Participating Artists: David
Atlas, Iain Ball, Lara Joy Evans, Samuel Capps, Holly Childs, Lea Collet and
Marios Stamatis, core.pan, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Marija Bozinovska
Jones with MBJ Wetware, Will Kendrick, Rachel McRae, Benoit Ménard, Sarah
Montet, Anni Nöps, Eva Papamargariti, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Viktor Timofeev,
Kyle Zeto Thorne
Curated by Most Dismal Swamp
March 29th 2019 – April 13th 2019
Arebyte
Java House
7 Botanic Square
London City Island
E14 0LG
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Swamp Protocol (roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Kyle Zeto |
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Swamp Protocol (roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Lara Joy |
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Swamp Protocol (roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Marios |
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Swamp Protocol (roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Rachel McRae) |
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Swamp Protocol (roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Rachel McRae) |
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Swamp Protocol(roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Holly Childs, Marios Stamatis and Lea Collet) |
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Swamp Protocol(roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Holly Childs, Marios Stamatis and Lea Collet) |
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Swamp Protocol(roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Marios Stamatis and Lea Collet) |
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Swamp Protocol(roux-ga-roux bass mix) (detail: Holly Childs, Benoit Ménard) |
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Swamp Protocol(detail: Marios Stamatis and Lea Collet, Jakob Kudsk Steensen) |
Macinnes
Protocol is the first project by experimental art
platform and record label, Most Dismal Swamp. It is a distributed
film project made with 18 artists working across digital media, installation,
performance, machine learning, music, film and poetry. Swamp Protocol can
be watched online at www.mostdismalswamp.com and also as part of a site-specific installation
at arebyte gallery, London
which includes a spatial 8-channel sound work by producer and genre-fluid DJ
Anni Nöps.
a contemporary ecology that has come to be defined by the hallucinatory
entanglement of multiple logics, systems, temporalities, and realities: a
mixed-reality paradigm; a pervasive, horizonless swampscape.
Protocol focuses on the endemic habits of orientation
that characterise life in the swampscape: How does one, or indeed a community,
engage with an environment of this nature (and vice versa)? What can be learned
from the emergent rituals and tacit procedures necessary for navigating such a
shared space? Is there a collective rationality emerging from the digitally
altered states wrought by the swampscape? Some kind of Dank
Enlightenment?
Protocol Soundtrack by Anni Nöps will be available via Most Dismal Swamp and
across all major streaming platforms in May.
Protocol has been made with support from Arts Council
England and arebtye.
VFX, neural processing: core.pan
Operator: Ollie Furlong
Henry Kissinger model and compositing: Hannah
Rose Stewart
Borga, Harry Bix, Natalia Janula, Max Berendt, Aimee Neat, Rumi Josephs
by: Most Dismal Swamp
https://vimeo.com/326792271 – HD Video, Swamp Protocol, original
version