Reactor Halls E21: Rhythmic Spaces
Feb 22, 2020
POSTPONED. A prefab centrepiece is assembled in-situ that is part-scenery, part-stage, part-sound-structure. A ‘rhythmic space’ is created with Dirty Electronics.
Reactor
About Reactor
Reactor is sometimes Rector, aRector or even Ivan’s Dogs with an accent.
To be really reductive and slightly clumsy here, we ring up our mates and say let's get together on Saturday night and have some ‘fun’. No one has any fun, and the next day we get together with another bunch of mates and have some ‘right fun’ about the fact no one had any fun.
We were in the midst of a new season of Reactor Halls with Plastique Fantastique, Reactor and Dirty Electronics. Like everyone else, this programme has been disrupted by Covid-19, and the remaining events are postponed until further notice.
From the blog
Reactor Halls E20: The Gold Ones’ Dummies
Jan 29, 2020
POSTPONED. What can be seen here, is a broadcast of The Gold Ones as they move through cycles of activity.
Polymorph Other
Featured: Oct 13, 2019
POLYMORTH OTHER, exhibition curated by Allan Hughes and Mark Jackson at Queen's Hall, Hexham, 19 October-23 November 2019
Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design
Featured: Dec 22, 2014
Reactor feature in this new book on art collectives by Francesco Spampinato, published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Reactor Projects
Ivan Poe
2019-20
Ivan Poe is an art work released as a video game, following a crude cuboid character as they keep on truckin' through the Cosmic Soup.
Reactor Halls
2012–2020
Reactor Halls is an experimental programme of live performance, film and music events curated by Reactor.
The Gold Ones
2015-2021
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the Cosmic Care Home
Martinmas Interviews
Ongoing
We sincerely encourage those who feel ready to join the group and take on the role of Secret Member, to step forward urgently and present themselves for the Martinmas Interviews.
Alligator Resort
2016
As many Floridian golfers know, the perfect leisure experience is fraught with dangers, and alligators have been known to stop play.
Windsock
2015
Reactor have recently installed a new outdoor sculpture at Primary.
Dummy Button
2013
Welcome to Dummy Button. This is the future. The currency of choice is time, and you must trade in Periods. Enter now, and boost, BOOST, BOOST!
Log!c ?stem
2013
Reactor will gather, assemble, perform and exhibit a new work over four weekends at Flux Factory to make Log!c ?stem.
Function
2003–2005, 2012
It’s that Reactor way of enforcing the premeditated and making a demand that we live in the moment.
The Green Man & Regular Fellows
2011
I held hands with strangers, gave a grown man a piggyback and danced and howled with wonderful irregularity to the jingling of tambourines.
Deathtrap
2012
If taking part in a staged death, we cannot guarantee that this is staged.
Big Lizard’s Big Idea
2009–2010
A peculiar type of rebellion in which we don’t fight the system, but we get too involved, we play along too vigorously, we ’really believe in it’.
The Geodecity Project
2007–2010
Already, we were learning and appreciating unrecognized ways of working with each other from just this one small task, the weekend itself had not even begun.
Munkanon
2008–2010
The real everyday action of Munkanon carries on around me; its uncanny logic, its games and tasks, its dynamic of irrectitude.
The Tetra Phase
2007
A project that puts its participants in a goldfish bowl.
Ivan’s Dogs, We Provide The Smiles
2006
Pretty soon we were suspecting the general public and each other of being part of a sinister plan.
Total GHAOS
2005
Very quickly did this world seem to become a reality, an entry to state of mind where new rules applied, but I didn’t know about them yet.
Reactor Party Campaign
2005
Reactor Party activists took to the streets to drum up support for the correct line of GHAOS.
GHAOS
2003–2005
The local dadaist Reactor troupe invaded the Cinema's cafébar on the final night with a hilarious grand-guignol performance.
Toy and Dismantle
2003
There’s that familiar Reactor combination of demand for compliance and playfulness, a bit like a friendly Labrador puppy that comes running up to you with a little stick of dynamite in its mouth.
Reactor
2002
Don’t miss Reactor: Creation before the destruction in this vast factory building which is soon to be reduced to rubble.