The Outer Church, Brighton, UK: LIVE with VHS Head!

flyer/ photos by Joseph Stannard

http://theouterchurch.blogspot.com/

The Wassaic Project Residency and Exhibition, New York, July 10th- August 28th

Mystic Vertex, Installation, The Wassaic Project Exhibition..

Jade Boyd and Nick Edwards, aka Ekoplekz (sound), Mystic Vertex, installation. Digital/ analogue video (5:43), plywood, lights, gels. The Maxon Mills, Wassaic, New York, USA, 2011.

Featuring the video created for Ekoplekz in his live performance at The Outer Church earlier this year. Here set to his previously unreleased track, Reflectograph.

The Outer Church Archives: Ekoplekz // Uncanny Riddim

Ekoplekz: Uncanny Riddim from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

Scratch Video/ Cabaret Voltaire-inspired video created by Jade Boyd for Uncanny Riddim by Ekoplekz, originally for his live set at The Outer Church in March. Various sections of films recorded from the TV screen, using video feedback, cross modulation of VHS signals, and real-time controls >/II/>>/

This video was created for the live set of Ekoplekz in March 2011 at The Outer Church in Brighton, now set to Ekoplekz' previously-unreleased track, Uncanny Riddim.

see: Ekoplekz...

JADE BOYD by JOSEPH STANNARD, THE WIRE

I first encountered the video art of Jade Boyd at Unsound 2010.. she was providing live visual accompaniment for a performance of soundtrack music by film composer Alan Howarth.. As much as I was enthralled by the clean lines and masterfully maintained tension of Howarth’s set, I was equally beguiled by Boyd’s complementary visuals. Given a large catalogue of film images to work with, Boyd crafted a dreamlike fugue of terrible beauty which blended well-known moments from acknowledged Carpenter classics with choice cuts from less celebrated entries in the director’s mythos such as Halloween IV and V. This was more than a simple montage of fondly remembered scenes. Boyd chopped, folded and blended these fragments in such a way as to brilliantly underscore the inherent surrealism of genre cinema.

Boyd’s live work employs feedback and distortion in both image and sound…Visual improvisation, if you will. As well as working with video and sound in a live context, Boyd has been responsible for a number of cut videos and installation pieces. Her more ‘composed’ pieces have been compared both to the work of Nam Jun Paik, Derek Jarman and the punkish savants of the contemporary Noise scene.

Boyd is fascinated by the capacity of technology for manifesting the otherwise unseen forces which govern our existence, as acknowledged by science and the occult. The intersection of these superficially opposing areas is where Boyd finds inspiration. (She) works to unveil these forces via “sound waves and electronic impulses as in video signals.”

In her commissioned pieces for musical performances, Boyd shows an uncanny knack for drawing out the impulses and images that fuel an artist’s work. Since Unsound, I myself have worked with Boyd on a number of projects involving Position Normal, Ekoplekz, Hong Kong In The 60s and The Larsen Effect. On each occasion, Boyd has wasted no time in locating the heart of each individual aesthetic, often bringing out elements that even her collaborators had not yet recognised in their own work. Influenced by the phenomenon of Scratch Video, which has its roots in the Post-Punk and Industrial culture typified by outfits such as Cabaret Voltaire, SPK and Psychic TV, Boyd identifies the hidden currents that course beneath sonic surfaces, demonstrating a form of harnessed synesthesia or, as I prefer to term it, videowitchery.

Video for Alan Howarth with Zombie Zombie at Fondation Cartier, Paris, May 2011

Video montage created for the live performance of Alan Howarth with Zombie Zombie at Fondation Cartier, Paris. Featuring images from The John Carpenter films The Thing, Halloween, Escape From New York, Escape From LA, Assault on Precinct 13.

Visuals for Alan Howarth, Emeralds and Harald Grosskopf, Unsound Festival at (Le) Poisson Rouge, New York

(There is no sound for these videos..)

from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

Images from John Carpenter's 'Big Trouble in Little China', 'The Thing' and 'Halloween'.

from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

from Jade Boyd on Vimeo.

Alan Howarth plays the tracks from his film scores live
Video documentation by James Plotkin
http://plotkinworks.com
Images from the John Carpenter films Escape from New York and Christine
Live visuals for Emeralds


Video documentation by James Plotkin
http://plotkinworks.com

Live visuals in collaboration with Phillip Dmochowski
Thanks to Phillip Dmochowski, Alejandro, Matt at RVNG, Kenny Curwood and Unsound Festival

Video for EKOPLEKZ at THE OUTER CHURCH 100311

(Scratch Video inspired) video for Ekoplekz at The Outer Church,
Brighton, 10th of March 2011

'Blood on Skippergata' exhibition, video screening and live show, Tidens Krav Galleri, Oslo

My live AV installation, accompanying Noisestar and the Fall of Rome
(Sindre Foss Schancke & Jørgen Iden Tveit) and Mercyfuck (Sten
Ove Toft) and Deathhammer (Photo by Linda, Tidens Krav Galleri).

Live video projection with the drummer from Deathhammer at
Tidens Krav Galleri, Oslo

LIVE VISUALS with NOISESTAR AND THE FALL OF ROME (NO) and MELKEVEIEN (NO), OSLO 10 FEB 2011

Live VHS disturbances with Noisestar and the Fall of Rome and Melkeveien at Fisk og Vilt, Oslo, Norway..

Video for THE LARSEN EFFECT at THE OUTER CHURCH, Brighton. 130111

(some stills from The Larsen Effect live..^)