Abject Leader Performances

abjectleader are sally golding (film, projectors) and joel stern (concrete sound)

abjectleader perform expanded cinema pieces for multiple 16mm projectors, handmade film, found objects, feedback systems, incongruous foley noise, sprockets and flicker, trumpet, and cardboard boxes.

ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne Australia
Thu 7 May 2009, 6.30pm Free!
synaesthesia screen sound performance series curated by Eugenia Lim

ABJECT LEADER showcase recent constructions for multiple 16mm projection, film loops, photo-chemical manipulation, optical sound, and confusion; including new works:

Face of an Other (2008)
16mm film reel & loop, body screen

Obsessions with cinematic horror manifest onto the filmmaker’s own body in a bizarre accumulation of unreality.

Composted Memorial (2009)
16mm film reel and loops, 9.5mm archival images, waveforms, insects, obstructions

Photo-sonic film where images literally generate the noise, composed entirely in the darkroom, utilising home movies from 1920s & 1930s Brisbane.

Who’s Oscillating? (2009)
3x 16mm B&W film loops with RGB filters, electronic & analogue soundscape

An experiment in colour separation and ‘phasing’ using re-filmed antique postcards. An additive colour separation process where B&W film projected back though red, green and blue filters produces a heady saturated colour blast. The editing structure conforms to a secret mathematic phase formula.

Four Dimensional Nightmare (2009)
3x 16mm B&W film loops with RGB filters, optical sound & electronic soundscape

R.I.P. J. G. Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009), long live Perry Rhodan (b.1961). Dystopian space opera.

past shows

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - AUGUST 2ND 2008 (with Guy Sherwin)


OtherFilm Festival 2007
Brisbane and Melbourne
November 2007
Liquid Architecture 8
Melbourne and Sydney
July 2007
Auckland Film Festival FPS
New Zealand
July 2007
Wagga Space Program
Unsound 2006
LOCO-MOTIVUS
Saturday November 11
Departs Wagga Wagga 10am
 
Mono
2 November 2006 10:00pm
Happening in Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane with Abject Leader, Rod Cooper, Cristophe Charles.
 Ladyfest Brisbane
November 24th 2006
Abject Leader with
Chicks on Speed, Batrider, PlaningToRock
 
  10th MadCat International
Womens Film Festival
El Rio September 27 2006
3158 Mission St @ Precita in SF
USA
 
 
FLUX-US
Happening in Brisbane
1 September 2006
The Performance Space, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
 
Ortherfilm Beamathon
Friday 18th August
SOOB and Otherfilm present Beamathon
Jugglers Gallery, 103 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
OtherFilm Festival
Brisbane, Australia
March 23-26 2006


New Zealand December 2005
Transacoustic Auckland
December 9th 2005
with Botborg, Robin Fox

Happy Wellington
December 4th 2005
with Botborg,
Throats as Fine as Needles
 

Newcastle Electrofringe
Electrosonic BBQ
October 2nd 2005

with Gail Priest, Jodi Rose, Lloyd Barrett, Miha Ciglar, Sam James, Scot.d.Cotterell, Simulus; Tim Kreger, Steve Adam

 
Articulating Space
Melbourne Ingnifuge
July 21st 2005

with Charlie Charly: [Will Guthrie & Erelle Latimier], Thembi Soddell, Slesu & Mr
Tape: [MC Raceless vs MC Vulk Makedonski]
 
Liquid Architecture 6
Brisbane Judith Wright Centre

July 7th 2005

wth Camilla Hannan, Children In
The Game, Field Recording Ensemble / Incidental Amplifications
 
 
What is Music? Onathon
Brisbane Powerhouse
March 12th 2005

with the residents, chicks on speed,
pan sonic, SUNN 0))), black dice,
ooioo, gang gang dance, growing,
kevin drumm, sir richard bishop, dead c
 
The NowNow
Sydney
January 19th-22nd 2005

live performance and curation
of the abject leader cinema space
 

smallblackbox

Brisbane IMA
BOX #39 - September 26th 2004

with Dada-Meinhof & Danni Zuvela, Hetleveiker

 

Syncretism - Nine Hours North

Brisbane Judith Wright Centre


with Toshimaru Nakemura, Brett Larner