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13th November 2004
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A live audio-visual performance/installation over four hours in Bristol's Corn Street - a rare opportunity to play in, on and around a public space normally accustomed to playing invisible host to hordes of weekend city-centre revellers.
Five non-narrative films were commissioned and produced by Blackout Arts, from artists and groups including ADAM SEAMAN, VJ RODELL; MORGAN JONES; CUBE SK8TEAM; and JOSEPH HOWARD GROUNDS.
Each film represented the filmmaker's response to the identity, significance and potential of Corn Street as both public thoroughfare and architectural canvas. They where projected across three large screens against the old corn exchange, while additonal lighting and projections illuminated the fabric of the local buildings.
Films were mixed with live-camera feeds of remote buskers moving through the crowd, while sound artists (Knowledge of Bugs / Guy Bronnt) processed the busker-music, deconstructing and re-configuring it in an evolving live soundtrack. This was interspersed with further slashes of abstract sound by way of DJs MOTORBOY and LOVEWIG.
Commissioned by BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL as part of WINTERBEAT