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Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025
Signals is an immersive multi-disciplinary event connecting the ICA Archive from the 1980s to the present. Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart will be generating waveforms and frequencies, using audio synthesis and sampling, that shape and respond to the ICA’s archive of audio and visual material.
They will be accompanied by Tansy Spinks on violin improvising on 80s music and responding to the space and montage of projected visuals intertwining multiple storylines of a narrative. A kinetic sound sculpture processing sounds from The Mall and elsewhere in the building will provide a ghostly soundtrack connecting the archive to the here and now. Signals is an audio-visual performance and collage of archival material that explores some of the connection between events that so profoundly defined and shaped the decade.
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Signals is an immersive multi-disciplinary event connecting the ICA Archive from the 1980s to the present. Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart will be generating waveforms and frequencies, using audio synthesis and sampling, that shape and respond to the ICA’s archive of audio and visual material.
They will be accompanied by Tansy Spinks on violin improvising on 80s music and responding to the space and montage of projected visuals intertwining multiple storylines of a narrative. A kinetic sound sculpture processing sounds from The Mall and elsewhere in the building will provide a ghostly soundtrack connecting the archive to the here and now. Signals is an audio-visual performance and collage of archival material that explores some of the connection between events that so profoundly defined and shaped the decade.
Click here to explore the full exhibition and event programme.
Bios
Trevor Mathison is an artist, composer, and sound designer and recordist. His sonic practice centres on creating fractured, haunting aural landscapes and integrating existing music and has featured in over thirty award-winning films. Mathison was a founding member of the cine-cultural artist collective, The Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC, 1982-1998), where his body of sonic designs defined and situated the Collective’s film and gallery installations. Mathison has continued to work with some of his former collaborators from Black Audio (John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul and David Lawson) creating sound design for installations and feature documentaries. Mathison has also founded and been active in a number of other experimental sonic groups – Dubmorphology, Hallucinator and Flow Motion.
Gary Stewart is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. His work examines social and political issues of identity, culture, and technology. Through the application of innovative technologies and practices he is part of a global network of collaborators who are advocates for equality, climate justice and better health through the arts especially those from marginalised communities. Operating through a range of theoretical, fictional, and artistic frames, his work traverses media art, experimental music, and research.
Interdisciplinary artist, improvising performer, educationalist, Tansy Spinks is involved in sound-making as a live, performative practice. Concerned with modes of listening, association and materiality in sound, text and visual score making, her live work has featured in the V&A, Tate Britain, Café Oto and many fringe venues. She currently co-curates a live improvised experimental music series Sound Bureau in South London. She has exhibited widely both at home and abroad with works in the National Museum of Media in Bradford, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, BFI and the Wellcome.
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1pm – 9pm in hourly booking slots.
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