After Hours
Live audio and visual interruptions throughout the gallery and Exodysis II works
at The NewBridge Project, 2022
With collaboration at the core of our practice and an interest in the gallery as a space of facilitation, this body of work has developed alongside ongoing dialogues with fellow practitioners and collaborators by thinking about how meaning and relationships are built through language and exploring alternative ways of communicating.
As part of Exodysis II, we invited artists Aaron Tan, Incursions and Dan Russell to ‘interrupt’ the sculpture installation and embark in a conversation through alternative forms of dialogue with new audio and visual responses; live, liminal and lingering.
Credits: Photography by Janina Sabaliauskaitė
Incursions
Live audio and visual interruptions throughout the gallery and Exodysis II works
Incursions performed a new live audio work in the Gallery space for the duration of the After Hours event, nestled into our installation. A collage of field recordings from the city, live mixing and manipulation and music, this audio ‘interruption’ acted to add another layer to Incursions’ map of the city, a map that moves and shifts and performs with the people who work and walk with them.
Incursions is a project by Archie Smith and Kitty McKay based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Part walking event, part radio project, part archive, Incursions hosts weekly walking forums for anyone to attend, building a collective conversation around space and place, memory and friendship in and around the city.
Their project is always expanding, looking into the spaces, places and venues that facilitate and encourage social engagement. Pop and club cultures inform practices of collective joy, and through the use of sound and audio, Incursions intend to expand an archive that documents space and place, harnessing DIY approaches to sound making and radio broadcasting.
Credits: Photography by Janina Sabaliauskaitė
Aaron Tan
Live audio and visual interruptions throughout the gallery and Exodysis II works
Aaron’s invitation to interrupt the sculpture installation was formulated as a way of working and moving through the materials, labour, and affects already latent in the space, and attending to them in ways that would be hospitable to other modalities and economies. Here, presence was scripted through an absence in the inhabitation of the ‘after-hours’ of exhibition time, with sculptures and a live stream performance.
Aaron Tan’s practice is invested in the materiality of spaces and how they can be articulated as a porous form of writing. Often working with the found or makeshift materials, his work occupies a transitionary place between the studio and exhibition, revealing spaces in formation and the intimate politics of his artistic labour. Tan is currently the recipient of the ‘LYC in Cumbria’ PhD studentship at the University of Cumbria, undertaking practice-led research on the LYC Museum & Art Gallery (1972-1983) by the artist Li Yuan-chia.
Credits: Photography by Janina Sabaliauskaitė
Dan Russell
A playlist in response to Exodysis II
By your friend, Ray Beams
With collaboration at the core of our practice and an interest in the gallery as a space of facilitation, this body of work has developed alongside ongoing dialogues with fellow practitioners and collaborators by thinking about how meaning and relationships are built through language and exploring alternative ways of communicating.
As part of Exodysis II, we invited artists Aaron Tan, Incursions and Dan Russell to ‘interrupt’ the sculpture installation and embark in a conversation through alternative forms of dialogue with new audio and visual responses; live, liminal and lingering.
Credits: Photography by Janina Sabaliauskaitė
Sediment Inside Machines
A playlist in response to Abel Shah’s Exodysis II
By your friend, Ray Beams
2022
Stereo Total - Dilindam (Sylvie Vartan)
Brian Eno - Blackwater
Young Marble Giants - N.I.T.A
The Clean - Thumbs Off
Carl Orf, Gunild Keetman, Tolzer Knebenchor - Musica Poetica 1: Gassenhauer
Molly Nilsson - Intermezzo: Palimpsest Galore
Natasha Bedingfield - These Words
Yuzo Iwata - Goodnight, Daylight Moon
Wire - Marooned
Mica Levi - Love
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Henry Badowski - Making Love With My Wife
Escape-Ism - Bodysnatcher
JKT48 - Fortune Cookie Yang Me
Lump - Curse of the Contemporary
Alex Chilton - Rock Hard
Soft Boys - Only The Stones Remain