Fari Bradley

!Women Art Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:18:55 PST

Lynn Hershman Leeson reveals how the Feminist Art Movement transformed the art and culture of our times in her 43 year long project, the documentary !Women Art Revolution. This recording was taken at the Q & A, done over skype on screen at the ICA, where Human Rights Watch screened the documentary as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in March 2011. The film has been taken up by Zeitgeist Films.
Lynn's explains elements of her film making process and some of her opinions here in this 20 minute Q and A.

Audio audio audio

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:23:37 PST

Producing a radio show is not enough anymore you are required by the hungry minds of the on-demand generation to archive as well. This is fun to share but is a real bane, detracting from production time for your next show. Those people furnished with both a salary to do so and production teams are not allowed to complain, so I say, rather they should spare a thought for us who do it for the love. Talking of love, here's some sounds I am rather attached to.

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~ May the Holidays Bring You Peace ~

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:53:51 PST

~ And a joyful New Year 2012 ~

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Fari B

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Artist Terry Smith - A Short Film

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:18:28 PST

Terry Smith from Fari Bradley

Seminal British artist Terry Smith discusses his work in this short film I created. From cutting into the plaster of derelict buildings to bleaching away words he has written on paper, Smith's work is medium-led and singular in style. Recently his choral projects have taken him across the world, yet he continues to hunt domestic spaces in which to sculpt his iconic plaster cutouts on the walls. In this interview Smith discusses his process and what makes the work dear to him.

I conducted this interview just before Smith's first major retrospective, a landmark show currently still on at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until January 21st 2012. Please note this film is composed of highlights, there is a longer, far more in depth version of the interview (audio only, as broadcast) on the Resonance104.4fm podcast page.

Amnesty International Fundraiser Gig

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:13:20 PST

Saturday 2nd December

From 13:00 until 18:00 we'll be at the King's Head raising money for Amnesty, in recognition of their work in Iran. I'm compering. The event was put together by Roshi, who's cousin was beaten so hard she lost hearing in one ear, imprisoned and later freed for peacefully protesting the degradation of the gorgeous lake Ormieh in Iran. The third largest salt lake in the world, both the lake and the rivers that run from it have dried up by 60%. Read more about it here

"For this great organisation who I feel a personal gratitude to after their support towards the recent release of my second cousin Faranak Farid. Faranak was arrested in early September after attending a demonstration over the drying of lake Orumieh."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/05/iran-greens-lake-orumieh-shrinks

5.20PM- Gagarin (acclaimed electronica from long term Pere Ubu and Nico collaborator)

4.30PM- The Rude Mechanicals (avant rock wonderfulness)

3.30PM- Roshi Feat. Pars Radio (Welsh-Iranian ethereal electro-pop)

2.50PM- Grassy Noel (poet of politics)

2.10PM- Matt Scott (accordion gorgeousness)

1.30PM- Tim Eveleigh (sensitive songs from Croydon)

Hosted by Fari B of 6 Pillars To Persia/ResonanceFM fame who will also offer Iranian disco DJ interludes.

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The Most Known Artist Whose Work You've Never Seen...

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:01:34 PST

One of the Turbine Hall works, during the building of Tate Modern

TERRY SMITH PARALLAX

SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER

THE JOHN HANSARD GALLERY, SOUTHAMPTON

The first comprehensive retrospective of works by UK artist Terry Smith who since 1978, has produced major projects for the Tate Modern, British Museum, all over the world.

Despite the size and breadth of these projects Smith's work - often incidental site-specific pieces or cuttings directly into the wall plaster of buildings - is rarely seen.

One reason for this is that many of the works are largely undocumented performances, or temporary pieces in building sites where there is limited, if any, access. Also Smith concentrates regularly on projects abroad: Venuzuela, Palestine, Mexico, Albania, Brazil etc. Significantly Smith's exhibitions are usually as part of a group exhibition, or a solo show focused on one work, so this is the first time he brings together a cross section of all his works spanning his entire career: video, audio, sculpture, installation, drawings and interventions in once place.

Winner of the Paul Hamlyn award, Smith had a communist upbringing and his work is at times renegade, with resonances of the London streets where he grew up in, his love of music, spontaneity and the challenges that come with experiment. Detectible also are the overtones of socialism in his Free Art School projects and certain more emotionally and ethically driven work. At Frieze this year Adam Curtis implored the artists of today to shock him with kindness, empathy and such like qualities. Perhaps he is one of many who still haven't heard of Smith, the artist's artist.

Smith's artist statement reads: "I have written many statements, all of them seem OK at the time, but when I reread them months later, I can not help but get depressed. To spare myself this misery, all I can say is, make up your own mind, whatever you think is true, probably is."

To hear my recent interview with Terry Smith click the picture below: a detail from My Shortcomings As An Artist, 2007 by Smith. The interview will be broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM Wednesday 16th November at 11am.

Musical fireworks....

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:22:18 PDT

It's that time again. That noisy time.

Free Lab Radio - Sax Monkey Fireworks by Fari on Mixcloud

Frieze Art Fair Broadcasts 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:55:02 PDT

Two podcasts of radio shows produced during the Frieze 2011 week, here in London. The first two of five shows looking at Frieze, these in particular are panel discussions on what it means to galleries and arts bodies across London. The following three were interviews and pastiches, soon to be podcast also.

Episode 1

Episode 2

A Silent Swaying Breath - Audio Release for the Riot-Affected

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:06:47 PDT

Happy to report I've contributed audio to this very thoughtfully composed CD, the proceeds of which will go to people whose livelihoods were affected by the unmitigated riots across London not so long ago. The audio is from one of my late journeys on boat and foot while working at the Venice Biennial this year.

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Harry Towell (Spheruleus) and Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq) have come together to curate an album created "by the people, for the people", to raise funds for those that has been affected by the recent unrest that ravaged cities across the country.

The album, a statement and monument to collaboration and community, brings together works selected from short unedited recordings gleaned from artists, musicians and the general public across the globe.

Spheruleus and Pleq sensitively weave together an eclectic selection of field recordings, samples, spoken word pieces and instrumentation, creating momentous emotional landscapes for the listener, delicate, tender moments and most of all, a yearning tumult of haunting quietude: a silent, swaying breath.

All profits raised by sales of this album go towards assisting those that have lost their homes and livelihoods and to provideopportunities for philanthropy, creative expression and collaboration within local community projects.

OUR CHARITIES:
The Capital Community Foundation
Big Brother Big Sister
Catch 22

Official Video to 'Sutures' by www.czlowiek.tv
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQuFYQWKVg

Released 17 October 2011
Assembled and produced by Harry Towell (Spheruleus) and Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq)

Curated by SoundFjord, Harry Towell and Bartosz Dziadosz
Mastered by Byron Felt
Artwork by Laurence Moxon Byrne
Design by A Company Of Enthusiasts

Broadcasts - Frieze 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:28:00 PDT

To mark the prestigious time of my birthday, oh sorry I mean...The Frieze I'll be producing one radio show per day on the Frieze Art Fair. October is increasingly becoming the month of what is now being called 'art week', and soon most likely art-month in London.

After 6 years of participation from within the fair this is the first year we are taking stock and observing from without. My, it's calm!

Interestingly the Frieze begins to look a lot better from the outside, what with the not-for-profit projects and the satellite events lighting up London like no Fashion week could. Why does London not have a biennial? What does this large commercial fair say about us, about the UK art scene? How if at all, are we participating and as voyeurs, what are we seeing?

These and more are the questions thrown up on tonight and tomorrow's panel discussions. Tonight from 8-9pm I'm joined, in no particular order by the director of MOT International, EBand Flow Gallery, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery and The Aubin Gallery. Tomorrow Gasworks, Camden Arts Centre and the Mica Gallery. Wednesday we may well be airing the interviews I've collected from this year's Emdash Award winner Anahita Razmi and The Frieze sculpture park curator: David Thorp. Thursday we'll be hearing from Frieze Frame participant Laure Provost and by Friday I'll have made one of those scintillating audio-tasters I've been creating over the years from The Frieze, Art Dubai, Zoo Art Fair, The Art Car Boot Fair and the like.

Syndicating Free Lab Radio to Iran

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:23:11 PDT

Our Saturday night music programme Free Lab Radio has been running for over a year now. Highlights of the first hour, a show focused on dance music, have been 80's pirate radio and Brazilian fringe icon Patrick Forge live in the studio, not to mention the reams of great and very global music thrown up by research. We've played tracks from Chile, Bosnia, Venezuela, Serbia and so on. We featured tracks by 14 year old American school kids as well as latest album releases from reputable labels. We've played tracks from computer games, composed with Baudelaire poetry, mash ups of cartoons, up tempo, down tempo - an unpublished playlist as varied as each and every one of our listeners.

The news is we've begun sending out the first half to a largely Iranian audience via the web. Pirate Radio Arazel is a well established internet station based in Canada but collating shows from all over the world. In Iran censorship is such that modern music is banned, even some forms of classical and folk music are banned and women still cannot perform in public solo. I find this interesting as although rock music and electronic dance music continues to be banned in Iran, the instruments for making said musical styles remain on sale in full view in the capital Tehran, or perhaps they imagine a classical orchestra with drum kit and electric guitar? Good for them, why not?! With internet and satellite filtering, musical styles have only reached Iran sporadically, resulting in some rather overbearing genres dominating the underground band scene in Iran, and little else coming out.

Perhaps with music stations like this going in, we'll find some more exciting and innovative styles coming out. Click the image below to grab the first episode.

Summer's End - Eerie Dearie

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:18:23 PST

I thought: "When doubt and ambition fall with the inevitability of the amber leaf in mid-autumn's roar, the still, searing spadiceous dawn pervades our minds until we are once more able to steel ourselves for the hidden delights of a winter in black and white."

Not been a creative month but some periods are for intake, others for outpours.
Here's some of the art I went out to see face to face around London this month that caught my imagination.

Asian identity in Britain - a rather lifeless show at Inivia

Ghanian man contemplates hidden symbols - October Gallery


Anonymous at beach, Bexhill UK

Condom Holder by Lebanese designer - Mosaic Rooms


Stair Bookshelf - internet research

Six Pillars Newsletter Late Summer

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:38:33 PDT

Hallo to September!
After a busy summer of live events, we begin the wind down into Autumn with some giveaways.

5 Free Tickets - Currently we have free entry for five to a well-informed discussion on the role of literature in revolution, with a focus on banned book The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. This event takes place on September 6th in London, tickets are otherwise £5. Click HERE or all details on www.sixpillars.org

Cinema tickets - one pair remains for 3 Women, a film by the acclaimed female director Manijeh Hekmat, and starring Niki Karimi, screening September 5th in London at Cine Lumiere. Institute Français. Click HERE or all details on www.sixpillars.org

PLUS
A new podcast is up on a cross section of invented folklores: interviews from UAE and music http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/7309

Forthcoming shows:

Monday 5th September
A live interview with curator Jaishri Abichandani and Samira Abbassy: Artist, Co Founder & Director of Public programs at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY, USA) about 'Shapeshifters and Aliens', an exhibition at Rossi & Rossi gallery in aid of the Omid Foundation, helping abused young women in Iran rebuild their lives. Aliens and Shapreshifters features work by four female Iranian artists living in the USA: Samira Abbassy, Pooneh Maghazehe, Katayoun Vaziri and Anahita Vossoughi.

Monday 12th September
An interview with Barbara Schwepcke, from reputable publishing house Haus Publishing responsible for the English copy of the 'The Colonel' by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi.

Monday 19th September
An interview with the esteemed Sufi dancer Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam.

Monday 26th September
'Conflict Kitchen' is the only US restaurant offering food exclusively from countries that the USA is in conflict with. We talk to the founder multi-disciplinary artist Jon Rubin about this and his other project 'Never Been to Tehran'.

Catch these live at 13.30 on Mondays, repeated Sundays 20.30 on any normal week.

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Fari B

www.sixpillars.org
www.faribradley.co.uk

Mid August FULL LUNAR LUNACY

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:38:18 PDT

Tonight from 11 to midnight we sprinkle the airwaves with the dots and dashes that make up raucous pixellated noise from Belgium, a travelling circus from Barcelona and hyped sound from UK and more....but UK, be warned it's a FULL MOON tonight...streets might be madder than ever ;o)

Don't Feel Ashamed

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:27:02 PDT

This live piece, performed on Sound Art Radio, Devon would go well with the paper I presented at Rebranding Feminism Conference last year. Have a listen, and see if you can imagine what the paper dealt with. Most of the sounds are made with my mouth.

Don't Feel Ashamed by FariB

Over the Flat

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:46:06 PDT

I decided to write a poem about leaving my flat of four years, interesting to me how much of what I will miss is based around sounds and dynamics...

She will miss the red brick chimney tops
the converging bird duos, green leafy patches pointing to the blue
and speckled sky which is
sometimes pink, or a double rainbow once she caught from this view
even the distant council block she will miss
reflecting the burning sunset back at her
and the nearby old jam factory chimney
a tribute to hand-operated industry
now flats too expensive to enjoy
like this one, that she will miss
no more office roof parties to look out onto amused
no more council flat barbeques where
African women sing to themselves on late Saturday afternoons
as they turn butcher's meat over the convereted oil barrels
and their children shout orders at each other in mock games
she was part of this cross section of space where
a lifelong smoker frequents only that corner of his garden
to convene daily with his beloved solace
and will so miss waking up to seagulls spilled over from a choppy river
the dropouts in the park below
excitedly expressing their drunkeness in unified banter on early afternoons
till the community police ask them to move on and
the lady who tends the public garden with her mug of tea perched atop a post
the children in pyjamas who speak secretly on early evenings from window to window
when they should be in bed
near the council flats where a man once killed his children
because his mind was in so much turmoil
he forgot his purpose, forgot his role
the neighbours all were silent and lay flowers
and the jasmine still overgrows the wall
the honeysuckle still offers up flowers each summer
only yards from where a boy was killed in broad daylight
with a machete by kids his age
only yards from where another crime once took place
and she still walks home
because they are mixed here
they know
there is a little bit of each community represented here
they balance each other out
they live side by side
reacting to the same waves of news
looking upon the same moon in the same sky
tending the same streets
frequenting the same spaces
hearing each other's sounds
familiar with each other's faces,
now no more. She will go elsewhere and pick up on other traces
and here it will all go on
better but as before.

Substring

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:21:20 PDT

A recording of a performance at the Delfina Foundation this August, to Launch the magazine #3

Substring by FariB

Curating Spoken Easternisms

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:33:02 PDT

Nights of Live Music This Month + A Remix Competition

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:17:03 PDT

In conjunction with the Mayor of London's Shubbak festival we host the following events:

July 15th Easternisms
Middle Eastern sonic arts. A touch of avant garde, sound art and mapping - with piano compositions by John Kameel Farah, a performance by composer Amir Sadeghi Konjani and a soundscape by Fari Bradley.
Advance tickets available soon from www.sixpillars.org

REMIX COMPETITION
Entee has given us an .mp3 for download - so alert all your singer, rapper and musician friends a remix competition is afoot! Details here.

Entee - Logic of War (UK Grime)

Check out what Behrang sounds like.

Last month we gave out a pair of tickets for a Sufi tanbour event. Read the interview with one of the band members here.

Coming up we'll be broadcasting a week of evening radio shows from 24th July 8-9pm everyday around Middle Eastern debate and culture. Details to follow.

Lyrical Easternisms - July 12th Shubbak

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:52:41 PDT

Our next London event....

Voted no.4 in the top 10 things not to miss during the festival by Songlines Magazine.

Advance tickets HERE

Free Lab Radio Tonight - Summer Stunner

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:51:13 PDT

Here's a track for Exit. Might play it tonight on Free Lab Radio...
Resonance 104.4fm for us 7 million Londoners, www.resonancefm.com for the rest.
11-midnight
TU PEUX LE CROIRE by Fari B by FariB

From an Igloo on Stage Inside a Fortress on the River Danube in Serbia Just Outside the EU

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:50:08 PDT

Smashing it up soon in Novi Sad again, hear the Resonance 104.4fm tribute to some of the bands performing last year.

Free Lab Radio - Exit Festival Special 2010 by Fari

Signs of Life and Death in Venice

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:37:55 PDT

The streets of Venice tell interesting stories. While the protest movement thrives and politics take centre stage, it seems we are living in the early 1900's as posters of monks and sweet old nonnas fill wall spaces where they once no doubt passed.

Translation:

"On the 4th June, embraced by Sister Death was: "Alfonso (Aldo) Manfren". The day and church of the funeral is given with an open invitation.

"Let's snuff out the nuclear programme. NO to fraud, YES to the referendum."

"Let's stay human. The freedom flotilla is leaving for Gaza and the Caravan of Ya Basta (Enough is Enough) returns from Tunisia."

"Nuclear programme: Let's put a cross. Let's end nuclear energy."

"The 30th May, lost to her loved ones is: Gnoato Gina." Widowed: Voltolina, 97 years old." Cute name Gnoato! Must come from gnosis, to know...

"Referendum, 12 and 13th June, Vote Yes. Water, should not be sold."

I found all this quite invigorating, after all, it was in this week that the Scarafaggio, Berlusconi, was voted out in three major cities for the first time. The Italians themselves were excited, and a light was there for them at the end of a long tunnel of swindling, lies and degradation.

Lebanese Interventionism, Venice Biennial 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:49:41 PDT

A guerrilla handbag was commissioned of me by the curator of the 2009 Lebanese pavilion curators, that we might jointly project Lebanese artworks from around public spaces in Venice during the Biennial opening week.

I prepared by gutting an ordinary bag and giving it the limbs and portals it needed to hold a small projector. It was the intention to disguise the bag as a distinctly Italian object, using similar materials I use for my sound sculpture. Since the sculptures are about bringing the sound alive to you (in fact enlivening the part of you that responds to the sound), I felt the two branches were perfectly in tune; the Venice interventions being concerned with the appropriation of space and the mental state that makes something art, and the mental positioning we adopt that makes a country part of our identity.

So a team of us went out to meet Venice with "17 Unsent Postcards", films by the artists who had been selected to show at Biennial 2011 before the Lebanese national pavilion fell through. What was the result? One Neapolitan we met allowed me to project onto his back as he walked along, another Italian group stopped and during their inquiry one of them told me not only had he never seen anything from Lebanon in his life, he had never been inside an art gallery to see any art. We met an Venetian who had a Lebanese great-grandfather he was overjoyed, he said to both us and his entourage, to find this presence on the streets. It was super dynamics with Venice's dark waterways and worn walls complete with aeons of public communiques really creating the perfect setting. A culture where people do not hide behind car windows and highways, where everyone is walking at the same level, the same pace, the same routes....but still draw visible lines between the haves and have nots, and host the art world's most exclusive show of wealth and position.

Raven Row Show

noreply@blogger.com (Fari Bradley) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:29:09 PDT

I've adapted this concept for a sound sculpture showing in Raven Row, London opens this week.

We'll be performing live there with the Resonance Radio Orchestra and recreating the legal case of Walter Marchetti in Italian language, a piece which he set to electronic music back on the 60s.

Tahmineh's Fancy from Fari Bradley on Vimeo.