A. J Hart’s manipulated recordings of trains draw on memories and emotional connections to these sounds, and creates other spaces and realities – psychological landscapes, drawing on J.G. Ballard’s notion of ‘inner space’. An exploration of one’s psychological landscape, one’s inner space, complicates notions of time and space, reality and dream, the real and the surreal. Constructing “a paradoxical universe where dream and reality become fused together, each retaining its own distinctive quality and yet in some way assuming the role of its opposite, and where by an undeniable logic black simultaneously becomes white” (Ballard; Time, Memory and Inner Space 1963; Harper Perennial 2006). The point being; nothing can be ordered neatly, chronologically, with distinctions – in a way our ‘everyday life’ is the dream, or the non-real, since we are all living within what Ballard called ‘stage-sets’ and Baudrillard simulacrums. The recordings allow one to disconnect, or connect, to step out, or in.

An objective, rational, and teleological view of the world grew out of modernity and today we suffer from the hangover. The train has functioned as a metaphor for these ideological, but obviously also for more physical, technological, aspects of modernity (J.M.W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed; 1844, being the most obvious). The ghostly sounds of A Temporal Interval speak of the absolute death of modernity, or rather, its manipulation, distortion, into something else. These ‘trains’ speak of the end of teleological time and objective history, and introduces us to subjective temporality and spatiality – an infinite amount of psychological landscapes.

T. Fredholm.

With my edited recordings I removed the words entirely and just had the gaps between them with the odd breaths, pops and noises of the mouth. My collection was titled Cat Got Your Tongue?

With my edited recordings I removed the words entirely and just had the gaps between them with the odd breaths, pops and noises of the mouth. My collection was titled Cat Got Your Tongue?

At approximately 3pm, a second performance will be given, plus refreshments, followed by an opportunity to experience Track by Graeme Miller.

With the exception of Track, which is only available for 6-7 August, the entire exhibition will be open until the closing event on 16 September.

There are also a variety of artist led walks throughout the summer, in conjunction with the exhibition.

Please explore the website for further information:

http://www.fermynwoods.co.uk/current-programme/artist-installations/encounters/

http://www.fermynwoods.co.uk/current-programme/workshopstalksevents/