Category Archives: past events

  “As part of their ‘making books with things, making things with books’ project, Laboratoro presents the Island Man Notebooks of writer Thom Punton. In 2007 Thom decided to write a 7000 page book about a man who tries to … more info …

Sunday Hacks Experimental jamming and hacking in the Electric Jungle. Bring your own instrument along or just an object we could turn into one, and join us for this open improvisatory session on a lazy Sunday afternoon.       … more info …

Familiar and free interaction, carnivalistic misalliances and performances throughout the day from 2pm with The Yetzer Hara Box, Miss Roberts & Rude Mechanicals, Grassy Noel & APE, Charlie Tuesday Gates and more… plus interactive noise and visuals from VJ Yourself … more info …

The Zone presents: Revenge of The Chicken Men Brighton based film collective The Zone return to Hundred Years Gallery with a programme of experimental work. Kandinsky – Yellow, Red, Blue – Nicky Heinen, Flash animation, flute. Small Worlds – Nicky … more info …

  Jaap Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage  performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies. One of his early influences was Kurt Schwitters, whose … more info …

‘Drawing the Future’ by Andor Merks & Balint Bolygo. Lucid dreaming: step into my interactive living room and play music with surreal modified household equipment. Artists’ Talk at 8pm.  Screening of Computer Art from the ’70 & ’80s. vjyourself.com/jungle

Baby: Will Miles, flute and guitar Adam Bushell, vibraphone and percussion Keisuke Matsui, guitar and object A spontaneous free improvisation in an old post office squatted by the group in the Autumn of 1999 signaled the beginning of their work.
The … more info …

  We Are CAN present ‘Artists Talks – Round table on Creativity’ “Creativity is at the base of innovation. Being original, developing new concepts, providing new experiences: all spring out of our ability to be and remain creative.  “But how … more info …

DRON festival and Hundred Years Gallery present The Zorse Trio – this special line-up comprises members of The Horse Trio with Carole Finer : Carole Finer: objects/banjo, was in the Scratch Orchestra and has played with Eddie Prevost and many … more info …

For the last night of the DRON Festival, Hundred Years Gallery presents a special solo performance and installation by artist and improviser Giles Leaman playing home made and invented instruments, including the dronomium, springs and found ephemera. Giles has recorded … more info …

Performances by: “Three muses inside the Dron” : On the Eve of International Womens Day, sigh yawn laugh cry scream curse – an orgiastic feast as three women enter the womblike Dron Ultima Ratio Hecate: Jill Rock, Mary Lemley & … more info …

    Another free Sunday afternoon talk and experimental music session in the cafe at Hundred Years Gallery, from 3pm : Collagist and sound artist Giles Leaman performs on self made instruments – the drononium, a large monochord, and new … more info …

The fifth DRON performance night focuses on DRON Poetics – running the spectrum from sonnet form to vocal sound and concrete poetry: Noel Macken – Doppelganger Adnan al Sayegh – one of the most original voices from the generation of … more info …

Informal talk in the Gallery Cafe with colour theorist Chris Gough, and Roy Osborne, artist and authority on colour theory in art and design, whose publications include  ‘Lights and Pigments’ (1980) and ‘Color Influencing Form’ (2004). Featuring contributions from Jill … more info …

Flange Zoo are a troop of musical mythical animals who first manifest on 1st April 2012 and perform with original soundscapes and lyrics influenced variously by H. P. Lovecraft’s stories, Ovid’s Metamorphosis and Douglas Adam’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. … more info …

  For the fourth DRON Festival Sunday session, Cambridge based writer and musician David Grundy presents an informal talk and discussion on ‘The Knowledge in Motion of Beings’: Collective Improvisation as Embodiment’. David edits and writes for Eartrip magazine and runs … more info …

For the DRON Festival, the Jerico Orchestra will collaborate with digital artist Andor Merks and his Composition Robotics. Using projected images as an interactive graphic score this first time meeting promises a trip into uncharted areas, as visuals by Pete … more info …

An informal talk and discussion session in the Gallery Cafe hosted by artists involved in the Dron project, with solo cello improvisations by Grahame (GD) Painting. Join us to talk about any and every aspect of experimental music and art. … more info …

The second DRON Festival performance session features Mark Anthony Whiteford and the anarchic Bristol Improvisers’ ZARIBA occupying Hundred Years Gallery for a continulous six hour process of music, dance and live art. Personnel on this occassion are Johanna Fellner – … more info …

Gabriel Keen performs early 20th Century classical pieces and improvisations at the piano, and an informal talk session with Robert Robertson, author of ‘Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema’ and poet and performer … more info …

  Adnan al-Sayegh (born 1955 in Al-Kufa, Iraq), is one of the most original voices from the generation of Iraqi poets known as the Eighties Movement. His poetry, crafted with elegance, and sharp as an arrowhead, carries an intense passion … more info …

With: Adam Bohman text based performance KMAT and Jo Roberts Dron experimental session A show instigated by Graham MacKeachan and Jill Rock Derived from nature, chaos and geometry, the show features installation, graphic scores for free interpretation, performances and interactive … more info …

An informal talk and discussion session in the Galley Cafe hosted by artists involved in the Dron project with piano improvisations and 20th Century classical pieces performed by Gabriel Keen. Join us to talk about any and every aspect of experimental … more info …

A Pre-show Party night for the DRON Festival festuring the interactive Dron chaos  machine sculpture by Jill Rock Interactive Energy, an Open participatory platform for interactive media and art. Bring your latest works to socialize and share in a cozy environment… App designers / … more info …

During the month of March the ongoing Dron/ Ultima Ratio festival becomes Dron/Ultima Hecate, moving from the aesthetic into the politics of gender. The dron, a womb-like polyhedron becomes a matrix for performance; an audiovisual environment of the unseen, unheard … more info …

ONE YEAR! from here… Hundred Years Gallery has the pleasure of inviting you to the 1st. Anniversary Party, on Sunday 16th of December from 4pm. til late Food DJs: DJ Ninot, Mark Rathmell, Johnny Cole Performances: The Yetzer Hara Box, … more info …

From 7.30 (performances begin at 8.00) Jerico Orchestra is a collective exploring the relationship between improvised music and visual art.  Their performances have all the power of punk (Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, Vince Taylor) combined with the finesse of the classical … more info …

Lote3 (Carina Levitan & Graham MacKeachan) will perform via a three-way video connection, linking Hundred Years Gallery with Fundação ECARTA in Porto Alegre, Brasil and with sound artist Luciana Bass in Berlin. Brasilian musician and artist Carina Levitan and London … more info …

“Amazon 131″. Over time, Paul Shearsmith (architect, musician, photographer) has come to see his Volvo Amazon 131 as a piece of ongoing sculpture. He bought it in 1989 with the intention of ‘Doing it up’. After several knocks (none of which … more info …

Consecutive gallery nights… discovering open-art, interactive media, and communal creation. We want to invite you to join our playful activity… Watch, touch, get involved! Change the art-works and let them change you too!

Musical performance on the opening of “Expression” and “Now that the living outnumber the dead”. Thursday 1st of November, from 7pm. On this evening, the work will be coming alive in the form of two intigrated performances: 8.30pm  Magnagatti (Cat-eaters) … more info …

           “Expression” by Laurent Vernet ‘Expression’ represents the concept of movement and the mixture of the senses, oriented through various phases. The work depicts elements coming together, as simple as a smile, or the trace of … more info …

Click here to see the House of Kings slide show with the Grassy Noel & APE performance. This new project by Haggerston photographers, and part of the Photomonth Festival 2012, shows scenarios and characters as Giant Billboard Kings in transition back to the … more info …

Dj Ninöt For this “Dark Energy” session, DJ Ninöt plays a selection of new experimental and electronic music illustrated with the projection of  ”Ghost in the Shell II” (anime movie),  ”2004″ and “Metropolis”. DJ Ninöt started playing six years ago … more info …

For this “Labyrinth of tales” session, DJ Ninöt plays a selection of deep and house music illustrated with the projection of ”Neo Tokyo” (anime movie). DJ Ninöt started playing six years ago as regular DJ in different Costa del Sol … more info …

Grassy Noel & APE will be performing for the opening of ‘House of Kings’ exhibition. An evening of experimental music and poetry illustrated with a wide screen projection of works by ‘House of Kings’ artists. Grassy Noel & APE : Grassy Noel, … more info …

MY TIANANMEN: The Polyphonic History is a multimedia exhibition which embodies the musical and literary concepts of polyphony in its structure. It has three parts: a film program “Memories in a Cross-generational Dialogue”, a video installation “My Tiananmen”, and a special … more info …

‘Shift’ is a group show (curated by Happenstance Gallery) about the spiritual in everyday life. It features the work of English artist Jennifer Hedley whose take on the divine ranges from schizophrenia as a higher state of consciousness to the … more info …

This Friday 24th of August from 7pm, Hundred Years Gallery will host a new evening of experimental music and film. We’ll celebrate the closure of the exhibition “Failure” and the end of the season, because HYG takes a few days … more info …

This month at the ground floor, Hundred Years Gallery hosts “The Fall”, an exhibition with a selection of artworks, sculptures and paintings by some of the resident artists: Juan Gallego Pinazo, Carlos Gonzalez, Rita Says, Antonio Mena, Jim Sanders and … more info …

The next 10th of August Hundred Years Gallery will host another session of experimental film. ‘Thanatos‘ is the name of death. Combining video and dance, Arts Conspiracy reach into the earth and pull faces from the fire. death is not … more info …

The next Friday 27th of July from 7 pm, Hundred Years Gallery will host “Apocalympics”, an evening of performances to celebrate the beginning of the Apocalympic season. Grassy Noel. Introduction to the “Apocalympics” by Grassy Noel’s recorded voice. Adam Bohman presents … more info …

Adam Bohman presents the first in a short series of performances at Hundred Years Gallery. The Bohman aesthetic can be a dense and tangled thing to unpick and describe. Various and nefarious sounds and artistic influences merge and collide, Varèsian … more info …

“Beijing Olympics 2008” by Carlos González “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Beckett) Failure is an curatorial project that aims to explore the critical discourse surrounding the impact on a city of hosting the Olympic Games. It is about … more info …

The next Sunday 8th of July from 3 pm, spontaneous music and visionary poetry by Grassy Noel & APE with guests Stephen Flinn and Keisuke Matsui. “…Now Grassy’s going on about the Seventh Seal. Who know what he’s talking about, … more info …

‘Two Thirds’, a vibrant collection of work from Central Saint Martins practitioners working in a variety of visual styles. All the contributors are from varied walks of life, uniting to present the bounty of their personally distinct experiences in this … more info …

An evening of events celebrating Summer Solstice 2012. Wednesday 20th of June from 7:30 pm. Programme:  1.- Lote3  Carina Levitan (Brasilian sound artist and musician) and Graham Mackeachan (London bassist). Since December 2010 they have performed live improvisations via skype to mark the … more info …

Friday 8th of June from 7.30 p.m. £4 List of films: Count – Michael Szpakowski Bedridden – Sean Reynard Intraference – Barry Hale, Dan Powell The Mouse Escapes – Simon Mclennan Fire Lice – Alistair Strachan Man – Sean Reynard … more info …

Exhibition extended until 3rd of July! “Human Glue”, a show by Beverlie Manson, Mark Paulding, Thea Penna and Johnny Cole; a collection of paintings and drawings themed around the family. All four artists express their response to family life in different … more info …

The butterfly flaps its wings over the sand and under the starts, on the wind…To this Little Prince, posters and billboards look like iconography, everyday Western urban landcapes are nouveau-classical extravaganzas…The spirit of a new artistic canon haunts the Government Modernist … more info …

Odes is a continuing documentation of Ted Milton’s collaborations outside of Blurt for the last 20 years. Initially conceived as a limited edition book and CD featuring tracks by Ted and The BTN Orchestra, Steve Beresford, Sam Britton, Andreas Gerth, … more info …

Hundred Years Gallery is proud to present “Interval”, a selection of original and collectible artworks, sculptures, art fetiches, drawings and objects by various artists belonging or currently working in the gallery. These works will be displayed during three weeks in … more info …

Screening of experimental and artist film with some live performance.The Zone is an itinerant event conceived in Brighton, utilising alternative or unusual spaces. Although mainly a platform for film and video, the Zone seeks to promote live performance that incorporates … more info …

This 20 of April, Hundred Years Gallery hosts a new site specific sound piece by Rita Says & Jerico Orchestra (during the Vogue Festival in which Rita will perform “Against The Day”). Friday 20th of April from 7 pm open bar … more info …

The exhibition features films, sculpture, statements,photography and paintings that explore notions of the body, presence, absence and social space. more info …

The show in the “Hundred Years Gallery” combines performance and objects. The objects are plates. Plates are receptacles of food but can also be a cultural product and a template for artistic exuberance. The show is a collaboration – a collaboration on the one hand between Doron Polak and Michael Lazar, the performers, and the performers and the objects. Some of the objects reflect the photographic image of the performers on their surface, as shown in the works of Michael Lazar, Ran Shevi, Norma Drimmer and culminating in Doron’s own “plates on my head.” more info …

The installation of figures create a powerful crowd of personas mirroring facets of the viewers’ own personality. Detached from the walls, the Solitaires inhabit the space and own every element of it: the air, the light and the sounds. It is a universe of spiritual elevation where the visitor has no choice but to intrude upon their domain, both individually and as a crowd. Scaled up to supersede normal human dimensions, the Solitaires intimidate but also encourage the eyes to enter into a minefield of electrifying sensations. The fundamentals of lust and love, greed and hope, death and freedom, self-doubt and arrogance are transposed upon their mute existence. more info …

Hundred Years’ inaugural show: Widely Absurd, is the first of a series of shows wanting to explore the concept of “absurdity” and people’s resulting struggle for happiness. We live in a time of irresolvable contradictions, where the urge of being happy -at all costs- profoundly differs from our system’s constant pressures for consumption, success and competition. As a result, depression, unhappiness, addictions, anxiety and violent behaviour are the alienating disorders that we have to put up with. more info …

  Since 1996 Antonio Nodar has been taking B&W portraits of artists, and giving them a duplicated print of their portrait on which to create their self-portrait.This project is supported by the Elsa Peretti Foundation Vol. 1 features the first … more info …