17th July - 1st August 2009
Clusterfuck is a term used to describe a particular kind of catch 22 in which multiple complicated problems mutually interfere with each other’s solution.
For this commission Nomad endeavors to explore the relationship between public space and contemporary approaches to exhibition and performance.
Four artists with diverging practices were brought together to collaborate on a project that embraces hybrid authorship, a relational mess for both artists and audience to navigate.
Parallel to this new commission, Lundahl and Seitl presented their site specific, one on one, experimental performance ‘My Voice Shall Now Come from the Other Side of the Room’ .
Stephen Cornford is a sculptor working with music, sound and noise. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art before recently completing a Masters in Time-Based Arts Practices at Dartington College of Arts. His principal materials are musical instruments and audio technologies, which he treats with a disregard for their normal function in an effort to forget their iconography and focus on their physicality.
Nathan Parker is a London based artist, who graduated from an MFA at the Slade in 2002, working predominantly in film and video, installations, sculpture and set design. Parker’s work explores various archetypes and tropes found in fairy tales, Norse mythology, ritual, fetishism and contemporary music.
Tai Shani creates films and performances that evoke cosmologies of interconnected being. Fantastical and dreamlike, her work seeks out the moments of intensity underpinning the production and play of images both existent and to come.
Henry Stringer takes inspiration from the physicality of the material he uses to create large site specific constructions that primarily endeavor to encourages audience participation. Henry is currently studying his B.A degree at Central Saint Martins, London.
Human Separation is a mechanical band performance incorporating a wide variety of
mundane motorized objects/machines adapted to play the stock instruments of live rock
music. An ongoing venture that investigates the possibilities and problems of inserting
primitive technologies between the musician’s hands and the instrument.
Human Separation is an elaborately visual sound performance where machines are elevated
to the position of performers and we are reduced to the role of stage hands, stripping the
traditional theatricality out of the live rock experience, yet all functioning together as a single
musical organism. The music itself drifts from mesmeric ambience to an obliterative noise
onslaught. The band is intended to be experienced aurally and visually and was born of
working with both kinetic sculpture and sound.
Sponsored by: A Foundation