OMSK: Who?

OMSK is a collective. Each event relies on a team:

Sally Irvine trained in photography in the mid-nineties. Initial interests lay in music photography and her early work was published in Mojo and Wire magazines. She studied Fine Art at the University of Plymouth, graduating in 2003, before going on to complete a Masters at Goldsmiths College, London in 2005. Her practice spans film/video, photography and sound. www.sally-irvine.co.uk

Clare Moloney - Clare Moloney is a writer whose practice is informed by performance, photography and film.  She is interested in the different ways text can manifest on and beyond the page and in exploiting its performative and visual properties . The results of a collaboration with three photographers and their exhibition, Real, Fake & Imagined can be see in the autumn 06 issue of Miser & Now magazine.  Clare has performed her work in an archway, outside a Bingo Hall and occasionally in some theatres throughout the UK and Europe.  Website coming soon.

Steven Eastwood - Steven Eastwood is a filmmaker whose practice crosses artists film/video, experimental fiction and documentary. His films have screened at the ICA, BAFTA (The Grierson Awards), The Edinburgh Film Festival, UPLINK Arts factory Tokyo, Catalyst Arts in Belfast, the Lux Centre and Lux Open and Anthology Film Archives NYC. Steven is Professor of Film at Dept of Media Study, University at Buffalo and is also currently conducting a PhD practice-based research project titled 'Cinema into the Real'. In 1997 Steven formed Paradogs film & video with the remit of producing innovative documentaries and experimental fiction. In 1996 Steven co-founded the Volcano! film festival (1996-2000) and also that year he co-founded OMSK. www.ofcamera.org.uk www.paradogs.org.uk

Jamie Bargeman - DJ OMSK, record distributor and special needs teacher. OMSK sound coordinator. DJ OMSK has been coordinating and spinning for the OMSK collective since 1997. The OMSK collective have traveled far and wide, coming in through the back door and leaving via the ceiling. A subterranean beast, DJ OMSK is happy to inhabit dripping railway arches and damp warehouse space in pursuit of good noise.

Hannah 'MissInTheMix' Metcalfe - Hannah MissInTheMix wears white rabbit ears and DJs using 45s from the 50's and 60's. Her record collection spans genres including Rock 'n' Roll, Country and Western, Ballroom Dance, Soul, Jazz, English Pop, French Pop and songs for children. Hannah has performed several times as a storyteller at OMSK. For EatOMSK, storytelling was combined with live cookery to produce 'Scones'. All this, and her own custom-made rabbit costume ...that's another story in itself, but suffice to say she’s a DJ people tend to remember. Hannah has DJ'd at a variety of venues including the ICA, the Museum Of Moving Image, and Leeds Carling festival. www.missinthemix.com.