Live Sessions

From quirky kazoomaphones and guitars, to beautiful hand-drawn marionettes, our live sessions bring an ecclectic mix of music and performance to Hay for your enjoyment.

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Pearce and Ramsey

Throughout the Weekend

Goldsmiths alumni Pearce & Ramsey have fast become the UK’s foremost curatorial partnership for emerging talent. Garnering attention for their Best in Show exhibition last year, the fearsome duo went on to transform an Astra into an all singing- all dancing 'art mobile' as part of the 5th annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair. P & R will be curating a show for the Globe in conjunction with Hereford College of Art.

Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn

Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn is a freelance photographer based in London, whose work often involving the use of digital painting techniques to subtly imbue ordinary situations with the uncanny. She has been exhibited in New York, Singapore, and Germany. Last year, she was invited to show work at the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition.

Artists Meeting

Artists Meeting are a semi-anonymous artists collective based in New York, whose work has been exhibited in the Cornflux and Dumbo art festivals, and Postmasters Gallery in NYC. Their youtube-inspired triptychs, YTTP, were exhibited at Crunch09.

Hive Projects / T1 + 2 Gallery

Directed by Lisa K Samoto, London-based Hive Projects exhibited work at Crunch09 by a selection of upcoming artists. Seecum Cheung’s sculpture hung above our heads like a niggling thought, whilst David Stearn’s drawings and photography represented a consciousness of the passage of time. Ilona Sager’s Inference/Archive used architectural settings to question the built environment, alongside Javier Rodriguez’s manipulation of printed imagery, Chromatic Aberrations, and Marcin Dudek’s notable inflatable interactive sculpture, Pumping Station.

Open Gallery

Open is a London gallery dedicated to the art of video painting. Inspired by the post-postmodern philosophy of founder Hilary Lawson, video paintings are filmed in a single take without dialogue and sound, enabling the artist to lead us into a way of seeing which has no determinable meaning but which carries a unique emotional hue. Open have exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Sketch Gallery, and the Hayward Gallery.

Kate Raggett

Kate Raggett is a Bristol-based artist who travels extensively to different countries and makes drawings in and of the lands that she visits. The drawings map the experience of being in the landscape, its rhythms, energy and patterns. For Crunch09, she created a site-specific ephemeral earthwork inspired by the themes and resonances of the festival.

Super Mega Action Plus

Super Mega Action Plus make innovative videos to help people communicate. Their How to Live project is dedicated to producing essays, images and arguments for a practical philosophy in life, and a short film inspired by the project was screened in the Globe during Crunch09.

Scott London

Scott London is an American writer, photographer and radio broadcaster who has covered cultural affairs in the US and Europe for almost two decades. He first began photographing Burning Man in 2004, and the images have since appeared in more than a dozen magazines, as well as in television and feature films. A selection were exhibited at Crunch09. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

To purchase prints displayed during the festival, please contact maya.davies@artandideas.org

Shunt

Shunt are a collective of 10 artists creating large-scale performance events in unexpected or abandoned buildings in London. Until November 2009, their home was a sprawling labyrinth beneath the railway arches of London Bridge, which they transformed into a republic with diplomatic immunity and a vast private army. Their last show was the critically-acclaimed Money.

Paloma Gormley and Lettice Drake

Throughout the Weekend

Paloma Gormley and Lettice Drake are architectural designers with a preoccupation for the social significance of the built environment. Their work includes the sculptural pavilion cum pop-up cafe, Frank's Campari Bar, on the roof top of Peckham's multi storey Car Park where the cool kids hung out this summer. P & L are creating an on-going interactive installation which can be experienced throughout the course of the Festival.

The Paper Cinema & Kieron Maguire

Friday 13 November, 6.30pm

With intricate, hand-drawn marionettes, and a surreal mix of puppetry and film, The Paper Cinema breathes new life into performance art. Accompanied by musician Kieron Maguire and aided by video projection, artist Nic Rawling creates classic narratives of love, mystery, and above all, adventure. Ever-popular at the Edinburgh Festival, this pioneering band of dreamers recently toured with a version of The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. They are supported by the BAC.

Kieron Johnson

Friday 13 November

Stunning audiences across the country, performance artist Kieron Johnson’s captivating work is a mix of the strange, the bizarre and the beautiful. With a series of local residencies in Bristol, consultancy for the BBC and radio appearances, he has garnered a reputation as one of Britain’s most talented illusionists.

Plaster of Paris

Saturday 14 November, 7:00pm

With their innovative and fresh sound, this South London duo takes the audience on a musical odyssey that bypasses octave boundaries and delivers syncopated songs of love, lust and loss. Their folksy, melodramatic meanderings on a self-styled Kazoomaphone (looks as good as it sounds) have taken them from Glastonbury to Europe. They recently won over a new legion of fans following an exceptional performance at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Phil Scott

Sunday 15 November, 5:00pm

Delicate and soulful, the soft sounds of Phil Scott’s acoustic guitar have struck a chord with audiences the world over. From South America to the States, India to Nepal, Phil Scott’s blend of blues and folk truly inspires. Join him for a lazy Sunday afternoon session and wind down after a weekend of debate, dancing and suitably outrageous parties.

Richard Strange

Friday 13 November, 9:30pm

Since forming seminal ArtPunk band Doctors of Madness in 1975, Richard "Kid" Strange has made his presence felt in every corner of London life. He founded the influential Cabaret Futura in 1980, and since then has worked as an actor, appearing in Tim Burton’s Batman and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Between 2004-7, he collaborated with Marianne Faithfull and Tom Waits on The Black Rider. His memoir Strange – Punks and Drunks and Flick and Kicks was published in 2005.

Clean Bandit

Saturday 14 November, 9:30pm
 

Fresh from supporting Calvin Harris and playing centre stage at the Secret Garden Party, Clean Bandit craft a precision blend of electronica, hip-hop and classical music complete with four piece string quartet, and live MC. They are guaranteed to blow your mind and send you straight to heaven in a velvet-lined ambulance.