Saturday 20th June, 2009
8pm - Late
Limehouse Town Hall,
646 Commercial Rd
London
E14 7HA

With Djs playing Breaks, Beats, Bleeps, Dance Hall and other eclectic tunes. Live rapping from rapper Be, spoken word be Robin Bale, performance and a live video link from the Gallery.

John Wild is an artist, anarchitect, and psychogeographical explorer of dataspace. He studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art (MA) and received a 1st class BA honours degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design. He received an ARTSADMIN early career artist's bursary for his live art work, was selected to participate in East End Collaboration 6 where he received mentoring by Franco B and he has participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals and events including Late at the Tate (Tate Britain) and the Sonic Arts Expo.

John Wild first emerged as a graffiti artist in the strike torn South Yorkshire of the 1980. After studying Computer Science he became a COBOL programmer working on VAX mainframes where he would fight the boredom by writing code to produce elaborate ASCII art headers on stock reports. John returned to South Yorkshire in 1992 where he engaged in solidarity work against pit closures. In 1994 John moved to London where he working in the emergent field of web development. A dialogue between Art and Politics, and a collaborative DIY ethos are Central to John's practice. John has collaborated with the Space Hijackers, We Are Bad and the Savage Messiah Collective.

John works with traditional object making, performance, intervention, and sonic art to exploring a diverse area of interests including architecture and urbanism, the relationship between physical and virtual space, communications networks, surveillance, paranoia and social control.