Institute of Contemporary Arts

Kill Your Timid Notion

Keith Rowe, Kill Your Timid Notion

Kill Your Timid Notion is one of Europe's leading festivals of sound and image, with renowned experimental film-makers and musicians investigate the borders between what you hear and what you see via live performances and film screenings at the ICA, the BFI Southbank and the BFI IMAX. Tonight's line-up is:

7pm – 7.45pm Kjell Bjørgeengen, Keith Rowe and Philipp Wacshmann
8.30pm – 9.15pm La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine
10pm – 10.30pm Greg Pope's Light Trap

Using eight projectors, Metamkine manipulate and combine multiple images, often developed, solarised and burnt as they pass through the projector, in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops, analogue synthesizers and amplified objects.

Kjell Bjørgeengen, Keith Rowe and Philipp Waschmann create an environment in which sound is looped through oscillators, violin, a radio, guitar pick-ups and specially constructed video amps to create flickering images and colour fields that play with your persistence of vision. In Greg Pope's Light Trap, film loops are abraded with sandpaper and manhandled by gem polishing drills as they pass through projectors in each corner of the room. Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights emerge as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.

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£8.50 / £7.50 Concessions / £6.50 ICA Members.

No latecomers.