MK Gallery / Entr'acte / 17.03.11

Adam Asnan
Jacques Beloeil
Theo Burt/Tim Wright
Mark Vernon

MK Gallery
17.03.11
6.45pm
Free entry

Entr’acte presents an evening of performances from a selection of its roster who have drawn inspiration from Gerard Bryne's current exhibition, Case Study: Loch Ness (some possibilities and problems) 2001-2011.

Adam Asnan
'Is it possible to capture an image of something that does not exist?' Perhaps not, but what is possible is the reversal; capturing something that did exist, to be presented as an obscurity. Recorded sound (as well as photography etc.) may offer only a rendition of an object that existed before, but as a new, amplified and dislocated form; its truth is concealed and its story is stripped, enabling for its mythologisation.

This being the case, it is possible to apply a recording of one thing to the recording of another, and falsify a connection. For this performance, Adam has specially prepared a selection of sound recordings that may attach themselves to Byrne's photography, despite their disparate or otherwise unrelated nature. Shifting from an emphasis upon the artificial (a cohesion of abstract qualities) to sounds that may enhance or subvert one's 'view into' an image.

Jacques Beloeil
Beloeil is a French composer based in London. His recent album for Entr’acte, Bath of Stars was entirely created from rediscovered cassette tapes found in a shoebox prompting Richard Pinnell of Wire to comment, ‘ Bath of Stars, ignores all current convention, combining a darkly humorous playfulness with a sense of Dada absurdity and no small degree of compositional skill. File under bafflingly interesting’.

Theo Burt/Tim Wright
Bastard Structures presents two works creating opposing extremes of sound and image. Using simple geometric shapes and synthetic sound, Theo Burt and Tim Wright construct formal aesthetic worlds that exercise and distort visual and sonic perceptions.

Theo Burt is a UK-based artist working with sound, video and light. Recent projects have focused on the use of highly consistent relationships between sound and video to create a partial predictability, and the effects of this on perceptions of time.

Tim Wright has been releasing electronic music since the early 1990s on labels such as Mute, Tresor and GPR. His recent audio-video works use light as a means to augment and subvert the spatial and temporal perception of sound.

Mark Vernon
Mark Vernon is a sound artist, musician and radio producer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a founding member of the art radio collective,'Radio Tuesday' and has produced programmes and features for stations including WFMU, RADIA, Resonance FM, CKUT, Radio 101, VPRO and the BBC. His radio productions range from documentaries and radio plays to more experimental audio collage and soundscape pieces.

As well as works for radio his practice encompasses performance, publications, soundtracks, web-based works and releases on vinyl and CD. He is involved in numerous solo and collaborative projects under a variety of names including 'Vernon & Burns' and 'Hassle Hound' who have records out on Gagarin, Pickled Egg, Textile and Staubgold. He has also self-released several small editions of CDR's on his own Meagre Resource label.

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