The Sixth National Whippit Night
National Lottery funded by Arts Council England, Yorkshire
Curated by Victoria Gray & Nathan Walker (O U I Performance)

Performances by: Bean, Emma Bennett, Stephen Cornford, Victoria Gray, Mark Greenwood, Roddy Hunter, Charlotte Sykes, & Nathan Walker

Video Installation: Katy Connor

Press
Review by Joanna Loveday available on Here
NOTES ON WHIPPIT by Rachel Lois Clapham (Open Dialogues)

Artists Statements

Bean
And the buoy at the end of the line

Everything is an innate response / Everything is stolen / Only I understand / I am an irrelevant vessel / Others words make sense of what I am already doing / Reflective fighting through circuits circles Lines / beyond buoys. Unthread everything into no thing / Mind fuck opposite Peaceful arrogant failings

Emma Bennett
Like Oranges / Vanessa Perroncel

A short work for stagehand, footpump, and inflatable tree. Will also utilise cardboard box, fruit, and the sound of a voice speaking.

Victoria Gray
July

an action for july in february with grass

Mark Greenwood
EH GED?

the third in a series of performances that fall under the umbrella of ‘Brown Liars and other/ed Birds. The performance sequence investigates a curiosity around notions of animal behavior mimicking human psychological states. With a focus on the activities of birds, I draw comparisons between the decision making process of the performance artist and ornithology by examining practices of feeding, nesting and migration in relation to the architecture of space, therefore mirroring patterns of human conduct.

Roddy Hunter
that which is...(20.02.10)

that which is apollonian / that which is architecture / that which is birth / that which is comedy / that which is death / that which is departure / that which is dionysian / that which is ephemeral / that which is eternal / that which is female / that which is form / that which is formless / that which is inorganic / that which is known / that which is not architecture / that which is occult
that which is organic / that which is returning / that which is ruin / that which is structure / that which is tragedy

Charlotte Sykes
20/02/10

Drawing for a duration with eyes closed - then erase Drawing

Nathan Walker
cut circle

Considers the ‘C’ as a cut circle – where ‘out’ becomes ‘cut’ – demonstrating itself
The other paper-based parts of this performance concern themselves with the cutting practices of newspaper clippings desks, collage and poster politics. Following the score:

In Circle
Cut Circle

Katy Connor
Pure Flow (Projection)
Data Flow (Monitor)

Pure Flow reveals a new way of visualising the ordinarily invisible streams of data that run between a Global Positioning System [GPS] device and the multiple satellites which triangulate its position at any one time. The data generates live, moving imagery and sound from the fluctuations received by a static GPS device, the noise in the signal; revealing its materiality as a highly unstable system.

Data Flow frames a hypnotic cascade of water behind the glass of a TV monitor; the ‘box in the corner of the room’ giving form to the fluid, as a vessel lends its shape to a body of water.

Flattened by the lens, the architecture of the Avon Dam, Dartmoor is reminiscent of Cathode Ray Tube scan lines; its flow of data intermittently rolling down and fanning out across the screen.

This pulsatile movement can be compared to the visual flow of Television, the flood of information and the contemporary digital stream.

Stephen Cornford

live performance using his homemade
cassette delay machine, The SSCD6.2.

comprising the amalgamated mechanisms of eight portable tape recorders in a system of continuous multi-channel playback, recording and repeating any signal until it decays beyond recognition. Machines designed for straightforward playback of pre-recorded music become generative tools of music production.

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Photographic Documentation by Nathan Walker & Katy Connor

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Whippit is supported by and friends with: Arts Council England, Yorkshire, York St John University & York City Council

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