(European Premiere)

Commissioned especially for the opening of the first edition of New Territories. Avalanche Thoughts is a hybrid and heterogeneous work that interweaves the experience of the gallery, theatre and concert hall by mixing video projection, live and recorded music, photographic and sculptural books, text as object and sound.

Avalanche Thoughts are moments teetering on the edge of disaster.  Wilful and erotic thoughts tease and tempt us into the abyss.  Like a man lost in a blizzard who flirts with oblivion by moving away from his only refuge and certainty – a chair.  It is at the cusp between rational knowledge and the instinctive destructive impulse that put things into the danger zone and beyond control.  This play of perception is the central idea from which all the visual and sonic forms of Avalanche Thoughts have developed.

Poppy & Bardsley have collaborated on a number of projects, including the highly praised film Snow, which will be screened during the National Review of Live Art.  Julia Bardsley is best known as a theatre director of marvellously visual works, including that of her own company dereck, dereck.  Andrew Poppy, one of ZTT’s maverick signings of the 1980’s, has created major works on CD including the highly acclaimed The Beating of Wings.  His sound installation Tardis was presented at NRLA 2000.

A New Territories Commission, in collaboration with GAle GAtes et al, Brooklyn, New York.

Film made with financial assistance from the Arts Council of England

www.andrewpoppy.com

www.juliabardsley.net

Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 February 19h30.

Exhibition open from 19h00
Tramway 1