Transductions: Energies in the Arts Concert

Overview

Taking over the Red Rattler on Friday, August 14, multimedia performance art show Transductions is a convergence of some of the "nerve centres of energy arts". The finale of the Energies in the Arts conference taking place at the MCA and UNSW Art & Design, it brings together Berlin-based UK artist Martin Howse and local performers Pia van Gelder and Peter Blamey, in a creative investigation of the misuse of technology and its connections to the earth and the human psyche.

At the artistic vortex of 'psychogeophysics', Howse's work receives and extracts hidden information from the earth and fungal matter through DIY circuits and chemical reactions. "Synaesthetic manipulator of micro-currents" Van Gelder opens up custom-built and common devices to perform in new ways, while Blamey reinterprets everyday technologies through mystical hacking and earth circuits.

In layperson's terms, that all translates to a lot of spooky visuals, eerie experimental soundscapes, and a bridging of the divisions between the organic and the digital. Get your tickets on the door. Open to all the curious.