LEVEL Centre: Fractured Ground

LEVEL Centre: Fractured Ground: An audio/visual installation and performance at the Level Centre, Derbyshire, UK created by Karla Jones (Physical Performance/Dance) and And...

Body as Canvas at New Art Exchange

Have just finished installing Body as Canvas at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK. This is a photographic exhibition comprising 12 prints from the Body as Canvas project. It opens on June 20, 2015 and runs until October 2015.

Four images on the exhibition below:

Trajectory at LEVEL

Some of the video and audio used for the Trajectory Installation was incorporated into a four wall video projection at the LEVEL Centre in March 2015.  The commission was a part of my role as Artist in Residence at LEVEL and transformed the Centre into a relaxed gallery and club space making use of all of the building.

MIRROR at the LEVEL Gallery

Have just completed the installation of MIRROR [s] at the LEVEL Gallery, Derbyshire, UK. MIRRORS comprises three interactive screens programmed to react as people pass. Each screen is located in the corridor and has an optical camera which is used as a motion sensor as well as a image capture device. This work forms a part of the Inter-ACT + Re-ACT programme at the LEVEL Centre and has been commisioned as a part of my role as Atist in Residence. Images from the screens below.

SUB Installation at Manchester Met University

The 2008 version of the live video performance entitled SUB, was installed at Manchester Metropolitan University for a day during October 2014. SUB was used to demonstrate the potential of a mobile gallery/installation space within future projects, festivals and events connected to the University [For more info about SUB - see below].

The Mobile Gallery takes the form of a large lorry which deploys to create a 25ft x 25ft space. The space can be completely dark and has programmable LED lighting, video projector points, camera points and flexible points for audio (in and out). It also has disabled access and heating for winter months.

Sponteneous Combustion

A new commission for a multi media production for Sinfonia ViVA. This potentially exciting project has not been finalised yet, but a poster has been designed! The new work will be created with Event FX and as the poster and title suggests, it will involve burning pianos, musicians on roof tops and lots of explosions and flame.

Pulse

Just completed my first real installation as Artist in Residence at the LEVEL Centre. This multi media event formed a part of the large-scale environmental artwork, DERWENT PULSE created by Charles Monkhouse. This work comprises pulsing spheres flowing along the river Derwent from its source to the point it merges with the river Trent in Derby.

Image above: Light costumes worn by children to create an electric parade for PULSE.

AKT - Video Installation

Currently working on a new video + audio installation based upon images of the body in performance art events. This project is the result of a collaboration with performer and model Jojo Shaw and will be completed by the end of December 2014. Currently material comprises still images and video taken of improvised live performance events at the Studio @ Via Gellia, Derbyshire and in two rural locations.

More Images of the Trajectory Installation

Some more images of the Trajectory Installation at Leicester University, Richard Attenborough Centre for the Arts in November 2013.

Projects for 2014

Over the next few months I am looking to develop some of the projects listed below. These are in early stage development and thought I would use this blog site as a means of sharing information throughout the process.  As each project grows (or dies) I will post the new details here. I am particularly keen to make contact with people, organisations and artists I do not currently know and hope that sharing information at an early stage may stimulate interest and new creative opportunities.

Some Images from the first Trajectory Installation

Images taken by Dave White & Lucy Stevens at the first Trajectory Installation at the Richard Attenborough Centre for the Arts, Leicester University, November 2013.




IMAGE: Dave White

Trajectory Installation - Information

TRAJECTORY

8^th & 9^th of November, 2013

Embrace Arts, Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester University.

A new installation by multi media composer, Andrew Williams developed as a part of his role as Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the University’s Space Research Centre.

Trajectory uses multi screen video projections and still images within a unique multi speaker audio installation composed using sound/data from space recorded by space craft, satellites and long wave radio. Continuously developing over two days it will present an artists perspective of our Earth, space, current research and future challenges for humanity.  

"The earth is the cradle of humankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895

CHORUS 1 - A New Audio Composition

A Short Documentation of DIMENSION (V1)

Images from DIMENSION at the South Bank Centre, London

September 13th, 2013 - DIMENSION [VI] installed at the South Bank Centre.

Images from Dimension: a multi media video installation created by Andrew working with members of Random Line - see previous blogs for more information



Image: part of the large video screen for DIMENSION

DIMENSION - a 5 screen video installation for the South Bank Centre, London

A new commission to create a 5 screen audio visual installation at the South Bank Centre, London. This project has been developed by Random Line Media and Heart n Soul with the support of Lloyds TSB Foundation. It will have its first showing on the 13th of September (from 6.00 - 12.00pm).

Representing Re-formation

A new video screen for Representing Re-formation has been created by Andrew Williams, Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Space Research Centre, University of Leicester.

It employs the 3D laser scan of the monuments of Thomas Howard, 3^rd Duke of Norfolk, and Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, both in St. Michael’s, Framlingham, Suffolk, as the basis of an artistic re-imaging.

Both monuments were originally designed to stand in the Cluniac Priory Church in Thetford

The video can be seen as a part of the 'Thetford's Lost Tudor Sculptures' Exhibition at the Ancient House, Museum, Thetford, Norfolk until the end of March 2014 (information provided below).




Still images from the video

 





Funders and Organisations involved in the project.



Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures

ANCIENT HOUSE MUSEUM,THETFORD, NORFOLK

On until 29 March 2014

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, planned two elaborate tombs for Thetford Priory. One tomb was for himself, the second was for Henry VIII’s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond. However, the tombs were never finished.

After Thetford Priory was closed some parts of the monuments remained in the Priory, others went to Framlingham where Thomas Howard was buried in 1554.

In the 19th century two of these pieces were discovered in Thetford and donated to the British Museum. In the 1930s more fragments were excavated.

Today, researchers have tried to reconstruct what the tombs should have looked like, using fragments from archaeological excavations, 16th century manuscripts, 3D laser scanning and computer aided design software.

This exhibition reunites all these pieces - bringing together loans from the British Museum and English Heritage for the first time - and attempts to realise the sculptors’ original designs for Thetford’s Lost Tudor Sculptures.

Visitors to the displays can also see films, models, interactives and portraits which set the scene all displayed within the Ancient House, a Tudor timber framed building from the period. The extensive ruins of Thetford Priory, an English Heritage site, are a short walk from the Museum.

Transported - Four new commissioned works for Sinfonia Viva

 

In May Andrew was commissioned by Sinfonia Viva to create four site specific music/sound performances using orchestral musicians situated on four rooftop locations within the centre of Boston (UK). The locations were chosen to provide good lines of visibility (for a maximum potential audience) together with interesting sound diffusion possibilities, making possible the interaction of sound from all four locations. This is a unique project developed by Andrew and supported by Transported Arts (Lincolnshire) through funds made available by Arts Council of England.

Musicians on Rooftop in Boston (Lincs UK)

Sixteen separate performances took place in late June each lasting 7/12 minutes with the last performance of each day taking place at 7.00pm. The timing of performances referenced the Islamic Adhan (call to prayer) and although there was no religious content the performances served to provide ritualistic markers wthin each day – for example the 7.00pm performance marked the passing of day and welcoming the evening. Each performance started with the hour bell sounding on Boston Stump (the bell sounds an E flat and became a part of each opening section).

Mathew Dunn performing on the Roof of the Assembly Rooms (Boston)

The performances provided stunning, unusual and stimulating aural and visual events making use of the unique architecture and space provided by Boston town centre and providing moments where the harmonic properties of the sound was affected by the space in which they are heard. (The relative distance of the sound together with reflective and absorptive properties of buildings and foliage affected the audio perception for audience members as they move around the town centre) They were highly visible within the town and proved to be accessible to all while undoubtedly stimulating discussion and providing a unique sense of occasion.

Musicians involved in the project:

Matt Dunn (Clarinet)

Anthony Thompson (Trumpet)

Fiona Asbury (Sop Sax)

Richard Wainwright (French Horn)

Bethan Roberts (Oboe)

Peter Mainwaring (Trumpet)

People in Boston become aware of the rooftop performances

Trajectory at Embrace Arts

It has just been confirmed that Embrace Arts will hold a series of Trajectory events over a two day period in November (8th & 9th) These will take place within a multi media installation using still images, video and sound. Trajectory (working title) will display some of the material developed during the residency at the Space Research Centre and will also provide the opportunity to present current research to a wider audience. The programme is very much still under development.

Trajectory - is currently a research and development project which will lead to more events in the future at a regional and national level. As a result this event gives scope for experimentation and the opportunity to develop new ways to communicate or comment upon research and the work undertaken by the SRC.

See Current Work for further details

also

www.spaceresearchcentre-artist.blogspot.co.uk

IMAGES OF THE MOON

April 2013 has at last provided the first opportunity to view anything through a telescope for over two months. I feel that we have suffered the longest period of cloud filled night skies, poor visibility and freezing temperatures I can remember. These conditions severely dampened any enthusiasm for lugging a telescope to the moors above Matlock- even the promise of Comets only resulted in a half hearted attempt, quickly curtailed by frozen hands and a need for heat and a warm drink  However, I felt that I needed/wanted an image of the moon (I am not sure anybody really needs an image of the moon in an artistic context - discuss) and was determined that the photo was to be original. So at long last I managed to capture some using a Nikon D90 from the comfort of my studio window. My only use for such images is as a background for text forming a part of the video screen installation at Leicester University but it was worth the wait. As during the same session I have good images of Ganymede, Io and Europa (three of the four Galileon moons of Jupiter) as well as the ‘Eye of Jupiter’ (nebula) and a, as yet, unidentified pattern appearing just under Jupiter.  

Moon Image 1

Moon Image II