EFF PROCESS - PROCESS EXPANDED

Probes

Olivier Periquet, Quentin Conrate (FR)

Improvised duo performance

Place a diamond tip on a record and listen to the characteristic cardboard-like sound, imagining it stretching endlessly. Let a beam of light touch a crystal object and watch the caustics ripple out into the space. Simple objects are explored through entirely acoustic and analogue instruments, revealing hidden optical and sound qualities that are otherwise inaudible or invisible in their normal use.

Performers

Olivier Perriquet has been practicing live cinema and installation for twenty years, often in collaboration with sound artists and musicians. Be it expanded cinema or video, installations and performances, his work frequently and implicitly refers to the scientific imagination and its language. Drawing on media archaeology, taking up Flusser's idea of 'playing against the apparatus', he crosses disciplines until one can no longer distinguish which media produces which form, using noise, the emergence of form, recognition of a ground within a form, as means of access to the ineffable in human and nonhuman experience.

Quentin Conrate is a sound artist and drummer active in contemporary music, musical theater and different fields of experimental art. He developped a specific approach on the drum set by reducing its elements. He called this new setup "incomplete drum kit" which allows him to explore the possibilities of creating a new set of acoustic sounds with its technics. His works are often crossing visual art and sound, dealing with space and movement. Currently working with different companies of dance performance and theatre, he's also writing his own pieces performed as solos or for different projects. He's frequently touring in Europe with numerous musicians and released many cds on labels worldwide.

Film-Circuit in Series

human infrastruture (KR)

Film-Circuit in Series reveals the hidden energies of silver halide film, treating it as both image and circuit. Two circuits intertwine: one of tin dendrites, grown upon the organic patterns of video feedback, and the other etched by high-voltage discharge. By triggering the spark through the dendritic circuit, human infrastructure generates Lichtenberg figures, fractal patterns tracing electricity’s passage, in real time.

Inspired by Kirlian photography’s attempt to reveal the aura of living beings, this process exposes a hidden ‘nervous system’ within the film—fragile veins of metal shimmering with spectral energy. As these electrical traces emerge and dissolve, the film becomes a site of unstable transmissions, where matter itself pulses with a ghostly charge.

Performers

human infrastructure is a Seoul-based audiovisual noise duo. human infrastructure combines noise music with experiments in expanded cinema to create cybernetic systems in which sound and film image modulate each other. Their idea of audio-visual is not one in which audio affects visuals in a causal way, or visuals determine the sound, but rather one in which audio and visual build upon each other through

the incorporation of multiple bodies. Recently, they have been focusing on inscribing generative images on film through electrochemical interventions, and are developing devices to operate them. human infrastructure also runs Gäro, a lab for experimental analog audiovisuals, to organize screenings, seminars, and workshops for and by artists and scholars of moving images. They have opened for Experimental Film & Video Festival EXiS in 2023 and performed at WeSA Festival in Seoul.