On 18 May, Montreal based visual artist Herman Kolgen will present two audiovisual pieces for Alpha-ville LIVE at Kings Place in a London premiere. In the prize-winning Inject, a body is injected in a cistern over the course of forty-five minutes. Kolgen writes “The pressure of the liquid exerts upon him multiple neurosensorial transformations. From his epidermal fiber to his nervous system, he reacts to influxes of viscosity in this liquid chamber.”

Inject by Herman Kolgen

Dust by Herman Kolgen

In Dust, Kolgen is inspired by Elevage de Poussiere, the 1920s photograph from Man Ray which documents dust over work by friend and contemporary, Marcel Duchamp. Kolgen explores changes in the state of the matter: “At the edge of the imperceptible, pigments are suspended around a magnetic field, random fibrous networks take shape and then form composite objects, hypnotic in their complexity. Sound particles paired with luminous aggregates exist on a scale that cancels out all points of reference.”

Alpha-ville LIVE – Herman Kolgen: Inject & Dust teaser trailer

Herman Kolgen: Inject & Dust is a part of Alpha-ville LIVE at Kings Place on 18 May. To learn more see the Alpha-ville website and book tickets here.

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