Sine Language 12 May – 7 July
Monday to Saturday 11am to 6pm
Warning: this show contains flashing images
Don’t miss Patel and Singh ‘in conversation’ at the preview event 7pm on Friday 11th May at London Printworks.
London Printworks Trust presents Sine Language, a new collaboration between artist Hetain Patel and musician and DJ Jason Singh. Sine Language is a major touring show in partnership with the City Gallery, Leicester; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham; and Gallery Oldham. The project marks a new point in Patel’s on-going investigation into what he describes as “learning to be Indian”, which has manifested itself through a number of previous photographic, video and live performance pieces including Squatting; Kanku; Mehndi and Phase. It fuses the Indian classical 16 beat rhythmic cycle ‘Tin Taal’ with sound, movement, cloth and colour to create a new audio-visual conversation between the artists and the audience. The piece adapts as it tours, with the artists responding both to the physical space in which the work is sited and the communities living and working nearby. For the London exhibition Patel and Singh will explore the printing process taking place in London Printworks Trust’s specialist textile print workshop adjacent to the gallery and will lead a series of creative practical workshops with a group of young men from the Waaberi Community Development Association, an organisation which supports the Somali community in Streatham, south London. The results of their workshops will be broadcast on Resonance FM, a specialist arts radio station based in London, as well as within the Sine Language exhibition. Please check here for date and time of the broadcast.
Hetain Patel and Jason Singh worked with a group of young Somali men on an audio and video project where they talk about their culture, their friendship and team spirit.
A fully illustrated catalogue on Hetain Patel has been published to co-incide with the tour. You can catch up on the project’s progress at www.myspace.com/sinelanguageproject.
Hetain Patel won an Arts Council East Midlands Decibel Award in December 2004. He is currently artist-in-residence at Lakeside, the University of Nottingham’s public arts centre. Recent exhibitions include Learning to be Indian at Watermans, London; Sacred Bodies at the Castle, Wellingborough and University of Derby; Indian Time at the Victoria Studios, Nottingham. Hetain Patel lives and works in Nottingham. www.hetainpatel.com
Jason Singh is an internationally celebrated beatboxer, DJ, percussionist, composer and workshop facilitator. He has collaborated with a number of artists including most recently performing with Nitin Sawhney. He was a co-founder of Nashini, an Asian break beat project. Jason Singh lives and works in Manchester. www.myspace.com/jasonsinghmusic
The City Gallery is Leicester’s leading contemporary gallery, exhibiting vibrant art that reflects the city’s cultural diversity. Comprising three exhibition spaces, including fine art and crafts, the Gallery hosts a changing exhibition programme of twelve shows a year. The exhibition programme is balanced to include all art and design disciplines and aims to show local, regional, national and international work. www.leicester.gov.uk/citygallery
Djanogly Art Gallery is part of the University of Nottingham’s Lakeside public art facility. It has rapidly established itself as a hugely successful new multi-arts centre in the East Midlands, offering access to a year-round programme of high quality, diverse exhibitions, music, theatre, dance, comedy and literature performances. www.lakesidearts.org.uk
Gallery Oldham takes an innovative and unique approach to exhibition programming. A new gallery building has brought about an integration of the once separate museum and gallery services, and programming incorporates Oldham’s extensive art, social and natural history collections alongside touring work, newly commissioned and contemporary art, international art and work produced by local communities. www.galleryoldham.org.uk
Waaberi Community Development Association was set up to benefit Somali refugees in South London. One of the main aims of the group is to relieve poverty, but they are also interested in offering educational opportunities and providing leisure time activities to their members – and field an awesome football team who are the proud winners of a multitude of national and international trophies. www.waaberi.org/waabi.php
Resonance 104.4 fm is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective. Its brief is to provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting, and it features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London's arts scenes. www.resonancefm.com
Sine Language is kindly supported by Arts Council, East Midlands through the Grants for the Arts Programme. The project with Waaberi Community Development Association is kindly supported by Lambeth Endowed Charities (Walcot Educational Foundation)
