Zero Parameters Festival

Since childhood, Adam has been invariably fascinated by the details and nuances of the most prosaic everyday things. The more expendable, pedestrian and disregarded the better. Anything that hints at a new purpose is slipped into his dependable shopping bag, and joins the throng of objects spilling out of every available space in his cosy cluttered flat in Catford. Continually Adam records a narrative on daily life upon his trusty cassette tape dictaphone, his singular observations and descriptions paint a rich picture of what appeals to him most. As the real life inspiration for Gilderoy, the central character in Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, Adam is an under-recognized and particular sort of national treasure. Spend a day in his company, as he genially guides us through his habitual combing of the streets and charity shops of Catford, concocts collages at his kitchen table, and finds drama in the signage of Lewisham hospital. Eavesdrop on his multitudinous reflections upon his creative predilections, and become wonderfully enmeshed in the richly woven web of his creative processes. “Scavenger improv artisan, junk mail poet and scrapbook illustrator – Cathy Soreny’s documentary on Adam Bohman is an essential portrait of one of Britain’s most idiosyncratic and quietly prolific artists.” - Peter Strickland, Director After the film screening there will be a short Q+A with the film’s director Cathy Soreny + Adam Bohman

LÀ OÙ L’AIR FROTTE “Soon, the world will become a big sound box and your legs will be two heavy mallets. This cadence that made us feel comfortable now appears as an old story. This warm feeling of familiarity irritates you. We have to look for a new balance. Build some opposite worlds, make your teeth rattle, snap your fingers, each impact is a clue about the birth of the next gesture. Organise them. Each impact is a punch and now you need to strike hard. Paint the surfaces with a scream, no matter what its quality, it will fragment into echoes and will dissolve. Breath hard and blow but don’t stop walking. The skin behind your heels becomes hard and your feet are swollen, the pain is not negotiable, it is resonating.”

Arthur Chambry is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Brussels. He makes work by weaving performance, music, instrument-making and narration. Arthur is continuously searching for new spaces and new instruments to create performances in which he uses his body in bombastic musical gestures. You can find him, alone or accompanied by performers, in an abandoned chapel, in a theater or in a long resonating tunnel somewhere in the city. You'll hear drones and percussions, you'll listen to tales, you'll see lungs-balls, long flowers-clarinets and you'll feel long breaths.
https://www.arthurchambry.com/

Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman have been recording together since their early teens and playing live since 1984. Their repertoire includes a combination of sounds created in the moment and distinct compositions including songs. They use unconventional instruments, household objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recordings.
They have performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, South Bank and numerous smaller venues around the UK. Also across Europe and America.
Their duo recordings include 'A Twist For All Pockets' (Rossbin, 2001), 'Purely Practical' (Peripheral Conserve, 2002), ‘Back On The Streets' (Peripheral Conserve, 2012), ‘Library Music’ (Des Astres D’Or, 2019) and ‘In Their 70s’ (Fort Evil Fruit, 2021)
https://thebohmanbrothers.bandcamp.com/