January 2010
12 posts
The Cremaster Cycle →
The five films that are The Cremaster Cycle are absolutely incredible. Saying that, I haven’t actually seen any of them, they’re not shown that frequently. They are extremely rich and complex, and really take a lot of understanding.
Sand art →
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
GHANAIAN DRUMMING WORKSHOP! Saturday 2nd Week, 4pm →
Comma Club presents a rare chance to experience Ghanaian Drumming, an incredible art. Entrance is free, and it is in The Red Room, New College. Don’t miss out.
Colouring of Pigeons →
“The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, are to release the studio version of the opera ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’, on the 1st March 2010.
Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative...
Fiona Banner →
Some of Fiona Banner’s work centres around pornography, notably, in part of her 2002 Turner Prize installation, Arsewoman in Wonderland. Above is a more recent piece - Striptease (2009). It is a storyboard for a pornographic film, yet the images are clearly absent and the text is somewhat richer than expected:
“Hamstrings stretched taught behind blue vein pulsing, paper-thin eye...
The Writing Ball →
This is the world’s first commercially available typewriter - known as the Hansen writing ball. It looks bizarre.
Comma T-SHIRT Competition! →
T-shirts can be really cool.
Can you design a really cool T-shirt?
COMMA CLUB is running a competition to find out what amazing T-shirt designs your creative glands can squeeze out. Once we have all the entries we will: pick the top 5, get one of each of the top 5 t-shirts printed, do a fashion shoot of the top 5, pick a winner, and then print and sell a limited run of the winning...
Hilary 2010
Allow Comma Club to help you adjust to the brave new decade. Keep your eyes peeled for the following tub-thumping arts events this term: 2nd Week, Saturday / 30th Jan Ghanaian Drumming Workshop Red Room, New College / 4pm-5.30pm FREE 5th Week, Thursday / 18th Feb NeverSayNever, Let There Be Night (Re-living the best Hip-Hop, House and Tech of the 90s) Baby Love Bar / 9pm-3am £4/5 6th Week / 22nd...
