Located in a disused cash-and-carry in New Cross, over May bank holiday weekend, academic and inter-media artist J Milo Taylor will create a live experiment; can you synthetically evoke paranoia?
Where?
Bond House, ASC Pop Up Project Space,
Goodwood Road, New Cross, London
When?
Friday 27th May; Film screenings- 6.30-9pm
Saturday 28th- All day
Sunday 29th May; Ryan Jordan workshop- 2pm
How much?
Completely free!
Curated by students from BA (Hons) Criticism, Communication and Curation at Central Saint Martin’s, the exhibition follows on from the recent group show at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning in Brixton, under the joint title ‘Local Anaesthesia’.
The concept focuses on the impact of contemporary urbanisation and how it functions as a filtering process, subconsciously blocking or heightening experiences, which in turn warps inner city living. Local Anaesthesia sets out to manipulate and contort the viewer’s senses. If urbanisation numbs us to the influence of the city, how easy is it to create a virtual plane of paranoia?The piece uses infrasonic and supersonic levels, DIY electronics, lasers and spectacular visuals to produce a soup of sound, where the audience can wonder around a dystopian metropolitan landscape. Dreadspace #Blood and Fire is not for the light hearted.
Alongside the installation will be a series of events including; a film screening featuring works shown at the East London Film Festival and London Short Film Festival:
Including: Eva Weber’s award-winning Solitary life of Cranes, ‘This film did what art should do: it opened your eyes’- The Guardian
Esther Johnson’s Elevation: A unique portrait of Sheffield’s in/famous Park Hill estate, Ranya Nadeem’s A13 Road Movie and a few short artist films, a performance by Raymond Wong titled Fontless II: in D, with Ben Absalom, Sam Bardsley, Oscar Oldershaw and Joe Campbell, live soundtrack by Maja Nagahich.
There will also be a workshop by Ryan Jordan on oscillations, radio feedback and the body.
J Milo Taylor is a sound artist who has exhibited at The Whitechapel, Tate, Tula Art Centre and the Athena Biennale. Dreadspace #Blood and Fire is produced in conjunction with research at Sussex University, where motion sensor suits will be used to record and track the user’s experience. The findings will later be compiled and published in a book.
