YES WAY is a two day festival celebrating the best and brightest of the UK's art and music underground.

The event is a collaboration between London-based promoter and label, Upset The Rhythm, and Auto-Italia - a massive, collaborative exhibition space and temporary studio, currently residing in a former car showroom in Peckham.

Over the course of the weekend, 34 acts from all over the country will be performing, from noon until midnight each day, alongside the multimedia work of 14 artists.

There'll also be a temporary DIY supermarket and no end of food and drink.

PLEASE NOTE: All Saturday and weekend tickets for YES WAY are now sold out! A limited number of advance day tickets for Sunday are still available via WeGotTickets.

Auto-Italia is situated at 1 Glengall Road, on the corner of Old Kent Road, Peckham, SE15 6NJ.

Bus: 21, 53, 63, 78, 168, 172, 363, 453 | Map
Night bus: N21, N63, N381, 453 | Map
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AMANDA DENNIS

Amanda's friends have performed wobbly hula hoop routines and sung the periodic table to a self made tune for her videos, and though she feels guilty that her work might be all about her, her objects can be so unassuming you sometimes have to look carefully to find them - a holographic sticker on a wall, or a ball of plasticine balancing on a ledge, or a drawing of a folded box on a perfect roll of white paper.

DANIELLE DEAN

Danielle once had a huge cube of blue deep-fried. Another time she enlarged a photograph of a block of red with a chunk missing and called it B&Q. In one video she sat in front of her mum's house with her head unwrapping coloured material almost too heavy to sit up straight, covering the concrete street around her in pure colours.

DARREN BANKS

Darren's peculiar, otherworldly video creations build to an apocalyptic sea-creature disco - an anonymous bizarre dance routine demonstration of household objects or simply the boil of a kettle. The visually seductive pre-90s aesthetics leave you a little unsettled. Big Blob, Blob, Blob 1 and Sci-Fi Looking Thing draw scientific proof to obsessive introverted landscapes.

JAMES LEWIS & JOSEPH CARTER

This half-graphics, half-fine-art friendship duo set their show-and-tell in quiet Kingston suburbia. They draw parallels in their separate work and love each others' smart cool and subtle interventions. Jo has woven text through the streets with custom-made bicycle tyres, and orchestrated video work of pink and sand submersion. James' glass of seawater collected from Cornwall is still waiting, in one of the Auto-Italia caravans, for a willing accomplice to journey to cast it into the North Sea and complete this romantic ridiculous gesture.

JUSTIN JAECKLE

Justin is almost irreverent with his enjoyment of buildings and pop songs. He has turned Mies Van Der Rohe into furniture and Mondrian into a dance mat. When he gets the chance he might block out everything else- with a spidery chandelier casting light over other work or a smoke machine obscuring it completely.

KATE COOPER

Kate talks in video. She arranges interviews between herself, friends and family and knows very well that her sister can hold her own in a debate especially if it's about her mates dancing in a club, or her grandparents singing opera. You'll only ever get to see her work for one night only.

KATIE GUGGENHEIM

Katie has made a set of fakes of famous artworks so convincing they have been included on CVs of the artists she's imitated. She made a maze of string 1 mile long, put up Christmas lights in July, and curated an exhibition in pitch black where people fumbled to find works as they turned on and off.

KAZIMIERZ JANKOWSKI

When Kaz sees a window, he thinks of a vinyl sticker - a shoe at the Curzon cinema, circles above lamps and intersecting curves on the windows into a show. When he sees an object he imagines a plinth - soft porn collages on towering boxes, or spoken recordings mounted on angular things with stilts. He has also made people queue in anticipation for an exhibition for an audience of one.

MARK BARKER

Mark builds sculptures that he performs. One video was a sequence of images which included a sculpture he baked. Coconuts on a gallery wall become houses for sock men to visit. One video was quite literally a collection of images of different men's noses. In another piece he wore a sculpture and performed sequences edited to the intro of a Madonna track.

OLIVIER CASTEL

Olivier, who is known by many other names, once dreamed up a 4 metre spotlit silver foil balloon after seeing a Kenneth Anger film, and monumentally maps out whole buildings in glitter mixed to the colours of Jacques Tati's films. He has made artwork that smells of the moon and lets Casper the Friendly Ghost tell poetic stories in the rain.

PATRICK SHIER

Patrick has a love affair with glitter. His recent work includes silver mirrored pumps, which featured in a lecture he gave on The Wiz, black glitter on the face of a girl reciting a fictional history of Auto-Italia, a glittering set of T-shirts spelling out PARIS all topped by a black sparkling Vatican dome symbolising the star studded film Roman Holiday.

RACHEL PIMM

In Rachel's work she is the hostess with the mostest. Her sculptures are essays about going to Ikea. She lives in her caravan in an artspace and makes glorious attempts to be generous with her work, throwing a street party for the local residents, flowing pink bubbles over plastic cut glass, or as a column that catches the light in the dark.

RICHARD JOHN JONES

Whatever Richard does he blogs about it, be it making a film about an offshore company called Headless Ltd, to interviewing a receptionist at a public institution in Sao Paulo about Brazilian economic policy. He grilled Auto-Italia about its motivations then sold off all its assets in a shop, which infamously included a kettle signed by Anna Wintour. He aims to provoke discussion while outsourcing a hip aesthetic that makes you think "Oh, all this cool culture stuff is actually quiet challenging".

RUTH EDWARDS

It might be controversial but Ruth is, quite simply, a painter! Her degree show last year had you seeing double - huge life size group portraits were presented of her fellow St Martin's students, who were also walking round the private view blurring the potent social document with its comparatively dull reality.