Deborah Coughlin with Gaggle
02 - 08 Mar 2015
DEBORAH COUGHLIN WITH GAGGLE
fig-2 9/50
2 – 8 March 2015
Deborah Coughlin with Gaggle bring music and speech performed by women. Claiming the fig-2 space to generate ideas and positions taken by women today, the week will cultivate performances and speeches delivered live. Coughlin has invited significant female figures for series of speeches, which are interspersed by live performances from Gaggle’s new track, ‘MAKE LOVE NOT WAR’. In celebration of International Women’s Day, the project reinforces the significance of women’s speech today and through history and charges the space with sounds and voices. Speakers include presenter Ruth Barnes, feminist and sci-fi writer Ama Josephine, singer Charlotte Church, founder of Clit Rock Dana Jade, and performance and video artist Paula Varjack.
On Thursday a new group of women singers and sound artists are invited for a performance at 6.30 to create and record a series of sounds with artist Michael Shaw. The dichotomy of vocal expression will activate the soundscapes of fig-2 with a strong visual manifestation of female personas.
DEBORAH COUGHLIN CV
Deborah Coughlin is a writer, artist, director and producer. Included in New Work Network’s list of the UKs Top New Emerging Artists before forming her first band 586. Deborah was Editor of The Feminist Times and is currently a reporter and contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and feature writer for Guardian Weekend Magazine.
ABOUT GAGGLE
Deborah Coughlin founded Gaggle in 2009 as an experimental choir and performance group. Since then they’ve won awards and gained critical acclaim across their diverse body of work, including opera, pop records, video, apps, pop ups, immersive theatre and comedy.
This will be their first release since their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave (2012, Transgressive). Previously the released a live version of their reworking of the Brilliant and the Dark Live at the ICA. Last year they took their reworked musical version of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata to the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of WOW festival. They also debuted their comedy sketch show The Gag Show in two sold out performances at the Etcetera Theatre in London. At the end of 2014 Deborah wrote their first documentary song for Radio 4’s Short Cuts about the life of spiritualist composer Rosemary Brown.
In 2013 they created a pop up gallery, shop and school with workshops in sound engineering for girls, life drawing and feminism for boys. They also released a free iPhone app called the Gagglephone which is a choir on your phone you can create songs with.
Jade Coles is a Founder Gaggle member joinging at the tender age of 19. She’s a project producer across creative industries and author of ‘Sister Like You’ which was released by publisher Belly Kids in 2014.
Louise O’Connor is a Gaggle Girl and video artist whose practice spans costume, performance, writing stories, installation, interaction, drawing and graphics. Play, participation and curiosity are key.
Special Thanks to photographers Ollie Harrop and Thomas Lohr and graphic designer Brooke Olsen for the Yap Yap Yap illustrations.
fig-2 9/50
2 – 8 March 2015
Deborah Coughlin with Gaggle bring music and speech performed by women. Claiming the fig-2 space to generate ideas and positions taken by women today, the week will cultivate performances and speeches delivered live. Coughlin has invited significant female figures for series of speeches, which are interspersed by live performances from Gaggle’s new track, ‘MAKE LOVE NOT WAR’. In celebration of International Women’s Day, the project reinforces the significance of women’s speech today and through history and charges the space with sounds and voices. Speakers include presenter Ruth Barnes, feminist and sci-fi writer Ama Josephine, singer Charlotte Church, founder of Clit Rock Dana Jade, and performance and video artist Paula Varjack.
On Thursday a new group of women singers and sound artists are invited for a performance at 6.30 to create and record a series of sounds with artist Michael Shaw. The dichotomy of vocal expression will activate the soundscapes of fig-2 with a strong visual manifestation of female personas.
DEBORAH COUGHLIN CV
Deborah Coughlin is a writer, artist, director and producer. Included in New Work Network’s list of the UKs Top New Emerging Artists before forming her first band 586. Deborah was Editor of The Feminist Times and is currently a reporter and contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and feature writer for Guardian Weekend Magazine.
ABOUT GAGGLE
Deborah Coughlin founded Gaggle in 2009 as an experimental choir and performance group. Since then they’ve won awards and gained critical acclaim across their diverse body of work, including opera, pop records, video, apps, pop ups, immersive theatre and comedy.
This will be their first release since their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave (2012, Transgressive). Previously the released a live version of their reworking of the Brilliant and the Dark Live at the ICA. Last year they took their reworked musical version of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata to the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of WOW festival. They also debuted their comedy sketch show The Gag Show in two sold out performances at the Etcetera Theatre in London. At the end of 2014 Deborah wrote their first documentary song for Radio 4’s Short Cuts about the life of spiritualist composer Rosemary Brown.
In 2013 they created a pop up gallery, shop and school with workshops in sound engineering for girls, life drawing and feminism for boys. They also released a free iPhone app called the Gagglephone which is a choir on your phone you can create songs with.
Jade Coles is a Founder Gaggle member joinging at the tender age of 19. She’s a project producer across creative industries and author of ‘Sister Like You’ which was released by publisher Belly Kids in 2014.
Louise O’Connor is a Gaggle Girl and video artist whose practice spans costume, performance, writing stories, installation, interaction, drawing and graphics. Play, participation and curiosity are key.
Special Thanks to photographers Ollie Harrop and Thomas Lohr and graphic designer Brooke Olsen for the Yap Yap Yap illustrations.