ACTIVATING SOUNDSYSTEM: in conjunction with the Soundsystem exhibition is a weekly series of film & video screenings, live & recorded music, and sound-based performances.

15 January 2004 12am - 12am

January 15, 8PM — Performance by Mark Leckey, London, UK: The Genius of the Church.

January 16, 7PM — Screening of video works by Mark Leckey: Fiorucci, Made Me Hardcore, 1999; We are Untitled, 2001; Londonatella, 2002; Parade, 2003.

January 22, 7PM — Performance by Mathieu Beauséjour, Montreal, Canada , programmed by Dave Dyment.

January 23, 7PM — Performance by Thomas Jonnson, Calgary, Canada plus pre-recorded works by Louise Lawler, New York, USA, Daniel Olson, Montreal, Canada, Veda Hille, Vancouver, Canada and Dave Allen, Berlin, Germany, programmed by Dave Dyment.

January 29, 7PM — FILM NIGHT: A programme of London Flaneur films: Oliver Payne and Nick Relph: House & Garage, 2000; Patrick Keiller: London, 1994; Norman Cohen: The London Nobody Knows with James Mason, 1967 programmed by Mark Leckey.

January 30, 7PM — One Plus: Performances by ina unt ina and friends programmed by Kim Truchan.

February 6, 7PM — Stephen Parkinson and Friends: Little-Sounds Systems programmed by Martin Arnold.

February 13, 7PM — Open Mic.

February 19, 7PM — FILM NIGHT: A Bigger Splash, 1974, a fictionalised feature film of David Hockney in London on the eve of his leaving for Los Angeles; Babylon 1981, a feature film the trials and tribulations of a Sound Systems in Brixton, London programmed by Mark Leckey.

February 20, 7PM — Eric Chenaux and Friends: Little Songsystems programmed by Martin Arnold.

We would like to acknowledge The British Council for their generous financial support of the Mark Leckey exhibition and the Canada Council’s Music in Alternative Spaces grant for funding ACTIVATING SOUNDSYSTEM.