easter bank holiday seemed to have started early in this city of ours (london) to last for a good four and a half days; thursday 5 april, being the last day of work for some folk...
i started mine with my own party, which combined, as it has been on the cards as a natural process for sometime, art and cocktails: the Platform and stav B's liquor bar!
in brief and for the avid reader, there is a good blurb on the group's profile on facebook, i started the Platform two years ago, as an art event, focusing simply and entirely, on photography and performance art... back to basics with theory, debate and manifestation, inspired and referencing movements, such as DADA, which is the current one i am working on and surrealism, where my photography is inspired by...
the first installment went well, it had a good turnout and the work was excellent, including live and sound performance (mine), interactive representations and tailor made music to bind the whole thing together...
but the venue was not appropriate, so i put it to sleep, forever with an eye open for the next opportunity...
at vogue fabrics... an underground club in upper dalston, where queen Bees and so many other nights have been hosted, a place we all love to grace in its sweatness and delightful decadence...
so, to cut the long story short, i decided to combine the Platform with the liquor bar on an thursday night at vogue fabrics and after a fruitful meeting/ invitation from lyall and alex, who own the venue and book the events respectively...
delighted and a step to the right direction...
i deconstructed the Platform group, as it was loaded with theory, quotes and photographs and scattered it around my existing groups and my wall... it felt good to edit and clear and narrow down and focus more and it was good to see the archive for future reference...
i collected the artists, two of the originals, the other two were away and two new ones, who jumped at the idea... after meetings and phonecalls and messages and notes, the program was complete... doug was summoned one more time to design the stupendous flyer and DJ, as i wanted him to have the exclusivity; he is just fitting the bill so well...
i decided to improvise on the cocktail list and keep it simple, with the stock that i already had, but precise and classic... for the ones, who know me and/ or have been reading this blog, they should know how i value my classics, as the base of everything equally beautiful and the limitation of no glass allowed, poured the martinis into teacups and the daiquiris in think plastic rocks, not my favourite, but it's good to adapt...
andre and i made maple syrup old fashioned, dirty vodka martinis, mango and passion fruit daiquiris and a lot of vodka and tequila sours with no egg white!
we witnessed ice and penguins, cold water and mermaids, love manifestos and raw egg swallowing inside a circle made of salt... we had a urinal on the wall and a smiling gioconda and we had sculpture on the bar, with a cup on it...
we listened to wagner and iranian pop, beatnic and psychedelia...
it worked and we are going to do it again...
some of us went to party till the small hours, among very drunk and overbearing folk... i was looking forward to my saturday, so i went with the flow and shared my time between two clubs... o, well...
many thanks to all who supported and got involved: lyall, alex, doug, danielle, justin, season, benjamin, josie, andre, mitch, zbigniew.
see you all here again after the dark room for FRINGE FEST 2012!
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