Performance
John Lawrence // O Complex Mass
23 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Sun, 23 Oct
- 12:00 – 12:3013:00 – 13:3014:00 – 14:3016:00 – 16:30
Free admission
Address
- Southwark Park
- London
England - SE16 2DD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses 1, 47, 188, 199, 225, 381, C10, P12 all stop at Canada Water
- Canada Water on Jubilee and London Overground Lines
- Canada Water on London Overground Line
O Complex Mass is a new site-specific performance work by artist John Lawrence, with composer Stephen Crowe and experimental choir Musarc.
About
Performance times 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 4pm
When quiet, and uninhabited... do buildings dream?
O Complex Mass is made in response to Southwark Park Galleries historic Dilston Gallery and asks how a building might dream about itself: its own purpose, history, materiality and meaning.
Developed over an extended period of site-responsive research, and produced specifically for and about Dilston Gallery through an approach Lawrence refers to as ‘spatial writing’ (alluding to both Spatial Music and site-writing practices), O Complex Mass centres around a new choral work about concrete production with Musarc's singers giving voice to this building’s self-reflexive dream.
Proposed as a form of ‘concrete liturgy’ for Dilston and its extended community, O Complex Mass explores the overlapping histories of this unique building, emphasising and sharing its rare qualities with an aim to give audiences a heightened experience of the space itself.
A project by John Lawrence
Graphic Score by Stephen Crowe
Performed by Musarc
O Complex Mass is generously supported by Arts Council England.
