TEK FOK launch
Saturday 11 May 2024
Doors: 19:00
Performance begins: 19:30
Intermission: 20:30
Finish: 21:15
Drinks to follow
Free Entry
First come, first served
FormaHQ
Peveril Gardens Studios
140 great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
TEK FOK
Album launch presented by Plastique Fantastique & Thanet Tape Centre
11 May 2024, 19.30 – 21.15
Forma is delighted to host the launch of TEK FOK at FormaHQ and Peveril Gardens on 11 May 2024. Moving across both floors of the building, the London-based collaboration Plastique Fantastique present eight stories about the evolution of meme-tek-animals in the form of songs (Side A of the Thanet Tape Centre release TEK FOK) and a spell to calm and quiet cars.
TEK FOK tape and companion comic and posters will be available at the event as well as other Thanet Tape Centre releases.
Performers: Ana Benlloch, David Burrows, Arianne Churchman, Tom Clark, Benedict Drew, Alex Marzeta, Vanessa Page.
Programme
19.30-20.00 – Sonic Spell to calm and quiet the cars of Bricklayers Arms Roundabout performed on the roof of Forma.
We ask attendees to gather on the roof of Forma to hear the spell and then follow performers into the performance area of Forma, to hear part one of TEK FOK.
20.00 – TEK FOK part one.
a. Welcome, meme-tek animals. (This is the story of how we are all here.)
b. Stories spread just like a virus. (The story of copy and repeat.)
c. Twa Drones. (The story of two Amazon drones, two sisters, both of whom loved the engineer’s son, but the engineer loved the smaller drone, so the larger drone collided with the smaller drone, crashed them in a river to drown.)
d. There’s a Man in the Earth. (The story of the body down there.)
20.30 – Intermission. (Extinction.)
20.44 – Intermission ends. (Regeneration.)
20.45 – TEK FOK part two.
e. Traitor. (This is the story of the upside-down, wrong way round, invert meme.)
d. Chaos to Order. (The is a story about something we all have. Not the nose on your face, not shoes on your feet, not a cock in your pocket. This is a story about the machine in your pocket, bag, backpack. This is a story of the machine that brings chaos to order – death to the fascist humanoid!)
f. Happy Birthday Dog. (The story of birthday dog and the round, sweet biscuit-thing – the serving of the cake.)
g. How are all you hashtag meme-animals today? (The story of how we are all is just like you hashtag meme-animals.)
21.15 – Farewell.
Artist Biographies
Plastique Fantastique is the name of a performance fiction exploring aesthetics, the sacred, popular and mass culture and cosmopolitics through films, soundworks, comics, performances, texts, installations and assemblages. TEK FOK is a collaboration between David Burrows, Alex Marzeta, Vanessa Page, Benedict Drew, Ana Benlloch, Tom Clark, Arianne Churchman and Simon O'Sullivan.
Benedict Drew works across video, sculpture, music and their associated technologies. He creates large-scale installations, often concerned with ecstatic responses to socio-political anxiety. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome, Whitechapel Gallery, London; KAPUT, QUAD Gallery, Derby; Walker Gallery, Liverpool; THE ANTI ECSTATIC MACHINESand Heads May Roll, Matt’s Gallery, London.
Saturday 11 May 2024
Doors: 19:00
Performance begins: 19:30
Intermission: 20:30
Finish: 21:15
Drinks to follow
Free Entry
First come, first served
FormaHQ
Peveril Gardens Studios
140 great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW