£15, or receive a discounted ticket when you book multiple performances.
Shortwave is a new festival of sound and performance unfolding across four independent venues in south east London. Bringing together international and local artists, musicians and DJs, the festival spans two nights of commissioned live works, experimentation and performance.
At the SLG, Krystle Patel presents CLOUT, a four-player performance that examines the artist’s bio as both lure and trap. Seduced by institutional visibility and online presence, the self becomes a commodity – shaped, optimised and circulated for attention.
Combining writing, spatialised sound, video and movement, CLOUT moves through versions of the artist’s psyche. Multiple selves dictate how we are seen, limiting and controlling our visibility. Performed with her family – Ronit, Euan and Esmae Patel – the work brings the private sphere into public view.
Doors open at 5:30PM
Attention: This performance will contain flashing lights.
ABOUT KRYSTLE PATEL
Krystle Patel is an artist, before that she was a dentist. Some people think that Dentistry is an art form, they obviously don’t understand art. She writes, makes music and performs. Some parts of the art world enjoy her work, others find it confusing. She enjoys putting things over her head or the heads of others. She thinks it’s important to touch on literature, theory and popular culture. Krystle has shared her work in institutions and in living rooms. Krystle likes to talk to people. Krystle loves art, and however demoralising it can be, would rather be an artist than a dentist any day.
SHORTWAVE EVENTS ELSEWHERE
London Performance Studios
Friday 8 May, 7:30PM – 10:30PM
The premier of attentions, a new live audio-visual concept album by Harilay Rabenjamina, that traverses familial, intimate and political registers.
ORMSIDE Projects
Friday 8 May, 10:00PM – 04:00AM
At ORMSIDE Projects, Brief Encounters and Kindred Spirits present a series of sonic experimentation and left-field club transmissions with Yawning Portal, VISIO, Jiyoung Wi, NEXCYIA, LC and Harilay Rabenjamina.
IKLECTIK
Saturday 9 May, 7:30PM – 10:30PM
IKLECTIK brings together Joshua Woolford, I Am Fya and K’BOKO, each offering distinct approaches to sound as an embodied and spatial practice.
One discounted ticket bundle per transaction. – Please purchase additional bundles using a separate booking email.
Supported by Hinrichsen Foundation.
