Saturday 11 July

2pm

Gallery

In place of the traditional artist’s talk, a live performance in response to the exhibition “I’m glad you’re here, just the way you are” by Siân Torrington.

“You’re here. I want to welcome you. I want to invite you in. “

So, we make sound. People ask, “What is band?” Band is a way of being together. Band is a way of feeling it out. Band is a way of saying, “What’s here?” Just like the news.

Let’s play.

Band Sensations is Siân Torrington, Creek Waddington & Amos Mann. They have met together to make music regularly for six years. The music is improvised around agreed starting points: maybe we will blow a song through wet hands; maybe we’ll swap instruments at the three-minute mark; maybe we’ll have two conventional instruments while Siân ‘plays’ art materials through a contact mic. We often perform a spontaneous, ambient news report about whatever’s going on in the room.

“I feel like it’s really appropriate as an artist talk, because the work is about responding; it’s not an ‘alone’ thing. Words are so clumsy, in many ways: we think that they say what they mean and that once we’ve said them, that’s what we meant too. But meaning should be alive, which means presence and shifting, paying attention. This feels like a more decent way to explain my process and respond to the people who have come to see the show, then and there.” — Siân Torrington

Missed the performance?
Hear it over on Siân’s website