Organized By Vivid Projects
16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street,Birmingham (52.479009, -1.882956)
Nicholas Bullen, Justin Wiggan and Cathy Wade present works as a live performance installation, focusing on the role of nostalgia as an element that obscures, one that needs readjustment, so that noise can take on the forms that drive it. Drawing from archives of women in Post-Punk music, personal memory through phonic reflective processes and obfuscation of the initial narrative to explore the impact of capitalism on music Noise and Nostalgia focuses on addressing this disparity. The artists Nicholas Bullen will present I Am Here: Where Are You?, a performance piece for voice, fixed media sound and electronic processing. Working from a composed text, the artist will exercise extended techniques for voice and involuntary vocal utterances within a network of fixed media sound (composed of recordings of the artist’s voice, acoustic instrumentation and field recordings) to explore re-presentation and disruption in the act of performance as potential strategies for critique of the nostalgic impulse. Cathy Wade presents research on the agency of female musicians in the Post Punk era through the representation of the seminal independent publication Benightment and archival sources. Cathy is an interdisciplinary artist who manifests works through collaboration, writing and publication. Her work is disseminated online and through material objects in formal and informal networks. Recent projects include Delineator and the #ShaunRyderBeermatShow. Justin Wiggan presents UNKNWNPLRSRS from his latest work, Plastik Tonez. A special phonic reflective process of understanding the power of nostalgia, memory and influence, this series of 10 episodes presented by Wiggan is an attempt to de-construct the resonating values of ten influential records in the artist’s life. UNKNWNPLRSRS features a text by Jamie Holman and film by James Ockelford. Further information on the artists at: http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/noise-nostalgia-a-first-response-salon/ Soundcloud link https://soundcloud.com/jehu-and-chinaman/shslstcntrl