September, 12 2008 - 8pm

On Insects: or Why Do Humans Exist?

A media collaboration with
Raymond Salvatore Harmon + Dave Phillips

with Mlhest, Lee Gamble, Mark Durgan

Divus Gallery
Unit 30, 30 - 37 Cremer Street
London

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Raymond Salvatore Harmon is a cross genre media artist and experimental filmmaker. He has collaborated extensively with a wide range of of composers and musicians, including Wolfeyes, Magik Markers, Exploding Star Orchestra, Rob Mazurek, Chicago Underground Trio, Alan Licht, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Blood on the Wall, among many others.

"For Harmon, the visual density of the abstract imagery used will enable the viewer to enter an almost hypnagogic, liminal state, and become perceptually distant from the sense of the real. Once the enveloping visual content has become the landscape of the mind to the viewer, the subliminal content will have access to the subconscious mind.” - Jack Sargeant

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Dave Phillips is a founding member of Fear of God, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, OHNE, and dead peni. DP researches and ponders existence, behaviours and value-systems, in a way that, most unscientifically, could be termed humanimalistic, or intimate. Using sound as main catalyst, his re/search is for improvement, raising awareness, finding meaning, tuning senses, seeing the big picture, and some form of release - a release that often is polemical and cathartic, and one that opposes the omnipresent reduction of existence, that desires to cast aside artificial arrangements and constraints.