Monday 27 June 2011

Penpont



Early this year my mum entered a competition in a travel magazine and won it. The prize was a 3 night stay in the 17th century Grade 1 listed house at Penpont in the heart of the Brecon Beacons, South Wales. I'll be going tomorrow along with 9 family members to kick back, read books and eat nice food. Not sure if they do Wi-Fi there in the Welsh mountains, so this 'ere blog may be on hold until I return to Leeds on Friday.

Penpont website

Sunday 26 June 2011

receipts

Got paid last week so I made a few purchases.


Francis Lai - Bilitis soundtrack CD, £12.10


Tony Warren - Rising Damp, £0.20


Louis-Ferdinand Céline - North, £20.69


René Magritte - La Periode Vache: "Les Pieds Dans Le Plat", £29.95

ideal home exhibition

I moved into my new flat a few weeks back, and here's a tour round the collection of objets d'art:


Ben Robinson - Object in Blacklight Poster Graphics III


Exhibition poster for L'expo qui rend fou H.P. Lovecraft et le Livre de Raison at Maison d'Ailleurs, Switzerland


Louise Robinson - Ghost Train


Polish poster for Mulholland Drive


Ben Robinson - Isidore Ducasse Memorial Plaque


Assorted books and records


Bragolin - Crying Boy


Ben Robinson - Modern Lovers


Ben Robinson - Modern Lovers II


Assorted books and records


Davin Watne - R is for Ruin


Philip Best - Shasta V


Louise Robinson - Promenade


Pierre et Gilles - Marc Almond


Ben Robinson - Eternal Return (Jordan 'n Jodie)


Valerie Norris - Don't Come On So Groovy

Saturday 25 June 2011

Ben 'Jack Your Body' Robinson playlist 24.06.11



Music played during yesterday's Yuck 'n Yum launch:

Francis Lai - Bilitis


Like A Tim & Gina V. D'Orio - Lonely Sea


Chromatics - Killing Spree


Gina X - Kaddish


Kym Amps - You Don't Know My Name (But i Know You)


Opera De Nuit - Boris Transylvania Camp


Steve Davil - Shake Me Up


Venise - Playboy


Neon - Drivin'


Christophe - Sunny Road to Salina


Tanki Tanki - Tanki Tanki


Azoto - Exalt Exalt


Ganymed - It Takes Me Higher

Yuck 'n Yum summer 2011 launch @ Superclub, Edinburgh + Zazou @ Kage nightclub, Dundee 24.06.11

A bumper picture special featuring the new Yuck 'n Yum zine launch at Edinburgh's Superclub, plus the latest installment of Zazou with arcane 80s disco/wave/electro sorcery:


Superclub studios




DJ Ben 'Jack Your Body' Robinson rocks the box


AGK promo


Get your video submissions in to the AGK, deadline is August 15th!


DJ Bob's Cassette Hour


Superclub front of shop


The Edinburgh art massive


Art, knowledge and free stuff








Zazou DJs Il Discotto and Stefan Blomeier


Your correspondent


Scary Ross is scary


DJ Poupée Flash


People, dancing

Thursday 23 June 2011

Yuck 'n Yum autumn 2011 deadline

So I made a flyer to advertise the next Yuck 'n Yum deadline, and here it is:

Monday 20 June 2011

magnolia



Extract from Sylvere Lotringer, Overexposed: Treating Sexual Perversion in America:

Dr. Sachs, the clinic's director, enters behind us, hands in his white jacket.
"This study," he explains, "evolved out of some experimental movies with measurement of pupil size. If this is the eye, and here is the pupil looking down, we spray infrared light across the eye and the camera picks up the amount of light on the diameter of the pupil. It records scans continuously, sixty times a second. Now what we do is present stimuli, various types of sexual activity, in a number of categories: black-and-white pictures of nude girls and boys, a naked girl on a bed, for example, legs wide apart, showing genitalia, a boy standing behind a chair, penis erect; adolescents: a young man taking his pants down, a young woman naked, kneeling on a bed; adult males or females: a close-up of a man's torso and genitals, a naked woman touching her breast and vagina: four scenes depicting someone being exhibited to: a girl opening the door with an expression of surprise; four scenes dealing with frottage: a male hand on a woman's tight jeans; four sadistic-type scenes of someone tied up: a naked woman with both head and heavy breasts tightly bound; and four neutral scenes. You watch these slides for seven seconds at a time."
"What do you mean by neutral scenes?"
"That's the result of an investigation I did some time ago on how to alter arousal patterns. I was using a switching process, going from deviant to nondeviant. I wanted to see if you could generate a general arousal where it didn't exist before. I looked for something that could be easily visualized, that the person could imagine and see, and yet had no sexual value at all. I selected something from around the area - I was in Mississippi at the time - something that no-one could possibly be attracted to."
"What was that?"
"A magnolia tree."
"A magnolia tree? Did you choose a tree because it recalls an erection?"
"Does it? Uh... well, it could be deflowered, but that's not the point." He takes out a file. "Look right here at this graph. It's a single-case experimental design - that means that the patient is used as his own control. F1 is a multiple baseline of cross-behaviors. You can see that the individual masturbating to this particular stimulus got it up to 31 percent of an erection."
"You mean that the tree was actually eroticized?"
"Yeah."
"Does it prove that you can get people aroused to anything?"
"Well, the person wasn't aroused to trees before."

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Yuck 'n Yum summer 2011 launch



Friday 24th June 7pm. Got that? Good. Because that's when Yuck 'n Yum will be heading out of town. See, we've met these nice people at top Edinburgh art venue Superclub and they'll be hosting our summer 2011 launch. We're presenting our hot-of the-press-ink-barely-dry brand new issue, and there'll be the usual fantastic entertainments all courtesy of your favourite art zine. Allow us to bring you a unique melange of art, poetry and performance art... Jetting in is DJ Ben 'Jack Your Body' Robinson ready to rock the box, alongside the visionary Alex Tobin and Superclub resident Callum Monteith. See you then, and last one there's a square.

LINK

Monday 13 June 2011

Yuck 'n Yum @ The Weaklings





Our beloved zine Yuck 'n Yum was on display at the Five Years gallery in that there London at the weekend, as part of their Dennis Cooper-curated show The Weaklings.

More pictures can be found here: LINK

Saturday 11 June 2011

receipts

Some items purchased over the past few weeks:


T.S. Eliot - Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot (Faber 80th Anniversary Edition), £1.33


Various - Fabric 53: Surgeon CD, £5.58


Various - The Hidden Tapes: A Compilation Of Minimal Wave From Around The World '79-'85 (Minimal Wave US) LP, £18.99

Thursday 9 June 2011

Yuck 'n Yum Clock Watch 2011


Still from The Clock (2010), single-channel video, 24 hours.
© Christian Marclay, courtesy White Cube, London.

Yuck 'n Yum watch Christian Marclay's 'The Clock' 18th June, CCA, Glasgow. On the 18th of June YNY will undertake a sponsored clock watch of Christian Marclay's The Clock which is currently being shown as part of the British Art Show. The gallery will be open for 24hrs where Yuck 'n Yum members, Alexandra and Andrew, will attempt to watch all 24hrs of the film. All money raised will go towards Yuck 'n Yum's program of events 2011/12 including the AGK which will be held on the 24th of September of this year: LINK