Relaunch Party No. 1 schedule:
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Screening of Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present + Q&A
21:00 Party with special guests & DJ sets TBC
Tickets are available for £16.50 for members and £18.50 for non-members.
// JOIN US for the Table of the Elements relaunch party at The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden, highlighted by a screening of the feature documentary Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present. The gathering marks the launch of an ambitious pre-order and membership drive to support the 2025 season of new projects. This is the first in a month-long, worldwide series of activities, uniting Table of the Elements’ global community through concerts, exhibitions, pop-ups, listening parties, and special collaborations across key cities.
// TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS is a curatorial platform, interdisciplinary production organization, live-event presenter, and fine-arts print, audio, and film publisher, lauded by Pitchfork Media as “a national treasure.” Since its origin as a record label in 1993, TotE has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and promulgating works by international creators of experimental audio, avant-performance, and modern composition. The label’s 150-plus releases are a vital contemporary chronicle, a survey of meaningful eruptions across a broad horizon of sound and vision. Each project demonstrates how a publishing concern might romp wild, unbridled from the carousel of convention.
“The supremacy of Table of the Elements as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalog has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everybody associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen.”
—Grayson Currin, Pitchfork
// TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT is a nonfiction film that examines the pioneering life and works of filmmaker, musician, artist, and educator Tony Conrad.
“Joyous, exhilarating, and transformative, Tyler Hubby’s documentary Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present is essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art."
—Artforum
"Conrad was 100 percent badass. Without Tyler Hubby’s documentary and Table of the Elements ... one of the great stories of American music and art might have gone underappreciated.”
—Henry Rollins, L.A. Weekly
Tony Conrad was one the great American artists of his time, yet he remains criminally under-appreciated to the world. Since the early 1960s, Conrad's films and compositions have been the stuff of legend for artists and musicians everywhere. He performed in and recorded the soundtrack to Jack Smith’s legendary Flaming Creatures; he laid bare the paradigms of cinema with The Flicker, a film composed of only black and white frames; his powerful and startling drone compositions still have the music establishment scratching their heads; his early work with La Monte Young and John Cale played a role in the formation of The Velvet Underground; as an early adopter of activist public access television he democratized the emerging medium of portable video for ordinary citizens. His fifty-year inter-disciplinary repertoire inspired and confounded generations of artists, collaborators, and fans. In his later years, he continued to perform and make work that pushed the boundaries of reason, for which he has finally begun to receive worldwide attention.
Utilizing intimate footage of Tony and his collaborators shot over the last twenty-two years and his own archive of recordings and films, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present mirrors Conrad’s playfully radical approach to art making. The non-linear structure allows Conrad to wildly free-associate his streams of consciousness, revealing an honest and humane way of navigating a remarkable, creative life.
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