Two artists-in-residence by Guillaume Dujat (Dai Hall) and Sabiwa (Bath House Galleries) who will be researching and producing new work for their solo exhibitions. In collaboration with Cultures of Sound.
March 24th to April 8th
exhibition by Guillaume Dujat and Sabiwa
24th March Fri. TICKET (Dai Hall)
opening event with Sabiwa , Mariam Rezaei & Petronn Sphene
7th April Fri. TICKET (Dai Hall)
closing event with WEȽ∝KER & Guy Sherwin + Lynn Loo & Farida Amadou
Residency Artist 01 (dai hall): Guillaume Dujat
Artist, composer & one half of computer music duo, WEȽ∝KER: Guillaume Dujat presents a glide into the surrounding lands of DIY skate-spaces. Having been involved with Manchester’s BeesideDIY, re-invigorating a disused ‘fly-tip’ spot into a community skate park. This work for ame explores the wider location these spaces inhabit looking at a number of NW-UK ‘DIY’s’. Emerging via warped videography, spatial field-recordings and sonic reinterpretations.
Solo Exhibition / Fri. March 24th – Sat. April 8th / Free Entry
Dai 大 Hall (The Piazza, Unit 29/30, Victoria Lane, Huddersfield HD1 2QF)
11.00 – 17.00 (close on Sunday & Monday)
Residency Artist 02 (Bath House Galleries) : Sabiwa
SABIWA is an experimental electronic producer and performer. She produces, records and dissects sounds and images from natural and synthetic sources, making them interact with complex texture and abstract patterns, also using her voice processed as guiding path in her compositions.
Solo Exhibition
Bath House Galleries (Toast House Cafe, Queen Saint South Annexe, HD1 3DR)
Opening times:
Friday 24th March: 08.00 – 15.00
Saturday 25th March: 11.00 – 16.00
Tuesday 28th – Friday 31st March: 08.00 – 15.00
Saturday 1st April: 11.00 – 16.00
Tuesday 4th – Friday 7th April: 08.00 – 15.00
Saturday 8th April: 11.00 – 16.00
Opening Concert with Sabiwa / Mariam Rezaei / Petronn Sphene
Friday 24th March @ Dai 大 Hall
Doors 18.30, performances start 19.00
Tickets full price £10 / concession £8 / Ko-Fi member £6
Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award winning composer, turntablist, writer and performer. She previously led experimental arts project TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and is Artistic Director of TUSK Festival, based in Newcastle and Gateshead (tuskmusic.org). On November 10th 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists, in recognition of her contribution to music composition. Her music has recently been described as ‘ genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) and ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (4* The Guardian 2022). Recent releases include ‘SADTITZZ’, ‘SKEEN’ , ‘Veil’, a collaboration with Stephen Bishop on TUSK Editions/Opal Tapes, ’SISTER’ with soprano Alya Al-Sultani, and TECHNOPOWER on Tusk Editions.
Petronn Sphene. Also known as one half of the xenofeminist crisis energy rock duo Guttersnipe along with her other solo project The Ephemeron Loop, Petronn Sphene is the singular manifestation of queer punk cyborg convulsing body music known as “No Wave Rave”. She has also guested on three tracks by Mariam Rezaei for her second album “Skeen” in 2020 and has collaborated with Limpe Fuchs, Rian Treanor, Mark Fell and Jim O’ Rourke for the “Symmetry in Fives” piece for CTM Online 2021. She played at various European and UK festivals in 2022 such as Kraak, Norberg, Counterflows, Supernormal and Unsound.
Petronn Sphene compositions are generated using a set of principles called the Radical Queer Formula for Rhythm and Tonality which seeks to extract excitatory life force from the history of music and by articulating it through a theoretical lens of No Wave alien trans feminine derangement, using a Rave sound palette, assemble a highly physical style of unquantized entropy music which conveys the Thrashing of the Organism. Step into the vortex.
Closing Concerts with WEȽ∝KER / Guy Sherwin + Lynn Loo / Farida Amadou
Friday 7th April @ Dai 大 Hall
Doors 18.30, performances start 19.00
Tickets full price £10 / concession £8 / Ko-Fi member £6
Guy Sherwin studied painting before becoming involved with the radical film practice of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative where he learnt, and then taught, the darkroom arts of printing and processing. His films explore fundamental material properties of film along with its unique capacity for recording elusive moments of light and time, while his optical sound films and performances explore a variety of abstract audio-visual ideas.
Lynn Loo was raised in Singapore and taught music before moving to Chicago to study experimental film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Loo’s work often involves a direct manipulation of film stock and printing processes. The expanded 16mm film performance Vowels & Consonants (2005) marked the start of her collaboration with Guy Sherwin.
Farida Amadou is a self taught bass player based in Liège, Belgium. The electric bass is her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she has started to play a lot of different musical genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop. Soon Farida started to dive into improvisation music, and got rapidly identified by local collectif and musicians. After a year (2017) as bass player in belgian punk band Cocaine Piss, Farida decided to focus on her solo improvisation practice and collaborations with musicians like Steve Noble, Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Floris Vanhoof, Julien Desprez among other occasional featuring such as Mette Rasmussen, Linda Sharrock, Chris Pitsiokos, Eve Risser, Alex Ward, and Jerusalem in My Heart.
