Thursday 4 June 2026, 7.30pm
Unpredictable Series presents Sculpture and The Light Surgeons
An Evening of Audiovisual Performance & Live Cinema
We welcome two landmark acts in the world of live audiovisual performance – artists for whom the screen is never passive and sound is never mere accompaniment.
Sculpture — the duo of Reuben Sutherland and Dan Hayhurst — conjures volatile, hyperkinetic worlds from turntables, zoetropic prints, cassette decks and samplers. Their live AV sets resist category: animation bleeds into collage, outsider pop splinters into improvised noise, and genre tropes dissolve the moment they form. Expect multisensory overload.
The Light Surgeons present Adrift — a live cinema performance decades in the making. Drawing on a 2006 installation, filmmaker Christopher Thomas Allen and composer Tim Cowie weave analogue slide photography, archival video and a live electro-acoustic score into a meditation on liminal landscapes, migration and the changing face of our world. Tonight's performance will also feature new material from Landsong, an ongoing exploration of aerial footage and sonification gathered across the UK.
Two very different works. One shared impulse: to make images and sound inseparable.
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
The Light Surgeons is a media arts studio that creates moving image work, live performances, installations, and experiences that sit at the intersection of music, film, and creative technology. The studio was established in London in 1995 and is led by media artist, filmmaker and creative producer Christopher Thomas Allen. The studio produces a diverse range of creative projects that blur the boundaries between art and design, they are renowned for their development of live cinema performance art and audio-visual installation projects that combine in-depth research that reflects on our shared human condition that enlighten and move their audiences. Their work combines a passion for documentary filmmaking with the creation of original music and an eye for design that gives their work a unique style and feel.
Adrift is a collaboration between Christopher Thomas Allen and long time collaborator Tim Cowie. Tim Cowie is a composer, sound designer and audiovisual artist whose work combines electronic music production with classical composition and minimalism. He blends synthesised sound with acoustic instruments, found sounds, tape loops and field recording to create sonic textures and musical structures that transcend genre boundaries With a particular focus on spatial audio, he expands his practice beyond traditional stereo formats, exploring immersive sound environments. His compositions are rooted in conceptual ideas and critical thinking, incorporating narrative and thematic layers that harness the emotional power of sound.
https://lightsurgeons.com/
https://timcowie.com/
