Events – Page 12 – Project DIVFUSE

The River in You : Joanna Penso [Upcoming]

Installations + Performance :

Session One : 21 March 2025 Friday 7pm

Session Two : 22 March Saturday 3:30pm [Two places left]

Session Three : 22 March Saturday 6pm [[Two places left]

Session Four : 23 March Sunday 3:30pm

Session Five : 23 March Sunday 6pm [4 places left]

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

Running time : 20 minutes visual and audio installations + 20 minutes performance

The River in You / Runs Right Through / BODY TALKS (2023-2024) by Joanna Penso (UK) were selected from DIVFUSE Sound Archive No. 5 Open Call for work that is based on field recordings.

Projection Diptych, 2023 & 2024, 2 channel audio through speakers, projection Runs Right Through 2024 explores the possibilities of listening to nature through the body. Along the banks of the River Don, Sheffield, this piece was made using field recordings taken with a hydrophone dipped into the water, and a stethoscope microphone which captures vibrations of the water seeping into the body, being heard amongst the breath, the heartbeat and digestion.

A meandering sonic journey through the waterways of the body, The River in You 2023 explores the human relationship with water in both the internal and the external. Careering through orifices, tubes and organs this ambient soundscape celebrates the journey water takes into and out of the body, transforming audio recordings taken with a stethoscope microphone into a meditative experience for the listener/viewer.

BODY TALKS 2024 is a live performance piece born out of a period of experimentation during a programme of activity funded by Arts Council England (Develop Your Creative Practice fund, DYCP). Through live amplification of the body this work looks to explore the inner and outer self in relation to performer and audience. Several microphones are strapped to the performer’s body, twisted into a central ‘umbilical cord’ which denotes the limitations of the performance area. Playing with microphone feedback moves the performer to explore the limits of what she can physically and sonically withstand whilst shadow play distorts her physical presence to the audience.

Non Mountain : Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall

Exhibition :

14 February 2025 Friday 5-7:30pm

15 February Saturday 2:30-6:30pm

16 February Sunday 2:30-6:30pm

Suggested donations £2. No booking required.

Non Mountain is a collaboration between Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall (UK). It was selected from DIVFUSE Sound Archive No.5 Open Call for work that is based on field recordings.

Initially this project started as a response by Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall to a soundtrack and text by Angus Carlyle, from his collaboration with Chiara Caterina, in which they referenced a passage from the novel Mount Analogue by René Daumal:

For a mountain to play the role of Mount Analogue, I concluded, its summit must be inaccessible but its base accessible to human beings as nature has made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible. (Daumal, 1952)

Through Daumal’s writing and recontextualising on previous work that Carlyle created, a mapping started to unfold, built around layers of interpretation, iteration, and construction. Cherniwchan and Tattersall created a sound piece and made preparatory photographs, that were used as cues to elicit further responses from Carlyle, which involved texts inspired by catalysed memories of the original fieldwork, photographic documentation of forgotten ephemera only re-discovered after Cherniwchan and Tattersall’s prompts and a new composition in the spirit of conversational reply.

In the publication Writer Conversations, comprising of interviews with authors about the practice of writing on photography, Duncan Wooldridge writes:

…the affective act of writing with, the process of writing around the photographic image proposes a diagrammatical model, a mapping of how an image moves and makes forms of contact and interconnection. Understanding emerges from a kind of encircling – values and meanings are drawn from how the image intersects with language and other images. (Wooldridge, 2023)

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.

Daily Concerns – Collected Films : Matt Harding

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 [FULL]
£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 (e.g. scans in digital format) and work in progress projects 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.

DIVFUSE Film Archive No. 1 – Open Call

With the success of DIVFUSE Sound Archive calling for sound-based work with field recordings elements, we are excited to be launching a new Open Call on short films.

Theme for this first edition : Domesticity

Deadline for submissions : 28 March 2025

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN THE SUBMISSION:

1) Text on the each piece/series (300 words maximum). This shall include the name, year and duration of the work.

2) Artists’ bio (200 words maximum)

3) A link to the work. It could be a link to Vimeo 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 28 March 2025.

OTHER CONDITIONS:

1) Only digital versions are acceptable. Work can be fully digital or video finished Standard 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm films.

2) Only one submission can be made by each artist (or group of artists who work together).

3) The work or series of work shall be between 30 and 45 minutes long and can be made up of different pieces/parts.

4) Selected work will EACH be shown in multiple screening sessions for a weekend (Friday to Sunday) for free between April and June 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) for screenings.

* basic equipments for use for the screenings inside the gallery, including 2 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.

5) Artists whose work is selected will have to make sure that the files reach the gallery at least a week before the exhibition. Additional information such as images from the work will also be required for social media posting.

6) If selected, digital files could be transferred over to Project DIVFUSE for use for the screening sessions for this Open Call only.

7) Artists who are based in London will be invited to do two or three sessions of artists talks. Both the screenings and the talk will be ticketed. ALL income from the screenings will go to the space to support the running of the project. Income from the artist’s talk will be split 60/40 between Project DIVFUSE and the artist. Again, this will help to cover some of the overhead costs for running and managing the events.