“But your holy place shall be untouched
throughout the centuries:
though with fire and sword it be
burnt down & shattered, yet an
invisible house there standeth…”
– Liber AL vel Legis 3:34
PERFORMANCE:
Brendan Walls: TohuVBohu
Barry William Hale, Scott Barnes + NOKO
INVISIBLE HOUSE
Curated by Brendan Walls
Invisible House is a groundbreaking cross media program that seeks to unsettle the barriers between performance and static arts; science and magic; space and time.
Brendan Walls: TohuVBohu (Long Gallery)
Brendan Walls is an interdisciplinary artist, experimental composer and performer. His work frequently employs diverse handmade instruments and sound producing sculptural objects. Entirely site-specific, the work considers the psycho-acoustic properties of performance sites and gallery spaces, reflecting physical and technological limitations, and embracing failing systems, collapses and altered states of consciousness.
With a career spanning 20 years Brendan has performed extensively in Australian and internationally, releasing over 20 albums during this time. He has ongoing collaborations with many International and local practitioners, most notably Andrew Chalk (UK), Christoph Heemann (GER), Daisuke Suzuki (JAP), The New Blockaders (UK), Gregg Turkington (USA), Oren Ambarchi and Marco Fusinato.
TohuVBohu: Light, music, sculpture, ritual, sound and performance are brought together to celebrate encounters with the numinous, memory, time, coincidence and the transcendent. The site-specific installation will be regularly transformed by an unfolding series of private and public rituals and performances culminating in a 24-hour performance of a musical score for strings and percussion, formed from recordings made in Mexico and Italy on the feast day of John the Baptist (24th June).
13 years in development, the score final score will be realised by killers from the experimental music community and students from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music.
TohuVBohu Performance and Artist Schedule:
Thursday 21st June 2018
Solstice
8.00pm-Midnight
HADES:
Alf Jackson (drums)
Keith Hinde (drums)
Jesse Chapman (drums)
Brendan Walls (guitar)
Dale Evans (guitar)
Alex Murphy (guitar)
Michael Cox (guitar)
Otis McDermott (guitar)
Yono Bellinger (guitar)
Friday 22nd June 2018
8.00pm-Midnight
DEMETER:
Lucy Wilson (cello)
Michael Fortesque (double bass)
Soren Risby (Viola)
Brendan Walls (electronics and viola)
Jon Smeathers (Oscillators)
Saturday 23rd June 2018
8.00pm-Midnight
HERMES:
Murray Antill
Cameron Phillips
Matt Carr
Brendan Walls
Otis McDermott
Amyris Cauchi
Matt Carr
Cameron Phillips
Andy Bagley
Matt Hall
(All electronics)
TohuVBohu: THE 24-HOUR PERFORMANCE
8am Sunday 24th June 2018 – 8am Monday 25th June 2018.
8.00am-12noon
Electronics, wires and percussion:
Brendan Walls (solo)
12noon-1pm
(same players as Thursday 21st) plus Zac Blain (drums)
1pm-5pm
(same players as Friday 22)
5pm-10pm
(same players as Saturday 23)
10pm-8am
Brendan Walls (solo)
Joined by stouthearted ones.
Barry William Hale + Scott Barnes: NOKO (Sidespace Gallery)
NOKO is a structured improvisational space where sonic texture is a menstruum taking cues from the ritual content, and like a fungal mycelium, visible fruiting bodies may occur. This is where the residue is available to an audience either in a live, or recorded format. There is nothing new about the format employed by this collaboration, conversely NOKO taps into what can be considered to be some of the oldest traditions regarding the use of the voice, instruments and performance. If we see technology as a continuum then there is total equivalence given to ancillary devices other than voice and percussive sounds generated by the body alone (a literal definition of cybernetics).
Wednesday 20 June 2018
10:00am – 2:00pm: Gallery Mode (not live)
2:30pm – 4:00pm: Barry Hale + NOKO in performance
Thursday 21 June 2018
10:00am – 2:00pm: Gallery Mode
6:00pm – 9:30pm: Gallery Mode
9:30pm – 12:00pm: Barry Hale + NOKO in performance
Friday 22 June 2018
10:00am – 4:00pm : Installation Mode
6:00pm – 9:30pm: Installation Mode
9:30pm – 12:00pm: Barry Hale + NOKO in performance
Saturday 23 June 2018
10:00am – 4:00pm Gallery Mode
6:00pm – 12:00am Barry Hale + NOKO in performance (exact times TBC)
Sunday 24 June 2018
8:00am – 4:00pm Gallery Mode
6:00pm – 12:00am Barry Hale + NOKO in performance (exact times TBC)
Monday 25 June 2018
12:00midnight – 8:00am Barry Hale + NOKO in performance (exact times TBC)
For more information please head to http://www.salarts.org.au/portfolio/invisible-house-darkmofo2018/
Natasha Newman Communications & Marketing Coordinator Salamanca Arts Centre
