Voice is central to Dominique Petitgand’s compositions and installations. Sentences are fragmented, words and other articulations are isolated and assembled into “mental landscapes”. The listener is immersed into micro universes that bounce back and forth between an assumption of reality – the recordings in which people speak of their own lives – and a projected and timeless fiction. “For me, the search for form takes place at the level of perception, at the level of what is going on inside the head of the listener. I don’t have the impression of creating an object; rather, I set in motion mental perceptions, acts of reflection, of thinking, memory and imagination.” At the request of Courtisane, he will present a listening session in the dark, structured around silences.

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler make film and video installations and performances that question the filmic, sculptural and architectonic qualities of the moving image. The Space Between brings together a formal approach with an overtly social subject matter. The images of an anonymous housing block in India are the basis for an exploration of a number of “spaces between”, suggested by the motif and its distance from the Western viewer. The complexity of the visual structure, a two- screen projection, will be reflected in the live soundtrack by David Cunningham, who has made a name for himself as an installation artist and musician, often in collaboration with This Heat, David Toop, Martin Creed and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Het werk van Lis Rhodes is geworteld in de geschiedenis van de Britse avant-garde film, maar is de voorbije decennia ook uitgewaaierd naar fotografie, performance en politieke analyse. Light Music is een van haar vroege exploraties in het domein van ’expanded cinema’. Twee 16mm-projectoren vertonen een gevarieerde configuratie van rechte lijnen, waarvan de spatiëring (frequentie), dikte (amplitude), kleur en densiteit (toon) ook het klank- beeld bepalen. “Het gaat evenzeer over geluid als over beeld; hun relatie is noodzakelijkerwijs afhankelijk, want het is de optische klankband die de muziek ‘maakt’, het is de machinerie zelf die deze relatie oplegt.”

An encounter between three participants of the weekly workshop led by musician and theorist Eddie Prévost, which during the past decade has left an undeniable mark on the London improvisation scene. The emphasis that Prévost places on the heuristic aspect of free improvisation – as a process of discovery, learning and dialogue – lies close to the heart of these musicians. Both saxophonist Seymour Wright and guitarist Ross Lambert are known for their inter-musical dynamics and exploratory drive. On this occasion, they team up with Paul Abbott, who will focus on working with light and video projections.