http://abyme.org.uk/ 2026-04-27T21:53:07+00:00 http://abyme.org.uk/ http://abyme.org.uk/lib/tpl/abyme-default/images/favicon.ico text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/an_unbound?rev=1599342859&do=diff --- temporary glitch --- text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/annex_ii?rev=1599342859&do=diff --- temporary glitch --- text/html 2021-05-16T14:31:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/another_way_of_reading?rev=1621175505&do=diff Another way of reading [2014] Six panel film script, original panels with fittings designed by Basil Spence; Live readings on library public announcement system Another way of reading is the title for research undertaken during a residency at Swiss Cottage Library that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the library, a Grade II listed building designed by Sir Basil Spence and opened in 1964. text/html 2021-03-31T10:07:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/apex?rev=1617185261&do=diff Apex [2014] 3 min 17 sec, HD video, colour, silent. Apex shows a photographic image in development; in a dark-room a single 35mm negative is enlarged and printed. The image is the culmination of a number of 35mm stills displayed across a single plane. It is a kind of hieroglyph, or the pinnacle of a pyramid, from which a site might be read. The work looks to motifs found within the 1930s Egyptian revival architecture of a nearby cinema, and draws in other sites such as a funeral directors’ ‘… text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/archive?rev=1599342858&do=diff The Black Friar (2013) In 1275 the Dominican Friars of London moved their priory from Holborn, to a location between the Thames and Ludgate Hill. In 1538, it was closed during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. Much later, in 1875, the Black Friar public house was built there, upon the original site of the 13th century Dominican Friary. text/html 2022-01-05T21:02:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/aureole?rev=1641416545&do=diff Aureole [2021] Single channel, 7 min 32 sec, 16mm film and betacam video transferred to digital, colour, stereo / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > In meteorology, the aureole is an atmospheric, optical phenomenon; the visible inner disc of a corona, produced by the diffraction of light from the sun or the moon, bright starlight or planet-light. text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/axm?rev=1599342857&do=diff A+X+M (2010) And now you are here again. No, this isn't the right ending. I'd like you to begin. It's the one who starts who wins. A + X + M was filmed and subsequently installed in the print-workshop at Wimbledon College of Art. An unseen narrator, also the print-technician, recalls standing on the rooftop of a building, witness to the coming of an event of epic proportion. In another scene, a conversation next to a photo-exposure unit is remembered. In yet another, a game or many games, ar… text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/becoming_the_blind_spot?rev=1599342859&do=diff --- temporary glitch --- text/html 2021-05-02T19:58:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/canweye?rev=1619985526&do=diff CANWEYE { } [2016] Single channel film, 30 min 45 sec, 16mm transferred to digital, colour, stereo; single channel film [trailer], 4 min 37 sec, 16mm transferred to digital, colour stereo; fly-posters, acoustic hessian panels, coloured fluorescent light bulbs; and installation construction including sound-proofed booth, projection space with chairs and hessian panels, and Derek Jarman drawing ‘Plague Street’ [1970/71] / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings text/html 2021-03-31T09:53:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/diviner?rev=1617184400&do=diff Diviner [2017] 22 min, 53 sec. Single channel film, 16mm film and betacam video transferred to digital, colour, dual mono / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > The image of the diviner as an emblem of searching - a collision of the past, present, and future - operates as a central nexus to the film, tracing alternative trajectories and incidental relationships between disparate voices and broadcasts. A conduit for narrative, the archive is text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/fig_a?rev=1599342858&do=diff --- temporary glitch --- text/html 2021-08-11T12:45:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/index?rev=1628685908&do=diff WORKS 2009 - 2013 > THE BLACK FRIAR [2013] 5 min 24 sec, 35mm still film transferred to digital, black and white, stereo. In 1275 the Dominican Friars of London moved their priory from Holborn, to a location between the Thames and Ludgate Hill. In 1538, it was closed during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. Much later, in 1875, the Black Friar public house was built there, upon the original site of the 13th century Dominican Friary. text/html 2021-03-31T10:04:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/inside_the_book_an_ever-changing_spectacle_unfolds?rev=1617185090&do=diff Inside the book, an ever-changing spectacle unfolds [2015] Script loop on autocue (monitor and angled glass panel, metal stand and clamp), 9 min, 37 sec, DV, silent. Inside the book, an ever-changing spectacle unfolds is a silent, script presented as a continuous loop on an autocue, typically used for political speeches and live presentations. It develops research from text/html 2021-03-31T09:57:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/its_soil_was_a_plot?rev=1617184658&do=diff Its soil was a plot she do the tree in different voices [2017] Single channel film, 11 minutes, 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, stereo; Installation, dimensions variable, freeze-dried Sycamore tree in sections; Script, eight pages, 330 x 246mm, lithographic print folded with perforated edge; 4 channel sound, 16 minutes / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/minor_games?rev=1599342857&do=diff --- temporary glitch --- text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/my_voice_belongs_to_you?rev=1599342859&do=diff My voice belongs to you (2010) My voice belongs to you draws on a series of reconfigured hypnosis scripts to propose a silent, persistent voice. There is a suggestion of the experience of speech in trance. The work borrows from auto-hypnosis models, in which a text may be recorded and rehearsed at home. text/html 2021-03-31T09:58:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/nine_nine_nine_nine_nine?rev=1617184699&do=diff nine nine nine nine nine [2017] 7 min, 50 sec. Single channel film, 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, stereo / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > nine nine nine nine nine amalgamates archival and recent 16mm footage filmed inside 53 Beck Road, one of several on a road of terraced houses in Hackney intended for demolition by the Greater London Council in the late 1970s. Many of these houses were subsequently managed by artists’ studio provider ACME, as a housing and wor… text/html 2021-03-31T10:12:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/nocturnes?rev=1617185565&do=diff NOCTURNES [2013] 35mm slide projection, 2 carousels, and text-loop on dot-matrix screen. NOCTURNES is the culmination of a two month residency in Finsbury Park, commissioned by AIR at Central Saint Martins. The research was structured as a series of night shifts, and the resulting work was formed through a number of exchanges with night shift workers in the area, including taxi drivers and bowling alley attendants. text/html 2021-03-31T09:56:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/phx_x_is_for_xylonite?rev=1617184608&do=diff PHX [X is for Xylonite] [2019] Single channel film, 12 min 54 sec, 16mm film transferred to digital and 3D animation, colour / black and white, stereo / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > In PHX [X is for Xylonite], the first semi-synthetic plastics are considered through their relationship to the chemical and industrial development of photography and film. Cellulose nitrate - Xylonite - was used as the base for film-stock until the mid-20th century shift to acetate, and in th… text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/pxh_x_is_for_xylonite?rev=1599342857&do=diff text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/test?rev=1599342858&do=diff text/html 2021-03-31T10:09:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/the_aphotic_zone?rev=1617185359&do=diff The Aphotic Zone [2014] 5 channel installation: 16mm film transferred to digital, colour, stereo / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > Aphotic - without light - refers to the depths of a body of water where sunlight does not penetrate. Across the five screens of text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/the_black_friar?rev=1599342859&do=diff The Black Friar (2013) In 1275 the Dominican Friars of London moved their priory from Holborn, to a location between the Thames and Ludgate Hill. In 1538, it was closed during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. Much later, in 1875, the Black Friar public house was built there, upon the original site of the 13th century Dominican Friary. text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/the_earth_is_not_at_rest?rev=1599342859&do=diff --- temporary glitch --- text/html 2020-09-05T21:54:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/the_miracle_methods_series?rev=1599342858&do=diff THE MIRACLE METHODS SERIES: Distance Readers (2012) THE MIRACLE METHODS SERIES is a host for episodes that consider the nature of the game and the forecast. The latest incarnation Distance Readers comprised four silent moving-images. At the centre of each 'Reader is a game where four winds – East, South, West, and North - are indicated as players and oracles. They are protagonists within a speculative fiction, in which their playing pre-empts spaces beyond, predicting the future in a series o… text/html 2025-05-23T17:52:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/the_star_and_the_glow_worm?rev=1748022735&do=diff The Star and the Glow Worm [2015] 37 minutes, live performance with five singers The Star and the Glow Worm is a live work commissioned by AIR, Central Saint Martins as part of the Unannounced Acts programme in Granary Square, Kings Cross. It was performed between 4.12am and 5.03am - the dawn ‘magic hour’ - on the 18th May 2015, and takes as its prompt a poem by William Wordsworth, 'The Pilgrim's Dream; or, The Star and the Glow Worm'[1818], in which a pilgrim, sleeping beneath the cover of … text/html 2024-10-18T08:52:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://abyme.org.uk/chapters/wendy?rev=1729241540&do=diff Wendy [2023] Frances Scott and Chu-Li Shewring Single channel film, 37 min 57 sec, 16mm transfer to digital, HD video and volumetric animation, colour and black and white, 5:1 surround sound / / film credits, exhibitions and screenings here > You will witness the day become near-night, like the deepest twilight. Sunset colors bathe the full horizon, while a gaping black hole gazes down at you from the inky sky, eye-like and surreal, surrounded by the solar corona, a halo of pearly ephemera…