“Listen” with Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh, Lia T & Rok Riley

LISTEN

6.30pm, 15 September

Taking its cue from the haunting lullaby of GOOD NIGHT, this three-hour event presents local composers and producers to perform experimental musical responses to the work and the Perth city skyline it overlooks.

Listen line-up

6.30pm Jameson Feakes & Josten Myburgh

7.30pm Lia T

8.30pm Rok Riley

About the exhibition

Working across video, sound, performance, and installation, Özgür Kar’s cross-disciplinary practice is an exploration of contemporary existentialism with a particular focus on the interconnectivity of digital media and the body.

Kar’s installations feature black and white minimally animated characters trapped within television screens. Taking inspiration from Ottoman and Persian folklore, experimental theatre, early animation and 1990s MTV cartoons, his works are devised as theatrical scenes with each character playing its part within a non-linear script. Often working with voice actors and instrumentalists, Kar layers his source materials to create deceptively simple looping part soundscapes that become increasingly fraught and profound with repeated viewing.

In Good Night (2021) an almost eight-metre-long animated skeleton lies confined within the edges of television screens as they sing a haunting lullaby. This monumental yet cramped figure of Death gazes apathetically towards a murky city skyline. Their melancholic song expanding outwards beyond the visual confines of its digital coffin as the lullaby gently drifts, drones, and grows still, reverberating its sorrowful tune into the listener’s body.