Thursday 19 February 2015, 8pm
Sculpture is the duo of Dan Hayhurst (music), and Reuben Sutherland (animation). Their performances are an amalgam of electronic music, kinetic art, comic strips, abstract animation, audiovisual cut-ups – a mix of analog and digital practices – tape manipulation, samples, found sounds, aleatoric and algorithmic programming and live improvisation.
Sculpture combines unstable electronic music, animation and video art in transitory audiovisual forms. During a live AV set by Sculpture, genre tropes, temporal signs and perceptual associations are reconfigured in the moment, seeking multisensory overload. A volatile simultaneity links the duo’s visual turntablism and metamorphic sound. With a camera mounted on a Technics turntable and a chaotic library of zoetropic prints, visual artist Reuben Sutherland combines animation, tactile photo collage, and cutting-edge digital technique in hyperkinetic patterns and op-art cuts. On sonics, musician Dan Hayhurst misuses samplers, tape loops, cassette players and CDJ decks to create an analogue/digital hybrid of outsider pop, experimental composition and improvised splatter.
Sculpture formed as a duo for an unrehearsed performance in 2008. They have since played worldwide and released polymedia byproducts on labels including
