EXPRESSWAY
Curated by the Academicians’ Room and byNWR
Tuesday 6 February 2018 7 - 11pm
The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£15. Free for Patrons and the Academicians' Room Members.
We are excited to present EXPRESSWAY, an evening curated by the Academicians’ Room and cult film director Nicolas Winding Refn that will take over the Keeper’s House with films, live music, and poetry.
We are excited to introduce a series of new interdisciplinary events in 2018 involving spoken word, food, music, film and much more.
The first event in the series is EXPRESSWAY, an evening of films, live music, and poetry co-curated by the Academicians’ Room and byNWR from cult film director Nicolas Winding Refn that will take over the Keeper’s House.
We will be presenting the first UK screening of the newly restored Night Tide (1961). This thriller features a young Dennis Hopper in his very first starring role, as a man who falls in love with a woman who may or may not be a real mermaid, and who is connected to some mysterious deaths.
Night Tide will be followed by a screening of Santo contra Hombres Infernales (Santo Versus the Infernal Men), which was filmed in Cuba just as the Cuban Revolution gained steam. It’s rumoured that the crew had to flee Cuba, faking the death of a crew member so that the footage could be smuggled out in a coffin.
The Academicians’ Room will play host to DJs Annabel Fraser, Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins, as well as in-conversations with journalist Jimmy McDonough and Ben Cobb from Another Man magazine.
In the Shenkman Bar and Keeper’s House you’ll find eclectic music and poetry. Acclaimed film composer Julian Winding will take over the bar, while three of the UK’s best young poets, Caleb Femi, Bridget Minamore and James Massiah, turn the restaurant into a room of words.
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Tickets are available online for Friends and general admission. Patrons and Academicians' Room members can book their free tickets by calling 0207 300 8090.
Our collaborators for the evening who have all helped to make this happen are: Mubi / Little White Lies / NTS / Spread The Word / Another Man magazine.
£15. Free for Patrons and the Academicians' Room Members.
Biographies
Julian Winding is a Danish/English musician, composer and producer working in a variety of genres and formats. He is well known for his track The Demon Dance, featured in the Cannes-nominated motion picture The Neon Demon, which made its way onto music charts in countries such as Italy, Holland and Mexico. He has also written the score to the prize-winning documentary Pervert Park and numerous other films.
Under his own name, he creates dark, pulsing techno, the first EP Powder Room surpassing a million plays, with an album in the pipeline for the near futureHe is also the producer and co-writer in the group Sweet Tempest, a dream pop band that is currently making ripples in indie circles with its catchy songs and adventure-like sound.
Annabel Fraser holds the fort at NTS’s Manchester studio. She is “a lover of music first and foremost, not genres”. Expect a free-flowing yet consistent mix of music diving into house, electro, new wave, psych, prog and more...
Ivan Smagghe belongs to a top table of DJs that journalists like to lazily describe as “The DJ’s DJs”. Ivan has the ability to play music like a raw conduit between his famously obscure records and the dance-floor’s strobe-soaked bodies, injecting something of himself seamlessly into the mix along the way. Follow him on Facebook here.
Nathan moved to London in the mid-90s, co-ran Ideal Record Distributors and helped organise the legendary invite-only Ideal parties, where he DJed alongside friends and long-time associates such as Ivan Smaghhe, Trevor Jackson and Jarvis Cocker. He is currently one half of electronic music outfit Cowboy Rhythmbox, who are signed to Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound record label. They create their own singular strain of music for dancing, drawing on a collective love of outsider house, bargain bin cut-outs, hard drive debris, rudimentary jack trax, obscure TV themes, Euro disco, EBM, Detroit techno, the Smith & Wesson Model 3 and horses. Follow him on Instagram here.
Caleb is a poet and filmmaker, and is the Young People's Laureate for London. He is featured in the Dazed 100 list of the next generation shaping youth culture. He has written and directed short films commissioned by the BBC and Channel 4 and poems by Tate Modern, The Royal Society for Literature, St Paul's Cathedral and the Guardian.
Caleb has graced major stages such as the Roundhouse, Barbican, British Library and Royal Festival Hall. He has also opened up for Lianne La Havas and performed at many festivals. Caleb has also won the Roundhouse Poetry Slam and Genesis Poetry Slam and is currently working on a debut pamphlet. Follow him on Instagram here.
James is a poet and DJ from South London whose work explores ideas about sexuality, mortality and ethics through performance writing and visual media. His latest project Euthanasia Party/Twenty Seven’ is a series of poems about fate, sex, life and death from the perspective of a young determinist.
He has been commissioned to produce work for the BBC and the Guardian, as well as featuring in campaigns for Selfridges, Loewe and Nike. He has performed readings of his work at the Tate Modern, the Courtauld and the Houses of Parliament He has also been profiled in Vogue, Dazed,i-D and GQ. Follow him on Instagram here.
Bridget Minamore is a writer, poet and journalist. She was shortlisted to be London's first Young Poet Laureate and is part the creative team behind Brainchild Festival. Bridget teaches poetry and drama workshops around the country, has read her work internationally, and regularly speaks on panels and events about everything from politics to pop culture. In 2015 Bridget was chosen as one of The Hospital Club's Emerging Creatives, as well as one of Speaking Volumes's 40 Stars of Black British Literature. Titanic (Out-Spoken Press), her debut pamphlet of poems on modern love and loss, came out in May 2016. Follow her on Instagram here
Ben Cobb is the Editor-in-Chief of the luxury men’s bi-annual Another Man magazine. As a journalist he has written for titles including The Face, i-D, GQ Style and Love. He is also the author of Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Creation Books, 2007) and editor of Another Man: Men's Style Stories (Rizzoli, 2014).
Jimmy McDonough is a biographer and journalist. He has written acclaimed biographies of Neil Young, Tammy Wynette, Russ Meyer and Andy Milligan. Time magazine declared his Milligan biography The Ghastly One "a masterpiece" and John Waters has repeatedly named it one of his all-time favourites. McDonough has also authored profiles on Jimmy Scott, Gary Stewart, Hubert Selby, Jr., the Ormond family and Link Wray. His latest book is Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green.