Following a successful premiere in New York AVALANCHE THOUGHTS by Andrew Poppy & Julia Bardsley opens the NEW TERRITORIES Festival Featuring TANIA CHEN, piano Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th February 2002 Exhibition open from 7pm Performance starts 7.30pm Tramway One, 25, Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE Box Office: 0141 287 5511 www.newterritories.co.uk What they said in New York: 'AVALANCHE THOUGHTS, a work by the leading collaborative team of UK sound artist/composer Andrew Poppy and visual artist/filmmaker Julia Bardsley, "is a hybrid and heterogeneous work that combines the experience of the gallery, theater and concert hall, balancing video projection with live recorded music, sculptural objects, photographs, and text as object and sound." Yes, the combination might sound like an overkill, but this performance/installation is a commixture that brilliantly blurs the lines of space and memory, capturing stillness in the palm of tireless labor, as a traveller lost in a blizzard fights with oblivion and certainty. The piece features excerpts from Bardsley's short film, SNOW, with a partially trenchant otherwise soporific score by Poppy. It is nostalgia, glorified through moments of pleasure and destructive impulse - the embodiment of all that transforms the moment into eternity, saturated with agonising and erotic deliberations of the mind that incessantly press into the consciousness and finally surrenders to the articulation of the piano (performed live by Tania Chen) while the blizzard is kept at bay, still haunting, waiting, breathing into the rims of rationality. The only symbol of certainty is a chair, a chair that embodies the ghost of human experience - sensuous, scarred and hauntingly beautiful. I would encourage you to resist the urge to close your eyes and revel in the unfolding musical performance, lest you miss the breath-taking subtlety with which the space melds into the fingertips of the pianist... AVALANCHE THOUGHTS will leave you lingering - in the blizzards of your mind, in the images of your memory, luring you to indulge in the tangential fabrications of your own senses.' Ahmet Sibdial Sau FOILMAGAZINE ("http://www.foilmagazine.com") AVALANCHE THOUGHTS commissioned by GAle GAtes et al. New York & New Moves International, Glasgow [Ian Peel]
