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.
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