Reflections on the Brave New Worldperformed at Cinema Corporel, 2011(12:00 mins:16mm and Super 8:2008)
Performed as part
of Cinema Corporel, OKO's celebration of expanded cinema, this
durational piece using 16mm found footage, Super 8mm film and live
audio feed, was projected under the Dark Arches in Leeds' Granary
Wharf.
In 1962 shortly before his death, Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World addressed an audience at Berkeley CA with a speech entitled 'The Ultimate Revolution'.
He reflected on the advances made since
the publication of his prophetic novel in 1932 and contemplated the
nature of control in advanced democratic societies, where technology
plays an increasingly centralised role in the regulation of body and
mind.
'If you can get people to consent to
the state of affairs in which they're living...the state of servitude
the state of being, having their differences ironed out, and being made
amenable to mass production methods on the social level, if you can do
this, then you have, you are likely, to have a much more stable and
lasting society. Much more easily controllable society than you would
if you were relying wholly on clubs and firing squads and concentration
camps.' 'Reflections
on the Brave New World' is a response to a recording of this speech and
was first performed as part of EXP24's night for Leeds International
Film Festival in 2008. The work consists of a prepared film loop edited
to a soundtrack using found footage and hand processed Super 8 film.
This was synchronised alongside an educational 16mm film featuring an
earthworm being prepared for dissection.
Unsettling in
its duration and confrontational with the live readings and the
interplay between the two images, the piece is suggestive with both the
body of the earthworm and the face of the woman undergoing external
manipulation. Portions of the original voice recording could be heard
along with live audio intervention interference and selected readings
from Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.
Reflections on the Brave New World performed at Cinema Corporel, 2011 (12:00 mins:16mm and Super8:2008)
'and...CUT!' Performed at the Common Place in the weeks after George Osborne announced his 'comprehensive spending review'. Collaboration between Chris Hall and Stewart Bannister.
'Reflections on the Brave New World' Performed for the first time at KiNETIKA! EXP24's event for the 22nd Leeds International Film Festival 2008.
Reflections on the Brave New Worldperformed at KiNETIKA! Leeds International Film Festival, 2008 (12:00 mins:16mm and Super 8mm:2008)
'Transmission' Performed as part of EXP24's Re-form[at] Super 8 workshop screening taking place at the Victoria Hotel, Leeds. 'Transmission' was a durational piece using two synchronised Super 8 projectors. Sound was generated and mixed live.
'Breakdown' Performed as part of EXP24's event for Light Night. The performance utilised numerous Super 8 and slide projectors and featured an improvised, live soundtrack using tapes and collaged audio. The event took place under the Dark Arches in Leeds' Granary Wharf.
In 1962 shortly before his death, Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World addressed an audience at Berkeley CA with a speech entitled 'The Ultimate Revolution'.
He reflected on the advances made since the publication of his prophetic novel in 1932 and contemplated the nature of control in advanced democratic societies, where technology plays an increasingly centralised role in the regulation of body and mind.
'Reflections on the Brave New World' is a response to a recording of this speech and was first performed as part of EXP24's night for Leeds International Film Festival in 2008. The work consists of a prepared film loop edited to a soundtrack using found footage and hand processed Super 8 film. This was synchronised alongside an educational 16mm film featuring an earthworm being prepared for dissection.
Unsettling in its duration and confrontational with the live readings and the interplay between the two images, the piece is suggestive with both the body of the earthworm and the face of the woman undergoing external manipulation. Portions of the original voice recording could be heard along with live audio intervention interference and selected readings from Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man.
'and...CUT!'
Performed at the Common Place in the weeks after George Osborne announced his 'comprehensive spending review'. Collaboration between Chris Hall and Stewart Bannister.
'Reflections on the Brave New World'
Performed for the first time at KiNETIKA! EXP24's event for the 22nd Leeds International Film Festival 2008.
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'Transmission'
Performed as part of EXP24's Re-form[at] Super 8 workshop screening taking place at the Victoria Hotel, Leeds. 'Transmission' was a durational piece using two synchronised Super 8 projectors. Sound was generated and mixed live.
'Breakdown'
Performed as part of EXP24's event for Light Night. The performance utilised numerous Super 8 and slide projectors and featured an improvised, live soundtrack using tapes and collaged audio. The event took place under the Dark Arches in Leeds' Granary Wharf.