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 – 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.
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.
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.
Running Time : Lecture performance 15 minutes approximately + 23 minutes video
Expanded from Rizki Lazuardi’s Mr Balangue’s Telex Report (2020), this spatial installation and lecture performance are an analytical speculation on the pre-production of 1982 Peter Weir’s feature The Year of Living Dangerously. Portraying the downfall of socialist-leaning Indonesian first president Soekarno, the motion picture adaptation of CJ Koch novel was going to be produced in Jakarta but had to be ultimately relocated to Manila as shooting permit was rejected, which led to Weir’s expression “All slums look alike, after all”.
The essay film and objects are artifacts “constructed” from the reconnaissance trip of the set director to Jakarta.
The film Mr Balangue’s Telex Report (2020) will also be shown at Close-up cinema on 6 September 2025 as part of After Gutta Percha: on Lab Laba Laba & Karel Doing.
Session One 13 September 2025 Saturday 4:30pm (+ artist’s talk) Session Two 13 September Saturday 6:30pm (+ artist’s talk) Session Three 14 September Sunday 3:30 pm Session Four 14 September Sunday 5pm
£8 for sessions with artist’s talk and £5 for other sessions | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Running Time : 30 minutes approximately
This is an exhibition of a series of video work by Andrea G. Artz that were created during the period of 2020 to 2025.
For the artist’s talk, Andrea will speak about the progression of her artistic practice — from analogue works to immersive digital scenarios. She will share insights into her inspirations, working processes, and methodologies, concluding with a presentation of selected analogue pieces that laid the groundwork for her digital explorations.
The screenings will be showing the following pieces and more…
Video Still from The Forest of Query, video, virtual reality experience, 2020
The Forest of Query (2020) HD Video with sound. Duration : 5 min 28 sec. Sound design and composition by Hutch Demouilpied. This piece of work was developed for a solo exhibition at the Foyer, School of Design, University of Leeds and with the help of an Arts Council England DYCP grant.
Visitors embark on a journey through a beautiful yet apocalyptic winter forest, home to creatures that are part human, part beast, and part mythological, transcending any specific race or gender. The Forest of Query is a timeless setting that could exist in either the past or future, emerged after a period of climate change or a nuclear disaster. This narrative was developed in collaboration with writer Veronica B., while the visuals draw inspiration from Caspar David Friedrich’s romantic and surreal landscape paintings, as well as an artist residency in a remote studio within the dark winter forest at the MacDowell Colony of the Arts in Peterborough, NH.
