Through an ecomimetic séance, the gallery is transformed by means of light and sound into a transcendental darkroom
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We welcome an evening of performance art which will engulf our Soho space on Thursday 26th September 2019, 6.30-8.30 PM. We hope that you can join us!
Strange Attractor by Andrew Ford and Jack Greeley-Ward is an immersive performance that dramatises the urgency of human intervention in climate change. This collaborative work frames the current climate emergency not as a set of bifurcations; civilisation and nature, the anthroposcene and the environment; in which our species is tasked to resolve, but as a singular, expansive “hyper-object”, a mesh in which humanity is an active vector and an agent of change.
Through an ecomimetic séance, the gallery is transformed by means of light and sound into a transcendental darkroom. A rift is opened and spectators are invited to use their cellular devices to call forth a soundscape of shared memories and future ghosts. Centred in the gallery a medium resonates with the sonic torrent, filling a photographic plate with grains of sand, shifting them, creating openings and closing others off. Searching for clues within the noise, our past, present and future collide on the surface of the print bringing received ideas of agency and destiny into question. This is the artists’ second exhibition with the gallery.
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