoir conversation, operational Occultism'
Like CECILE DUBUIS (artistic gothic librarian, UCL), CHRISTINA HARRINGTON (Higher of Treadwell's Bookshop), SHANNON TAGGART (photographer/independent literary), ROBERT WALLIS (Mentor of Visual Culture, Richmond Academic world).
17.15 James Kennaway, Proof of Remedy and Illness, Durham University: psychotherapy vs. Mysticism
Senior the exterior two hundred lifetime tons psychiatrists embrace unavailable a dim view of religion, and embrace attempted to show it, and especially its outstanding exaggerated and mystical aspects, as essentially an turn of phrase of types of mental condition such as dismay or schizophrenia. The lives of prophets, saints and deep leaders embrace been reinterpreted in logical requisites. Happy and mystical deep experiences, from Voodoo ceremonies to Pentecostal speaking in tongues, embrace been diagnosed as pathological delusions. Thought of Jesus as a paranoid schizophrenic and Mohammed as a psychopath stream. This tittle-tattle motivation expose at some of the strangest examples of this experience and see its causes, uses and restrictions.
18.00 Unmovable Speech
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