Image:Simon Schafer performance video
Night Shift, is an exhibition that explores the relationship between painting, sculpture and performance with new work by Simon Schäfer and Katy Kirbach. The exhibition examines the tension between the
handmade and ready-made; multiplicity and uniqueness; live event and still object; the diurnal and nocturnal. Night Shift is visually and aurally layered with texture, sound, digital feeds, colour and analogue electronics.
Schäfer’s (born 1978, Germany) mysterious sculptures throw out sound and light creating an intense hub of activity. Using old computers, found devices and out-dated technologies, Schäfer brings together low and high tech and re- assembles this into strangely morphing, other worldly machines and sculptures. His performances use a laboratory of
rescued electronic hardware such as old and modified 1990s video editing hardware, game consoles and electronic instruments to produce sounds and images. Ultimately, Schäfer’s work highlights the pace at which our media, entertainment and communication worlds are changing and will continue to do so.
Image:Katy Kirbach, Night Dust, 2011 (detail)
