Red Threads – the South Asian Queer Connection in Photographs

Red Threads is a ravishing, sublime and insightful photographic book by two very different British Queer South Asian photographers, Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon. Tracing their contrasting portraiture work since the 1980’s and 1990’s, their images explore layered, complex issues of sexuality, gender, race, class and identity within wider political contexts. With brilliant essays by Sunil Gupta, Raman Mundair and Cherry Smyth. this hardback, gold embossed book is now out of print with very few copies left.

Buy the book – all proceeds to the Usurp Art Charity.

Price includes package and posting.
Published by Millivres Press, supported by Usurp. ISBN 1-873741-76-6
Content warning: this book contains photos of nudity which may be offensive to some readers and/or inappropriate for children and under 18 year old

The Usurp Tapes Vol.1
Conspirators of Pleasure

“Nothing disappears completely…In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows…” Recordings of the Usurp Art Building. Limited edition cassette & download from Usurp’s Conspirators of Pleasure featuring Poulomi Desai, Simon Underwood & Jonas Gustafson.

Side One – ‘Spaces’  –  an exploration of our everyday surroundings, mundane activities and forgotten objects. Located at Usurp Art, ‘Spaces’ is an inventory into the production of everyday life and an investigation into the infra-ordinary. The recordings document aspects of day to day life in the gallery through experiments in sound.

Side Two – ‘Species’ – an improvised live performance at the Usurp Gallery that concludes the inquiry into the art space as a site for public engagement and community creativity, with an emphasis on collabaration, chance and experimentation.

CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE
Poulomi Desai – modified sitar, electronics, things.
Simon Underwood  – adapted bass, electronics, stuff.
Jonas Gustafsson (special guest) – percussion, electronics, tapes

Format : Cassette + Download,
Label : IMPEKA
£4 +pp

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“Momentary Masters Of A Fraction Of A Dot”

Format: 2xCD & digital download  | edition of 55 hand numbered copies
Release Date: 1st August 2018
Label: IMPEKA

New 2x CD from Usurp artists Jonas Gustafsson & Simon Underwood.
Recorded in a railway arch space in Deptford, this slab of sonics – ranging from sombre to hopeful, meditative to chaotic – grew from a series of improvised jams, fragmented scores and lengthy discussions taking place over a period of several rainy months in early 2017. With time, these fragments and experiments began to come together and make sense as a coherent whole, sewn together by the rumbling of the trains passing by overhead.

Jonas Gustafasson – prepared guitar, percussion, radios, dc motors, tape loops.
Simon Underwood – prepared bass, amplified objects, hacked toys, keyboards.
Arnaud Guichard – tenor saxophone on “Susienka”.

Further info here