I went along on Saturday, it was really nice to see some different types of art being shown in the city. At Whippit there was video & Performance over 4 hours down at Space 109, Walmgate.
There was plenty to see, first up was Stephen Cornford; image below, and his sound performance was a interesting to the ear and with the live video behind a treat for the eyes. The sound was produced from a machine made by Stephen himself and with a contact mic on different parts plus the resonance from vases on the table you could really lose yourself.
Going on through most the night was Roddy Hunter:
In this performance which lasted through the night Roddy seemed to be the one getting lost. Using imagery from Le Corbusier he was cutting through the image, revealing a mirror. Repartition and ritual through the night again was captured on live feed for all to scrutinise. As the performance developed you as viewer got more drawn in and tried to pull aspects apart but this proved difficult.
On top of this there was plenty to see through the night including a very pleasing video piece by Katy Connor called 'Snow/T.V Snow'. All in all it was an enjoyable night with a really good vibe and a good number of people there to see and engage with the work.
Nathan
Thanks very much for the image and text on my work. I fully appreciate what you mean by the difficulty of being more 'drawn in' but 'difficult to pull apart'. I want viewers to work hard, to think about the complexity of visual imagery but realise also, on reflection, that making the references to le Corbusier more explicit in some kind of accompanying text (for example) could be helpful. Anyway, like I say, thanks for your thoughts and for featuring my work on your site. Cheers!
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