£8 advance / £12 on the door
Tickets: wegottickets

Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist Jaap Blonk presents the UK premiere of his absurb performance YappiScope. It is Jaap Blonk's show with visual projections.

It is in ongoing progress, new inventions being added frequently.
It contains short videos, scores he wanders through,
interactive animations, live soundtracks to silent films
and other new multi-media work, with a lot of extended voice work as well as live electronics.

“Blonk’s avant-garde performances channel the provocatively pioneering nonsense of Dadaism. His work is tremendously complex, but his brilliance makes it easy to think the opposite.”

San Francisco Weekly

£10 advance / £12 on the door
Tickets: wegottickets

Yan Jun is a musician and poet, born in Lanzhou in 1973 and currently based in Beijing, He works with field recording, voice, electronic feedback and body movements on his many conceptual projects and live performances. Yan will perform solo and ‘some noises with no sound’ with Dirty Electronics.

“i wish i was a piece of field recording.” – Yan Jun

Dirty Electronics (aka John Richards) focuses on shared experiences and critical making. His work is rooted in sound, and combines music, performance art, electronics and graphic design.

For this event, a piece written for Dirty Electronics by Pauline Oliveros will be performed feat. Kit Banbury, Aimee Efemey, John Jenkins and Louie Perillo. Natalie Kay-Thatcher’s illustrated score of the piece will also be exhibited in the book shop.

Thomas Carroll & Jo Christman

Thomas Carroll releases music under his own name and Pressure Cooker Relief Valve; runs Free Music Lessons gig series in Leeds. Has collaborated with Territorial Gobbing, Mia Windsor, AJ Stillabower.
Jo Christman's explorations of hybridity and boundary through noisy electronics. Organiser for Float and Huddersfield Improviser Social, Researcher at University of Huddersfield developing approaches to hybrid creative and technical practice.

Last night I met Max Gold. This was unexpected as I was at the party celebrating my 100th birthday, invisible to all, feeling sad and sorry for myself (because I could see that I was not in good shape and not long for this world). But I was happy to hear the nice things friends and carers in the care home were saying about me, and enjoying the kind words of (very important) people I had never met before, paying me an unexpected visit. I have had this dream before, several times, but never with Max making an appearance. Max can see me though (in my dream)! Max can see the invisible me (not the me, sitting at a table full of food, shaking hands, exchanging pleasantries). I know this because Max crept up behind me (the invisible me) to deliver a message to my right ear, ‘The fear of loss is a strong motivator… Stronger than the opportunity to gain or change…’ I remember distinctly thinking I have heard these words before but couldn’t place where and when. I looked behind me and couldn’t see a soul but still whispered, ‘Max?’ (Somehow, I knew it was Max Gold who had spoken, a figure or entity that I associate with the art collective Reactor.) Again, with words familiar but not placeable, Max spoke, and with increasing conviction, saying this fear (of loss) was not their own fear. Max was in the zone. Max was the prize. Normally this recurring dream of mine ends after guests praise my stoic acceptance of a life lived less successfully than I might have hoped for, shedding tears at my constant ploughing of a furrow no matter what, which brought reassurance to everyone who counted me as a friend or acquaintance. This part of the dream – the best bit – did not happen. Instead, everyone turned their attention to Max, now materialised as a golden egg (though this description does not do justice to the Gold One – egg-shaped with tentacles, a flickering mouth and rippling, golden skin). On viewing this apparition, I wondered whether this was my dream or, indeed, whether I was in Max’s dream? Was Max in my head, or was I in Max’s head, or were both of us in a stream of thoughts in another head. Or maybe Reactor had hacked my unconscious?

Ivan Poe is a third person find-your-way puzzle adventure following this cuboid character as they keep truckin' on through the Cosmic Soup

Please feel free to share gameplay on social media and tag us so we can reshare. 

TESTCARD was a programme of artists moving-image that takes the format of a 24-hour TV variety show which included a combination of live and pre-recorded material to draw on the history of radical and public broadcasting, open publishing and transmission. The first TESTCARD event took the model of mid-late 1990’s and early 2000s popular TV variety programmes like ‘MTV’, ‘Diggit’, ‘TV with Ray Cathode’ and ‘Live and Kicking’, to create a single streamed event that counters the culture of on demand content and engaged in the history of artists' DIY broadcasting and transmission projects including TVX/London Art Lab, Paper Tiger TV,  Radio Anti and Convex TV.

Reactor took the graveyard slot(s) at either end of the broadcast. Viewers could turn on, tune in and drop out with our TV TESTCARD, fall asleep to our soothing tunes, allow the messages to wash over them, and wake up for the punchline!

It is happening again.
Here, the Gold Ones were.
We’ve heard that before.
But this time it was flatter.

So, as we were saying.
It’s an original story.
No, this is an origin story.
Everyone already knows this.

Everywhen, here and there.
This is what we always said.
Mis-shaped and not in proportion.
As though seen for the first time.

Across 2022 we're part of the IMT Digital Residency with Orphan Drift, Reece Griffiths & Ellie Towers, Bijan Moosavi, I. Nakhla, Frankie Roberts, and Rieko Whitfield.

If you want to delve behind-the-scenes and experience the processes involved in the artistic practice of seven artists/artist collectives, check out IMT Gallery to receive monthly 'art releases'.

The residency is coalescing around key threads, built in collaboration with the resident artists and narrated by IMT, including embodiment, fictioning, site-specificity and psycho-geography, and will develop a range of online and physical events across the year.

A taste for the old school is now settling in under your skin and you stick on a video, a trailer invites you to follow the Gold Ones. Reactor’s alternative histories bring new mythologies and approaches to living, you look around your apartment imagining interior decor, perhaps even a kitchen refit. Then a very self-assured voice offers you the chance to boost your luck.

A performance-installation and celebration of collective making, group work, physicalised algorithms, emergent-instruments-created-on-the-spot, messy materials and dirty sound. The group will build a performance environment using sound objects, found materials, electricity, DIY synthesisers, magnetism, flickering light and uncertain action.

Reactor and Plastique Fantastique have been talking about producing a performance fiction for some time.

We/they (Reactor/Plastique Fantastique) said that there would be a get-together to discuss this performance friction at some point in the future.

We (Reactor) called them and said now might be the time.

A live performance roll-thru of the Ivan Poe video game, as this cuboid character keeps truckin’ on through the Cosmic Soup.

The Ivan Poe game has been developed in collaboration by Reactor, Bruce Asbestos and Jez Noond. For this event they will be joined by Kitty Clark, Mark Jackson and Jamie Sutcliffe to discuss video games, performance streaming and the myriad overlaps.

This event is part of Here, the Gold Ones meet, a residency and new video-installation by the art collective Reactor currently on show at Bonington Gallery, which documents the lives of a cohort of higher spiritual beings known as The Gold Ones.

What’s happening in the Cosmic Care Home today?

Tune into the CCH 24hr TV transmission. Scrolling through the numerous cameras in the Home, the Helping Hands choose what you can see, around the clock. These cycles of slow-rest, care, break-fast, and well … what you can see now, is that time for the Gold Ones travels differently.

This event is part of Here, the Gold Ones meet, a residency and new video-installation by the art collective Reactor currently on show at Bonington Gallery, which documents the lives of a cohort of higher spiritual beings known as the Gold Ones.

Remote viewing provides access to the Gold Ones’ Dummies.

What can be seen here is an increasingly incessant transmission from within the Cosmic Care Home. As the Gold Ones move through cycles of activity – rest, care, affirmation, exercise, games, and treatment – we get to know each of them, their relations and woo-woo beliefs.

This event is part of Here, the Gold Ones meet, a residency and new video-installation at Bonington Gallery, which documents the lives of a cohort of higher spiritual beings known as The Gold Ones.

Residency punctuated by live events streamed from the gallery. Book 'ere to visit the Cosmic Care Home between 17-29 May 2021.

[COSMIC SOUP – RECORDED MESSAGE STARTS AGAIN]

Can you hear me?
Yes we can hear you quite clearly now.
It’s good to speak with you again.
What is it like there?
Here, there are endlessly repeating cosmic planes.
Visions of the past and future are accessible.
That’s how we remember it anyway.
So, we’re projecting now.
You’ll need to read between the lines.
Piece together the glimpses. The pieces.
You’re about to arrive.

[INTERFERENCE – LINE CUTS OFF  – IMMENSE, BUBBLING, COLOURFUL PATTERNS]

[LUCK BOOSTING HAND SIGN LOOPS IN THE BACKGROUND
– MAX GOLD ON THE PHONE, LOUNGING WITH HIS NIKEYS UP ON THA DESK]

It’s really about luck guys,
Look guys
You wanna know who’s in control here?
Who?
Well me, Max Gold.
But, wurst, let me introduce you,
To the other Ones, you know,
Dead-End-Ivan, Rat Puppet, Piece-of-Peel,
Blah, blah, blah,
You get the idea.
But it’s really all about me,
Max Gold!

[SLAMS DOWN PHONE – TURNS TO CAMERA
– DELIVERS OPENING MONOLOGUE]

Welcome to another Max Gold Broadcast. What can be seen here, is an increasingly incessant transmission – from within the Cosmic Care Home. We’re here, and there’s a whole lotta Gold Ones going on. So Max is gonna pull some strings. Show’ya around. And to be sure, he knows this place like the back of his hand!

Each Sunday at 8pm we're streaming 'Roll-Thrus' of the Ivan Poe video game LIVE on Twitch and Facebook. Join us and tell us what you think. Every fortnight, we'll also be sharing public links to new beta-versions of different realms within the game on itch.io - and if that's not enough, you can also wishlist the full game on Steam.

Ivan Poe is a Rolla-Cuboid-Furred-Dimenshun, Chaotic-Roleplay-Cum-Find-Your-Way-Adventure Video Game.

This Sunday we will be sharing the first public links to download the Ivan Poe - Tannoy Level (Beta).

We will also be streaming our first 'Roll-Thru' LIVE on Twitch, Sunday 8-9pm. Join us and tell us what you think.

Ivan Poe is a Rolla-Cuboid-Furred-Dimenshun, Chaotic-Roleplay-Cum-Find-Your-Way-Adventure -- Video Game coming soon on itch.io and Steam from Reactor.

The Gold Ones have existed across time, and now reside in the Cosmic Care Home (CCH). On this higher astral plane they are cut off from a wider community, and lead a bureaucratically controlled existence, cared for by elusive 'Helping Hands'. What can be seen here, is a broadcast of The Gold Ones as they move through cycles of activity - rest, care, affirmation, breakfast, exercise, games, and treatment. Or, if and when you’re ready, Dummies can visit the CCH for a period, joining The Gold Ones in the main gathering room.

Tickets: BOOK HERE

Performing @ Rendezvous: Plastique Fantastique, Benedict Drew, Reactor, Frankie Roberts.

TEK-Life: The animal-arm is cyber-extended through the mouse-animal; the animal-object is surface-extended through the contact-microphone-animal, the animal-voice is amplified-extended through the dynamic-microphone-animal, the word-animal is double-decay-extended through the delay-pedal-animal, the animal-song is made sweet-sour-blended-extended by the mixer-animal, the animal-communication is earworm-extended through the speaker-box-animal (and all in that order). The animal-eye is light-extended through the projector-animal, the animal-sight is lens-focus-extended by the 4K-click-record-animal; the animal-brain-image is pixel-extended by the screen-animal. For TEK-ANIMAL-LIFE Rendezvous, all come together in one big loop of the fairyland of TEK-Folk. No human-masters here, only TEK-Animal-Kin!

Plastique Fantastique invites all tech-animals to: A Friends Rendezvous @ Mars Year Zero

In Polymorph Other YOU track down the villain! Travel the great spaceways of the Blue Mountain, enter the deep caverns of the Dice Cult, herald the gold-trimmed adamant platebody armour of the Runescape avatar! Obey the dictum of the TOTALLER game table! Invite your friends to explore the virtual realities of The Gold Ones!  Step into an alternative world where Edward VIII didn't abdicate and yet still married Wallis Simpson! Your mission: to search for an answer to the ever-growing threat of the Present Continuum!

The NewBridge Project, Gateshead
Free Entry | Due to limited capacity please book HERE

Join us for the de-initiation of the 11 Artist-Zealots that have been part of the project Tot-Tot-Totalalazola!. These artists have been brought together and taken on a journey through the mythos of Newcastle/Sheffield based collective TOTALLER. Their initiation into the group has taken place over several months and has included a field-trip, experimental guided meditations and the injunction to produce artworks/weapons that have been absorbed into a sculptural arsenal. On Friday 22 February they will be set free from their bonds of initiation with a public ritual that will include a presentation given by Reactor.

Video Days
Bonington Gallery
Nottingham

This special ten-hour edit of The Gold Ones will run in its entirety for the first time as part of Video Days at Bonington Gallery.

You wanna be in Martinmas?

Establish order and obliterate - be aware.

Martinmas is a...archetype.

The way we live today has never been more whatevers.

Reactor sincerely encourages those who feel ready to join the group, and take on the role of the Secret Member, to step forward urgently and present themselves for the Martinmas Interviews. There is an opening at the heart of the group that awaits, and Reactor is ready to guide you through the preparations. To apply click here.

Join us for an evening of pirated films and hillbilly moonshine

You know what this is ;-)

If you don’t know what this is, have a chat with a Rector member.

This event is free - open to Reactor members only, click here to obtain a one day membership.

A Weekend of Weird
Radar
Loughborough

Screening 10:00-17:00

For Radar, 'Weekend of Weird' Reactor present 'Day is Done', a selection of films offering interpretations and regurgitations of culture; from dancing bird-headed humanoids, to fantasy roleplay, Goths, hillbillies, mimes and demons. Each of the works use dance and performance as a backbone, reconfiguring and replacing body parts and cultural identities as required.

A Weekend of Weird
Radar
Loughborough

Performance 13:45-14:30

When Max Gold’s video transmission first came through to us, he named himself as ‘one of the Gold Ones’. After tracking Max for a period, we began filming in the space we now understand to be the Cosmic Care Home (CCH), looking through the walls that are at times transparent or listening in on voices from the other side. The place the Gold Ones inhabit resembles what we would describe as a ‘total institution’. They appear to be predominantly cut off from a wider community and lead an enclosed and bureaucratically controlled existence. Here, now, you can step inside the CCH, where the real action is, surrounded on all sides by the Five Gold Ones.

Plymouth Art Weekender
Place du Brest
Armada Way

Round and round, the Gold Ones go, watching the unruly Ivan Poe.

Get right inside the mind of a Gold One, look through the walls and floors of the Cosmic Care Home, glide down long tubes and across cosmic planes.

Frank Abbott, Bruce Asbestos, Wayne Burrows, Rebecca Lee, Alison Lloyd and Reactor will be performing at Wysing Polyphonic – Wysing Arts Centre’s yearly music festivel. They will come together in a variety of combinations to explore the lines between sound and language, sense and non-sense. Spoken and sung performances will include the Scratch Orchestra’s Georgina Cries, a forgetful cowboy, a live version of Reactor’s Peeza Peel, a John Cage song and an interpretation of songs from Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Cocu.

These performances will take place on the Studio Stage, 17:15-18:15.

Book tickets for the festival here

Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX

When Max Gold’s video transmission first came through to us, he named himself as ‘one of the Gold Ones’. After tracking Max for a period, we began filming in the space we now understand to be the Cosmic Care Home. We had previously remained in what could be described as the outer or back spaces, looking through the walls that are at times transparent, or listening in on voices from the other side. This is where the Gold Ones live, and despite their existence on a higher spiritual plane, beyond the limitations of time – the place they inhabit resembles what we would describe as a ‘total institution’. Here on KV-TV now, is another of the Gold Ones, the Peeza Peel, whose muddled mindset of false beliefs and confused thinking, is multiplied by its three mouths. Although the Peeza Peel has access to different planes of reality, it struggles to successfully communicate these alternative perspectives with itself, until it finally reaches communion through the Carol.

This video produced for Kunst Vardo was developed through a live performance at ‘Film Free and Easy’ at Primary (Nottingham).

We have been invited to take part in this discussion with Doug Fishbone and Ellie Harrison on the nature of participatory art, and how context has the potential to influence meaning.

Free Event. Book here ...

Gallery North
Sandyford Road
Northumbria University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Can you hear me?
Yes I can hear you quite clearly now.
It’s good to speak with you again.

Reactor have been invited to Oslo to participate in an exchange process with Marthe A. Andersen, Anja Carr, Kristian Dahl and Roderick Hietbrink. Over a series of days the artists will meet one another and share ideas about their work before coming together on Friday 19 February to host an event that is the result of the previous days conversations and activities. The event will be spontaneous, intuitive, and unpredictable resulting in outcomes that will only be discovered by those curious enough to find out.

Supported by Kunst Vardo

Featuring:
Ned Alderwick / Best City Fashion / Kansas Bowling / Claire Boyd / Joe Chalmers / Matt Copson / William Glass / Harry Hurlock / Jamian Juliano-Villani / Vera Karlsson / Sasha Litvintseva / Sasha Litvintseva and Graeme Arnfield / Rachel Maclean / William Meredew / Katherine Midgley / Mathew Parkin / Berry Patten / Joe Pearson / Reactor / Dante Rendle-Traynor and Beatrix Blaise / Ginte Regina / Sam Risely / Godai Sahara / Richard Seaholme / Max Shamash / The Stallion (Alastair Mackinven and Ben Wallers) / Rose Rowson / David Steans / Alfie Strong / Orfeo Taguiri / Charles Verni / Jack West / Austin Charles Williams / Chloe Wise / Issy Wood / Rafał Zajko

Live Streamed on : www.baltic39.com and www.dathirst.co.uk

20 January - 24 January

#DawnOfJustice

Robert Barry wrote this feature on Reactor's work for The Quietus

Reactor Halls E17: Awkwoods
Experimental Adventures in Awkward Participatory Performance

24-26 January 2016

Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham, NG7 1NU

xero, kline & coma
258 Hackney Road
London E2 7SJ

Welcome
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The Cosmic Care Home

The first time I met artist Jenny Moore, we were stomach-down, on the floor of Tate Britain, silently dragging ourselves in choreographed movement toward the flight of stairs she had planned for us to ‘fall’ down, our descent overseen by an entire gallery-full of ‘Late At Tate’ visitors. This was just part one of her residency, ‘Disrupt’, at Tate Britain. I’d experienced some of her work before, as the stage-presence ‘Charismatic Megafauna’, a sort of hybrid cheerleader-come-all-girls-drum-band with impressive down beats and sinister costumes. But this performance trafficked something other. Designed to interrupt a conventional gallery experience, it realised itself as a contemporary institutional critique gone ‘cultural’ and there was a reckless loudness to it. The public space had been, for a while, Moore’s studio. And in just a few unprescribed movements, she had articulated and undone the tensions its austere façade had accrued over centuries.

Doors: 19:00
Performance: 19:30-22:30
£7 advance tickets (includes limited edition mixtape)
£3 on the door

Electronic music as machine music - the ghost in the machine - rhythm and drone - the traces left behind - Stone Tapes - planned obsolescence

Electronic music as shamanic music - subsonic frequencies - peripheral hearing as hallucination - polydrone and polyrhythm - stacks of white labels dumped in a skip

"There are musical ideas built in to all sounding technologies on some level - whether intentionally or not. That seems to relate to the 'ghost in the machine' - the creative input from the tool itself."

Tom Mudd

Five experimental artists explore the ingrained social, physical and sonic resonances of Primary and Nottingham through the prism of DIY electronic music. With installations and performances from Leslie Deere, Graham Dunning, Tom Mudd, Shelley Parker and Tom Richards.

Get a limited edition mixtape produced by the artists with an advance ticket here

Doors: 19:00
Performance: 19:30-21:30 (with interval)
£3 in advance - book here

You can’t win them all, ladies & gentlemen takes 'Misunderstandings' as its method. Speaking to and from the working lives of artists and the insane neo-liberal demands that they be everything to everyone. With: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy (Biter's Crew), Chloe Cooper, Patrick Coyle, Simon Clark, Sian Robinson Davies, James Ferris, Steven Ounanian, Morgan Parker, Holly Pester, Megan Pickering & Bedfellows, and Reactor. Set design by Jenny Moore with Alexis Dirks and Rosalie Schweiker. Written words by Emily Beber before and after the fact, and an in-house band including all of the above.

Workshops: 14:00-16:00
Installation: 16:00-
Performances: 16:00-23:00
£3 on the door

A cable is more than a mere length of wire. It is a trail to be followed, tracing a line between two points, or a meshwork of interwoven threads. Rammel Club will present installations, workshops and performances that explore the electronic aspects of auditory arts and collaborative improvisation.

The cable carries the pulse of electricity or light in response to a trigger. Cables are bookended by 'plugs', affording an abundance of possible connections. Some connections will be recommended for you in the user guide. But why stop there? Plug a synthesiser into a television, a hard-drive into an amplifier, a cello into a sat-nav, internally rewiring existing circuits or creating new possibilities for interactions between sounds and their players, recordists and engineers.

Celebrating the humble cable with a range of performers, makers and artists for whom venturing into the electric realms has always been a very natural part of contemporary sound practice.

http://www.rammelclub.org/

Doors: 19:00
Performance: 19:30-21:30
£3 on the door

An event that attempts to tackle the anxiety and neurosis generated from the condition of dyslexia. Imagining this condition as an academic shanty town, out of which a radicalised position may emerge in opposition to a world evermore dominated by text.

Featuring screenings of Augur (2014) by Nicholas Brooks and Mainland Rock (2014) by Benedict Drew, spoken words by Heather Phillipson, a YouTube music/video lecture, and the second iteration of Drew's Dyslexic Shanty performance with video accompaniment by Rhodri Davies on amplified harp.

The first in a new season of Reactor Halls events. A 24-hour retreat exploring DIY electronics, sound and design will produce the content for this performance. With: John Richards, Alexandra Moon-Age, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Natalie Kay-Thatcher, John Fass, Jim Frize, Phillip Henderson, et al.

“The most difficult challenges for designers of electronic objects now lie not in technical and semiotic functionality, where optimal levels of performance are already attainable, but in the realms of metaphysics, poetry, and aesthetics …” Anthony Dunne, Hertzian Tales

Link to the publisher.

More information on the book and the contributors can be found here.

Works were selected by artist Benedict Drew and ESP Programmer Elinor Morgan. Other films as part of the screening were by Dan Auluk, Sophie Bullock, Georgie Grace, Amanda Grist, Tracy Hickinbottom, Michael Lightborne, Amy Lunn, Joanne Masding, Emily Mulenga and Mathew Parkin.

"Featuring works by Jennet Thomas, Paul Tarragó and Leo Chadburn (aka Simon Bookish), artist collective Reactor’s live art experiment Reactor Halls E11: The Dark Horse Moving Picture Show was a mixed bill of video, film, performance, music and a quiz (with prizes). The last in a series of ‘events that embrace the live situation’, it was held at the group’s studio space in Primary, a former primary school turned new art space in Lenton, Nottingham.

A classroom seemed an appropriate setting for this hospitable but also self professedly ‘dark’ programme – traffic between the worlds of adult and childish understanding being a common device in the works ..."

Read the full review on The Double Negative

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Reactor Halls E11 is the last in the current season of events. The Dark Horse Moving Picture Show is a Film/Live Performance/Music event by artists Jennet Thomas, Paul Tarragó and Leo Chadburn (a.k.a. Simon Bookish). It’s a kind of experimental variety show, a rich and strange cocktail of aesthetic pleasures, unusual ideas and cerebral, pop-cultural experimentations.

Amongst other works, you will see:

‘I AM YOUR ERROR MESSAGE’ - Jennet Thomas performs a bizarre Q and A dialogue with a day-glo character trapped in the Video screen, attempting to save your world from an Error- ‘That Algorithm’ - spreading deep inside the structures of everything.

We will visit Paul Tarragó’s world of PAUL AND THE BADGER a simulated TV puppet show series that is not quite right… but strangely sincere in its adventures in wrongness. Paul will also perform a multi-screen Tape/Slide/Super 8 feat of celluloid poetics.

Simon Bookish will perform with vocal mastery a spoken word + music piece from Trainwreck/Raincheck – truly alarming tales directly transcribed from his dreams, work which has drawn comparisons with "Bowie and Baudrillard, Burroughs and Byrne".

There also will be a couple of live mystery events which will defy all logical explanation, and a real quiz, with actual prizes

The Family Show, hosted by Kathy Noble, marked the eighth episode in a series of live events staged at Reactor Halls, PRIMARY.  The evening was billed as a talk show[1] and included a special conversation with artists Julia Crabtree  & William Evans and performances by Jennifer Bailey and Sophiel Aurora.

Workshop 12:00-18:00, £10 advance tickets. Book here

Performance 19:00, £3 on the door.

A one-day workshop followed by performance, experimenting with some of the cosmic and geological forces in which our psyches are subjected to (psychogeophysics).

Book tickets here (booking essential)

The Family Show takes the idea of a television chat show as a loose structure with which to stage a live exhibition, featuring talk, artwork, performance and music, celebrating the mundane to fantastical elements of daily life and art, in a collaborative endeavor.

‘I am the Live Warrior’, curated by Juneau Projects for collective Reactor was the latest in a series of experimental events titled ‘Reactor Halls’ set within Reactor’s premises in a former primary school in Nottingham. Conceived as part gig and part live-drawing session, the evening sought to bring together the worlds of music and art to offer a space for play and interaction across forms of expression.

'I am the Live Warrior' is a new event by Juneau Projects that brings together the worlds of life drawing and live gigs. Two acts will play throughout the evening: Alex Juno (Elmo Sexwhistle) and Swoomptheeng. The audience are invited not only to watch the bands but to also draw, paint and sculpt them using the art materials provided. The things that people create in response to watching the bands will be added to the stage set up, resulting in a growing exhibition of artistic responses to the live music forming throughout the evening.

Reactor get into the festive spirit and completely sell out, with a winter market cum studio clearance sale. Reactor Halls Doorbar will be open all weekend and undercutting the competition.

Special performance by Core Melt Down, Sunday 1 December 15:00-17:00.

If you require Reactor detectives to investigate your area, or something else, please make a formal request by contacting info@reactor.org and a quote for the service will be provided.

Please join us for this evening event, to find out what results from this experiment in the working processes of both artists.

Over the next year Primary artists present 'Old Skool Breaks', a series of events and exhibitions happening every month in the public spaces of the building and featuring two Primary artists together.

PRIMARY
33 Seely Road
Nottingham
NG7 1NU

Reactor Halls, on tour for the first time, will transform Wirksworth Town Hall into a den of anachronism for one night only. Following an invitation to respond to the overarching themes of the Festival’s Visual Art programme, Reactor present an evening of recycled footage, resampled sounds, reclaimed materials and rescued technology. Featuring Core Melt Down, Electric Magnetic Light, Joseph Lewis, Public Service Broadcasting and Dirty Electronics.

Tickets £12 (SOLD OUT)

Tell us in no more than 20 words what ‘The Reactor Technique’ has done for you.
(Post this within the ‘The Reactor Technique’ event page  - to be in with a chance of winning)

Deadline: Saturday 13th July Midnight

‘The Reactor Technique’
http://reactor.org.uk/blog/the-reactor-technique

Further details:
http://www.latitudefestival.com/
Weekend Guest Pass allows you to camp in the Performer’s campsite.
There is a compulsory charity donation of £30 per ticket.

Full potential can be yours with The Reactor Technique!

Free yourself from life’s normal restraints by trying this practical and intensely personal approach. We know that body and mind are interconnected in a profound way, so why not choose to unlock your personal development and determine what you are capable of becoming.

This collective action offers a transcendental journey into another aspect of reality, taking you to unexpected places and activating new behaviours. With over ten years experience of The Reactor Technique, we can assist you to affirm a ‘reality to come’ and access 100% of your bodymind potential.

Take flight today and explore your ultimate quest.

Reactor will donate ‘something’ to the 2013 Primary Auction. Email and phone bids can be taken in advance: 0115 9244493 / admin@weareprimary.org

If you are unable to attend the auction itself, Primary will be open from Saturday 29 June to Wednesday 3 July between 12:00–16:00 for viewings, and sealed bids will be accepted.

This Reactor 'something' is subject to the price brackets and conditions outlined in the following email.

‘For the ladies: Come and see the sex god. And for the guys: Come and do better or I'll take you outside and you can beat me up’, said Roger.

Nobody was beaten up in the playground and nobody did better than Roger Caney. Caney's ode to Ikea and reworkings of I'm Waiting for the Man and My Generation had folks hung-jawed and thwarted for the duration of his recital. Pick of the week, Caney's tragic, farcical, yet cutting quips for me eclipsed the lot nearly.

As an artist, why would you want to make or do something whereby you create a structure that relinquishes complete control over the content presented? For me, as a curator, this makes me squirm, uncomfortable in the idea that an audience would see something that I had not at least had some hand in selecting, making, creating – or whatever today’s perception of curating is. So, attending the Reactor Halls event ‘Terry’s Back Passage’, an ‘open-mic’ event compèred by Eǝrth Rod (where Reactor played no hand in the selection) made me extremely squirmy. Indeed in the course of the evening there were things I found annoying, embarrassing, cringe-worthy, and downright odd. Alongside others I enjoyed a lot.

Art group AAS curate a night of drone based music featuring Samekhmem, Graham Dunning, Hexachordal and Phillip Henderson.

£3 advance tickets / £5 on the door. Book for this event here.

Terry’s Back Passage is a no holds barred open-mic-style session compèred by Eǝrth Rod. You are personally invited to come and do a skit or just enjoy the show. Any new or old skit is welcome (e.g. humor, music, physical theatre). Skits must be no longer than 15 minutes. If you want a slot, call or text the skit hotline.

We will provide a basic set-up of stage, mic & amp, lights, seating and a licensed bar, so please bring anything else you may require.

Hope to see you there,

Eǝrth Rod
078555 63063

Reactor intervene virtually in the ‘Clubs, Gangs, and Secret Societies’ class at MoMA, New York – taking over from Doog and Kelly, and making the group aware of #MoMAMonarch and the pressing need to prepare for what is going to happen at the opening of their class exhibition on April 19th.

This could go very wrong, it might even be a disaster, but Reactor are there to help.

Daniel Oliver will be presenting a paper on Reactor entitled: 'Pantomime Commi Despots, Fun‐mongering Reptilian Mascots, and Volatile Vegetative Deities: Fantastical Others and the efficacy of fun in Reactors post‐relational art projects' at this TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium.

A rough and raucous evening of intimate and interactive one-to-one performances played out in front of an audience of inter-passive voyeurs.

FREE but limited audience. Book for this event here.

Featuring edited video documentation of the following projects:
Ivan's Dogs: We Provide the Smiles, The Geodecity Project, The Tetra Phase, Munkanon, Big Lizard's Big Idea, The Green Man & Regular Fellows

Featuring mildly grating communist boxheads WE, horror hurdy-hog folk from Swine-thing and the ecstatic med-evil dance of the Dancing Plague of 1518.

£3 advance tickets / £5 on the door. Book for this event here.

Reactor is about to turn 10 years old this year and we’ve decided to celebrate. The night will take the form of a twisted 10-year-old’s birthday party; we ask that you all regress back to when you were aged 10. What were you into, who were your idols, and what were you watching and listening to?

This party is a fancy dress affair, so imagine yourself as a 10-year-old again, and design a costume that you would have made, or your parents could have made for you when you were 10. There will be special prizes for those Reactor consider best dressed.

Don’t miss out on the fun and games, Reactor-style, including the world famous Chair Dancing Competition.

Book for this event here.

Function is back!

After a seven-year absence, this event will unearth entirely new types of creepy art encounters.

Prising open the doors, we invite you to enter this dilapidated, disused building, navigate this confined space and help bring Function back to life.

Once inside, you might find yourself in the dark, trapped, disrobed, or bare foot and blinking as you find your way between two places. Then, if you bear witness to the Blue Nun, you had best pray it doesn’t happen to you!

To avoid fainting, keep repeating to yourself “It's only Function...It's only Function...”

To enter Function VI book here, and then arrive at the large red gates on Douglas Road, Nottingham NG7 1NW at 18:00 on Saturday, 20 October. Please bring a root vegetable with you in order to gain entry.

Function VI is made up of: AAS, Bruce Asbestos, AuntyNazi, Amelia Beavis-Harrison, Robin Close, Phillip Henderson, Robert Holcombe, Mark McGowan, Simon Raven, Tether…with a hint of Reactor.

Featuring the work of AuntyNazi, Robin Close, Claire Hind, Mike Cunsolo, Anthony Schrag as well as Reactor

The interview provides an insight into the collective psyche of Reactor, the complexity of backstory in their projects, and the new concept of the 'collective mask'.

Copies are available from Nottingham venues or http://www.nottinghamvisualarts.net

Including work by Peter Whitehead, Hem (Geiom), MACE, Alex Pearl, Lindsay Foster, Shezad Dawood, Reactor and Luke Fowler.

Book for the event here

We now know that the prophecy of the infant sacrifice was the truth and all this hoola-hooping really was beneficial. Big Lizard has been successfully tested as a cuddly form of Ril-ya that all ages, races, religions and nationalities of the Human race are naturally drawn to, softening the blow when the real Ril-ya reveal them selves to the world later this week. Ril-yant!

Be seeing you!

When: Saturday 3rd March 10am-6pm
Where: The Bluecoat, Liverpool

The event will begin with a short presentation by Reactor on their work focusing on examples of collaboration, interaction, participation and co-participation. This will lead directly into a participatory workshop where three groups will each work with Reactor through a hyper accelerated development process to create micro-projects. The resulting work will be a series of live situations that can be inhabited and experienced by a public audience at the Bluecoat at the end of the day.

Following a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO), Reactor has been given 14 days to vacate Reactor Towers (the space the group have occupied for the last nine years). 

In response the group will stage one final project in the space: Deathtrap.

‘The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae (“Threshold People”) are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states and positions in cultural space. Liminal entities are neither here or there; they are betwixt and between the position as assigned and arrayed by the law, custom, convention, and ceremonial. As such, their ambiguous and indeterminate attributes are expressed by a rich variety of symbols in the many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. Thus, liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon.’

Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (1969).

As part of Congress of Collectives at Flux Factory, Reactor invited individuals and groups to become guest members of Reactor for a day. On Friday 14th October, Jason Eppink joined Reactor at Wall Street and took a journey out to Rockaway Beach. A walk was then undertaken out to the private and closed community of Breezy Point, Queens.

As part of Congress of Collectives at Flux Factory, Reactor invited individuals and groups to become guest members of Reactor for a day. On Thursday 13th Octoer, Urban Layers joined Reactor in the Bronx and took a mystery tour designed by Urban Layers that led the group from The Bronx to Staten Island, culminating at the Alice Austin Museum House.

As part of Congress of Collectives at Flux Factory, Reactor invited individuals and groups to become guest members of Reactor for a day. On Wednesday 12th October, Sam Mercer met Reactor at H&H Bagels and embarked on a spiritual journey around the area.

As part of Congress of Collectives at Flux Factory, Reactor invited individuals and groups to become guest members of Reactor for a day. On Tuesday 11 October, AAS joined Reactor at Bronx River Art Centre and planned a trip to Coney Island to film this short video.

As part of Congress of Collectives at Flux Factory, Reactor invited individuals and groups to become guest members of Reactor for a day. On Monday 10th October, Parfyme and SP Weather Station met in the Bronx and then traveled to City Island making this video along the way.

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