THE WIRED WOMEN WEBLOG

Wired Women of Spitalfields pictures now online

2005-08-09T15:23:00.000+01:00

Photos from the Wired Women of Spitalfields festival can now be seen at the Seb & Fiona Flickr account

Turn To the Left

2005-08-06T09:47:00.000+01:00

TURN TO THE LEFT
Artists' Fashion Show + live music and DJs
291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road

13th August 2005, 8pm-late, £3 entry

Curated by Jessica Broas and Pil and Galia Kollectiv in collaboration with 291 Gallery.

With Artists and Designers:

Sarah Baker
Diann Bauer
Jessica Broas
Cast Off Knitters
Chicks On Speed
Kate Forbes
Juri Hashimoto
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
David Mabb
Sophie Macorquodale
Emily McMehen
Gail Pickering
Pam Richardson
Bettina Schroeder
Tai Shani
Heidi Stokes
Tatty Devine

Live music by:

Anat Ben-David
Bishi
The Lazy Ones
Tits of Death
The Vichy Government

DJs: Jet + Suhail Malik

"A strange conical hat and cape ensemble sported by Hugo Ball at a poetry recital. A kettle worn as a handbag by a Manchester art punk. Art has often converged with the human body in strange new ways through the medium of fashion. The polar opposite of architecture, this meeting point has never been about totality – fashion is about heterogeneity, mixing and matching, modifying and diluting the absolute language of advertising and branding. A temporary, shape-shifting medium intended for recycling and manipulation, it has no time for the monumental but all the time in the world for sewing sequins.

Looking beyond the derogatory theoretical concepts that look to shame "fashion", and towards its role in the renaissance of craft

As technology conspires to liberate us from the shackles of manual labour (only to handcuff us to the keyboards and mice of the new slavemasters), we start to think about designing our own shackles, maybe in a nice grey wool knit. The labour of love and the hate of labour seem to coexist and coincide. Painstaking processes are reawakened with post-Marxist pleasures at stake. If Top Shop offers teen girls a truly democratic adaptation of high-design ideas for the mass market, we take on the high street with an ardent D.I.Y. spirit, customising, bastardising and personalising, establishing our own place within this democracy.

Fashion is once more about making and not following.

Denouncing (sex and the city-esque) fashion consumption as empowering/self expressive and replacing this with empowerment by the handmade, Turn to the Left is a showcase of fashion projects, an opportunity to show ideas that lurk in the dark no man’s land that stretches from art to fashion. Between the extremes of total wearability and pure concept, a platform for everything from performative stagewear and one-off designs to hand-crafted artefacts and accessories, reclaiming the catwalk from the closed circles of the industry. A celebration of the subversion of market trends, the fashion equivalent of the garage band myth, a brush with the conceptual, this is what clothing can be and what it can do.
This is low couture – do or D.I.Y.!"

Further info: info@kollectiv.co.uk or jlbroas@yahoo.co.uk

Mass Production vs. Collector´s Edition

2005-07-22T15:44:00.000+01:00

The Qompendium World Tour Collector´s Edition by Kimberly Lloyd & Alex Murray-Leslie
sat 23 -07-2005

Offset magazines were yesteryear. Today, more limited, well-crafted and assorted publications catch l´air du temps. It is no longer about information but rather how information is packaged and what commodities are made available with it. In this World Tour Collector’s Edition Workshop with a total of six destinations, the first stop will be CMYK in Barcelona, which will also mark the birth of another new magazine project by Kimberly Lloyd, co-founder of M Publication.

An entirely fresh magazine concept will be introduced during this 6 hour workshop, giving the attendees insight on the techniques of producing a Collector’s Edition with definite marketable potentials. The workshop is designed around the interaction and contribution of the attendees. Participating in branding, editorial grid, developing content and judging in the pre-selection of the content; gaining insight on how the bits and pieces become an epitome of fine art work. Get to know the entire range of paper, materials and creative work applied in the collection, from offset to screen printing, from sown pieces of textile to hand brushed aquarelles and more.

Only 100 - 200 units will be produced worldwide, all handcrafted, screened, certified and approved by a committee of participating collaborators together with the attendees. The final product will be made available for sale by distributors of leading museums, art fairs, bookshops, and boutiques world wide.

Leading Director Kimberly Lloyd (M Publication) In collaboration with M-real and Corbis.

Leading Co-Curator Alex Murray-Leslie (ChicksOnSpeed)

Attending Collaborators
Roar Sager Creative Director _ Made
Jule Hass Creative Director _Panatom
Saul Taylor Creative Director _Winkreative
Ramon Fano Publisher _Neo2
Anoush Abrar Photographer
Antonio Macarro Photographer
Viagrafik Illustrator
Tobi Röttger Illustrator
Johnny Dog Day Illustrator
Bernat Lliteras Illustrator
Silvia Prada Illustrator
Holger Oppolzer Post production

Requirements
Infinite creativity and open mind.
Skills ranging from illustration techniques, to digital or analogue photography, cutting, sewing, painting and pasting, to art direction and photography selection.

Limited attendants: 35 - 40
Rate: 120 EUR

our beautiful banner

2005-07-04T14:04:00.000+01:00

the fairy, (and friend!) has just been commissioned to make the banner for the wired women festival free stage in spitalfields market. It's going to be a rather stylish affair, with the WW logo appliqued onto the background. I was pondering what to wear on the day, but now i think it might be a matching appliqued dress...hmmm

13,xX

For your diaries...

2005-06-29T13:35:00.000+01:00

About Wired Women of Spitalfields...

2005-06-21T15:58:00.000+01:00

WIRED WOMEN OF SPITALFIELDS
A Festival in Old Spitalfields Market and the Spitz
16th July 2005 | Free in daytime | Tickets for night-time event in the Spitz £8 adv from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/6117

With performances from:
Angie Reed, Cranes, Piney Gir, Anat Ben-David, Motormark, Funsize Lions, Radical Cheerleaders, Ninki V, Japanese Intelligence Mind Control and Venus Fly Trap

plus DJ sets from:
Val, Craft, Two Birds, The Schla La Las, Ninja Jen, Gemma, Anna Schulte

not to mention:
VJs, an art installation, film screenings, a jumble sale, a knitting circle, a tombola, crafts with Ninja Jen (including "how to needlepoint"), a theremin workshop and general zapping till late at night...

12pm - 6pm
Free events in Old Spitalfields Market with live music from:
Cranes + Funsize Lions + Ninki V + Japanese Intelligence Mind Control

5pm - 2am
Music, DJs, VJs and films in the Spitz venue with live music from:
Angie Reed + Anat Ben-David (Chicks on Speed) + Piney Gir (Truck) + Motormark + Radical Cheerleaders + Venus Fly Trap

A comprehensive list of activities can be collected on the day from the Spitz terrace from 11am.

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Wired Women of Spitalfields is a special one-off festival marking one year since the launch of the Wired Women club night in the Spitz venue. Since Kevin Blechdom inaugurated it with her famous awkward chair dance, the monthly event has gone from strength to strength. It has presented some of the best and biggest (and often weirdest!) electronic women performers to a loyal and ever-expanding crowd, which has included celebrity faces such as Jarvis Cocker, Graham Coxon and Tracey Emin.

The Wired Women of Spitalfields festival will start with a day of free entertainment and activities in Old Spitalfields Market, including live music on a free stage headlined by onetime art-rock heroes turned electronic pioneers Cranes, an art installation in a disused shop unit, a jumble sale, knitting circles, puppets, a tombola, a treasure trove, a 50s gramophone DJ and a theremin workshop. There'll be something for everyone: it'll be a great day out and an important event for the market, which remains a defiantly wonderful place in spite of the building works currently creating the incorrect impression that it's closing down. A Bagpuss-inspired 'shop window' art installation will be on display at the currently deserted shop unit at 75 Brushfield St, filled with items donated by a group of local women. The items will be sold to the highest bidder and the money raised given to a local woman-focussed charity.

That's all topped off in the Spitz Venue with an extraordinary night of live music, DJs, VJs (namely My Lucky Dragon and Mindlobster) and film screenings. Chicks on Speed-signed Gonzalez cohort Angie Reed headlines, over from Berlin for a rare UK show, presenting her electro-secretary alter ego Barbara Brockhaus. With appearances also from acts such as Chick on Speed artcore maverick Anat Ben-David and synth enchantress Piney Gir, it'll top off the most exciting manifestation so far of a movement that has carved out a splendid new niche in London's live music landscape. Here's some acclaim:

"A girl-centric surge of electricity." (Guardian Guide)

"All that's delightful and deviant in lady-led machine-music." (Revolution)

"In a rock world dominated by male ego, the electrified oestrogen of Wired Women comes as a breath of long-awaited fresh air." (The Fly)

"The Spitz’s excellent, eclectic series of gigs devoted to female electronica, celebrating weird and wonderful women not afraid to push boundaries." (Evening Standard)

"Proof that if pop music still has any credibility, it’s to be found in places like East London on a Monday night." (soundsxp)

"Punked-up techno, 60s samples, and immaculate outfits." (The Times Knowledge)

www.spitz.co.uk

The Spitz, 109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market, London E1 6BG

Wired Women in June

2005-06-02T18:23:00.000+01:00

Wired Women in May

2005-05-16T16:36:00.000+01:00

Wired Women

2005-01-28T13:35:00.000Z

Welcome to the Wired Women weblog.

Wired Women is a monthly night at the Spitz in London which has, since exploding into being in July 2004, firmly stamped itself onto the psyches and diaries of all who have attended. Curated by two bona fide Wired Women, namely Piney Gir and Anat Ben-David, it’s an awesome spectacle of femme-generated electricity that has been thoroughly hailed by both the public and media alike.

Included so far have been the whirling avant-punk thrillery of Cobra Killer, the awkward chair-dance of Kevin Blechdom, the theremin otherworld of Ninki V, the throbbing gristliness of Cosey Fanni Tutti and the blissful and languid distortion of Cranes. Both curators lead by example too, having taken to the stage on more than one momentous occasion to the general delight of the consistently sold-out room.

“A top bill of psychedelia.” (Guardian Guide)

“Proof that if pop music still has any credibility, it’s to be found in places like East London on a Monday night.” (soundsxp)

“Punked-up techno, 60’s samples, and immaculate outfits.” (The Times Knowledge)

“Monumentally fresh.” (Londonnet.com)

“A girl-centric surge of electricity.” (Guardian Guide)

“The Spitz’s essential monthly shebang.” (Evening Standard)

“In a rock world dominated by male ego, the electrified oestrogen of Wired Women comes as a breath of long-awaited fresh air.” (The Fly)

“The Spitz’s excellent, eclectic series of gigs devoted to female electronica, celebrating weird and wonderful women not afraid to push boundaries.” (Evening Standard)

Watch this weblog for updates relating to the Wired Women phenomenon.