SCHOOL OF CHANGE

A solo show at Matt's Gallery May-June 2012 incorporating Experimental Narrative film, Installation, sculpture, sound,and continuous live performance inside the installation. Commissioned by Matt's Gallery.

'School of Change' is a project that collides genres and ideas; at its core is a 40 minute sci-fi musical + experimental narrative film, shot in my old secondary school, transformed into a skewed and satirical version of everyday reality. The project was realized as an ambitious sculptural and Film Installation at Matt’s Gallery in May - June 2012. The film, SCHOOL OF CHANGE, is an experimental, musical, science fiction film, based in a distorted reality that satirically reflects on our own, where changes - social, technological - even mutations in the workings of reason itself - are threatening the viability of humanity. This project embodied a complex critique of contemporary fears and desires for radical change both social and spiritual; speculating on the future effects of ‘gamification’ technology in collision with the marketisation of education, exploring a representational method that collides an everyday location with the extraordinary. Friction between the real and artificial is explored via experiments with costume design, disruptive editing patterns and songs. Choreographed movement-games and on-screen ‘scores’ speculated on a society with a hive mind, deploying morally suspect uses of technology for mechanisms of control in a post- eco-apocalyptic future. These methodologies embedded the questioning of representational codes used in both popular and experimental media within the narrative structure of the film itself. Elements of this project went ‘on the road’ as a live evening event, that explored a hybrid, cross-over space between art, music, storytelling and performance. Venues: and Camden Arts Centre December 2011, OUTPOST gallery Norwich summer 2012. It is due to to tour as an installation to other international venues in 2014. It has also screened as a single screen work at Gallery 400 Chicago, and Antimatter International Underground Film festival, Victoria, Canada amongst others.

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