Installation – Dreamy Place

Operators & Conductors

harley — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Friday 20th October UPDATE: In solidarity with the International Musician’s Strike and the UN’s call for a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ to deliver aid to Gaza, the exhibition will not be open today.

Gallery Lock In has been transformed into an audio-visual portal. Artist/Conductor Moss will be transmitting from a beach town in India, flipping switches, crafting streams and connecting sounds in a live, durational and interactive act that explores transmission, information, latency, chaos, internet blockages, borders.

Visitors are invited to connect, collaborate or just hang out in the sonic field. With an international crew of invited artists, the exhibition will change and develop everyday so multiple visits are advised.

Launch event: Wednesday 18th October, 7pm – 10pm
Exhibition runs: Thursday 19th October, 2pm – 9pm / Friday 20th October, 2pm – 9pm / Saturday 21st October, 2pm – 9pm / Sunday 22nd October, 2pm – 9pm

Free entry, no booking required. Gallery information here

There will be livestreams throughout the duration of the exhibition.

You are invited to the Telegram channel Operator and Conductors where you can engage with the work. Please scan the QR code to access:

About the artist

Moss is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in sense perception, time, networked systems, insect perception, tree intelligence and experiences of beings that are not human.

Moss’ (they/them) practice spans sound, film, browser-based art and bio art. They are part of a community of engineers and technologists, that are invested in exploring alternate methods of knowledge production. Their video and installation work has been shown in multiple exhibitions in Milan, Toronto, Dresden, Brighton, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Himachal and Goa.

They are a part of Cynk Collective, a noise band producing immersive audio-visual concerts. In addition, they are the artistic director at Walkin Studios, an independent multidisciplinary art studio and project space in Bangalore, India and have co-founded the collective NOTAAT with artist Puneet Jain.

Moss previously worked under the name Sultana Zana (and featured in Anti Frieze 2 Octobers ago)

Special guests to be announced soon!

Only a Few Find the Way

harley — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Especially for Dreamy Place you’re invited to explore the Victorian Cab Road tunnel that runs beneath Brighton Railway Station.

Usually off limits to the public, the secret 80-metre tunnel will be transformed into an immersive installation of sound, video and light.

For three days only the tunnel will be transformed into a luminescent landscape with sounds by Chinese artist GUAN as part of a collaborative installation co-created and produced by artist Thomas Buckley.

Special thanks to British Council and Arts Council England for their support in making this project happen.

WARNING: Strobing lights (not safe for people with epilepsy or light sensitivity) and uneven floors (please be careful when walking in the tunnel as it is also dark) – please be aware before entering the space.

CHARCO

harley — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Dive into the captivating world of CHARCO – a unique performance installation set in a dystopian future in which all plant and animal life on earth has died away. In this speculative scenario, CHARCO (meaning ‘puddle’ in Spanish) invites us to imagine ‘cyborg landscapes’, expansive spaces in which the moving body seeks out new relationships between infrastructure, nature, and society. Audiences will encounter a group of humans exploring ways of being alive together in a piece that interrogates our connection to the non-human world.

The performance installation combines choreographic scores performed by a group of dancers, interactive technology, and a sonic landscape that includes text and poems.

CHARCO, a world premiere for The Dance Space, is an episode of a larger research and multidisciplinary artistic project, The Machine of Horizontal Dreams (2023-25) by Pepa Ubera, that examines, questions and re-imagines ideas of progress.

The development of the project is supported by Arts Council England.

About Pepa Ubera

Ubera is an artist and a dancer based in London. Her choreographic work challenges social structures, questioning how the body behaves in the current context. In her interdisciplinary practice she has been exploring other medias working with video, light, text, creating site specific and curating performance events.

Book tickets here

Embodied Realities

harley — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000

This one day exhibition plays with the boundaries of gaming and storytelling to explore the intricate tapestry of human existence. You are invited to explore the profound potential of immersive experiences to foster empathy, understanding, and compassion through stepping into the mind, bodies and identities of another.

‘Embodied Realities’ brings together an array of captivating projects that playfully unravel stories through multisensory storytelling, offering profound insights into the diversity of human experience across mental health and identity. From the poignant exploration of gender dysphoria to the thought-provoking journey into the depths of psychosis, this exhibition takes you on an immersive tour of the hidden worlds of feeling that reside within us all.

Projects

Body of Mine: Cameron Kostopoulos
An interactive VR exploration of gender dysphoria, trans identity, and our individual relationships with our bodies. Combining immersive technology with stories of transgender individuals, the intimate experience asks audiences to step into the body of another gender, for an emotionally-charged combination of dance, animation, and interactive storytelling.

Goliath: Playing with Reality by Anagram
A 25-minute animated VR experience about schizophrenia, gaming and connection, presented here as a virtual reality installation of the expanded game world of Goliath. Through mind-bending animation, explore the limits of reality and a true story of mental health and the power of gaming. Echo (narrated by Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent years isolated in psychiatric institutions but finds connection in multiplayer games. Combining heart-felt dialogue, mesmerising visuals and symbolic interactions, weave through multiple worlds to uncover Goliath’s poignant story.

Antipsychotic by Matt McCorkle
Dive in and journey through the mind of someone with bipolar disorder. This immersive experience marries poetic reflections and personal narratives with captivating audio-reactive visuals and evocative soundscapes, set to the beat of poignant music. It’s more than just listening; it’s feeling and exploring the nuanced challenges of mental health. With user-friendly game controls and a tactile haptic system, participants are urged to delve deep, navigating a landscape rich with personal experiences. Utilizing cutting-edge XR technologies and spatial audio, Antipsychotic isn’t just a story – it’s a harmonious blend of introspection and raw emotion, offering a profound glimpse into pre and post-treatment sentiments.

Noösphere by Tom Buckley
An immersive sensory environment developed in response to the Embodied Realities exhibition. Derived from the Greek noos (mind) and sphaira (sphere), the noosphere is the sphere of human thought and consciousness, especially in relation to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution.

Enter into a synaesthetic world of swirling light and soothing spatial music that combines in a bioluminescent symphony, exploring the connective between individual collective consciousness, the environment and the biosphere. You are invited melt into the space, to stretch, relax and to give your body what it needs.

Deep by Owen Harris and Niki Smit
A breath controlled virtual reality experience that invites players to navigate through a serene and poetic underwater world. Movement is controlled by slow, deep diaphragmatic breathing which soothes and relieves anxiety in the player. Since 2016, research partners at the Games for Emotional and Mental Health Lab, Radboud University have conducted several studies demonstrating the efficacy of DEEP as an intervention tool for young people with anxiety, including: its role in long term efficacy in reducing anxiety and enhancing long term efficacy via a full randomised control trial, and its ability to reduce disruptive classroom behaviour in children with complex needs. The experience is now being applied to a range of conditions including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Long COVID and Functional Neurological Disorders.

Asymmetrically Distributed Hyper-Dynamism by Simon Wilkinson, BRiGHTBLACK
BRiGHTBLACK present a video game artwork about ADHD, a science fiction playable podcast built into a retro arcade cabinet, set within a dream, documenting a day on ADHD medication.

As the drug kicks in and the symptoms disappear one by one, the artists explore the comedic juxtaposition between an ADHD brain which finds itself in a world where it can thrive vs one where it is doomed to cause annoyance.

Please note: There are limited spaces available for a number of the virtual reality experiences. Sign up times will be available on the day. We recommend arriving early to avoid disappointment.

There will be an interactive panel discussion at 3.30pm – 5pm drawing on themes within the Embodied Realities exhibition. Full details here

Free entry.