The Church of Noise is a programme of gigs, talks, and screenings, celebrating DIY culture, scenes, and creativity, taking place at ArtHole in Canton.
Gigs include a night of Noise performances and collaborations curated by Violet Green, a four-bill hardcore show, curated by local hardcore collective Undod, and the band The NaNaz will be performing as part of an exhibition launch for US punk photographer Julia Gorton.
Julia Gorton will be joining us from the US to bring her ‘Portrait Studio’ project to Cardiff for the first time. Through this project she documents anyone and everyone who wants to be photographed within a city’s subcultural scene, creating an archive of the people, the scene, and the moment. She started her career as the photographer/creative director/publisher of the No Wave fanzine ‘Beat It!’ which focused on the Downtown New York music scene in the late 70s – a formative time and scene for global music culture. Her photos of musicians have been seen in magazines, books, and exhibitions across the world.
Free afternoon film screenings include Joerg Steineck’s ‘Lo Sound Desert’ about the desert rock scene that emerged in the Californian desert and gave the world the likes of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age; Julia Ostertag/Francesca Araiza Andrade’s ‘Noise and Resistance’, which portrays a globally interconnected and political music scene, built on autonomy and solidarity; and the cult classic ‘In Bed with Chris Needham’, following the life of a young student in Lougborough as they attempt to get a heavy metal band off the ground.
There will be an in-conversation event, ‘Build Your Own DIY Utopia: In Conversation with Rockaway Park and The 309 Punk Project’, with Scott Satterwhite and Valerie George, directors of The 309 Punk Project (Pensacola, Florida) and Mark Wilson, founder of Rockaway Park near Bristol. The event will discuss the projects and communities they’ve built within the context of radical and transformational DIY activity.
The programme launches on the evening of Monday 12th with a night of poets and poetry, curated by Patrick Jones, where there will also be a chance for people to sign up and perform.
Alongside all of this, there will also be presences in the building from the Cardiff Music History archive and the Red Shoes Poster Archive (radical working class and social movement posters).
