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recommence another detour (2021)
By Ryoko Akama
This new work examines an overlapping and interacting temperature ecosystem. Component are constructed into
new contraptions, which operate in their own right but also are tightly interconnected. In the midst of islands of (un)predictable thermal systems, there is my sourdough starter, fed twice a day with water (10g) and 12g flour (12g). This maintenance of these bacteria, fermentation, is a simplest yet most profound knowledge of human kind. One of the keys to have a wild yeast alive is, once more – temperature.
I am endlessly concerned about a complexity of ecoculture on earth.

BIO
Japanese-Korean working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield.
Her works sculpt daily tools and scrap wastes with invisible energy such as heat, magnetism and gravity into kinetic contraptions. Interested in concurrent aural / visual experience as one entity and almost nothing aesthetic, her artistic practice examines environment, architecture, immigration and relativity. She also composes and performs a diversity of alternative scores in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide. She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c. and co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition.

noLoop(2021);
Charlotte Roe
Life drawing from generative art.
An exercise in bringing together coding and physical drawing/painting. Looped animations created with JavaScript, each frame is an automatic page refresh, each refresh re-renders the images with different shape, size and colour values. The work is created from careful observation of between states, visuals that don’t actually exist in the program and are just made in interaction with the human eye. ‘Life drawing’ from the monitor, trying to capture those between states as a static image.

BIO
Charlotte Roe is an interdisciplinary artist from Huddersfield. She makes images, sculptures and installations exploring ideas around humanity’s relationship to technology. Interested in the creative potential of coding she is currently creating works with scraped data, generative visuals, and Pure Data audio.

Corncrake Corner
Jo Kennedy
“Welcome – you have found your way to Corncrake Corner, and we are going on a journey. Come on – let’s go! We’ve something to discover. A lost creature and a lost sound. A strange noise that not so very long ago anyone living in or near the countryside could hear, including at the bottom of their gardens…..”

BIO
Jo Kennedy lives in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. She takes field recordings and makes sound art with these.
Her work responds to questions about our relationship with places and creatures and is motivated by an awareness that we are living in a time of environmental crisis.

Parasite Ivy
Stephen Harvey
Hedera helix is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m (66–98 ft) high where suitable surfaces, such as trees, are available. It climbs by means of aerial rootlets with matted pads which cling strongly to the substrate. Hedera helix prefers non-reflective, darker and rough surfaces with near-neutral pH.

Hedera helix is able to climb relatively smooth vertical surfaces, creating a strong, long lasting adhesion with a force of around 300 nN. This is accomplished through a complex method of attachment starting as adventitious roots growing along the stem that make contact with the surface and extend root hairs that range from 20 to 400 μm in length. These tiny hairs grow into any small crevices available, secrete glue-like nanoparticles, and lignify. As they dry out, the hairs shrink and curl, effectively pulling the root closer to the surface. The glue-like substance is a nano composite adhesive that consists of uniform spherical nanoparticles 50-80 nm in diameter in a liquid polymer matrix. Chemical analyses of the nanoparticles detected only trace amounts of metals, once thought to be responsible for their high strength, indicating that they are largely organic – from Wikipedia.

NB. Ivy is not actually parasitic.

BIO
Stephen Harvey is a photographer, graphic designer, electronic music composer and videographer. He loves
photography, music, design, films, reading, walking (sometimes) riding his bike (also sometimes) playing bass guitar and his family. He plays in a band called Tout Croche with Dominic with whom he also runs The Silent Howl, a small online record label. He also has a hand in running ame with Ryoko Akama.
He performs as a solo artist under the name redvirginsoil…