Arthaus, 205 Richmond Road,
Hackney, London, E8 3NJ
Saturday 21st January 6pm -
9pm

We’ll be hosting a free event with the help of electo-acoustic visionary
Lars Korb, and Japanese contemporary sound-designer Ayumi Sawa to mark moving
into the fabulous Arthaus. It’ll also coincide with the opening of a fantastic
exhibition and UK first.

You’re invited check out our new home, look, listen
and even take part with the guidence of our experts in an open object
electronic/organic blend jam session on a vast range of instruments, from
Tibetan bowls and a Kalimba, to the handmade ‘box-guitar’ and ‘waterphone’.
These low-fi instruments are miked up, amplified and are incorporated into
electronic music live sequences in Ableton, with midi-controllers running live
too. This intriguing combination of styles and apparatus creates an experimental
style of performative contemporary music as avant-garde methods to come up with
an ongoing composition that is more than aural stimuli. The event is free and
open to all so feel free to invite others.

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More on the art to see:

Soft Machine is the first UK solo
exhibition of Polish-born, Canadian artist Jarek Piotrowski. Drawing on the
subversive William S. Burroughs novel The Soft Machine (1961),
Piotrowski’s work explores themes of the human body under siege,
repetitive rituals and institutions of control.

Through an immersive
installation of paintings, cut-outs, experimental music and live performance,
structure and order are broken down and unanswered fundamental questions of
human nature confronted. Trained in traditional techniques of drawing and
painting, Piotrowski returns to the classical subjects of religion, science and
sociology, continually exploring the physicality of the human body and the
mechanisms of its control. Piotrowski’s motifs themselves resemble
Burrough’s cut-up technique, as images taken from archival and digital
sources are sliced up, rearranged and layered to create complex formal and
symbolic webs. Mining images from medical books, popular culture, religious
texts and natural processes, Piotrowski builds up and dissolves patterns to
reveal constructed exteriors.

By painstakingly hand-cutting banal PVC
matting, Piotrowski renders the industrial intimate, as the tough surface
becomes a porous palette defined by its patterning. In the vast atrium of the
gallery, Piotrowski will extend the three-dimensionality of his cut-outs to
create a grand site-specific installation in one of his most ambitious projects
to date that will not only push the limits of physicality of the artist, but
explore the viewer’s experience of their own physicality.

Jarek
Piotrowski was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1973 and currently lives and works
in Munich. Recent exhibitions include BRP Paper, Black Rat Press, London, 2011,
Bimbo Box 5, Munich, 2011, Alice Dans les Tenebres, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris,
2010 and Lehner/Piotrowski, Galerie Andreas Höhne, Munich, 2010.