NIGHT HAUNTS: A Journey through the London Night

NIGHT HAUNTS: A Journey through the London Night The famed London night: "There was a time, well over a century ago now, when it was considered one the finest Victorian inventions." Gas lighting opened up the nightrendering the darkness visible, and introducing new spaces of lawlessness and depravity. But have CCTV cameras and British Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) neutralized the night? Writer SUKHDEV SANDHU and composer ANDREW INGKAVET present a visual and sonic journey through an unfamiliar nocturnal London, encountering urban fox hunters, exorcists, cleaning crews, mini-cab drivers, sleep technicians and the Nuns of Tyburn, as they pray for the souls of Londoners. SANDHU is a professor of English Literature at New York University, Chief Film Critic of the "Daily Telegraph," and author of "London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City." INGKAVET is a New York-based composer, filmmaker and designer. A former singer-songwriter for publishing company MMA, he began scoring films while working in Hong Kong as one of MTV-Asia’s first VJs. Who: SUKHDEV SANDHU & ANDREW INGKAVET When: Thursday, December 4 6:30 pm Where: Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, 1 train to Houston Street www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/ RSVP: [email protected] Free and open to the public [Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.] Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York, www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/