Session One(Solo): 28 June Saturday 6:30pm £8[Cancelled] Session Two(Rie Nakajima x Li Song): 29 June Sunday 4pm £9[4 places left] Session Three(Solo): 29 June Sunday 6:30pm £8[Places available]
12 places each session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Duration : 40 minutes
Photo by Fabio Luggage
Photo by Kristof Vrancken
Li Song. Photo by Andrej Chudy
Harappa, in Japanese, means an open, empty, green field.
This two-day event will be a series of happenings, such as performances, conversations and perhaps more, to take place in the open courtyard of Project DIVFUSE.
Rie Nakajima will be joined by Li Song in the earlier performance on Sunday.
Rie Nakajima is a a sculptor living in London. She creates sounds using combination of motorised devices and daily objects. It can be installation or performance. Fusing sculpture and sound, her artistic practice is open to chance and the influence of others. Her first major solo exhibition was held at IKON Gallery in Birmingham in 2018. She has also worked with Museo Vostell Malpartida (Cáceres), Association de Le Cyclop (Milly la Forêt), ShugoArts (Tokyo), Donaueschinger Music Festival (Donaueschinger), and Cafe OTO (London). Her collaborators are Pierre Berthet, Angharad Davies, David Cunningham, Keiko Yamamoto, miki yui, hans.w.koch, Marie Roux, Billy Steiger, David Toop and Akira Sakata.
Sunday 27th April 3pm – 7pm Live Spatial Audio w/ Matt Spendlove & Amanda Butterworth Georgina Brett Merkaba Macabre Pagan Red £6.5 (including booking fee) per session | 10 places only | Psyché Tropes Three-day Residency at Project DIVFUSE [Day 3]
Poster designed by Merkaba Macabre
For this three-day event at Project DIVFUSE, Psyché Tropes will present a curated programme of live audiovisual performance, experimental film, and immersive sound. Conceived exclusively for the space, the residency features the work of Merkaba Macabre, Lynne, Georgina Brett, Pagan Red, Matt Spendlove & Amanda Butterworth, alongside a Psyché Tropes experimental 16mm film sequence.
Friday 25th April | 6pm – 8:30pm
For the opening night of the Psyché Tropes Three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE, Merkaba Macabre will perform a new sonic-light composition, experimenting with controlled voltages of colour, optical effects, and synchronised sound and image. This work is part of the artist’s continued research in audiovisual entrainment and subjective time dilation through the observation of rapid stimuli. This performance comes with a photosensitive warning. Viewer discretion is advised. Doors open at 6pm with an ambient experimental set by Lynne.
Merkaba Macabre [Live]
Merkaba Macabre is a multimedia project by Psyché Tropes founder Steven McInerney, combining film, digital media, and sound spatialisation to create expanded forms of cinema, live performances, and installations. McInerney’s work investigates emergent phenomena, using the time-variant systems of media for exploration. Their cinematic work draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise multi-channel systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction.
Lynne [DJ]
Lynne is a Japanese artist residing between Tokyo and London. Her ever-evolving sound builds immersive atmospheres with textural, obscure and experimental layers. As a resident of Astral Industries and Unknown Species, Lynne is most comfortable in the grey space between genres, where her rhythm is a gravitational force pulling her audience in all directions.
Dialogues by Sopie Standford (UK) is one of the three sets of work that are selected from DIVFUSE Film Archive Open Call No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
Film Screenings:
Session One 6 June 2025 Friday 7pm Session Two 7 June Saturday 3pm Session Three 7 June Saturday 4:30pm Session Four 7 June Saturday 6pm Session Five 8 June Sunday 3pm Session Six 8 June Sunday 4:30pm
£5 | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Running time: 32 minutes. The screenings will be presenting a collection of eight short moving image videos made by Sophie Standford, including:
Dialogue with my Father (2022-2025) Duration: 7’20” Location: Suffolk
What if you can’t allow yourself to let go of something because it reminds you so profoundly of the person who has gone? What if this holding on to the past has become self destructive, to the point where objects are taking over?
Dialogue with my Father explores the inter-generational relationship between father and daughter; grief and loss; the piano that belonged to my father, on which he used to compose. I push the heavy bulk of this domestic, upright instrument around on the concrete floor trying and failing to find it space in the room. Frustration strips the piano of its dignity, tortured and destroyed. Braced, it fights back stoically, belligerent, vibrating a dance to its raucous rumbling, as its dainty wheels twist in agony under its defiant weight. In contrast, the video takes you on a mesmerising journey inside the piano accompanied by a composition that gives voice to its involuntary creeks and resonances.
Dialogue with my Father
Home (2011) Duration: 2’42” Location: London
Home is a performance to camera. It is transparent in its construction: born out of frustration; of playing the role of mother; of confined living space; trapped by domesticity, responsibility and a sense of duty.
Notes on Listening (UK) is one of the three sets of work that are selected from DIVFUSE Film Archive Open Call No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
Film Screenings + Audio Essay + Photography Documentation :
Session One 25 July 2025 Friday 7pm (+ artist’s talk)[FULL] Session Two 26 July Saturday 3pm Session Three 26 July Saturday 4:30pm Session Four 26 July Saturday 6pm (+ artist’s talk) Session Five 27 July Sunday 3pm Session Six 27 July Sunday 4:30pm
£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 : 45 minutes. The screenings will be presenting the experimental film Notes on Listening (2024), an audio essay More Than Background (2023) and a series of photography by Raquel Diniz on the making of Notes on Listening.
Notes on Listening is a groundbreaking practice-based research film that captures the essence of people, sound, and place in Peckham, London—a neighbourhood on the brink of cultural displacement due to gentrification. Winner of the prestigious BAFTSS Award (British Association of Film, TV, and Screen Media Studies) in 2024, this experimental documentary employs a unique ‘sensory documentary’ approach. Using sound as the driving force, it immerses viewers in Peckham’s vibrant yet threatened community.
What the judges from BAFTSS had to say:
“The panel agreed that NOTES ON LISTENING is a highly original sound-driven narrative documentary that successfully puts the audience inside the area it explores, Peckham in London. The film skilfully represents the complex and unique soundscape of this London borough, giving a visual and sonic sense of its vivacity and vibrancy. In doing so, it makes a clear case for resisting the impending threats posed by encroaching gentrification. The panel commended the filmmaker’s creative and intricate approach, which provides a vivid evocation of Peckham’s rich cultural life.”
44 Gatherings by Gabriella Day (UK) is one of the three sets of work that are selected from DIVFUSE Film Archive Open Call No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
Film Screenings: Session One 9 August Saturday 4pm (+artist’s talk)[Cancelled] Session Two 9 August Saturday 6pm (+ artist’s talk)[Cancelled] Session Three 10 August Sunday 3pm Session Four 10 August Sunday 4:30pm
£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: 31 minutes.
44 Gatherings (2025) is a film that creates a space between abstraction and figuration with a familiar human gesture: folding sheets. The performers, who are folding sheets of household fabric, were given basic restrictions of filming without being choreographed so that this single-take captures moments of vulnerability and awkwardness. The live guitar, played by Michael Raphael, responds to the movement of the performers as well as the formal qualities of the fabric. The repetition of this over-looked activity aims to abstract the movement into colour and form and to create an ever-changing composition.
Gabriella Day (b. 1998, Bristol) is an artist based between London and Glasgow working with painting, film and collage. Throughout all mediums, Gabriella’s work aims to find automatic compositions that capture the act of placing forms together without an initial intention to make a picture, something that is often found in acts of daily life. Through this process, Day’s work fragments moments of representation until colour and form are at the forefront.
24 May 2025 Saturday 2:30pm – 6pm 25 May Sunday 2:30pm – 6:30pm Suggested donations : £3
Artist’s Talk :
24 May Saturday 6pm £6 | 8 places only | Email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
In their ongoing examination of the garment industry Mute Frequencies presents an audiovisual installation that foregrounds the sonic characteristics of specialist machines. Recorded onsite at Central Saint Martins, a college renowned for its fashion programme, the documentation shows an array of machines under operation, including industrial sewing machines, overlockers and buttonhole machines. Each unit has its own sonic signature, mechanical quirks and operational rhythm. These machines are typically used in factories and therefore go unseen/unheard by the general public. Specialist Machines (2025) aims to hone in on the details that shape the unique voice of each machine, while surfacing ideas about manufacture, fast fashion and our relationship to clothes.
Reece 101 Keyhole Buttonhole Machine. Photo by Mute Frequencies
Mute Frequencies is the sound art project of Ilia Rogatchevski and Laura Rogatchevskaia, both former members of the art rock band Sebastian Melmoth. The duo work within the intersections of sound, performance and visual media and often investigate inaudible frequencies of the audio spectrum, the potential of electromagnetic waves to convey information and ideas relating to imperceptibility. They have installed work at various London galleries and performed at festivals including Radio Revolten, Radiophrenia, Supernormal, Open House and End of the Road.
Live at Project DIVFUSE, November 2023. Photo by Jonathan Crabb
