OMSKBOOK
Launch event
Saturday June 30th 5.30pm - Midnight
South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH


The ingrates at OMSK have been kicking art tin cans around the block for twelve years now and have decided to put those dozen eggs in a basket, called OMSKBOOK. No nostalgia here though; instead one hundred and fifty two pages of utterance and outburst from established and emerging artists who use film & video, live art, sound, text and other means. The book includes work from 74 artists, critical essays and conversations on itinerant art practice, a CD of sound acts that have performed at OMSK and a DVD featuring a two hour programme of artists’ moving image.

On June the 30th OMSK will be launching OMSKBOOK with an event at the South London Gallery. This free evening begins at 5:30pm with a Talkaoke round panel discussion involving artists, academics, critics, supporters and OMSK members.

The launch will feature many of OMSK's seminal acts from the last 12 years, each of whom appear in the book: live art from The Max Factory (renowned for the bodily excesses of their performances), Robin Deacon (of “Colin Powell is a nice man” fame), Woodrow Kernohan, Bill Aitchison, Dot Howard, who accosted previous OMSK audiences with a fake pregnancy. Sound comes courtesy of Electric Assembly, the animated vocoder pop of Bristol based Super Group Extreme, and sticky vinyl from DJ OMSK and DJ MissInTheMix. Film & Video artists screening at the launch: Andrew Kotting, Jennet Thomas, Annis Joslin, Blunt Productions and more.

The extraordinary OMSKBOOK is available for 14.99 but will be sold at the launch for 11.99. Come down, enjoy colliding forms of contemporary art, say your piece and grab a limited edition book, surely soon to be collectable.

For info on how to get to the launch, visit www.southlondongallery.org
For more details of the event and OMSKBOOK go to www.omsk.org.uk

To RSVP please email the South London Gallery: mail@southlondongallery.org

OMSKBOOK is edited by Clare Moloney, designed by Anita Steinstad and funded by the Arts Council England.

Notes to Editors
OMSK was founded in 1995 and is a collective of artists and academics working in a variety of disciplines from live performance to sound, video and film art, visual art and dance. OMSK programme events that provide a platform for emerging artists to show their work and an opportunity for more established artists to try out new work.

To date, OMSK has curated and organised over 40 events in non-conventional venues across London including disused warehouses, boats, and East London streets. OMSK has also performed in other parts of the UK and abroad, including Thessaloniki in Greece, Oslo, New York and Tokyo. OMSK events are unique each time, utilising the space of each venue to the fullest, and responding to very different audiences in the process.

The OMSK Collective is Jamie Bargeman, Steven Eastwood, Sally Irvine, Hannah Metcalfe and Clare Moloney.

Press enquiries - contact Clare Moloney (claremol@gmail.com)


OMSKBOOK: a testing ground for film, video, live art, sound and mayhem
ISBN: 978-0-9556112-0-9
Price: 14.99
Paperback
200mm by 200mm
152 pages, two colours
DVD/CD Dual Format Disc
DVD running time 120 minutes/Audio CD running time 60 minutes
Edition of 1000
Published by OMSK
Design: Anita Steinstad
Editor: Clare Moloney

To order your copy, please go to:
www.omsk.org.uk