Reportage : Le Brexit vu par les artistes et curateurs d'art d'Irlande du Nord

Cette semaine dans Vu d'Allemande sur DW: 

* Le 9 novembre, "jour du destin" allemand,

* Et mon reportage en Irlande du Nord, où les artistes redoutent la fermeture de la frontière entre leur territoire britannique et la République d'Irlande, après le "Brexit"

Pour écouter :

https://www.dw.com/fr/le-9-novembre-jour-du-destin-allemand/av-46196635



Le Brexit vu par les artistes et curateurs d'art d'Irlande du Nord

À cinq mois de la date envisagée pour la sortie officielle du Royaume-Uni de l'Union européenne, la question de la frontière entre l'Irlande du Nord, territoire britannique, et la République d'Irlande, membre de l'UE, constitue toujours un des principaux obstacles à la conclusion de l'accord de divorce. 

Un modèle a bien été évoqué, celui du "backstop", qui éviterait le retour d'une frontière physique entre les deux parties de l'île en assurant le maintien dans l'union douanière et le marché unique de l'Irlande du Nord, mais Londres estime que cela porterait atteinte à son intégrité territoriale.

Parmi les secteurs qui risquent d'être touchés par un rétablissement de la frontière, il y a celui des artistes et organisateurs d'expositions pour qui la séparation serait un obstacle majeur à la circulation des oeuvres et des idées.

Un reportage à Belfast de Melissa Chemam.

Et selon un sondage révélé en début de semaine par la chaîne Channel 4, 54% des citoyens britanniques se prononceraient aujourd'hui pour un maintien du Royaume-Uni dans l'Union européenne. Le sondage a été effectué en ligne auprès de 20.000 personnes dans tout le territoire. Il est présenté comme le plus grand sondage d'opinion indépendant sur le Brexit.

'I Want You'

#MusicHistory: 

A cover of Marvin Gaye's classic love song 'I Want You' - by Massive Attack Feat. Madonna - was released on her compilation album "Something To Remember" in November 1995, after a single release in October...

Enjoy the sublime and intense video:

 I Want You (Official Music Video)

"Remainer Now "

Email of the day:

Dear Melissa,

In June 2016 I voted to leave the EU.

It was a hard task trying to decipher exactly what leaving would mean but it sounded attractive – a quick and easy deal resulting in more money for our public services, more trade deals and with people enjoying the same benefits as they do today.

I thought by voting to leave the EU we would be getting more. In reality, we’re getting less.

In light of all the new information on Brexit and now with a better understanding of the EU, I’m demanding a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal.

It’s ok to change your mind, and I’m not the only one who has. We know that as new information has come to light, more and more people who voted leave are now backing a People’s Vote.

Are you one of them?

I VOTED LEAVE BUT BACK A PEOPLE'S VOTE

There’s lots of people out there who feel the same way as I do. If any of your friends or family think this way, please get them to sign up here. 

TELL US WHY YOU SUPPORT A PEOPLE'S VOTE

When it comes to persuading MPs, we know these are the most persuasive stories. We will use this information to step up our campaigning and make it clear to MPs that across the country people have changed their minds and now want a People’s Vote.

Thank you for your continued support,

Hugh Norris, 
Remainer Now 
Leading Supporter of the People’s Vote campaign

'Take Me With You'

These times are a lot about her voice:



Elizabeth Fraser - 'Take Me With You'

Music: Michael Kamen Lyrics: Alan Rickman Performed: Liz Fraser


Cd Album : "The Winter Guest" (Soundtrack)


The Winter Guest is a 1997 film directed by Alan Rickman in his debut as a director, which stars Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson.

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Lyrics


Your eyes are still closed Are you sleeping? Can I touch you? Would it make you fall? You sail in love through the sky When there's a close slips in between us Am I livin' your dreams? Take me with you. The night is still cold Let me hold you Drifting homewards Do you know how the wind blows You sailing love through the sky And I will keep you close beside me Am I livin' your dreams? Take me with you. Drifting homewards Do you know where the wind blows Take me with... Take me with you You sail in love through the sky And I will hold you close beside me Am I livin' your dreams? Take me with you. Am I livin' your dreams? Take me with you.

'LEARNING TO COPE WITH COWARDICE'

Great news for a piece of music history.

Mark Stewart was one of the first wizards of Bristol's music scene and definitely a key personality in my research for my book on Bristol's music and art scene!

Book should be out in February 2019.

In the meantime, listen to the music:

MARK STEWART

DEFINITIVE RELEASE OF DEBUT SOLO ALBUM

LEARNING TO COPE WITH COWARDICE

ALONGSIDE 10-TRACK UNRELEASED MATERIAL - OUT 25 JAN 2019

Press release: 

Learning To Cope With Cowardice, the groundbreaking debut solo album by visionary post-punk iconoclast Mark Stewart, is to be given a definitive reissue alongside The Lost Tapes, a newly discovered cache of unreleased material.

Learning To Cope With Cowardice will be released on Mute on double vinyl, double CD and as a limited edition double clear vinyl (with a percentage of the vinyl sales going to the Mercy Ships charity) on 25 January 2019.

Listen to ‘Paranoia’, the first taste of what to expect from The Lost Tapes, a 10-track collection of newly discovered material – smarturl.it/mark-stewart

Mark Stewart himself perceives The Lost Tapes as a document that now possesses a storied significance: “It was a real adventure discovering this forbidden history, a twisted tale of Muswell hillbillies, French pirates and a Dutch schizophrenic doctor doing psychic archaeology.” Whilst Adrian Sherwood describes these works as characteristic of a distinct primitivism: “[The Lost Tapes represent] the early childhood of the songs before Mark and me conducted frenzied, scorched earth, slash-and-burn, twenty hour mental, manic editing sessions at Crass’ studios that led to birthing the finished album.”

Ahead of release, Mark Stewart will take over, in true pirate style, the BAD PUNKshow with 'Learning To Cope With Radio'on Resonance FMat 10pm BST on Friday 5 October.

After disbanding The Pop Group in the wake of a final performance at a momentous CND rally in 1980, Stewart had grown disillusioned with the UK’s music industry. Besides working for CND Stewart had embarked on a prolonged visit to New York the same year, where he encountered a nascent hip hop scene anchored by Kiss FM’s Kool DJ Red Alert. Together with the sounds of inner-city construction sites, in particular the heavyweight impact of pile drivers, his exposure to the pioneering cut-and-paste of early hip hop represented an epiphany that catalysed Stewart’s daring next project. 

For this vision, Stewart and emergent dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood, assembled a core crew of reggae players including legendary horn player and alumni of the fabled Alpha Boys school ‘Deadly’ Headley Bennett as well as the ringleader of African Head Charge Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah. Alongside them Stewart added Charlie ‘Eskimo’ Fox, a drummer he had heard backing Ranking Dread, and Evar Wellington of classic British reggae band Merger, a bassist both The Pop Group and Public Image Ltd had previously shared a bill with. Other miscreants and affiliates added studio contributions to this central faction, including George Oban, Crucial Tony, Desmond ‘Fatfingers’ Coke and John ‘Waddy’ Waddington (The Pop Group) With this group convened and christened ‘The Maffia’ Mark Stewart, in his first ever collaboration with soon-to-be regular production partner Adrian Sherwood, forged a record that has to be heard to be believed.

Just as the broadcasts of Red Alert were interjected by the sound and fury of construction work during Stewart’s New York trip, on Learning To Cope With Cowardice the mammoth dimensions and ruthless rhythms of dub are ravaged by interference by way of industrial noise and plundered transmissions. Above the constructed chaos Stewart remains a commanding and mercurial presence, sitting at extreme boundaries within the mix and wrestling with themes of alienation, doubt, power, and political resistance. From the thunderous distortions of the eponymous introduction through the mixing desk sabotage and visions of urban blight on ‘Liberty City’ to the sublime subversion of ‘Jerusalem’ (an unforgettable rendition of William Blake’s poem) Learning To Cope With Cowardice is a blast of volatile soundsystem music for modern dystopias, the ones we knew back then and the ones we know now.

The backdrop in which Stewart and Sherwood produced the record was one of pressure and unrest, an atmosphere driven by severe social deprivation and unemployment, Cold War disquiet and fears of nuclear conflict. Exemplifying its pertinence to the temper of the time, the recordings that comprise Learning To Cope With Cowardice were shaped by sessions that Stewart and Sherwood conducted at the studio HQ of anarcho-punk outfit Crass, wildly creative stints that coincided with the riots that erupted in Bristol, London and across other areas of the UK in 1980 / 81.

In the severe dislocation and exiled exhilaration of Learning To Cope With Cowardice Stewart and Sherwood epitomize these turbulences, creating a disfigured and cataclysmic music that, as outlined by the theorist Mark Fisher, “captures the spirit of the times perfectly”.Preserving an astonishing sense of prescience – a trait identified in Stewart’s work by Mute’s own Daniel Miller - Learning To Cope With Cowardice is a record of radical devastation that still resonates.

Alongside this faithful reissue of the original comes The Lost Tapes, a collection that represents the outcome of a painstaking search and arrangement of previously unheard material. Brought together into a sequence of embryonic prototypes, frenzied dub versions and new archive discoveries, The Lost Tapes chronicles the early ideas and unknown stories that defined the outset of Stewart and Sherwood’s vastly influential work together.

With the seething assault of ‘Intro’ the collection provides a glimpse into a project Stewart originally intended for William Burroughs whilst ‘May I’ presents a never-before-heard spectacle of raw dubwise disorder recently discovered on an unmarked tape in an archive in France. Elsewhere there are significant coups in the form of ‘Paranoia’, a pristine yet tough alternate version to ‘The Power of Paranoia’, and in ‘The Weight’, another previously unreleased track that, in its forthright lyricism, reveals the vigour with which Stewart has, for many years, been committed to the Campaign Against The Arms Trade. Other revelatory inclusions include ‘Conspiracy’ the first ever collaboration between Stewart and Sherwood and ‘Jerusalem [prototype]’, a historic first version of Stewart’s defining anthem, originally aired at the fateful CND rally in Trafalgar Square that signalled an end to Stewart’s days in The Pop Group and initiated his solo career.

Learning To Cope With Cowardice is a vital chapter in the legacy of Mark Stewart & The Maffia, a project that would prove to be a revolutionary benchmark for many, from the innovators of the ‘Bristol Sound’ (The Wild Bunch, Smith & Mighty, Tricky, Massive Attack) through to the likes of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. Collected together this set realizes an expansive restoration of one of Stewart’s most audacious statements. As it was in the early 1980s so it is now, Learning To Cope With Cowardice is a masterwork of mutant design and a rude awakening of extraordinary bite.

Tracklist
LP 1 / Disc 1
1.         Learning To Cope With Cowardice
2.         Liberty City
3.         Blessed Are Those Who Struggle
4.         None Dare Call It Conspiracy
5.         Don’t You Ever Lay Down Your Arms
6.         The Paranoia of Power
7.         To Have The Vision
8.         Jerusalem

LP 2 / Disc 2
1.         Intro
2.         May I
3.         Conspiracy
4.         Jerusalem [prototype]
5.         Paranoia
6.         Liberty Dub
7.         Vision
8.         Cowardice Dub
9.         High Ideals & Crazy Dub
10.       The Weight

Pre-order Learning To Cope With Cowardice- smarturl.it/mark-stewart

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Listen to 'Paranoia' on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VYI-ATbIGqE

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Tune in to ‘Learning To Cope With Radio’ on 5 October - https://www.resonancefm.com/

'The River' - PJ Harvey

Very busy week here in London... Lots of fantastic nights of music. Working too much though.
Emotional rollercoaster too.
Soon this should all be over!
Transition times...

Sound of this evening:

'The River' - PJ Harvey (Is This Desire)

'The River'

And they came to the river
And they came from the road
And he wanted the sun
Just to call his own
And they walked on the dirt
And they walked from the road
'Til they came to the river
'Til they came up close

Throw your pain in the river
Throw your pain in the river
Leave your pain in the river
To be washed away slow

And we walked without words
And we walked with our lives
Two silent birds circled by

Like a pain in the river
And the pain in the river
And the white sun scattered
Washed away this slow

And we followed the river
And we followed the road
And we walked through this land
And we called it a home
But he wanted the sun
And I wanted the whole
And the white light scatters
And the sun sets low

Like a pain in the river
Like a pain in the river
Like a white light scatters
To be washed away slow

Like a pain in the river
Like a pain in the river
Like the way life scattered
To be washed away slow

For A People's Vote!!!

People's Vote!!!

March this Saturday in London.

We were there!! We'll get there. We love Britain, we love Europe.

#NoToBrexit #EUnited

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Brexit seen by...

A few word on Brexit from British fashion photographer Nick Knight:

Nick Knight

showstudio.com/project/runaway

• This Saturday ( tomorrow ) at 12 join the march in central London to protest about Brexit and demand a new chance to vote .
  Nobody voted to be poorer and nobody knew what leaving the EU would really mean .
  I have been in parliament and talked to the Brexit committee and there are no benefits in leaving Europe.
  I have confronted the prime minister about the absolutely devastating effect Brexit will have on the creative industries and her response was to say trust the chequers agreement.
  I don’t , and there will almost certainly be no Chequers agreement so the future of the UK’s 3 biggest industry is now in total peril .
  How could these politicians be so reckless with the future of som many millions of people ? Ego, self interest and profiteering are what have really bought us to this dreadful cliff edge .
  We were all lied to .
  The poorest people in our society will be the hurt the most. Our society is polarised and racism and nationalism are on the rise .
  Of course not all the people who voted for Brexit are racist but you can be sure all the racists did.
  Don’t believe there is nothing you can do to stop this dreadful Brexit.
  Make you voice heard in whatever way to can .
  Brexit must not happen .

  
  

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Brexit by Banksy:

Mezzanine your spraycan

Mezzanine. Remastered in DNA. 1 million copies per can!

  

Someone has already been using it....

Reportage : L'art africain s'expose à Londres

Dans le magazine "Vu d'Allemagne" de la Deutsche Welle cette semaine, mon reportage sur 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair - dernières partie de l'émission : 

L'art africain s'expose à Londres

L'artiste bissau-guinéen Nu Barreto et son drapeau revisité

Pour écouter : 

Lien https://www.dw.com/fr/six-mois-pour-tenter-sa-chance-en-allemagne/av-45818171

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Tandis que le Salon du Livre de Francfort ouvrait ses portes, celles de la foire 1:54 refermait les siennes à Londres. La sixième édition de la foire d'art contemporain africain a été exceptionnelle, selon les organisateurs... Partie avec quinze galeries en 2013, elle en a présenté 43 cette année aux quelque 18.000 visiteurs. 130 artistes étaient également invités.

Parmi les stars présentes, l’artiste égyptien Ibrahim El-Salahi, le photographe sud-africain Pieter Hugo, le dessinateur Kenyan Evans Mbugua, ou encore le plasticien sud-africain Athi-Patra Ruga.

La foire s'est tenue du 4 au 7 octobre pendant la Frieze Art Fair

1:54 s’étend désormais sur trois grandes villes: Marrakech, New York et Londres.

Le choix de Londres comme base s’est imposé rapidement à la fondatrice, Touria El Glaoui, pour son statut de capitale internationale, multiculturelle, ouverte sur le monde et pour sa situation géographique au carrefour de plusieurs continents.

Rencontre sur place avec ce reportage de Mélissa Chemam qui a également suivi quelques artistes. 

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Pour écouter : 

Lien https://www.dw.com/fr/six-mois-pour-tenter-sa-chance-en-allemagne/av-45818171