Reactor Halls E04: Terry’s Back Passage (Reboot) Compèred by Eǝrth Rod
Mr Ferris

‘For the ladies: Come and see the sex god. And for the guys: Come and do better or I'll take you outside and you can beat me up’, said Roger.

Nobody was beaten up in the playground and nobody did better than Roger Caney. Caney's ode to Ikea and reworkings of I'm Waiting for the Man and My Generation had folks hung-jawed and thwarted for the duration of his recital. Pick of the week, Caney's tragic, farcical, yet cutting quips for me eclipsed the lot nearly.

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Reactor Halls E04: Terry’s Back Passage (Reboot) Compèred by Eǝrth Rod
Kathy Noble

As an artist, why would you want to make or do something whereby you create a structure that relinquishes complete control over the content presented? For me, as a curator, this makes me squirm, uncomfortable in the idea that an audience would see something that I had not at least had some hand in selecting, making, creating – or whatever today’s perception of curating is. So, attending the Reactor Halls event ‘Terry’s Back Passage’, an ‘open-mic’ event compèred by Eǝrth Rod (where Reactor played no hand in the selection) made me extremely squirmy. Indeed in the course of the evening there were things I found annoying, embarrassing, cringe-worthy, and downright odd. Alongside others I enjoyed a lot.

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Reactor Halls E05
AAS present Circle of Fifths
Saturday 1 June 2013, 19:30

Art group AAS curate a night of drone based music featuring Samekhmem, Graham Dunning, Hexachordal and Phillip Henderson.

£3 advance tickets / £5 on the door. Book for this event here.

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Reactor Halls E04
Terry’s Back Passage (Reboot) Compèred by Eǝrth Rod
Saturday 18 May 2013, 20:00
Skit hotline 078555 63063
£2 on the door

Terry’s Back Passage is a no holds barred open-mic-style session compèred by Eǝrth Rod. You are personally invited to come and do a skit or just enjoy the show. Any new or old skit is welcome (e.g. humor, music, physical theatre). Skits must be no longer than 15 minutes. If you want a slot, call or text the skit hotline.

We will provide a basic set-up of stage, mic & amp, lights, seating and a licensed bar, so please bring anything else you may require.

Hope to see you there,

Eǝrth Rod
078555 63063

‘Clubs, Gangs, and Secret Societies: The Art of Working Collaboratively’
Thursday 28 February, 21:00-23:30 (GMT)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Reactor intervene virtually in the ‘Clubs, Gangs, and Secret Societies’ class at MoMA, New York – taking over from Doog and Kelly, and making the group aware of #MoMAMonarch and the pressing need to prepare for what is going to happen at the opening of their class exhibition on April 19th.

This could go very wrong, it might even be a disaster, but Reactor are there to help.

'Play in Performance Practices' - A TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium
Saturday 19 January 2013, 10:10-17:45
2 Gower Street (Royal Holloway’s Bedford Square Residence)

Daniel Oliver will be presenting a paper on Reactor entitled: 'Pantomime Commi Despots, Fun‐mongering Reptilian Mascots, and Volatile Vegetative Deities: Fantastical Others and the efficacy of fun in Reactors post‐relational art projects' at this TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium.

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