John Richards explores Dirty Electronics focusing on shared experiences, social interaction and critical making. He is concerned with the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, and he has come to consider these activities as a holistic action. It is a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. His work pushes the boundaries between music, performance art, electronics, and graphic design and is transdisciplinary as well as having a socio-political dimension. He has also written numerous texts on DIY practices, performance of electronic music, and object-orientated and material approaches in relation to sound art.

As Dirty Electronics, Richards has created sound devices for various arts organisations and festivals. He released a series of hand-held synths on Mute Records in collaboration with the designer and writer Adrian Shaughnessy. Other significant artwork/sound circuits have included: the Sonar 20th Anniversary Synth for the electronic music festival Sonar; and Polytik, collaboration with graphic designer Jack Featherstone and Artists & Engineers. Richards considers these devices as 'physical editions', an embodiment and means of dissemination of musical ideas.

He has collaborated and performed with, amongst others, Merzbow, Pauline Oliveros, Howard Skempton (founder member of the Scratch Orchestra), Gabriel Prokofiev, Anna Meredith, Nicholas Bullen, Kanta Horio, Tetsuya Umeda and Yan Jun. Other notable collaborations include working with Rolf Gehlhaar (original Stockhausen group), Chris Carter from Throbbing Gristle, Keith Rowe, Anat Ben-David, Makoto Nomura, Stu Smith (ASMO), Dushume (Amit D Patel), Max Wainwright, Tim Shaw and Afrorack (Brian Bamanya). He has also worked closely with illustrator Natalie Kay-Thatcher and film director Johana Ožvold (The Sound is Innocent).

Beverley Carruthers is an award-winning senior lecturer working on the BA (Hons) Photography programme at London College of Communication, for which she was Course Leader for many years. Celebrating multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches to research and teaching as productive and insightful in her teaching and research methodologies. Her pedagogic practices have been acknowledged through the presentation of an award for her contribution to photography in higher education by the Royal Photographic Society in 2019 and the award of a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Authority in 2020.

Graduating from the Royal College of Art, she is an artist and educator, researching transitional moments and how they are navigated through ritual. The work often considers these moments from an experiential and non-clinical position, allowing time and significance for first-hand experience. It pushes against perceived wisdom and breaking taboos to raise significance to subjects unheard, misunderstood or seen as unnecessary to discuss.

Beverley is a member of LCC's Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary research hub – and a co- founder of multiple research projects including: Writing Photographs research project, with Wiebke Leister. A research project on the relationship of photography and writing – and how photographs are expanded, altered and dissected through text in the gallery context. This project challenges the dichotomy between theory and practice as part of working processes towards a photographic project, developing text and writing as integral parts of different project developments to arrive at an expanded understanding of installation practice through gesture, voice and language as performative and visual means.

Ecka Mordecai is a British artist based in London. Situated between sonic, performative and olfactory disciplines, her work is driven by sensation: entwining cello, horsehair harp, voice, eggflute, scent and improvisation into time-based objects expressive of emotional complexity.
Both intimate and exacting, this body-driven practice defies formal constraints, undoing the limits of genre and allowing for works such as Aequill Sound, a line of niche perfumes inspired by elements of the East London soundscape, or Promise & Illusion (Otoroku, 2022), the album in which Ecka explores myriad internal states using the compositional device of a creaking door hinge (or charniére).

Performing since 2010, Ecka has appeared alongside the likes of David Toop, Malvern Brume, Thurston Moore, Keeley Forsyth, Ilan Volkov, Ex-Easter Island Head, Greta Buitkute, Dave Birchall and Kate Armitage. She has played at Cafe OTO, BBC Glasgow, Islington Mill and inside a Berlin wasserturm, amongst others.

She has projects with Revox tape performer Valerio Tricoli in the duo Mordecoli (The Addiction, Hedione 2022), and in the trio Circæa with Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott (The Bridge of Dreams, Faraway Press, 2019).

Fritz Welch is determined to stretch the escalator of possibilities into the bloodshot eye of results. He employs drums, ink, voice, objects, movement, paint, collaboration, green fog and words. He plays in various bands, noise units and improvising ensembles. Welch has most recently played with Dome Riders (quartet with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Mike Parr-Burman & Armin Sturm), Hexakaidecagon (with David Moré), Re-Ghoster Extended (quintet with Nicolas Field, Thomas Florin, Jérôme Noetinger & Nate Wooley) and in duo formation with Olivier DiPlacido. Welch and David Moré co-organize the monthly music/sound/performance series Baked Beans On The Doorstep at The Old Hairdresser’s…. A longtime Brooklynite of Texas origins, he is now based in Glasgow. Photo: Frank Schindelbeck

Rie Nakajima is a sculptor living in London. She creates sounds indoor or outdoor spaces using combination of motorised devices and daily objects. It can be installation or performance. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others.

Her first major solo exhibition was held at IKON Gallery in Birmingham in 2018. She has also worked with Museo Vostell Malpartida (Cáceres), Association de Le Cyclop (Milly la Forêt), ShugoArts (Tokyo), Donaueschinger Music Festival (Donaueschinger), and Cafe OTO (London). Her collaborators are Pierre Berthet, David Cunningham, Keiko Yamamoto, miki yui, hans.w.koch, Marie Roux, Billy Steiger, David Toop and Akira Sakata.

Luke Gottelier (b. London, UK, 1968) graduated from Norwich School of Art in 2000. He lives and works in London. His exhibitions have included: The Nutcracker, Belmacz, London (2014-15), Mata Hari (solo), Ancient & Modern, London (2013), Paintings and Furniture, Kate MacGarry, London (2014), Newspeak 2: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2011-12), Songs of Love and Hate, Ancient & Modern, London (2008), John Moores 22, The Walker, Liverpool (2002), Near & Elsewhere, The Photographers' Gallery, London (1999).

‘Greatest Hits’. A collision of contemporary painting and British music culture, Luke Gottelier has created an installation of paintings with records fixed into the surface of the oil paint. He has also modified a Technics turntable so that the paintings can be played like records. This Frankenstein record player sits on a plinth specially designed for the exhibition by Ben Kelly, the designer of the Haçienda. The plinth supports the turntable and houses the speakers that amplify the distorted, deranged sound that the paintings make. The paintings will be played intermittently throughout the exhibition.

FENWOMAN is an event series and longer-term project organised by Rose Higham-Stainton, that gathers women, non-binary and trans voices from across East Anglia, but also invites voices from outside the region to join us.

FENWOMEN was inspired by, and takes its name from, a book written by Mary Chamberlain in the mid seventies, and the inaugural event responded directly to that text. But FENWOMEN is broad-roaming and for the third iteration asks what it means to inhabit a place, to live and work and move through it. Motivated in part by global events including genocidal campaigns in the name of territory and occupation, it seeks writing as a gesture of care and hospitality, while welcoming contributors from as far as London and Cyprus.

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Arianne Churchman
Arianne Churchman is an artist from Suffolk, working in London. Her work looks at British Folklore and traverses performance, sound, film, textiles and objects. Often slipping in and out of tradition her works look for spaces where we might encounter strange and magical transformations within folklore. Her recent works focus on Suffolk horse folklore, transforming this material into new feminist collective histories and psychedelic dreamscapes in the form of a Dream Horse Cult. She frequently collaborates with other artists including Benedict Drew, Chloe Langlois and Plastique Fantastique.

Lotte LS
Lotte L.S. is a poet living in Great Yarmouth. Her most recent pamphlet, A town, three cities, a fig, a riot, two blue hyacinths…, was published by Tripwire in June 2021. Her next pamphlet will be published with Halle Für Kunst Lüneberg, an arts organisation in Germany. She started red herring press in summer 2020 to print, publish and distribute local writing in Great Yarmouth.She keeps an infrequent newsletter, Shedonism.