Merry Xmas Everybody! | The Slade Occupation

Staff and students during the Slade Occupation perform a version of Slade’s 1973 festive hit, ‘Merry Xmas Everybody!’

Click on the play button below to download the track:
Merry Xmas Everybody! (3:46)

With the permission and encouragement of Noddy Holder and management.

It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down | Holly Slingsbury

It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down – performance documentation from Holly Slingsby on Vimeo.

‘It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down’ was a performance made especially for Christ Church Spitalfields in 2009. The work juxtaposes live and videoed action. The live performance consisted of gestures of lifting deflated balloons. This was contradicted by the videoed gesture seen with it, of dropping a handful of ash. The naively hopeful act of lifting the balloons – as if they might float again – is in direct disagreement with the melancholy release of the ash.

Holly is a currently completing her MFA in Media, look out for her degree show this summer.

Sound Effects | Sam Belinfante / Taos News

British sound artist and musician Sam Belinfante came to Taos with one mission: to seek out and possibly record the Taos Hum. With a month behind him, Belinfante has fallen in love with Taos’ “sonic landscape” and is now heading back to England with about 20 hours of footage and audio from the area to make a film.

Shot and edited by Tina Larkin for The Taos News Media Center April 2009.
Belinfante’s trip was funded by the Slade School of Fine Art

To see the newspaper article, please go to Taos News.

Magnificent Tits | Dante Rendle Traynor

Sound installation consisting of muzak soundtrack from 1980s porn flick, ‘Magnificent Tits’ (groans removed) playing in the lift shaft of the Slade Research Center.

Dante is in the undergraduate Media department at the Slade.

Dolls / Orgasmo 3 | Tim Long

Audio:

Orgasmo 3

Video:

Dolls and Orgasmo 3 were shown as an installation for the Slade / BBC event ‘The View from Here’ at BBC Bush House 20/02/2009.

For more information on this event please see The View from Here at UCL.

The Voice and Nothing More | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck

The Voice and Nothing More, January 2009, was a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices. Both established and emerging artists worked with leading vocal performers and composers in an exploration of the voice outside language.

Invited performers included Mikhail Karikis, Lore Lixembourg and Juice, as well as a specially formed large-scale vocal ensemble.
Performers, working with the artists and resident composer Claudia Molitor created new score-objects that culminated in a series of new performances. Artists included Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Estelle Thompson and Bruce Mclean.

Video: Kathryn Faulkner and Robin Sewell
Editing: Sam Belinfante

Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck.

For more information, images and press please go to the Voice and Nothing More website.

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.

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.