THE LIGHT & SHADOW SALON

Doors open at 7, screening begins promptly at 7.30

£5 entry on the door

The Light & Shadow Salon

presents

Neo-barbarism, neo-medievalism and the apocalypse- curated by Nicholas McArthur

This Salon will present work by visual artists whose concerns and practices involve aspects of ritual and self-created belief systems, in many cases drawing upon ancient practices to inspire new approaches to modern themes and materials.

Including moving image, live performance and readings, this Salon will be curated by multi-media visual artist Nicholas McArthur, whose practice is directly informed by the ideas explored tonight and who will be presenting the UK premiere of his new performance "A God-shaped Hole".

Featuring work and contributions by

MARTHA COLBURN // OREGON PAINTING SOCIETY // NICHOLAS McARTHUR // DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518 // JOHN BOCK // THE SANCTUARY KNOCKER // CHIARA AMBROSIO // DAISUKE ICHIBA // WOLFGANG MONEYPENNY // RICKY POWER SAYEED

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The Light & Shadow Salon is a place for artists, writers and audience to meet and share ideas about the past, present and future of the moving image in all its forms.

The Salon is a place for exchange, interaction and cross-pollination and it welcomes active contributions and interventions from all its participants.

The Salon endeavours to support a structured and informed dialogue around film, the moving image and all that it involves: from magic to science, from sound to the eye, from ritualism to storytelling, from myth-making to hypnosis.

The Salon intends to act as a temporary and ephemeral container  for all the work, ideas and people with an independent, radical and idiosyncratic nature, who renounce to find a home in existing movements/institutions but rather embrace the nomadic and transitory nature of art.

The Salon supports individual thought, inquisitive minds and a desire to further knowledge through dialogue and exchange.

‘So when you hear yourself invited to ‘see’, it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.’

(Hugh of St Victor)