GRACE NDIRITU

Recent video works: MY BLOOD SELF

Live soundscape by

DJ Max Reinhardt and DJ Rita Ray

THE SHRINE SYNCHROSYSTEM

Tuesday 20 January 2009

6.45pm-8pm

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema

7 Leicester Place, London WC2
Box Office: 0870 811 2559
www.princecharlescinema.com

www.artprojx.com

Contact email david@artprojxspace.com

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Artprojx presents


GRACE NDIRITU
Recent video works:
MY BLOOD SELF


Tuesday 20 January 2009
6.45pm–8pm


An experimental night of art inspired by the ancient culture, contemporary
politics and music of the great continent of Africa.


Live soundscape by
DJ Max Reinhardt and DJ Rita Ray
THE SHRINE SYNCHROSYSTEM

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London WC2
Box Office: 0870 811 2559
www.princecharlescinema.com

www.artprojx.com

Tickets £10 (£5 for artists, curators and students)

Buy tickets directly through the Prince Charles Cinema, either by telephone, on 0870 811 2559 (between 1:30 pm and 8:30 pm) or in person, from the box office in the cinema foyer.

Event produced by David Gryn / Artprojx events@artprojx.com

PRESS RELEASE

Artprojx presents

GRACE NDIRITU recent video works: MY BLOOD SELF

Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BY
Tuesday 20 January 2009 6.45pm-8pm


An experimental night of art inspired by the ancient culture, contemporary politics, and music of the great continent of Africa. This series uses repeating images in different works to cause a Déjà vu quality, type of psychological shift of one’s conception of linear time. This parallels the themes of genocide and substandard poverty which are juxtaposed with images from the Egyptian and Mesoamerica civilizations and highlights their further connection to Afro Futurism and cultural memory loss.

LIST OF WORKS
1) CIVILIZATIONS (Part1) 7 min 42
2) SLAVERY AND KIDNAPPING 5 min 50
3) CIVILIZATIONS (Part2) 4 min
4) LA GUERRE (WAR) 4 min

5) THE FAMILY DOCTOR 2min 40

6) DARFUR 3 min 10

7) GIVING BIRTH 4 min

After these works are shown a live soundscape by The Shrine Synchrosystem will accompany the final video. BLOOD PAINTING (19 min 48) SILENT

GRACE NDIRITU
Grace Ndiritu was born in 1976 in Birmingham and lives and works in London. Recent solo shows include the Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005) Recent group shows include those at the Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2008), Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2008) and Metropolitan Museum of Art and Grey Art Gallery, New York (2008).

For more information:
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/grace_ndiritu/index.html

THE SHRINE SYNCHROSYSTEM

The Shrine Synchrosystem is an ever evolving, improvisational musical brainchild of Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt. They are the fixed point, as soundscaping DJ's, laptopping electronic misfits, n All-Star Shrine Synchrosystem: They have played at venues such as the Fridge, Cargo, the Jazz Café, Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and toured internationally with artist such as Tony Allen, Eliza Carthy, Tunde Jegede. In 2006 they performed a live soundscape at the Rex Cinema Berkhampstead, to accompany the silent film Nanook of the North (1929 b/w) by Robert Flaherty.

MAX REINHARDT
Max Reinhardt is a guest presenter on Late Junction for BBC Radio 3 and has also presented on Radio 4 and The World Service. He curates, plays and DJs at the hectic Radio Gagarin sessions at the Notting Hill Arts Club, which have featured acts including Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz. He is the musical director and composer for Oily Cart Theatre Company and has produced a number of remixes.

RITA RAY

Rita Ray is a club and radio DJ, and founding member of numerous club events. She also presents a weekly review slot on the BBC World Service, contributes to the BBC’s Africa On Your Street website and is currently chair of the jury for the BBC Awards for World Music. And, in a previous life, she was a member of the band, Darts, who scored eight Top 20 singles and three Top 20 albums.

For more information:

www.theshrine.uk.com

www.myspace.com/theshrinesynchrosystem

www.myspace.com/theshrinesynchrosystem