saturday 21 april – 11.30pm ~

Ex GAM

Hannah Sawtell ^(GB)

COMMONEXTRACT

sound performance

COMMONEXTRACT is a new performance by Hanna Sawtell developed for Live Arts Week. A cascade of techno-not-techno granules to make the dynamics of hyper-fast interaction perceptible in a digital no-mans-lands. The work of this Marxist-millenial artist is haunted by a uniquely 21st Century-sort of loneliness. Having grown up in the late ’80s immersing in the rave music scene of Manchester and London, and later playing a role in Detroit’s electronic scene, she presents a live act based on fluid binary stream of sound and light. “I only use contemporary matter and media; i.e., what reveals or irradiates the current.”

Hannah Sawtell is a multi disciplinary artist from London who works with digital media, design, video, digital sound, sculptural installation, live performance/events, printed publication and radio broadcast. Her work has previously centred around questions of speed, access, communications technologies, digital currency and the dynamics of interaction between local and global space. Her inventory of contemporary material explores the boundaries of dominating systems of production and consider the culture of over-proliferation. Much of her influence comes from her previous work as a DJ and in running Detroit’s Planet E Label. Sawtell’s work has been shown internationally at ICA, London; New Museum, New York; Kunsthalle, Bergen; Site, Sheffield; Focal Point, Southend-on-sea, Ullens center for contemporary art, Beijing. Recent performances have been at Geometry Of Now, Moscow; Corsica studios, London; White Hotel, Manchester; Tramway, Glasgow.