Expanded Cinema Performances & Collaborations
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Rolling for Feedback, 2021
With Dickson Bou & Peter Lebel. Installed as part of the Distance Makes the Heart Grow Weak show at the ArtLab Gallery, Western University. https://news.westernu.ca/2021/02/art-up-close-and-distant/ Rolling for Feedback is developed through adapting a previous live performance sound collaboration called Eight. The original performance has been reworked, produced, and presented to follow pandemic protocols and social distancing, further exploring "feedback loops" and how this pandemic has affected our everyday lives and the loops we live in. Using analog video feedback, we create an "infinity mirror" effect to establish our loop. Presented on a double-sided screen are two feedback looped cyclists on bike rollers riding on the spot, going nowhere. The video footages are looped, and the cyclists are continuously pedalling on their bike rollers sending and receiving feedback, back and forth, back and forth, forever. |
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UP WITH ART SILENT AUCTION, 2018
Prepared Projector, Charlie Egleston & Peter Lebel, 2018, silver gelatin enlargements from 16mm motion picture negatives on archival fiber paper The expanded cinema performance work of Charlie Egleston and Peter Lebel combine studio-based experiments, electro-acoustic compositions, narrative threads, and improvisation. Presented to audiences are image and sound textures built via a variety of gathering/generating processes. These textures create layered experiences by relying on the connection between sensory perception and analog technology. Explored in the work are analogies concerning multimodality and the physical composition of sound and light, while following traditions of experimental music, film, and performance art. The Prepared Projector is an instrument Egleston and Lebel perform with. Much like John Cage’s Prepared Piano, the 16mm motion picture projector has been modified. These modifications, called ‘preparations’, include the use of contact and needle transducers, photovoltaic panels, hand-processed 16mm film loops, photographic/lens filters, semiconductors, and variable-voltage devices. The preparations (noted in the enlargements) enable bulb dimming, variable frame rates/shutter speeds, strobe effects, heterochromatic flicker, sound manipulation, and frame burning. |
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NO LONDON NOISE FESTIVAL, 2016 - 2 channel performance with 2 - modified 16mm projectors, solar panels, contact mics & coloured gels - prints/loops: scratched and burned film loops - collaborator: Peter Lebel |
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ESMERINE, PETER LEBEL & CHARLIE EGLESTON, 2015 video documentation
- 3 channel performance with 3 - 16mm projectors, coloured gels, analogue audio - prints/loops: optically printed S8mm to 16mm blow-ups, handprocessed 16mm photograms, shot & handprocessed 16mm live action - collaborator: Peter Lebel |
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ESMERINE, DANIELLE FRICKE, PETER LEBEL & CHARLIE EGLESTON, 2015 - 3 channel performance with 3 - 16mm projectors, coloured gels, analogue audio - prints/loops: optically printed S8mm to 16mm blow-ups, handprocessed 16mm photograms, shot & handprocessed 16mm live action - collaborator: Peter Lebel |
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Electric Eclectics 10, 2015 - 4 channel performance with 3 - 16mm projectors, 1 - video projector, coloured gels, analogue audio - prints/loops: optically printed S8mm to 16mm blow-ups, handprocessed 16mm photograms, handprocessed 16mm live action, analogue video - collaborator: Peter Lebel |
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Projector Performance for Nuit Blanche video documentation
- 5 channel performance with 5 - 16mm projectors (2 modified), coloured gels, additional optics, analogue audio looper, mixer, amplification - prints/loops: handprocessed photograms, London heritage films (1920's) - collaborators: Peter Lebel, Jennifer Martin, Sebastian Detrollio |
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Projector Performances, presented by Sweet Magic London, 2012 video documentation
- double channel performance with 2 modified 16mm projectors, coloured gels, strobe light, prism, additional optics, analogue audio looper, mixer, amplification - prints/loops: none - collaborator: Peter Lebel |
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13 Films, presented by Sweet Magic London, 2012
- single channel performance with modified 16mm projector, coloured gels, strobe light, prism, additional optics - prints/loops: 'Family Portrait #2', C. Egleston |
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Faust in collaboration with Audio Lodge (Museum London), 2011
- single channel performance with modified 16mm projector, coloured gels, strobe light, prism, additional optics - live score performed by Audio Lodge - prints/loops: 'Faust', F.W. Murnau, 1926 |