Limerent Objects

Hello all,

So after a year of inactivity I'm getting back into being productive again...

I've started a new project called Limerent Objects that's dedicated to organising film/video screenings in Leeds centered around underground music culture - the first event is taking place on February 14th 2013 at Wharf Chambers where I'll be screening some little seen videos made by the sound art project Nocturnal Emissions. Here's all the info for it:

Limerent Objects is proud to present a Sterile Records double bill screening of: 

BLEEDING IMAGES (1982, 46 minutes, VHS)
THE FOETAL GRAVE OF PROGRESS (1984, 34 minutes, VHS) 

Perhaps THE quintessential audiovisual statements of the post-industrial music scene. Provocative in content, prescient in style, these medium-length videos captured the subversive interests and activities of the pioneering sound art project The Nocturnal Emissions against a contextual backdrop of the UK between 1981 and 1984; a time rife with mass unemployment, civil unrest, media hysteria, political indifference, terrorism and war overseas. Burroughsian cut-ups reveal subliminal imagery hidden in exploitative mainstream broadcasting; shocking images of real-life violence against living beings are critically employed to expose our complacency in everyday cruelty; the thunderous soundscapes and ritual performances of The Nocturnal Emissions awaken the viewer’s senses to our undermining culture controlled by fear and repression… 

Rarely viewed since their initial home video releases and screenings at the Tate and ICA in the UK as a result of the imposing 1984 Video Recordings Act, both videos remain impressive today as early influential examples of the extended music video and key moments of the British independent video art movement. Countless artists and broadcasters have emulated or outright stolen the ambitions, aesthetics and techniques used in the videos of The Nocturnal Emissions, either directly or through watered-down copies - few however can match the tremendous power of the original works which are long overdue public and critical reassessment in these increasingly pertinent times. 

This screening is taking place at Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club in Leeds on February 14th 2013. Free entry with small donations welcomed. Doors open at 19:30. A short talk and introduction by the organiser will precede the first video at 20:00 - second video will be shown after 21:00. Please be aware that these videos contains flashing images and some footage that may disturb those of a sensitive disposition. 

Special thanks to Nigel Ayers/Earthly Delights and Piitu Lintunen for making this event possible.
Facebook event page 

*Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club is a members’ club, and you need to be a member, or a guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.*

You can find Limerent Objects on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter - I've also registered a Blogspot, YouTube and Vimeo but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with those just yet...

John