South Kiosk and WTN? present:

Teleonomy (2016) Cafe Oto London

Salvatore Arancio x R. Elizabeth

Verity Birt x U

Austin Charles Williams x Richard Forbes Hamilton

Three visual artists selected by South Kiosk have been individually paired with three sound artists/musicians selected by Where To Now. This pairing process intended to bring together artists who have never worked together before and who utilise different mediums from one other, but whose work follows similar or correlating lines of enquiry. 

Taking place at Cafe Oto on February 19th, Teleonomy will consist of performances responding to the structures and functions innate to living organisms that are brought about by natural laws. Instincts, reactions and internal clocks all contribute to a gradual evolutionary process that perpetuates our species. Opening the evening, Austin Charles Williams and Richard Forbes-Hamilton will investigate notions of love and desire through an improvised, live interpretation of each others’ work.

Salvatore Arancio and R Elizabeth’s performance will incorporate found footage of experiments examining the reactions of plants and animals. Through Arancio's digital manipulation and R Elizabeth’s tape-loops and field recordings, the projected film is transformed into a hypnotic and psychedelic reinterpretation of the original footage.

Closing the evening, Verity Birt and U will present a new work entitled Rites of The Zeigeber, which utilises monolithic CRT totems to demonstrate the meeting of past durations with infinite future vacuums. Time bends from matter, history is up-set and the clock is obsolete. In this chaos, we honour the Zeitgeber, the mysterious time giver: the continuum. The past is now, and the future is behind us.