Esemplastic Tuesdays
at the Royal College of Art
Esemplastic Tuesdays are events without passive spectators: everyone draws, writes, photos, films, records, dances, raises eyebrows, thinks about scratchy green sweaters & corduroy ponce, or engages in some bizarre internalese or unuttered speech process which is different from gawping. As guests, we invite in noisemakers and wordspouters contaminated by Free Improvisation and its ethic of real-time real-space gesture and collective inter-communication. We thus subvert the monopoly of tedious commodity and stupid celebrity on the cultural sphere, and present a compendium of all that is actually ALIVE, PERTINENT & IMMEDIATE in contemporary performance: Militant Esthetix! Esemplastic Tuesdays occur under the aegis of the Royal College of Art, and so quantulumcunque are not per se open to the public. However, if you would like to join us in 2005, you'd be very welcome, but we need person-to-person contact - i.e. a chat on the phone or in the pub - first (this is where we brief you about The Esemplasm you are joining). If you'd like to attend, phone Out To Lunch on 020 7 388 8679. He's usually in, but if you get the miserable answer phone, don't be discouraged, leave your name and phone number and OTL will get back to you. Esemplastic Tuesdays happen in the Drawing Studio on the Seventh Floor of the Royal College of Art at 6.30pm, on Tuesdays surprisingly enough. By a strange stroke of synchronicity, the music played at Esemplastic Tuesdays can often be heard the next day, Wednesday, at 2pm on "Late Lunch With Out To Lunch" on Resonance 104.4FM and <www.resonancefm.com> worldwide.
Latest Season
1 February John Edwards (double bass), Ulli Freer & Adrian Clarke (poets)
8 February John Butcher (sax) & Phillip Marks (drums)
15 February Stefan Jaworzyn (guitar) & Paul Hession (drums)
22 February Lol Coxhill (soprano sax), Pleasure-Drenching Improvers (bricks/Dictaphone), Out To Lunch (poetical polemic)
Wednesday Special
in Art Bar, Royal College of Art, Jay Mews at 7:00pm
16 March John Plant's Diary + Hugh Metcalfe's films
Since the demise of Ape Shit, Diary is quite simply the best rock band in London as a frighteningly angry old man in a suit called John Plant tells it like it is over squidgy and driven rock beats. Rufus Thomas meets Vladimir Lenin on Canvey Island. Ask them to play "Walking The Dog".
Plus organiser of Klinker Clubs in Islington and Nunhead, Hugh Metcalfe shows his films and improvises on sawn-through guitar and wrecked foot cymbal.
Past Esemplastic Tuesdays:
22 January 2002 #1
