Red Hot Pecker presents a night of performances with an exhibition backdrop introducing sets from local bands and performance artists.
POSTPONED - Red Hot Pecker presents a night of performances with an exhibition backdrop introducing sets from local bands and performance artists.
Red Hot Pecker presents a night of performances with an exhibition backdrop introducing sets from local bands and performance artists.
The event will showcase performances and visual work from Faliraki (comprised of Jamie Jones-Watt and Lewis Bissett), Cod O’Donnell, and James Alexander McKenzie.
Expect a slapdash, rough-and-ready show of painting, sculpture, and installation, containing a catalogue of references to Edinburgh. There will be a big central stage for performances and hay all over the floor. The hay on the floor is part of the ‘anti-aesthetics’ attitude that is key to the show, and also refers to Edinburgh’s medieval history.
Faliraki’s music combines post-punk, lo-fi garage rock and old school techno influences supported by a charity shop drum machine. Their music and lyrics satirise Scottish culture and interrogate stereotypes surrounding social class and masculinity. As visual artists, Jamie’s multidisciplinary practice is an exploration of social class, cultural tribalism, and the adverse effect of Capitalism on mental health; Lewis uses accessible, readily available materials to create work celebrating ‘Modern Working-Class Folk Art’.
Dropped from a wormhole over the dead holiday resort of Dunbar and now stumbling around the fringes of Edinburgh with a paper bag on his head, Cod O’Donnell’s music blends buzzing, corroded soundscapes with scratchy folk songs. Accompanied by a nasal yelp and a driving clawhammer banjo, his music is nothing if not idiosyncratic. Cod’s visual work gives form to the strange universe in his music.
James Alexander McKenzie is dedicated to subversion and pushing the boundaries. In his agile creative practice which he loosely defines as ‘poetry-play’s’, he blurs the boundaries of poetry, theatre, and spoken word; and also utilises performance art, painting, installation and sculpture. He claims to have an expanded understanding of artistic disciplines and an awareness of alternative hybrid possibilities, and understands all of his activity as situated in a contemporary art context. Presently, he is focused on his poetry-play “Jimmy Mack the Shapeshifting Jester”.
The event’s poster is a cartoon depicting a crowned Pentland Hills adder eating its own tail with the group riding on its back. This is a representation of an ancient symbol called ‘ouroboros’ usually to do with an eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Specifically engaging with Edinburgh, the group considers where they may fit culturally and historically, and they are addressing their forebears and descendants. There is also an analogy to be found between the self-digesting snake and the way Edinburgh perpetuates myths about Scotland with its many tartan tat shops.
Red Hot Pecker is a shapeshifting vehicle and borderline-pseudo-institution. It moves between an arts-organisation and a theatre company.
When:
1st June – 6-10pm
2nd June – 12-4pm
Venue:
EMBASSY Gallery
10b Broughton Street Lane
We share a main door with ‘Gathering Essence’, We are downstairs.
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