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SPILL: Stone Tape Theory at Toynbee Studios

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Time 13:00
Date 29/10/15
Price £15
  • Produced by SPILL
  • Price Part of SPILL Passes – ALL-SEEING: £120, WEEK 1: £40 and Toynbee Studios Passes: £15/£10
  • Get ready for an evolving sonic landscape, hypnotic loops and spectral distortions.
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A durational sound performance in which Sarah-Jane Norman mines the shifting terrain of her own memories.

Stone Tape Theory takes its name from an obscure paranormal hypothesis in which ghostly presences are explained not as discarnate souls, but as electro-magnetic “imprints” in space. The performer recites aloud a continual chain of associative memories – ranging from the banal to the traumatic – whilst in a state of induced trance-regression. These utterances are mediated through the defunct technology of analogue tape, generating an evolving sonic landscape, hypnotic loops and spectral distortions. Considering memory as a decaying loop of impressions which equally construct and disturb our experience of the present, the work asks what it means to be haunted; what is a haunting, if not a memory in space? And what is a memory, if not a haunting of the body?

Sarah-Jane Norman (b.1984, Sydney) is an interdisciplinary artist based between Sydney and Berlin. Working across a diverse range of media, the core of her practice is durational performance. Working as a solo artist since 2006, she has also trained and worked collaboratively with Guillemo Gomez-Pena, Yoshito Ohno and Marina Abramovic. Her most recent works have been presented in partnership with SPILL (UK), Fierce (UK), In Between Time (UK), Arnolfini (UK), Next Wave (AU), Forest Fringe (UK), Performance Space Sydney (AU), Venice International Performance Art Week (IT), Kaldor Public Art Projects (AU) and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AU).

29 October - 1 November, 13:00 - 19:00

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