True Stories from the Event Horizon (2014) Collaborative work with School of the Event Horizon (SOTEH) Installation, video, sculpture and performances with drawing, text, audio and props.
The School of the Event Horizon (SOTEH) was an ongoing collaboration between artists Kate Pickering, Emily Rosamond and Steven Levon Ounanian from 2014-2016. The School existed as a fictional yet functional organisation, suspended at the edge of a black hole, and formed of a shifting group of departments and characters that morphed according to need.
SOTEH's first exhibition True Stories from the Event Horizon was part of TRIALOGUES, a Peer Sessions residency series held at ASC Gallery (London). The School created a fictive space within the gallery, entered into through a disorienting pitch black corridor, at the end of which a circular video projection approximated the experience of being drawn into the vortex of a black hole. Once inside, visitors encountered a School Open Day consisting of three ongoing live performances. Rosamond enacted The Department of Objects to be Shrunk to a Single Point, with Weather Vane, formed of a series of suspended and floor based sculptures, text work and an arm which performed various gestures and objects through a hole in the wall. Human Resources (Ounanian) provided an introduction to the various departments, through multiple personalities and voices, and a ritual dance. Pickering's Department of Gravitational Fiction comprised a wall based drawing of a vortex diagram, over which images of various holes were projected, live drawing of a series of black holes, interspersed with the reading of a text in which time loops and falls back in on itself.
Images (top L, R): True Stories (detail - link to complete text); image projected (from a series) during reading.
Images (middle L, R): Video projection still from the corridor installation (courtesy Steve Ounanian); performance documentation.
Images (bottom L, R): Wall-based drawing of a vortex diagram over which a series of images were projected, installation image of the projection.
