1st Light Zagora | Joe Clark

1st Light Zagora from Joe Clark on Vimeo.

Shot and edited in the desert town of Zagora, Morroco on a residency in the summer of 2008, this animation creates an oblique narrative using available light. Composed of a series of static shots; the edit traverses the town, revealing an uncanny and escalating rhythm which is apparently common to all the lights in the town. The soundtrack made up of a mix of field recordings and designed sounds shifts between foley and music, mirroring our shifting perception of the space: pulsing with an Otherness which fails to make itself known, in a work which is both formally playful and ambivalent about its message.

Notations 2008 | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck

In January 2008, to mark the 40th anniversary of John Cage’s seminal publication Notations (Something Else Press, 1968-9), Luck and Belinfante presented a range of investigations into what notation is – and could be. Notations 2008, at the Slade Research Centre, presented performances by leading contemporary musicians including Mikhail Karikis, Anton Lukoszevieze, Sankorfa and members of Apartment House. These performers worked in collaboration with visual artists to produce new graphic scores, sonic artworks and installations. Artists included Jayne Parker, Dryden Goodwin and Simon Morris.

Video: Richard Bevan
Editing: Sam Belinfante

Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck

Drip Piece | Sam Belinfante

Drip Piece
6-Channel Sound Installation
Dimensions Variable

First shown at Slade Interim Show, Woburn Square, October 2007.

Sam graduated from the Slade MA in 2008. Degree show website.
For more information on this and other works please see sambelinfante.com.

Dirty Furniture 1 | Allison Maletz

Dirty Chair

An armchair is the base for this audio sculpture. The armchair is domestic, used, and out-dated. It looks as though it could be comfortable, but its worn and uncleanly appearance is not particularly inviting. Yet from within the chair a seductive voice asks to be sat on… literally calling in a soft whisper “Sit on me… sit on me…” repeatedly.  This sculpture is about constant need and lack of acknowledgment.”

Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.

Space Drawing, Woburn Square | Hua Kuan Sai

This Space Drawing was completed in The Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square in 2007.

Hua Kuan Sai completed his MFA at the Slade in 2007. Degree show website.

Earth Moon Earth | Katie Paterson

E.M.E on Katie Paterson’s website

E.M.E (Earth-Moon-Earth) is a form of radio transmission whereby messages are sent in Morse code from earth, reflected from the surface of the moon, and then received back on earth. The moon reflects only part of the information back – some is absorbed in its shadows, ‘lost’ in its craters.

For this work, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata has been translated into Morse code and sent to the moon via E.M.E. Returning to earth ‘fragmented’ by the moon’s surface, it has been re-translated into a new score, the gaps and absences becoming intervals and rests. In the exhibition space the new ‘moon–altered’ score plays on a Disklavier grand piano.

6th–13th June 2007, Slade School of Fine Art

2 April – 1 June 2008, Modern Art Oxford, Encounters Katie Paterson

For more information on this and other words see Katie’s website.

Vatnajökull (the sound of) | Katie Paterson

Vatnajokull (the sound of) on Katie’s website

An underwater microphone lead into Jökulsárlón lagoon – an outlet glacial lagoon of Vatnajökull, filled with icebergs – connected to an amplifier, and a mobile-phone, which created a live phone line to the glacier. The number +44(0)7757001122 could be called from any telephone in the world, the listener put through to Vatnajökull. A white neon sign of the phone number hung in the gallery space.

6th–13th June 2007, Slade School of Fine Art

2 April – 1 June 2008, Modern Art Oxford, Encounters Katie Paterson

For more information on this and other words see Katie’s website.

Round | Sam Belinfante

Round
Four Independently looping DVDs

First exhibited at Trace, Slade Research Centre, May 2007

Sam graduated from the Slade MA in 2008. Degree show website.
For more information on this and other works please see sambelinfante.com.

Aftertrace | Georgia Chatzivasileiadi

These are a series of videos documenting research by Chatzivasileiadi.
This body of work was completed between 2004 and 2006.

Research Processes

Interaction with Audience

Chatzivasileiadi completed her MFA at the Slade in 2006. Degree show website.

LIPSTICH | Nic Lyons

Nic Lyons graduated from Slade MFA in 2006. Degree show website.