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New Langton Arts

February 20 - March 29, 2009

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1246 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
A conceptual club, as well as an experimental music, performance, and film series - with Anne Colvin and Guests Opening night: Friday, February 20 Doors 6pm / Performance 6:30pm / Film 7:30pm $5 at the door May I introduce to you... Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club. To start the club off, we invite you to participate in an open riff on John Cage's "Living Room Music" this Friday evening, February 20. Cage's score reads: "Any household objects or architectural elements may be used... magazines, newspaper... table... furniture.... largish books... floor, wall, door...Do not use conventional beaters." Bring in props and play them to create our own living room. After the performance, a screening of "Cage/Cunningham", a film that documents the collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. As with Colvin's previous installation (The Colony Room, New Langton Arts 2008), socializing is encouraged, and with that in mind our resident mixologist will be concocting a new cocktail, “Tangerine Dream”, to add to our specially commissioned list. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club attire is welcome! About the club The second in a series of 'conceptual clubs', Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club will form an extension of Langton's show Every Sound You Can Imagine, guest curated by Christoph Cox with the collection of Robert Shimshak. Taking the name from The Beatles (in)famous album, which not only acknowledges Karlheinz Stockhausen as a musical influence but actually includes his portrait on the cover, Sgt. Pepper's... explores the space between performer/non-performer, musician/non-musician and composer/non-composer and the influence of some of the avant-garde masters on subsequent generations. A series of performances, screenings, sound installations and legacy listening sessions from Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Luke Fowler, Fred Frith Ensemble, Michael Nyman and Peter Greenaway, Steve Roden and Loren Chase, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jennifer Walshe, Simon Rose, The Beatles, Bjork, Sonic Youth and more will take place twice a week from February 20th through March 28th in Langton’s Annex. A curated sound and video series will also be posted on New Langton Art's blog. Anne Colvin is an artist, curator and co-founder of TART in San Francisco. Her work has most recently been included in Mare Street Biennale, Artistspace, London (2008); Mineral Park, The Park Gallery, Falkirk Scotland (2008); The Consequence, Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, (2008); Fool's Gold publication at Matt's Gallery and Gasworks, London, (2008); Majuscule, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York (2007) and it can't happen here, Worksound, Portland (2007). Her publication Skank Bloc Bologna has been shown at The NY Art Book Fair courtesy of Silverman Gallery (2008) and Book It! New Langton Arts, San Francisco (2008).