UNCONSCIOUS ARCHIVES @ SUPERNORMAL FESTIVAL
8-10 August 2014, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
Supernormal 2014 program
Festival Tickets
SCULPTURE
SPATIAL
JAMES HOLCOMBE
SALLY GOLDING
It’s that time of year again to drink espresso martinis for breakfast and get sunburnt whilst watching your favourite acts up close and personal at Supernormal festival!
Unconscious Archives takes a convoy of artists to SN14 to celebrate the disorderly and the extraordinary in an eccentric setting complete with Gothic Victorian mansion and creepy rustic barns and sheds hidden within oodles of field and forest (watch out for the scarecrow late at night).
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SCULPTURE
SATURDAY 9TH – DISCO BAR
9pm-10pm
Sculpture’s special brand of outsider polymedia rave warp and dizzyingly twisted ear and eye candy is set to melt your mind and give you synesthesia.
The duo of electronic music producer, Dan Hayhurst and animator, Reuben Sutherland create a unique DIY aesthetic encompassing pop, cut & spliced techno, noise, early electronics, the avant garde and Looney Tunes, mechanical and digital animation techniques, tape edits and computer programming, heart and head, past and future.
Sculpture
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SPATIAL
SATURDAY 9TH – DISCO BAR
8pm-9pm
In his live audiovisual performance work Spatial uses custom made, home coded software to explore sonic and optical intensity articulated by simple geometric figures and high and low frequencies. Projected images drive a sensory assault, consumed by your eyes, then your ears and existing somewhere between perceptions.
Spatial is most often referenced for his “echoes of haunted dancehalls and distant raves in London town..” This is Spatial’s latest iteration of his project Primitives interrogating hacked code for excruciating light.
“Spatial”: http://spatial.infrasonics.net/primitives
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JAMES HOLCOMBE
FRIDAY 8TH – THE BARN
8pm-8.30pm
James Holcombe re-works film material through decomposition, chemical manipulation and mechanical interventions. For SN14 Holcombe reworks his own hair and saliva in Hair in the Gate – a projector performance exploring the act of dirtying and cleaning a 16mm projector gate for it’s performative qualities. Expect burning hair and gobbets of spit dancing a duet on screen in glorious smell-o-vision conjuring acrid, sulphurous burning keratine, and sparking, spitting optical sound.
James Holcombe
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SALLY GOLDING
FRIDAY 8TH – THE BARN
7.15pm-7.45pm
Sally Golding performs sound and vision made from contact-printed optical sound and image using two 16mm projectors, laboratory strobe, effects processing, synth, rotating colour-wheel filters and vocals.
’..a pulsing, banging statement of audio-visual intent. ..Golding shifted the tone and rhythm of the projection and sound to manipulate mood, and ultimately the audience’s sense of corporeal immersion in the piece. - Harriet Warman, Sight & Sound
Sally Golding