Invisible Dust

Kaffe Matthews has been making and performing new music via all kinds of digital gadgetry internationally for fifteen years. She is now most known for her live sampling performances of events and places in real time and the collective project “music for bodies” which makes sonic furniture and music to feel rather than just listen to.

Recent works include The Marvelo Project,(2008), a Folkestone Triennial commission, which enabled visitors to cycle their own path through the work from specially made GPS linked stereo bicycles, and Fathers (2009), an audiovisual opera with the Lappetites, just premiered HKW, Berlin.

Currently she is working with the Gluts to make the musical performance Café Carbon for the Copenhagen climate summit, and Symphony Hammerhead, an ambitious collaboration with shark scientists to make an audio visual work for 2011, after a recent Gulbenkian Galapagos Islands residency.

Symphony Hammerhead (2008) Photograph Cedric Villiere

Her 2004 collaboration Weightless Animals was awarded a BAFTA, she received a NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship in 2005 and an Award of Distinction, Prix Ars Electronica 2006 for the work Sonic Bed London. In 2006 she was made an Honorary Professor of Music, Shanghai Music Conservatory and in 2009 a patron of the Galapagos Conservation Trust shark project. Her stereo solo works are available through: www.annetteworks.com

The Marvelo Project (2008)

“The work of  Ian Rawlinson and Nick Crowe is a poetic exploration of cultural values. Their work addresses questions around faith, politics, national identity and the environment. Often built around pairings and oppositions their video and sculptural works create an encounter with the viewer that focuses on the complexity of objects and actions in relation to their social contexts. Works like The Fireworks, The Carriers’ Prayer or The Four Horsemen operate though an unravelling of the social and ideological consequences of an action in regard to its apparent spectacle. This interest in consequence is reflected in the aesthetics of spectacle and excess that sit at the heart of their practice. In this sense the visual and aural intensity of much of their work can be seen as the discursive opening in its conversation with the viewer.”

Ceri Hand Gallery (2009)

The Four Horsemen – War (2009)

Loop (2007)

Nick Crowe’s work explores changes in technology and their sociological effects in terms of people’s perceptions and behaviours.

His worked combines an attention to the poetics of human relations with a sometimes harsh reading of their effects. Over the past four years he has produced video, sculpture and new media and his work has addressed themes from the Iraq War to Climate Change.Crowe’s recent exhibitions include AT 25 Metres, FACT Centre, Liverpool (with Ian Rawlinson), Sammlung Witkowski at Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin and the Whitstable Biennale 2008.

The Drowning of Tuvalu (2008) Nukufetau

Mariele Neudecker is known for creating atmospheric alternative realities in glass vitrines. She uses a broad range of media including sculpture, installation and film. Neudecker addresses sublime, romantic views of landscape and the human interest in, and relationship to it. She presented a solo show at Tate St Ives in 2004 and is represented by Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

Heaven, the Sky (2008)

This Thing Called Darkness (2008)