Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Sell out warning! Hypnagogic pop fav t l k performs a sensual love letter to Bristol’s most mystical and underappreciated green hideaway. Using field recordings and analogue photographs from Nightingale Valley as a starting point for this slice of pastoral sonic escapism, t l k is always a must-see FFO: Björk, Grouper, Stanlaey, ML Buch, Jabu."
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A gig on Thursday 5th December. The event starts at 20:00.
Hypnagogia for Holocene.
A live music & photographic experience
A curious and special one off show from artist-vocalist t l k who shares a long-form lullaby of found sounds and poems from Bristol’s Nightingale Valley.
Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, the place where dreams emerge.
t l k is a Bristol-based artist, vocalist and producer. Their practice centres the voice-as-instrument, in live, recorded (Ableton) and hybrid contexts, with palettes formed from found rhythms, analog synths and vocal layers. Their roots are in choral polyphony, blended with soundscape composition, electronics and audio collage. At the core is a deep commitment to the act of noticing and iterating.
https://www.tlkvox.com/
Like nap time enveloped in surround sound, this multichannel installation invites you to nest in Kitchen Table Photo Club's 378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure photo exhibition dreamed up by Esther May Campbell.
378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure photo & art show takes place across 5 – 13 December in the Pulp Room gallery space at St Anne's House (timing below) presented by MAYK as part of Confluence. Audiences are invited to experience this tactile and inventive exhibition showcasing the compelling Black & White images, maps and art works created by the kids and adults that are KTPC, during their residency at Nightingale Valley in Mayfest 2024.
Exhibition Times:
Thursday 5 December - opening from 7.30pm - late, special guest performance from t l k. Tickets - £6 - limited capacity
Friday 6 December - midday - 8pm
Saturday 7 December - midday - 6pm
Sunday 8 December - midday - 6pm
1pm - Fantasy Cameras Workshop with David Hopkinson, drop in - no booking required
Monday 9 December & Tuesday 10 December - CLOSED
Wednesday 11 December - midday - 6pm
Thursday 12 December - midday - 6pm
Friday 13 December - midday - 8pm
Esther May Campbell is an award winning artist working with film and photography. She explores the links between image-making, story & play while creating compelling images and films for public transmission. Intrigued by the potential to co-create via play, myth, ritual and old analogue photography, images emerge that are moving and alarming.
Recent work includes a set of art/photo prompts called Bewilderment Cards, a photo-book made at St Paul's Adventure Playground called Scrapbook, and book Water Salad on Monday that documents Elm Tree Farm.
Part of Confluence - a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks with support of Grainer Plcc
https://confluence-bristol.com/
MAYK is one of the UK’s leading live performance producing organisations, with a mission to make important, unexpected, revelatory work with visionary artists that changes our experience of the world and each other. Led by Kate Yedigaroff and Matthew Austin, MAYK was established in 2011. MAYK curates and produces Mayfest – Bristol’s international festival of theatre, and are based at St Anne’s House in Brislington.
MAYK is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
https://www.mayk.org.uk/
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
A curious and special one off show from artist-vocalist t l k who shares a long-form lullaby of found sounds and poems from Bristol’s Nightingale Valley.
Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, the place where dreams emerge.
t l k is a Bristol-based artist, vocalist and producer. Their practice centres the voice-as-instrument, in live, recorded (Ableton) and hybrid contexts, with palettes formed from found rhythms, analog synths and vocal layers. Their roots are in choral polyphony, blended with soundscape composition, electronics and audio collage. At the core is a deep commitment to the act of noticing and iterating.
https://www.tlkvox.com/
Like nap time enveloped in surround sound, this multichannel installation invites you to nest in Kitchen Table Photo Club's 378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure photo exhibition dreamed up by Esther May Campbell.
378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure photo & art show takes place across 5 – 13 December in the Pulp Room gallery space at St Anne's House (timing below) presented by MAYK as part of Confluence. Audiences are invited to experience this tactile and inventive exhibition showcasing the compelling Black & White images, maps and art works created by the kids and adults that are KTPC, during their residency at Nightingale Valley in Mayfest 2024.
Exhibition Times:
Thursday 5 December - opening from 7.30pm - late, special guest performance from t l k. Tickets - £6 - limited capacity
Friday 6 December - midday - 8pm
Saturday 7 December - midday - 6pm
Sunday 8 December - midday - 6pm
1pm - Fantasy Cameras Workshop with David Hopkinson, drop in - no booking required
Monday 9 December & Tuesday 10 December - CLOSED
Wednesday 11 December - midday - 6pm
Thursday 12 December - midday - 6pm
Friday 13 December - midday - 8pm
Esther May Campbell is an award winning artist working with film and photography. She explores the links between image-making, story & play while creating compelling images and films for public transmission. Intrigued by the potential to co-create via play, myth, ritual and old analogue photography, images emerge that are moving and alarming.
Recent work includes a set of art/photo prompts called Bewilderment Cards, a photo-book made at St Paul's Adventure Playground called Scrapbook, and book Water Salad on Monday that documents Elm Tree Farm.
Part of Confluence - a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks with support of Grainer Plcc
https://confluence-bristol.com/
MAYK is one of the UK’s leading live performance producing organisations, with a mission to make important, unexpected, revelatory work with visionary artists that changes our experience of the world and each other. Led by Kate Yedigaroff and Matthew Austin, MAYK was established in 2011. MAYK curates and produces Mayfest – Bristol’s international festival of theatre, and are based at St Anne’s House in Brislington.
MAYK is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
https://www.mayk.org.uk/
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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