Exquisites Actes III by Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Mark Pilkington, and Neil Campbell (14th-21st November 2008)

An audio/visual installation at the Red Wire Gallery, Victoria Street (opposite Millennium House), Liverpool. Opens: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 6:30pm- 9:00pm

Friday 14th November marks the Private View of a visual art exhibition in which Neil has been involved as a collaborator ....... the piece of work Exquisites Actes III (described below) is presented as part of an exhibition of around 6 different visual artists' work entitled Slowness (which The Times have placed 3rd in its top 5 exhibitions opening this week!) Slowness is an exhibition that presents six young international artists who work with video and live art. Often collaborating with musicians, writers and other non-art counterparts, the artists will converge on Red Wire Gallery, with the joint intention of subverting and reinterpreting our conventional perceptions of time based artworks.

Exquisites Actes III- Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Mark Pilkington, and Neil Campbell -

motivation to fragment art discourse and open meaning to as many participants as possible. Though both classically trained musician/composers, Neil explores algorithmic musical compositions whilst Mark is interested in challenging electroacoustic music. Together they will create an installation centred around a sequence of moving image and soundscapes resultant of a Fibonacci process based on chance and regulated procedure.

The artists draw upon engineering of sound and its construction to play component part to visual imagery towards an installation entailing visual and sound. A separate performance piece will bring the video process into a live dimension.

An immersive series of video and sonic compositions have been created as a result of collaborative activity between the three. Sprung from a structure based on a Fibonnaci based matrix, each carried out tasks to produce a moving image or sonic component (harmony/texture), with only length as the determining factor with theme and approach free from restraint.

Following this blindfolded method, with each artist working independently, the works have been brought together to create ten highly resolved visual/music pieces, with a total duration of just over an hour. The resulting video sonic landscapes span video surveillance, genetic engineering and Dim Sum cuisine.

By chance and collaborative instinct, together they have generated mesmerising sonic/visual landscapes that enable viewer to fabricate diverse personal, cross-narratives.

Information on the forthcoming exhibition Slowness can be viewed here - http://redwireredwire.com/page48.htm