Art – Page 9 – Project DIVFUSE

Silence on Tour : Sebastiane Hegarty

Exhibition + Performance + Talk

Session One : 19 October 2024 Saturday 3pm

Session Two : 19 October Saturday 4:30pm

Session Three : 19 October Saturday 6pm

£6 | 8 places per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Silence on Loan (2019) is an artists’ book published (ISBN: 978-15272-3880-0) in the form of a 10” singled-sided vinyl dub-plate. Cut with a silent groove, this un-recorded silence is held in the Artists’ Book Collection at Winchester School of Art Library and (as required by the Legal Deposit Libraries Act, 2003) the six Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries. The ‘book’ is shelved without the protection of dustcover or sleeve, leaving silence vulnerable to the dust and damage done. Once a year it is taken from the shelf, placed on a turntable, and performed to an audience of listening and non-listening library users. The performance is documented in mono on audiocassette; a recording that is kept unheard only to be rewound and recorded over at next year’s performance.

*Silence on Loan:* Audiocassette documentation of annual performance at WSA Library January 2022

Classified as ‘Reference only’, Silence on Loan is held behind the electromagnetic barcodes of library security. However, in 2023, permission was given to sign silence out for the purposes of performance or exhibition, enabling a tour of galleries, libraries, conferences, and garden fetes.

“The first gigs of Silence on Tour, included the Unfolding Practice conference at LCF/UAL and Saying Nothing to Say, a Wittgenstein inspired symposium in the Philosophy Department of Warwick University. I am delighted to announce that Project DIVFUSE will be the next gig in this [occcasional] world tour.

Cymagick : Mark Wagner

Talk + Interactive Installation

Session One : 16 November 2024 Saturday 4pm [Cancelled]

Session Two : 16 November Saturday 5:30pm

£7 | 10 places per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Cymagick is an interactive installation and participatory demonstration of cymatics – the study of vibratory phenomena and visualization of sound.

Participants will get to witness and participate in the mesmerising processes underlying sound-geometry, the creation of form, nature’s art, energy and life itself. Cymagick taps into the primordial creativity of the universe and never fails to expand our consciousness when witnessing and joining in on the creative wonder.

Mark Wagner will be ‘performing’ the cymatics machines using frequencies, voice and instruments (including chladni plates, water, non newtonian fluids, bubbles and more!) Participants will be able to watch and / or join in with their creativity and expression (voice and instruments.) Participants are welcome to bring instruments to try or use their voice or simply spectate!

Mark Wagner is a multi disciplinary artist and Mystic whose work delves in revealing the underlying mechanisms that connect the worlds seen and unseen, inner and outer, above and below. Wagner is also the founder of MKII a studio / venue space in Lower Clapton.

www.markwagner33.com | @mark_wagner_33 (IG)

Images from the artist

Loops & Lines / Asanoha : Lynn Loo

Film Installations :

24 January 2025 Friday 5-7pm

25 January Saturday 2:30-6pm

26 January Sunday 2:30-6pm

Suggested donations : £2

Artist’s Talks :

Session One : 24 January Friday 7pm

Session Two : 25 January Saturday 6pm

Session Three : 26 January Sunday 6pm

£5 | 6 places only each session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Two new installations that use hand-made and recorded images in chance structures that combine digital video with animated sound drawings on 16mm film will be presented in this exhibition.

Loops & Lines develops ideas based on the artist’s last show at Project DIVFUSE Lines and Light 2023 in which she combined digital imagery with the material qualities of hand-drawn 16mm to bring out connections between abstraction and representation. Light passes through cuttings of the films which adds another visual layer to the installation.

Asanoha was made on a 2024 residency in Japan using patterns influenced by the traditional wood-lattice craft of Kanuma Kumiko.

For the talks, the artist will take us through the development of her work from the exhibition in Project DIVFUSE 2023 to her recent solo show in Singapore as well as the residency in Japan.

Lynn Loo is a moving image artist working between celluloid and video for over twenty years. Her works have been shown internationally in film festivals and galleries. Most recently solo exhibition and film performance programme at Objectifs Centre of Photography in Singapore and S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña Spain. Earlier this year, she was granted a Sasakawa award to attend a residency at Center in Kanuma City Japan.

dewfields.co.uk | #lynnloofilm

Image by Lynn Loo

Daily Concerns – Collected Films : Matt Harding [Upcoming]

Screenings :
1 March Saturday 2025 2:30-6pm
2 March Sunday 2:30-6pm
Running Time: approximately 20 mins

Artist Talk :
Session One : 1 March Saturday 6pm
Session Two : 2 March Sunday 6pm
£5 | 8 places only each session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

After the screenings Matt will discuss some of the processes and approaches to the films as well as sharing some performative pieces developed from elements and details within the films.

Exploring themes of ephemerality, movement and gesture, this collection of short duration works, taken from 2016 – 2024 explores the interplay and relationships between sound, movement and image.

Taking a heavily process based approach, the films frequently are the result of improvisation or working with found objects and materials, shot quickly and edited using social media software, they adopt a naive quality and DIY aesthetic. Dictionary, the centerpiece of the collection is a catalogue of gestures and movements, a compendium of stitched together sonic and non sonic acts.

Dictionary
Profile
Everything’s a game to you
Meandering
Voicemails
On the bridge
Postcard
Stranger on the shore
Throw 1 & 2
Now who’s laughing
Rest positions
Daily Concerns
Eleanor Street
Melody nail
Voicemails
CousCous
Still

DIVFUSE 8:16 – Open Screening No. 1

1st Open Screening / Group Discussions

16 March 2025 Sunday 4pm – 6:30pm

DIVFUSE 8:16 [Eight Sixteen] is a new line of curatorial project that calls for Standard 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm films (including video finished films). Artists are expected to show and discuss about the work with the group on the day.

Up to 5 artists will be selected for this first DIVFUSE 8:16 event. Each artist will be given a 20 minutes slot on the day to show and talk about the work with the group, together with experienced film-makers Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo.

TO ENTER FOR SELECTION:

Email your name, name of the film, year made, original duration, brief description of the work including format (150 words max), 2 images of the work; and a short artist’s bio (150 words max) to divfuse@gmail.com by 1 March 2025.
Submission is free but if the work is selected, participation fee is £6 should the artist wishes to take up the spot.
Maximum duration of the projection is 10 minutes to allow time for the discussions. The 10 minutes can be an extract of a longer piece.
Two films can be submitted but only one piece may be selected.
Video finished films (in digital format) are acceptable.

DETAILS:

5 artists will be selected for this first DIVFUSE 8:16 event. Each artist will be given approximately 20 minutes slot on the day to show and talk about the work with the group.
Artists are expected to bring along the films or videos on the day.
Projectors will be provided by the venue.
No refund can be arranged once the participation fee is paid.
Participation fee £6 has to be paid before the event to secure a place.
Project DIVFUSE will NOT be responsible for any damage of the films during the screening, particularly due to aging of the materials.

For enquiries, please email divfuse@gmail.com.

Project DIVFUSE would like to thank Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo for initiating the idea of open screening and for supporting us by providing the projectors for the event.