Doors open at 7:00pm, programme begins at 7:30pm sharp
(£5 entry on the door)
THE LIGHT & SHADOW SALON presents ALL FLESH IS GRASS
curated by POND SCUM LIGHT SHOW
Finding puddle portals to microbial netherworlds, Pond Scum Light Show present a night of films and specially commissioned performances that explore the fictive tools through which landscape might be engaged. From contaminated railway sidings to ceremonial lakes, through New Jersey Meadowlands to the ancient trees of Shoreham, casting back alternative histories of the rural whilst anticipating the mechanical gardens of the future.
All Flesh Is Grass will present an atmosphere of curiosity about the strangeness of the landscapes we may come find ourselves in, and the further strangeness of our presence within them.
Performances and readings by Nicholas Johnson, Alice Hattrick, Pond Scum Light Coagulator w/ Peter Simpson & Anthony Brown.
Film works by Mathew Killip, Ian Breakwell, Robert Smithson, Peter Greenaway and more…
Pond Scum Light Show is a series of live liquid light projections devised by Jennifer Pengilly and Jamie Sutcliffe developed to coincide with music by Mark Pilkington (Raagnagrok/Urthona) and Mike York (Cyclobe) under the moniker Teleplasmiste. As a stand alone project, it is concerned with explorations of liquidity, site-specificity, contaminated compositions and the pre-histories of psychedellic consciousness.
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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)