Late Night Live Art at Kraak

Category: Performance
Profile: Kraak
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Event Date: 22:00 Thursday, 10th Dec 2009 &ndash 01:00 Friday, 11th Dec 2009
Organisation: Kraak
Venue: 2nd Floor, 11 Stevenson Sq, Manchester, M1 1DB.
Contact: Louise Woodcock
Email: spacekraak@googlemail.com
Website: http://www.kraak.co.uk

Artists: Gary Fisher, Graham Dunning, Louise Woodcock, Matt Dalby

Description: Late Night Live Art at Kraak featuring artists: Gary Fisher, Matt Dalby, Louise Woodcock, Graham Dunning. Gary will be performing with an amplified coat, Graham will have two installations, Louise will be eating words, Matt will be performing with field recordings from around the city.

LNLAK events are intended to encourage collaboration, discussion and experimentation. There is a core of performers each week with an opportunity for others to get involved either on the night or at future events. If you would like to perform, try out an installation or would like more information email spacekraak@googlemail.com or call Louise on 07958 050 730.

Louise Woodcock works mainly in installation and performance using objects, sound and light to create intense atmospheres. The work deals with fear and horror and how these are psychologically associated with the body, especially the female body. The work questions the role of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, in our collective cultural, moral and psychological make up. The work raises questions about femininity and masculinity, beauty and disgust, the synthetic and the organic. This week, Louise's performance involves eating words from a selection of books. There will be a dining table set with cutlery and plates. Pages are torn from books and cut with a knife and fork, the detail on the dinner plate can be seen projected on a screen behind the artist.

Graham Dunning is a sound and visual artist who uses modified electronic equipment and found objects. Found home recordings from the distant past feature heavily in the work investigating memory, childhood and nostalgia. Graham’s recordings and performances involve layering and delay units that distort and upset the sound as well as making it ambient. The work features field recordings pressed onto vinyl dubplates which are manipulated using modified turntables and delays, raising questions about the role of vinyl in contemporary music. This week, Graham will show two interactive installations. The first installation consists of a workbench and a hammer, which the audience is invited to use to smash up a pile of vinyl records. The second installation consists of a microphone on a stand with a pair of headphones. Participants can speak into the microphone or read from texts selected by the author. A delay unit placed in the audio path causes the speaker to hear their voice fractionally later than would be usual.

Gary Fisher is a sound and visual artist working within a continuous process of experimentation and inquiry focused around investigatory or instinctive responses to sounds, objects, words, places, people and images. This process includes collecting and archiving information, research and objects, drawing, construction, photography, text and sound recording. It generates many outcomes including live performance, sound installation, CD or tape recordings, graphic scores, writings and drawings. At this weeks’ live art event, Gary will perform wearing a coat with amplified pockets, playing with objects inside in an exploration of texture and sound.

Matt Dalby is a poet who has moved into sound and visual poetry in the last two years with a particular concern for performance. At the last LNLAK Matt created an interactive installation which depended on the viewers location in the room to stop and start feedback. Matt has recently performed at The Other Room, Manchester's experimental poetry night earlier in the year. A collection of text poetry is coming soon from Knives, forks and spoons press, a CD of sound poetry released in January by zimZalla, and visual poems in the next issue of Ekleksographia. This week Matt’s performance will involve playing around with audio field recordings taken in Manchester city centre on digital recorder, cassette, microcassette, and mobile phone.

http://www.myspace.com/gfisherart
http://www.myspace.com/grahamdunning
http://www.myspace.com/matt_dalby
http://www.myspace.com/louisewoodcock

http://www.kraak.co.uk