Past Events – Project DIVFUSE

Bayt Yakan : Luca Nasciuti

Sound Exhibition :

8 February 2025 Saturday 2:30-5:30pm

9 February Sunday 2:30-5:30pm

Running time : 30 minutes. Suggested donations : £2. No booking required.

Performance :

Session One : 8 February Saturday 6pm

Session Two : 9 February Sunday 6pm

£7 | 8 places only each session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Bayt Yakan of Luca Nasciuti (UK) was selected from DIVFUSE Sound Archive No. 5 Open Call for work that is based on field recordings.

Bayt Yakan 2024 is a collection of field recordings that mark and map the essence of a newly restored historic house in Cairo, Egypt. It features 5 edited recordings of playback sound performance-walks recorded within the walls of Bayt Yakan, revealing the relationship between sound, environment, and heritage. By activating the surroundings, Luca maps the building and courtyard, creating an auditory experience that reflects the character of this location.

During the performance at the house, pre-recorded material was played back through a portable loudspeaker, allowing Luca to interact with the building and the objects within it. This interaction highlights the importance of space in shaping sound and music. The recordings weave together the indoor and outdoor sonic environment with Luca’s slow journey within the building, inviting listeners to engage with the layers of sound that define the historic site.

Bayt Yakan serves as a reminder of the interaction between history, memory and embodied experience that shape our environment. By mapping the space through field recordings and layering recorded soundscapes in the same location, the project highlights the complexity of urban regeneration and cultural conservation. What is to be saved and who holds the power over these sites becomes the guiding principle for this auditory investigation of space.

DIVFUSE Sound Archive No. 5 : Open Call

This Open Call has now closed. Results can be found in the Current/Upcoming page. Thank you for all the artists who made a submission.

***Open Call*** for sound work that is based on field recordings. Deadline for Open Call No. 5 is 22nd December 2024

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN THE SUBMISSION:

1) Text on the each piece (300 words maximum). This shall include the name, year and duration of the work, together with brief descriptions on ways of presentation (for example, 2 channels audio through speakers/headphones etc)

2) Artists’ bio (200 words maximum)

3) A link to the work. It could be a link to Soundcloud for example but please do not send us the file to download.

4) Send the submission through by email to divfuse@gmail.com on or before 22nd December 2024.

OTHER CONDITIONS:

1) Up to two pieces of work can be submitted by each artist (or group of artists who work together).

2) Each piece shall be at least 20 minutes long and can be made up of different parts.

3) Examples of work include pure sound from field recordings and compositions based on the recorded materials. Visuals and other elements such as live performances may be included if they are part of the work.

4) Selected pieces will EACH be exhibited for a weekend (Friday to Sunday) for free in late January/February 2025 at Project DIVFUSE micro digital and multi-media art gallery, London. There is no payment to the artists but we will offer the following:

* micro gallery space (5m x 3m) to carry out the exhibition.

* basic equipments for use during the exhibitions inside the gallery, including 4 x small Genelec speakers on stands, a Genelec subwoofer, a projector and a laptop to play the file(s) from.

* management of the exhibition including invigilating the space and promotion on social media.

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

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

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.

Catastrophone : Lia Mice

Exhibition & Performance :

Session One : 5 October 2024 Saturday 4pm [FULL]

Session Two : 5 October Saturday 6pm [One place left]

Session Three : 6 October Sunday 4pm [Three places left]

Session Four : 6 October Sunday 6pm

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

Lia Mice and the Catastrophone, Photo by Liz Godoy

Why are digital musical instruments so often created using unsustainable materials?

Why are there no commercially available digital instruments that are larger than the performer’s body?

Catastrophone is a new large physically performed synthesizer made of recycled cardboard and paper — specifically collaged images of cats, hence the name!

At two metres wide and tall, Catastrophone looms over the performer, offering large performance surfaces for full-body interaction. Mice’s intricate hand-cut and glued nature-themed paper collages that adorn each performance panel evoke a call-to-action for instrument makers to consider the environmental impact of materials, while the instrument’s sheer size encourages musicians to bring their entire bodies to live electronic music performance.

Within the intimate setting of Project DIVFUSE, Lia Mice’s first solo exhibition show Catastrophone features scheduled performances of the instrument by Lia Mice followed by a short artist talk, Q&A, and an opportunity for the audience to try the instrument themselves. The newest iteration of Catastrophone will be displayed alongside a collection of collage panels previously installed in the instrument when it was shown and performed at the Science Museum, Cafe OTO and IKLECTIK.