Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair (ASP) - The Third

Ruth Angel Edwards is a multimedia artist whose work explores the communication of ideology through pop culture, drawing from mainstream and subcultural youth movements both past and present. Within these, she looks at the ways audio and visual content are used to manipulate an audience and to disseminate information. Feminism, gender, collectivity and commodification are recurring themes. Hedonism, spectacle and rebellion are deconstructed and re-formed to create communicative and insightful immersive works.    

Using video, audio, sculpture, performance and printed media, subcultures are historicised, tracing their trajectories and examining the wider socio-economic environments which give rise to them. Edwards traces the complex symbiotic relationship between the underground and the mainstream, while exposing their failures and flaws as well as any under-celebrated histories and latent positive potential.   

Ruth Angel Edwards studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and currently lives and works in London. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally at Arcadia Missa, Auto Italia South East, Tate Modern (London), FACT, Royal Standard (Liverpool), Human Resources, (Los Angeles) and MEYOHAS Gallery, (New York).

The official website of Ruth Angel Edwards

Lord Tusk has been producing music since the late 1990s and started DJing in the early 2000s. In 2005 he made his first release, under the alias Kamelion-Crying hands, called ULTAMENTALS 'just missing the vital organs': since then he's released many releases as Lord Tusk on various labels including Apron, Levels, Sounds of Universe/Soul Jazz, On Loop and many more.

In 2014 he started his own label, UltraWaveVisions, and released his debut album Day Trippers which was quickly followed by several more albums under different aliases. Tusk has performed and DJ'ed around the world, performing in countless festivals and social music events. In London he has worked with and curated music soundtracks for many different organisations, including the ICA, NTS and Tate Modern.

Lord Tusk says: I remain dedicated to my sound, never compromising, meaning any project I do, no matter how diverse, my signature sound will be present. My works have explored every type of electronic and dance music under so many pseudonyms that it's sometimes difficult to develop a full picture of the vast scope covered. My prolific and catalytic work in electronic music earned me the established reputation as contemporary music's busiest man.

 

With my music you’re either going to get in-your-face hard minimal wave, house, techno, tech house or whatever they’re calling it this week, or you’re going to get stuff that’s totally chilled without any beats. The roots of downtempo have been mostly forgotten but I try to keep them alive.

Nervemeter Magazine is sold on the streets by homeless and vulnerably-housed people. Unlike the Big Issue, vendors do not have to buy magazines in advance to sell at a profit, and neither do they have to return any of the money they make selling them. It's free to them and they get to keep any money they make. Nervemeter is composed of work by various artists, as well as quotations curated from a range of sources; they have also been included in a number of exhibitions and events.