VIDEO/SOUND ART
My artistic practice combines photography, moving image and sound. I release work as myself, and additionally work with sound artist Fabio Kubic as Sequencial, where we create audio visual installations for galleries and festivals, and occasionally perform them live.
Brian and Roger Eno - Dark Sienna (2020)
This film was part of the Brian and Roger Eno project “Mixing Colours”. Made in the first months of lockdown in 2020, they asked for a single shot of something we were viewing during our time at home-no effects, no manipulation. My film was selected by the Enos to be part of their “A Quiet Scene” public outdoor audio-visual installation at the Los Angeles Music Center in January-February of 2021, created in association with dublab.
Sequencial - Egregore (Live)
On August 17th, 2019 Egregore was released into the world. A site-specific multilayered ritual audio/visual piece, it was successfully deployed at The Delaware Road: Ritual and Resistance Festival, held in a military base near Stonehenge. We transformed a room within this assault training area into a power well, drawing on not only the magical surroundings of the Salisbury plain, but the power of the base itself. The piece was, itself, an egregore, a loop drawing from the imagery and messages within it, feeding into another loop incorporating the energy from those who viewed it, then feeding back into the larger loop within the the festival itself. This is a live documentation of this work.
Sequencial - The Foundation (2018)
In the Kabbalistic tradition, the moon is assigned to the sphere of Yesod on the Tree of Life. It is called "the Foundation"...the ethereal basic basis of the material world. The fluidic astral substance is in a continuous state of flow, flowing with the crescent grow and decrease, an invisible ocean of energy that permeates the dense physical world in which we live. The knowledge of the lunar phases is extremely important in the world of occultists, since working in harmony with the cosmic tides ensures success in the subtle and complex transformation of consciousness -meta of alchemy and magic.
Yesod has a dual quality like the moon itself, with its phases of growth and degrowth. Yesod is assigned the reproductive organs of the human body and the sexual energy which is the driving force behind the phenomenal world. Yesod is also called "Pure and Clear Intelligence", and in the occult teachings there is another centre, or chakra, of subtle energy, located in the cerebellum, and ruled by the moon.
Screenings:
Drone Cinema Film Festival, Seattle/Leiden, NL, 2018; Austin/Los Angeles, 2019
Dronica Festival, London, 2018
Sequencial - RaumMerzGeist (2016)
With the image created and led by the audio of the piece itself, "RaumMerzGeist" is a wave-based calligraphy of undulating sonic movement. The simple passing of the work's sound waves through liquid renders visible a textural flow of abstract landscapes hitherto unseen by the eye - one which exists only in the brief moment of symbiosis between sound and vision.
Screenings:
"Making it Real-Analogue London", London, UK (2017)
Sound-Image Colloquium at Greenwich, London (2017).
This track was also included in the DigitalDIZZY MerzFunder compilation, in aid of the Kurt Schwitters MerzBarn, Cumbria.
Sequencial - Haumea (2016)
A visual alchemy. Lead into gold, one state to another, one place to another. The visual conversion is an organic physical manifestation of the sound within...invoking Haumea's structure and purpose with echoes and reverberations that alter its nature by creating long dimensional waves lapping the object itself. After approach and entry, the silver-grey exterior transmutates into the golden-red vortex or space-time portal, moving us into the unknown.
Screenings:
Drone Cinema Film Festival, San Francisco/Leiden, 2017.
Videography Space Textures XI, Riga, Latvia, 2017
Fragmenta (Fear Is an Island Where You Lose Tomorrow) (2016)
Fragmenta is the work of three international artists- Myself, Camelia Mirescu (Italy), Jutta Pryor (Australia). We came together to create this piece as a tribute to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 26). We each created a section of the film, lending our unique voices and images to the whole, while Patrizia Chianese (Italy) gave us her poetry.
My section is the first in the piece, and features Brazilian/UK artist Iluá Hauck da Silva.