About this Event
Boundary Condition III Anniversary features 9+ artists in a hybrid of audiovisual live sets & immersive projections; séances in disused vessels, resonant spaces, performative dialogues of intergenerations, dissonances and cyclic rhythms, Homeric myths, rituals of belonging and resistance, Iranian classical music, alchemising grief, Sardinian paganism, chants, ceremonial endurance performance, ethnographic research, celtic folk, decaying drone, Norse symbolism, fragile beauty, and heavy hauntology in a historic 12th century church.
The immersive projection mappings of the architecture performed in St James Garlickhythe Church will dissect and reverse engineering elements of Sergei Parajanov's work. In an attempt to induce the feeling that the space has been excavated or archaeologically unearthed from narratives of his work; as a time capsule comprising the historical sediment of his fragmented scenarios.
St James Garlickhythe is a parish church nicknamed "Wren's lantern” owing to its profusion of windows. The earliest surviving reference to the church is as ecclesiam Sancti Jacobi in a 12th-century will. All was lost in the Great Fire. Rebuilding began a decade later, as recorded on the Victorian vestry boards prominent in the church porch.
Thomas Stone
Thomas Stone is an electroacoustic composer and musician from London. His practice focuses on live performance, reconciling disparate influences such as his tinnitus, physical endurance, false memories, the physical effect of sound, séance, bass music and 20th century composition. Refined through presentation in various resonant spaces (from churches to a disused water tank, Cornish coastal caves to the hull of a ship) his compositions use contrabassoon and sampling devices as oscillators for his snare drum. Blurring the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sound sources, his post-classical / post-techno soundscapes use the relatively ugly means of long tones, dissonances and cyclic rhythms to reach moments of austere, fragile beauty. Thomas has performed throughout the UK including shows at Tate Britain, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery and BBC Radio 3. Thomas was winner of NonClassical battle of the bands 2015. In January 2021 Thomas received one of Sound and Music’s COVID-19 Composer Awards.
https://www.thomasstonemusic.com/
https://bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/an-act-of-surrender-2
Roxanna Albayati presents SHEKARE ĀZĀDI
SHEKARE AZADI is a performative dialogue of generations, the struggle of inner and outer worlds colliding, confronting and finding space to heal. The audience are invited to experience a diasporic chase for freedom, dedicated to the women of Iran. The interdisciplinary project began formation over the course of 2022, when Roxanna spent the year interrogating different environments and herself within these spaces. This personal as well as location-based journey explored the ever-evolving concept of identity, freedom and becoming. It was first premiered during Roxanna's solo residency at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea in 2022, and subsequently in 2024 as part of Zaratan's performance cycle "VOLTAS".
Roxanna Albayati is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and music educator. Her practice centres around combining experimental music with performance art and audio-visuals, exploring topics surrounding identity, sense of belonging and the body. Her music merges cross-cultural improvisation with Iranian classical music and the physicality of performance. Although predominantly a cellist, Roxanna also uses her voice, ghaychak and her body to materialise and realise her experimentations, fascinated by the process and natural evolution of discovery. Roxanna explores the theme of self and the other, how these two interact, both internally and materially, whilst considering this through the perspective of Orientalist constructions and female place in society. She has performed and worked extensively across Europe, including at Cafe Oto (London, 2023), Northen Ballet (Leeds, 2023), Halaqat - Goethe Institute (Brussels, 2022), METRIC IP (Tallinn, 2020), Casa das Artes/Sismógrafo (Porto, 2021), Sound Festival (Sound Scotland, 2021) and Abastan Factory (Armenia, 2023).
https://www.roxannaalbayati.com/works
Il Santo Bevitore and The Seer
Il Santo Bevitore and The Seer come together with their first collaboration to date; a short trilogy based on The Völuspá, an Old Norse poem that describes the life cycles of birth, death and rebirth through the words of a Seeress, or Völva, called by Odin to share her memories and prophecies with humankind.
ISB (Drums, Percussions, Electronics) is Nicola Serra’s ethnographic research and sound project which explores folklore and pagan mysteries from his native land of Sardinia. Nicola is an Italian born musician, producer and sound engineer based in London. He’s the founder and curator of Dronica, renowned experimental sound-art UK festival, as well as the curator and resident artist of Ritualtronics. ISB has performed across Europe and has released on a number of labels such as Opal Tapes, Aurora Borealis, An Trinse, Champion Version, Borders Of Known, Modern Bon, Attenuation Circuit and Amek Collective.
The Seer (Cello, Vocals, Piano and Flute) is the performance and sound project created by London based artist Conny Prantera. The Seer is a multimedia live performance that interlocks A/V, music, theatre and performance art. The project is based on unpublished writings that explore the story of a prophet in a timeless frame, floating between Homeric myths and personal memoir. The Seer was nominated by Red Bull Academy as one of the “7 women audiovisual artists pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions.” The Seer was also named by Elephant Magazine as one of “the Women Rewriting the Audiovisual Rulebook” and by The Quietus as part of the “New Weird Britannia” music phenomenon.
https://industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/aksu-and-il-santo-bevitore-the-seer
http://www.nicolaserra.co.uk/
https://www.theseer.co.uk/
HAAR
The collaborative duo of Gisou Golshani and B E O R H T A. Gisou Golshani is a London-based artist from Iran. Through sound art, performance, and poetic chants she performs rituals of belonging and resistance. Her recent performances include Iklectik Art Lab and Deptford X festival in London, and Diasporas Now UK tour at Humber Street Gallery in Hull.
B E O R H T A emerges from celtic folk traditions, channelling grief work through the voice (caoineadh) with and alongside the land. Their ceremonial performances invite an exploration of ancestral ties and fragmentation as a way to confront mass repression of how we process loss; both personally and interdependently. A spell of evolving and decaying drone, dark votive harmonies and spoken word- this project is dedicated to the magical practice of sharing presence through silence and sound as a form of alchemising grief into mobilising.
https://www.instagram.com/_h_a_a_r/?hl=en
https://linktr.ee/Glassforbrains
Ruben Sonnoli
Ruben is an Italian key and synth performer, trained as a jazz pianist but fascinated by electronic music, he combines harmonic and melodic material with electronic processing and samples
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/ruben-sonnoli/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St James Garlickhythe, Garlick Hill, London, United Kingdom
GBP 15.34 to GBP 22.38
