Matt’s Gallery Unit 2, 65 Decima Street London SE1 4QR
The Cast of the Crystal Set: Readings, Radio, Recordings, Interviews and Performances from: Jenny Moore & House Music, Sinkhole, Marcia Farquhar with Anne Bean and Judy Clark, Drawing Room Confessions, Maia Conran, Jessica Worden, SJ Fowler, Denise Hawrysio and Kriswvyd.
The Crystal Set was an evolving structure oscillating between a sound studio for recording and an open stage for live listening events. Between June – August 2015 at X Marks the Bökship & Matt’s Gallery, it hosted a series of recording sessions, workshops and performances. The invitation to a cast of artists and publishers was to use the studio as a resource to translate material from the printed page into sound. This record is a collection of extracts from some of the readings, live radio and interviews all recorded or performed in The Crystal Set.
The Cast of the Crystal Set 12″ Vinyl
Record Published by X Marks the Bökship, Eleanor Vonn Brown
2016 Edition of 200 Price £10
Showing support for Ukraine, John Wynne and Denise Hawrysio latest art installation, “and quiet that splinters the winter”, was exhibited at At Home Gallery – a former synagogue built by the Slovak Jewish community in the early 20th century – in Samorin, Slovakia in the fall of 2023.
The devastating effects of this war on nature are catastrophic and mirror the simultaneous human tragedies and physical destruction wrought by the pointless aggression. As Yevheniia Zasiadko from Ecoaction, a Ukrainian environmental group says, “War affects our nature just as badly as our people and our infrastructure. However, this damage remains unseen and mostly ignored, for the environment is the silent victim.”
Using sound and projected images, the artists use the forest as both a literal and metaphorical representation of the effects of war, while a set of Hawrysio’s collages brings the focus more specifically on the current conflict.