Postmodularism
AV Performance
Duration: 45 min.
Friday, 19 November 2021 | 23:00 > 23:45 2021-11-19T23:00:00.000Z | Pavilion 1
Deleuze & Guattari, in their classic book of postmodernist philosophy, Mille Plateaux, talk about there being states of being in which there are smooth and striated space, that is, the differences between such concepts as the fresh and the developed; open country and built-up landscape; felted and woven (or quilted) fabric.
These contrasts exist only in mixture however, like the yin-yang there is always a part of one in the other. Gardens in cities, peaceful moments in wartime, one in the many.
This audiovisual performance tries to use such contrasts as: analogue in the digital, field recordings with the generative modular sounds, random sequences of notes vs the composed.
The wind sounds are recorded at UK stone circles, the Neolithic beginnings of civilisation: (striated) protoarchitecture in (smooth) rural space. They are processed to be mixed with other audio elements and performed in quiet pockets of urban locations, brutalist structures (car parks, libraries, ring-roads etc), theatres and clubs. Visuals use quilting patterns to display generative modular video patterns in varying ways.
These contrasts exist only in mixture however, like the yin-yang there is always a part of one in the other. Gardens in cities, peaceful moments in wartime, one in the many.
This audiovisual performance tries to use such contrasts as: analogue in the digital, field recordings with the generative modular sounds, random sequences of notes vs the composed.
The wind sounds are recorded at UK stone circles, the Neolithic beginnings of civilisation: (striated) protoarchitecture in (smooth) rural space. They are processed to be mixed with other audio elements and performed in quiet pockets of urban locations, brutalist structures (car parks, libraries, ring-roads etc), theatres and clubs. Visuals use quilting patterns to display generative modular video patterns in varying ways.
Author
As an artist I am using evolving technology not only as a medium in itself but also as subject.
Streaming, layering and reinterpreting multiple live art forms simultaneously. Finding where science meets spirituality and walking the fine line that exists between both camps; without indulging the dogma of pseudoscience or being blinkered by scientific myopia.
I dedicate the use of technology and it’s bastardisation to improvise live images that relate to and directly influence the situation, i.e. music, dance, theatre etc. an...