t l k
t l k
The Butterfly Effect
VENUE
7. St Michael and All Angels, East Coker
EVENT: Sat 24 May, drinks from 7pm start 8pm
Responding to the festival’s provocation ‘Thinking in Circles’, t l k draws from chaos theory and psychoacoustics for Od Arts 2025. The butterfly effect suggests that small, seemingly insignificant events can have seismic and unpredictable consequences elsewhere: ‘the flap of a butterfly’s wings results in a distant tornado’. Using voice, electronics and field recordings, t l k explores how incremental changes to initial sonic material can lead to vastly different outcomes, highlighting the sensitivity and gravity of our microscopic actions in a chaotic system. The piece encourages reflection on the impacts of human behaviour within a paradox of chaos: we can examine cycles of human life and history, seemingly repeating themselves in deterministic ways, yet an unpredictable possibility of outcome remains.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
t l k is a Bristol-based artist, vocalist and producer. Fluid in form, with a leaning towards cinematic ambient, downtempo electronic, skewed pop, neo-classical and musique concrète sensibilities, their works evolve from memory, dialogue, dreams and ongoing explorations into loss, selfhood, human behaviour and its coalescence and tensions with the non-human. Centring the voice-as-instrument, t l k’s practice holds a deep commitment to the act of noticing. They have performed at the Barbican, Southbank Centre and Glastonbury Festival, with bespoke compositions for the Sainsbury Centre and Luke Jerram’s ‘Gaia’ installation, gathering a 35-strong choir to ‘keen’ the Earth at Bristol Cathedral.
JENNIFER TAYLOR
JENNIFER TAYLOR
Untitled Sculpture
VENUE
7. St Michael and All Angels, East Coker
Fri 23 – Sat 24 May, 10am – 5pm
Sun 25 May, 10am – 4pm
A glowing giant sphere spills out an eclectic mass of bizarre clutter onto the floor: low-tech shiny objects, tangled wiring, old electronics, and discarded novelty ephemera. This human-scale performative object tempts the viewer inside with sound and internal illuminations, almost as an autonomous robotic life-form. Reminiscent of religious regalia and ceremonial objects, this golden orb is over-sized like a pantomime prop, with the aesthetic of cheap fake gold that satirises these colonial rituals of power.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jennifer Taylor works with live performance, film and installation to explore ritualistic behaviour, systems of control and post-human possibilities. By merging ancient mysticism with sci-fi futurism, she creates absurd narratives with ambiguous fictional realities. For her anarchic live events, groups of performers in illuminated theatrical costumes, join her to re-enact historical fertility festivals and elaborate make-believe ceremonies of transformation, within colourful immersive stage sets.
Jennifer was born in Pembrokeshire and is now based in Cardiff. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the Ruskin School, University of Oxford. She has completed the g39 Fellowship with the Freelands Artist Programme, the Stella Fellowship at Castro Projects Rome and the Creative Wales Fellowship at the British School at Rome. Recent projects include Exolaris, Freelands Foundation, (London, 2021); Sentinel, KARST, (Plymouth, 2021); Materia Nova, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, (Rome, 2021); and Lunar Dawn, g39, (Cardiff, 2020).
OWEN LLOYD AND ELEANOR DUFFIN
OWEN LLOYD AND ELEANOR DUFFIN
A Grounding
Audio and performance
VENUE
11. St Michael and All Angels, East Coker
Fri 26 – Sun 28 May, 10am – 5:30pm
(Closed for a service until 1.30pm on Sunday)
Performance Fri 26, 7pm
An invitation to lie down and think slowly, at a geological pace. Originally created as an imagining of the substrata in St Ives and Carbis Bay, Cornwall, A Grounding is a spoken text which aims to evoke a dreamlike state, and provoke you to imagine your own journey to those locations or a place familiar to you.
There will be a live reading of the work at 7pm on Friday evening. FREE – no need to book. See our events listings for more details.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Eleanor Duffin is a visual artist, whose practice explores; the role of verbal and text-based language in the process of making; the relationship between the female body and traditional sculptural materials; and the nature of co-working with both human and non-human entities.
Owen Lloyd is a composer, sound artist, designer and researcher with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration that integrates art, science and technology.