NE1CO Presents: The Av Social / Late at Tate. Featuring Hiraki Sawa, Black Out Arts, Bopa, Bruno Tait and The Narrative Lab. Friday 4th April 2008. The Tate Britain. As part of the Late at Tate Series of events the audiovisual collective NE1CO present a very special ambient edition of London’s #1 audiovisual event, the AV Social. Setting up camp amongst the dramatic backdrop of neo-classical sculptures and renaissance paintings at the Tate Britain you’ll find installations, performances and screenings from some of Europe’s finest VJs and audiovisual artists. As an ambient soundtrack washes throughout the building your invited to come and explore both the Tate exhibits and modern works. Contemporary video artist Hiraki Sawa will be showing his very own playful and sensitive blend of miniature worlds in domestic environments, Rod Maclachlan and Jem Noble from Black Out Arts will be performing a live audiovisual work using live cameras and live sampling techniques, while Bopa and Bruno Tait present a collaborative slide and video installation using moving head video projections. Also featured is a specially curated screening and presentation by the Narrative Lab, inviting the Editors of the VJTheory book to show and tell some experimental works alongside screened material from artists all over Europe including Solu, Visual Kitchen, Girrafentoast, Ben Sheppee, Visualnaut, Oxygen, ZooZooZoo, Spark and Lucidhouse.
The Narrative Lab is a creative network and group of friends, who love to VJ and make moving images. Our work, and the work we love, use narrative techniques to enrich our work and bring emotion and potency to it. We don’t think VJing should be like film, rather we see other VJs and AV performers using narrative structures and devices in creative and unusual ways, and we want to showcase a cross-section of performers using narrative to create a language of VJing, and to engage the audience in alternative ways.We have selected a screening programme which will run as follows. Information on the artists, where given, is included below.
