Past Events – Page 11 – Project DIVFUSE

DUO : Douglas Benford + Sylvia Hallett [PAST]

Mini Concert :

2 October Saturday 2021 6-7pm

Ticket: £5 . 10 seats only. To buy tickets, please email divfuse@gmail.com for payment information. There will be limited choices of non-alcoholic drinks for sale on site.

Two artists who approach their sound-making by improvising using unusual and inventive instrument and object combinations.

This is the first event under the Sound Meta series of Project DivFuse. Sound Meta is a body of events that features mini concerts, workshops and activities involving sound making.

In this mini concert, Douglas Benford will be improvising with an array of objects. He will be joined in by Sylvia Hallett playing a bowed bicycle wheel. This concert will be recorded to form an archive for the art pod.

When We Used to Go Somewhere_Variants : Liz Helman [PAST]

Exhibition :

4 September Saturday 2pm – 6pm

5 September Sunday 2pm – 6pm

When We Used To Go Somewhere_Variants – A Short Film By Liz Helman

Running Time 8.20

Made in the UK during the first stages of lockdown for the Covid-19 pandemic, the film explores dislocation alongside the longing to go somewhere; a freedom that was restricted for most of 2020.

The video is accompanied by a new soundtrack that appears as Invisible Future on the artist’s forthcoming album, The Yearning, released on the Flaming Pines label.

Echo Chamber : Ilia Rogatchevski & Laura Rogatchevskaia [PAST]

Opening : 20 August Friday 5pm – 8pm (RSVP by emailing divfuse@gmail.com before 20 August)

Exhibition :

21 August Saturday & 22 August Sunday 2pm – 6pm

27 August Friday 3pm – 7pm

28 August Saturday & 29 August Sunday 2pm – 6pm

Echo Chamber is a multichannel sound installation that explores the notions of routine and domesticity in times of pandemic. Composed from field recordings created during lockdown walkabouts and the performance of humdrum activities, the work interrogates the role that repetition plays in our everyday lives.

The sound pieces are accompanied by a series of drawings. These works were created in parallel to the recordings and act as a visual anchor to the sound installation. Made with basic materials such as children’s crayons, the drawings depict, in part, portraits of the couple’s daughter, and aim to evoke a sense of the familial by employing everyday pictorial language.

Echo Chamber is the first exhibition in the Intro : spect series under Project DivFuse, where selected artists are invited to showcase their media-based work on site as a checkpoint of their long term artistic development.

The Code Keeper : Livia Garcia [PAST]

Opening : 25 July 2021 Sunday 3pm – 6pm (by email invitation only)

Exhibition :

30 July Friday 3pm – 7pm [Updates : Steve Beresford will now be performing at 6 and 6:45pm)

31 July Saturday 2pm – 6pm

1 August Sunday 2pm – 6pm

Project DIVFUSE is proud to present our first event which will also mark the official opening of the space to the public.

The Code Keeper is an exhibition that showcases the latest drawings and motion graphic scores by Livia Garcia. Inspired by Cornelius Cardew’s graphic scores and her own experience in engineering draughtsmanship, Garcia has developed a series of line drawings which has subsequently been turned into digital motion videos. The artist is naming her drawings The Silent Improviser to suggest the fact that the way she juxtaposes the lines, symbols, letters and numbers is a form of improvisation. Her drawings connect with the subconscious and seem to be encoded with meanings that can only be unlocked and deciphered by the Code Keeper. Most of the graphic scores that are shown in this exhibition were created during the lockdowns.