A Ritual for Elephant & Castle

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Chrome Hoof + Wildbirds and Peacedrums + Marcus Coates

Friday, 5 June

Coronet, 28 New Kent Road, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6TJ

How Much: £6.00 (Advance Tickets) , £6.00 (Tickets)
Elephant & Castle is changing. Like much of the rest of London, the old and 'unsightly' is gradually being swept away to be replaced by gleaming temples to modernity. Whether gentrification is something to be celebrated or resisted is a moot point (and certainly not one to be tackled here in an event listing) but it is something that seems particularly to prick the minds of creative folk.

In response to the changing nature of the local area, contemporary artist Marcus Coates and electronic music collective Chrome Hoof have teamed up for a night-long ritual of art, performance and musical goings on.

The relationship between paganism and urban alienation is an increasingly powerful one in London's art world and this looks like being the kind of event that Pan himself would hot-foot it down to, piping away merrily, with his hooves clip-clopping on the concrete...

Click here to read Tom's interview with Michael Smythe and Marcus Coates, the organisers of A Ritual for Elephant and Castle.
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