- Venue
- Machines Room
- Starts
- Tuesday, September 8, 2015
- Ends
- Wednesday, September 30, 2015
- Address
- 45 Vyner St, London E2 9DQ
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Machines Room at LimeWharf
Throughout September, artist Graham Dunning will be Maker in Residence at Machines Room. Graham will run an open studio daily each week (apart from week beginning 21st Sept), making and exhibiting new experimental automata and sculptural work, and researching into rhythm and drone in sound and visual art. He will be keeping a research documentation blog here: https://rhythmanddrone.wordpress.com/
At a workshop session on Saturday 5th from 2pm-4pm visitors will be invited to build soundmaking systems of their own. Please rsvp here
Additionally a discussion group will run each week with a different guest presenting their work and its relationship to the project’s themes. The group will run from 2-4pm.
Friday 4th – Mark Jackson
Friday 11th – Tom Richards
Friday 18th – Tom Mudd
Tuesday 29th – Leslie Deere
The residency will finish with a live event on Thursday 1st October at New River Studios, Ghost in the Machine Music. Please check Facebook event page for full info: https://www.facebook.com/events/520503718100158/
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Supported by Arts Council England & British Council Maker Library Network
About Graham
As an artist I make things in various different formats, but generally to do with either Sound or Found Objects.
My background is in experimental music and this continues into the art I make and how I go about it. I use experimentation and play as a main part of my making process. I also like to set myself restrictions for my projects similarly to the way scientific experiments are conducted. Noise – as unwanted sound like record crackle or tape hiss – often features in my work, and a visual equivalent in dirt, dust or decay. I often try and repeat a visual process with audio, and vice versa.
My work explores time and commemoration: How people store their memories, in personal archives – photographs, audio journals, post-it notes – and what becomes of those archives. I find discarded objects interesting in themselves, for the stories that they suggest or that can be read into them. Collecting things has always held a fascination for me, both to do myself and to look at the way others do it.
