ArtCouple
Decompressed Time Frames
PREVIEW / Performance
Thursday 7th April | 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Exhibition Remains Open
Sunday 10th April | 2pm – 4pm By Appointment
Monday 11th April | 11:30am – 2:30pm
Thursday 14th April | 11:30am – 2:30pm
Sunday 24th April | 2pm – 4pm By Appointment
Monday 25th April | 11:30am – 2:30pm
Closing Night / Performance
Thursday 28th April | 5.30pm – 8.30pm
The frames of time are now Decompressed, the show will never end, yet will be over in the blink of an eye and everything is once more operating at the speed of normality. we hope to see you on the opening night: Performances 6:30 and 7:30
Films run at a speed of 25 frames per second, each individual action a complex sequence of stills, blended too quickly for the eye to see. Life is a complex sequence of individual moments, stitched together and run chronologically; a beginning, a middle and an end. Blink and you’ll miss it!
Simon Bradley and Ursula Troche, working under the moniker ArtCouple, present this exhibition of sculpture, sound and film for BasementArtsProject entitled ‘Compressed Time Frames’.
Coming as it does, at the back end of a period in which time itself was inexorably damaged, this exhibition reveals elements of the stilled world that exist between the frames of our normally frantic existence.
“We are engaged in a multi-modal exploration of time frames as we emerge from this series of Covid lockdowns. Our experience of time altered drastically, as we left one of our most dynamic personal years to enter a period of remote seclusion when time seemed to compress and expand of its own will.
Sedimented in the very materials we’d been carting around the country and augmented by our continuing assemblages of newly found objects, our work has focused on deep time as both autobiography and geography.
The pieces selected for “Compressed Time Frames” question boundaries between time, object, place and self—our voyages in the imaginary menagerie.”
About ArtCouple
ArtCouple is a newly-formed multimodal partnership between Simon Bradley and Ursula Troche. Combining text, sound art, imagery and performance, their work explores (post)subjectivities and displacement. Through risk-taking and post-Fluxus practices ArtCouple have pioneered a form of ‘micro-psychogeography’ arising out of their collaborative walking art. Their emergent works include installations, performance interventions and assemblages of found objects informed by ecological concerns and site-specific findings.
Simon Bradley is a sound artist who writes and walks. He is fascinated by shifting connections between memory, voice, power and place. In 2016 he completed a practice-led PhD “Archaeology of the Voice’ in which he explored oral history and locative narrative in Holbeck, Leeds. Bradley has worked nationally and internationally on many sound/music projects and interventions including TATE Britain and Tokyo Dome, also an ongoing series of ‘Displacement Activities’ including Leeds, Montreal and Florence.
Ursula Troche is an artist and writer documenting her second migration— the first centring on the transition from country to country (across the North Sea), the second from city to sea (across England). Trained some way towards psychoanalysis, she became a psychogeographer instead, as a result of experiences of place and movement. Performed, amongst many others, at the Walthamstow Garden Party, exhibited at the ‘Palimpsest’ group show (2016), writings include ‘Looking for Irish Street’.
ArtCouple live on the Cumbrian coast next to the Irish Sea—they perform everywhere they go.
Interventions, provocations and presentations include: 2018 Royal Geographical Society, Cardiff; Wavescape, Split; Auntie Freeze Festival (The Cave); Tracing the Pathway, Milton Keynes; 4th World Congress of Psychogeography, Huddersfield; 2019: Terminalia, Leeds; West Cumbria Arts Trail; Falling Walls, Stroud; Walking’s New Movements Plymouth. Merzbarn; Cumbria
WEBSITE: http://artcouple.co.uk/