11th November – 4th December (Opening - Friday 11th November at 4pm)
Crank Sturgeon, id M Theft able and Fritz Welch
at Grey Area
Crank Sturgeon, id M Theft able and Fritz Welch come together for a collaborative exhibition- a tumbling multi-dimensional, jet lagged architectural intervention that will feature drawing, collage, video, automated devices and composite found objects.
Grey Area is an independent artist-run gallery in the centre of Brighton, established in a dilapidated basement in March 2006. It has become a platform for experimental contemporary art events.
www.greyareagallery.org

Fritz Welch’s installations presents a world transformed through a manipulation of context. Based in the types of cultural products and by-products that pile up around us like so much trash, Welch produces his work through a process of disassembly, ruination, and regeneration. The artist finds his inspiration in sources as varied as agit-prop graffiti, found photos, and concrete poetry, as well as in the ever evolving culture of avant garde music and performance.’ He has recently exhibited at Participant, Inc. in New York, Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, the AC Project Room in New York, and at Stedlijk Bureau in Amsterdam.’ AN
id M Theftable and Crank Sturgeon perform at COOS on Friday, Fritz Welch with Brittle Hammer Trio on Saturday.

Saturday 12th at Sallis Benney at 4pm
Collective Improvisation - Utopian Strategy or Group Goof?
Can collective improvisation point the way to new modes of cooperative behaviour for a post-capitalist world? Is it possible to position the practise of collective improvisation as a political act? As the music industry crumbles, can group-organised, spontaneous collaborations provide a new folk idiom for the 21st century? Or is it all just self-indulgent mucking about? Daniel Spicer (of Wire Magazine) doesn’t know for sure, so he’s going to discuss it with a selection of the artists performing at this year’s Colour Out Of Space.

Sunday 13th at Sallis Benney at 4pm
An Audience with Seymour
Daniel Spicer and Seymour Glass attempt to unravel the convoluted history, influence and mythology of the Buttecounty Free Music Society - from Bananafish to the Glands of External Secretion and beyond.

5th November at 7pm
COOS Bombfire Night at the West Hill Hall (£5)
A pre-fest warm up / fundraiser at Compton Ave’s fantastic community arts space. With:
Adam Bohman – the return of a national treasure, bowing and scraped junk and household objects. His smoke signals beats your iphone.
Milche Grand – one man acid commune vocal yabber
David Winter – performing the 'songs' of a sick mind
Harrison/Nyoukis – try to turn yr noggin into a quivering brain fillet
Vitamin b12 – brightons long time mysterious big band
Filthy Eyes – crud-fi tapes and loops by a two man ear stain
Caines/Garside/Pyne/Spicer – Free Jazz whoop culled from the Safehouse
Mothers Of the Third Reich – Oh the horror!!!
Runn From The Work Vann – remedial guitar and drums stumble from Hobo Sonn and John Ives.