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Tengal + Elvin Brandhi’s Forage Friction, Khabat Abas, Ilana Blumberg, Luigi Monteanni, Kenichi Iwasa
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade,
WC1N 1JD
Wednesday November 12th, doors 7PM
TicketsA unique night at iconic Bloomsbury venue The Horse Hospital, dealing with themes of war, healing, and materiality. Three short films, live music, and a performance piece.
Elvin Brandhi + Tengal present Forage Friction, an immersive, experimental sound/cinema art installation, film, and performance project exploring foraging practices of pre-colonial and pagan traditions within conflicted histories. Situated in a spiritual alloy of pre-colonial cosmologies, the project follows the narratives of plants: their uprooting, transformation, and role in forming communities through ritual acts of collective healing. Using a sensorial approach to expanded cinema with sonic pieces, Forage Friction constructs a cinematic topography where human, ecological, and spiritual systems are entangled.
Elvin Brandhi and Tengal will perform a live score accompanying the film, followed by a Q&A.
Luigi Monteanni presents “T2S” (Terror to Skull). T2S explores Neurorealist Listening: phenomena where listening triggers auditory paranoia via deception, disruption, and sensory stress techniques, from military cognitohazard psyops (e.g., Havana syndrome, Operation Wandering Soul) to frequency intermissions and hijacking. This composition investigates the paradox of asemic impulses transformed into harmful sonic experiences by autogenous speculative significations: signals become auditory manifestations of possible concealed dangers.
Knitwear designer Ilana Blumberg will perform a live set, playing the knitting machine as a musical instrument. Blumberg, from London, spends all day with knitting machines. She invites you to the unseen world of the machinist.
Khabat Abas will screen Bombshell Cello, a film documenting the process of creating a cello using a bombshell. Bombshell Cello is a new cello cut out of a bombshell Abas found in the bazaar of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, in December 2019. The transformation of the military object into an art object shows the deconstruction of the symbols of culture and violence. As a cello, the shell material has been transported internationally, which would otherwise have not been possible. The sound of the instrument can represent the sound that affected our senses through listening during war time, how we perceived sound, and how it shaped both society and individuals.
Following the screening, Khabat Abas and Elvin Brandhi will play a duo set.
Kenichi Iwasa is a London based improviser and multidisciplinary artist from Japan. Also known for his legendary event Krautrock Karaoke night, he has collaborated with visual artists and musicians such as Beatrice Dillon, Maxwell Sterling and Linder Sterling.