Performance
The Informals II: Live Show
15 Jul 2021
Jubilee Square
Brighton, United Kingdom
A new audiovisual installation that combines sound art with the experience of being in a club is premiering at Brighton contemporary digital art charity Lighthouse on 22 May as part of Brighton Festival 2021.
An inside-space exhibition with COVID-19 precautions. Booking timeslot for your visit is essential, free attendance (see Eventbrite).
Co-commissioned by Lighthouse and Brighton Festival, The Informals II has been created in a collaboration between artists Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne and young Brighton musicians; evolving from a residency in which the artists set out to explore and document the city’s youth music cultures.
Inspired by the artists' interest in improvisation, non-conformity and ways of living in the digital age, The Informals II exhibition explores the lives and stories of Brighton's youths. In a time when the political climate is not representative of them, they use their music culture to challenge stigmas and stereotypes and to reclaim public spaces. The installation will bring together audiovisual documentary footage collected by the artists in Brighton. Moving images, text, and dialogue interlace, calling upon the audience to interact with, and create new narratives and meanings.
On entering the installation, the viewer stands face-to-face with a diptych of the young musicians. A continuous stream of images portrays the neon-lit public spaces of the nocturnal city that they gravitate towards. Close-up, flickering slow motion imagery invites us to tune into music composed using specially built electronic instruments made from interview recordings as well as samples from across the city, for a moment of close listening.
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