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Impakt 2007

ARC Co-Director Chris Byrne has been invited to attend the annual Impakt Festival. This year’s event is scheduled for 29 March – 1 April: various locations in the city of Utrecht will stage a wide variety of sound and media arts. Impakt Festival features solo exhibitions by Miriam Bäckström and Ursula Mayer; a live audio set by Carsten Nicolai; video works by David Thorne and Julia Meltzer; and a celebration of the anniversary of cult American band The Residents.

artstream: Holger Mohaupt

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Online as part of artstream.

Through sound, photography and moving image, Holger Mohaupt explores perceptions of Jamaican culture, based on the recipes of a local cook.

The work is part of a collaboration between Graham Fagen and Holger Mohaupt. Both artists went to Jamaica to make new pieces of work: Graham Fagen for an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow to commemorate the abolition of slavery 200 years ago; and Holger Mohaupt to make a piece of work exploring the manifestations of current culture in Jamaica.

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Nocturne by Chris Byrne

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3/3/07, late Saturday evening. From my window, I took stills of the lunar eclipse as it loomed over Edinburgh: a phenomenon that proved quite tricky to photograph. I realised that in my attempt to capture the eclipse, I had taken so many shots, all slightly different, that the sequence of images could become a video. Here they are presented without any removed, in the order they were taken.

The images needed a soundtrack to give a sense of the eeriness of the eclipse, and the distance I felt from the goings on in the street while observing it. Mike Hodgson’s amazing sound work seemed to fit. An extract is featured from a longer piece, Transmission from the Scanner, broadcast by r a d i o q u a l i a as part of international net.radio project isol in 2002. The audio was created in 1995. I recently found out it is based on cosmology, which is something I must have realised without knowing. “Transmission from the Scanner is an audio representation of planet cycles over a month, created by mathematically assigning aural values to cosmological phenomena.”

Time at Threshold artspace

Time
Threshold artspace, Perth Concert Hall, Horsecross, Mill Street, Perth
Preview 10am-7pm, Saturday 3 March
Exhibition 3 March-11 May
Open daily 10am-7pm
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova

How do we experience the course and pace of time – from the changes in the seasons, to the tick-tock of antique time devices or futuristic time machines. Lose your sense of time with our new group exhibition at the Threshold artspace. Rediscover more than 25 works from our permanent collection including a dozen new additions. It will take you about 2 hours in one visit or simply keep coming back for small helpings at a time!

Artists include Assikainen + Macedo + Tavakol, John Butler, Susan Collins, Lei Cox, Dalziel + Scullion, Olle Essvik, Matt Green, David Hay, Beverley Hood, Nicolas Marechal, Chou Shengfang, Prema Murthy, Dan Perjovschi, Rafael Rozendaal, Thomson + Craighead, Michael Windle, Windle + Cope, and theoneminutesjr.org

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