Event
Sculpture Shock AMBULATORY 2015 | William Mackrell Gaps, glitches and speed bumps
10 Sep 2015 – 13 Sep 2015
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Please note all performances will be taking place on a public bus. Please ensure you have a preloaded oyster card or contactless payment card if you wish to board.
Address
- Dora House
- 108 Old Brompton Road
- London
- SW7 3RA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- C1 and 430
- South Kensington and Gloucester Road
Calling all London bus users, this September prepare to find yourself immersed in the rhythms of the city as William Mackrell presents the culmination of his 2015 AMBULATORY Sculpture Shock residency: Gaps, glitches and speed bumps.
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Calling all London Bus users, this September prepare to find yourself immersed in the rhythms of the city as William Mackrell presents the culmination of his 2015 AMBULATORY Sculpture Shock residency: Gaps, glitches and speed bumps.
From Thursday 10 September - Sunday 13 September 2015 between 11:30am - 4.15pm unsuspecting passengers of the number 9 bus traveling between Aldwych and Hammersmith will be met by professional singers who have been invited by Mackrell to make a sound response from inside the bus. Focusing on the mechanics of travel that pass through and around the body, the fluctuating airflow and reverberations created by the bus will be vocalised in genres spanning blues, classical, opera and electronic improvisations. These vocal responses will also consider the automated voice of the onboard loudspeaker in relation to the singers’, the momentum of travel and the disruption to this flow by traffic lights and sudden shifts whilst negotiating immediate street activity. Running in parallel to this, Mackrell will draw a line that maps the movement of the journey. The series of automatic drawings will record the swerves and jumps of the bus as a composition made over music score paper, which has been manipulated from its commonly linear format into a circular form. Mackrell has chosen this structure that considers the spherical nature of sound as a three-dimensional and surround experience. Born out of Mackrell's research into French cultural theorist Paul Virilio, Gaps, glitches and speed bumps attempts to activate the potential of ‘Ambulatory’ as site-specific language from a live and nomadic setting on London’s bus network.
This work is the culmination of Mackrells three month Sculpture Shock 2015 Ambulatory residency. Now in its third year, this ground breaking award encourages surprising site specific spatial interventions in non-traditional spaces outside the confines of the white cube. The work of the winning artists appears in one of three environments: subterranean (the unseen world underneath our city), ambulatory (without physical confines in movement through space and time) and historic (an illustrious building in London).
Performances will start daily from 11.30am – 4.15pm. Please see www.sculptureshock.rbs.org.uk for the full performance timetable.
For live up to the minute accuracy on the performances location please follow @Liveonthebus or speak to project team staff at one of the four information points; Trafalgar Square Stop S, Green Park Stop H, Knightsbridge Station/Harrods Stop KE and High Street Kensington Stop F.
Please note all performances will be taking place on a public bus. Please ensure you have a preloaded oyster card or contactless payment card if you wish to board.