Slade Transmissions Podcast | The Slade Occupation
Listen here to the ongoing series of radio programs made by The Slade Occupation for Resonance 104.4fm. The program is a platform for people’s audio artworks, music, current affairs features, talking, readings and other miscellaneous sounds, and represents a weekly aural glimpse into the inner workings of the school. The program is broadcast every Tuesday afternoon at 5.00pm and also streamed online. Listen live online at the Resonance 104.4fm website. Click on the play icons below for a download option.
June
Claire and Tom set off to talk on the phone. Alan misses his fishes. People are told to get out of Wimbledon. The show is then massively hijacked by Tom’s trip to Croydon. Wind. Vibrant. Damp Coconuts.
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This Tuesday at 5 o’clock is cheese o’clock: A cheesy study into cheesy music with Dante Rendle Traynor.
May
Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal take you on an ekphrastic tour of Charleston House in East Sussex where Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant lived and worked.
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In a follow-up to the 22nd of March program, Ellen Kim and Will Saunders discuss issues surrounding art school admissions policies, fees, and seminars.
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What do you get when you mix Howlin’ Wolf, Tom Rees, Dante Rendle Traynor, Nick Hart, music, politics, Arthur Prior, Dantella, writing, Ambar Sethi, laughter, Will Saunders, and backwards? This.
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Helen C Benigson Aka Princess Belsize Dollar and special guest Mosie talk about love, music and everything in between.
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Will Saunders and Dante Rendle Traynor discuss the practice of ‘gibberish’.
April
Bill McCool presents tracks from his ‘Concentrated’ collection. Produced by Will Saunders
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slade transmissions tom clark and claire boyd SPICY EYEBALLS dante sudocrem elephants funny irony sincerity idiotic downright cheeky jingle.. (Part 2)
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slade transmissions tom clark and claire boyd SPICY EYEBALLS dante sudocrem elephants funny irony sincerity idiotic downright cheeky jingle.. (Part 1)
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A bunged up Ian Chan breathes for half an hour.
March
Lecture/performance given by artist Merlin Carpenter at The Slade, with ‘interventions’ by students at the school.
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Short stories, skits, rants, laments and jingles. With coverage from the UCL occupation of the registry and the UCU strike. Written, read and produced by Nina Prader, Tom Rees, Ambar Sethi, Harriet Poznansky, Arthur Prior, Zou Zhoa, Michael Lewis and an anonymous caller.
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Helen C Benigson Aka Princess Belsize Dollar presents a program on love, life and everything in between and plays some of her favourite music.
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Aaron Angell presents: ‘Unknown artists, unknown tracks’.
February
Will Saunders reads his controversial ‘Thoughts on Art School’, followed by an absurdist Resonance FM studio improvisation by Slade students. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
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Special feature on the ‘Platform 1’ event held at The Bloomsbury Theatre on the 2nd/3rd of February. Featuring work by Ellen Kim, Tom Clark, Lily Hawkes, Sophie Rose Askwith, Tom Rees and Jennifer Martin, along with “technical commentary” featuring Eve, Steve and Andreas. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor and Tom Clark.
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Coverage of the ‘Arts Against Cuts’ British Museum teach in and work made by and given to Slade students. With Simon Werner, Gamaliel Rendle Traynor’s quartet, Claire Boyd, Dante Rendle Traynor, The Voolas, Tom Rees and The Golden Boys. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
January
Coverage of the continuing student demonstrations in the new year and work made by and given to Slade students. With ‘Ben’, Simon Werner, The Versatile Dreamers, eccentric performer Hugh Hughes, The Golden Boys, Laura Cooper, Tom Rees, Dante Rendle Traynor and Gamaliel Rendle Traynor. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
December
Recorded and produced inside the Slade occupation.
Coverage of the Slade occupation, the student demonstrations and work made by Slade staff and students inside the occupation. With Gary Woodley, Lauren Godfrey, Claire Boyd, RCA Students, Dante Rendle Traynor, Sharon Morris, Aaron Angell and Sophie Rose Askwith. Also featuring The Slade School re-performing Slade’s 1973 festive hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
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Recorded and produced inside the Slade occupation.
Intimate coverage of the Slade School Of Fine Art going into occupation and the student movement behind it. With Tom Clark, Sophie Lee, Mark MacGowan, Aaron Angell, Alex Springer, Dante Rendle Traynor and Tom Rees. Produced by Dante Rendle Traynor.
Soho Calls | Laura Cooper
Soho Calls (5.15)
The name “Soho” derives from an old English hunting call, an adaption of ‘Seeho’ which in old hunting lingo means ‘seen a hare’. In Soho calls, six female performers re-enact a hunt, communicating with their voices alone and the non-linguistic sounds of ancient hunting calls. A sound arrangement develops in the public space of Soho, specifically up and around Rupert St, which leads to Berwick street and market. The hunting calls are juxtaposed with the pre-existing urban sound environment and creating an alternative kind of hunting ritual.
Laura is in the postgraduate media department at the Slade.
Experiment for a Monument | Holly Slingsby
The work is called Experiment for a Monument and is was made for FEM 10 festival in Girona, Spain, 2010.
All images by Gresol / Ana Rita Rodrigues.
“I walk the length of the street folding sheets of A4 into paper aeroplanes. I hold them up to the sky, but instead of throwing them, let them fall to the pavement.”
Duration: ten minutes.
Holly graduated from the Slade MFA in 2010, Degree Show website.
For further information and work see http://www.hollyslingsby.com/
It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down | Holly Slingsbury
It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down – performance documentation from Holly Slingsby on Vimeo.
‘It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down’ was a performance made especially for Christ Church Spitalfields in 2009. The work juxtaposes live and videoed action. The live performance consisted of gestures of lifting deflated balloons. This was contradicted by the videoed gesture seen with it, of dropping a handful of ash. The naively hopeful act of lifting the balloons – as if they might float again – is in direct disagreement with the melancholy release of the ash.
Holly is a currently completing her MFA in Media, look out for her degree show this summer.
The Voice and Nothing More | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck
The Voice and Nothing More, January 2009, was a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices. Both established and emerging artists worked with leading vocal performers and composers in an exploration of the voice outside language.
Invited performers included Mikhail Karikis, Lore Lixembourg and Juice, as well as a specially formed large-scale vocal ensemble.
Performers, working with the artists and resident composer Claudia Molitor created new score-objects that culminated in a series of new performances. Artists included Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Estelle Thompson and Bruce Mclean.
Video: Kathryn Faulkner and Robin Sewell
Editing: Sam Belinfante
Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck.
For more information, images and press please go to the Voice and Nothing More website.
Notations 2008 | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck
In January 2008, to mark the 40th anniversary of John Cage’s seminal publication Notations (Something Else Press, 1968-9), Luck and Belinfante presented a range of investigations into what notation is – and could be. Notations 2008, at the Slade Research Centre, presented performances by leading contemporary musicians including Mikhail Karikis, Anton Lukoszevieze, Sankorfa and members of Apartment House. These performers worked in collaboration with visual artists to produce new graphic scores, sonic artworks and installations. Artists included Jayne Parker, Dryden Goodwin and Simon Morris.
Video: Richard Bevan
Editing: Sam Belinfante
Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck
Dirty Furniture 1 | Allison Maletz
An armchair is the base for this audio sculpture. The armchair is domestic, used, and out-dated. It looks as though it could be comfortable, but its worn and uncleanly appearance is not particularly inviting. Yet from within the chair a seductive voice asks to be sat on… literally calling in a soft whisper “Sit on me… sit on me…” repeatedly. This sculpture is about constant need and lack of acknowledgment.”
Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.
Space Drawing, Woburn Square | Hua Kuan Sai
This Space Drawing was completed in The Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square in 2007.
Hua Kuan Sai completed his MFA at the Slade in 2007. Degree show website.
Aftertrace | Georgia Chatzivasileiadi
These are a series of videos documenting research by Chatzivasileiadi.
This body of work was completed between 2004 and 2006.
Research Processes
Interaction with Audience
Chatzivasileiadi completed her MFA at the Slade in 2006. Degree show website.
LIPSTICH | Nic Lyons
Nic Lyons graduated from Slade MFA in 2006. Degree show website.
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