Sensory Fields
Venue: 23 New Bond St • BA1 1BA
Opening night: 6pm until late • Fri 24 May 2024
Open 11am - 6pm daily • 25 May to 8 June 2024
Steps to basement gallery. For full details see map : fringeartsbath.co.uk/map
Sensory Fields is a group exhibition and performance programme exploring virtual environments and ways of sensing. The exhibition uses artworks as material, bringing the group of nine artists’ works together as an installation and performance programme that seeks to find new relationships and ways of exhibiting and programming. Through moving image and layered sound loops, dance, live-coded music, 3D scanning, painting and sculpture, the audience will enter virtually stimulated environments, where their actions have consequences on the exhibition’s matrix.
Opening night performances from Sensory Fields exhibition duos James Bragg and Sebastián Morales Castillo, Jocelyn Brett and Ushara Dilrukshan in two performances that feature live sound and dance, all welcome!
Paul Vivian’s Doll Tor Sonorous (2024) is a 2 channel video and sound piece that focuses on the scanning and recording of standing stones, presented at Sensory Fields as a conversation between the appearance of the stones in their physical context and their representation as scanned images, which rotate on bright primary coloured grounds as talismanic or token objects.
New Moves (2024) by Jed Fielder and Jamie Lee is a poetic reflection on our increasingly virtual experience of eating out, as well as the disappearing division of labor and leisure brought on by the internet, social media and smart phones. Similarly Laura Prochilo’s Future Foods (2024) also looks at the production of food as commodity in the face of climate change and agribusiness. Her resin cast donuts will be available to touch and hold while exploring the exhibition. Inbetween (2023), a painting installation by Abi Pert, looks at domesticity in the digital age and the affects of being able to plug into virtual environments and dis/utopias in times of crises and conflict. James Bragg and Sebastián Morales Castillo’s Desert Dreaming (2024) converts Castillo’s dance moves using a volumetric camera into abstract shapes and places them onto artificial landscapes. Jocelyn Brett and Ushara Dilrukshan’s LIMBŌ (2024) similarly converts live gestures into a visual medium.
Exhibiting Artists:
Abi Pert, James Bragg, Jamie Lee, Jed Fielder, Jocelyn Brett, Laura Prochilo, Paul Vivian, Sebastián Morales Castillo, Ushara Dilrukshan.
Paul Vivian, Doll Tor Sonorous (2024) two channel video installation, sound, dimensions variable, looped
Curator Jamie Lee
Curated by Jamie Lee
Jamie was a recent associate of the alternative art school ‘Open School East’. His solo practice addresses the materiality, physical scale and history of different sites and incorporates audio and visual recording as well as sensor-based technologies to sense and track movement, exploring the affects of unseen forces on bodies and objects. His collaborative work involves social practices at the cross-section of issues surrounding public space, human networks and climate science.
Jamie is member of the ‘A Forest of Things’ collective and has programmed events, made work and exhibited in London, Margate, Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Sheffield and Plymouth.