Roy Castles Vision of Hell
08-17th August @ Wolstenholme Square.Organized by Red Wire
Featuring: Amy Goring, Michael Aitken, Joshua Tennant, Joe McNulty and Harry Lawson from Red Wire. Also showing: Roxy Topia and Oliver Braid, Paddy Gould and Laurence PayotBands playing: Puzzle and Real Talk
Joe Mcnulty began his project by recording the story of a man who folded paper so many times he could reach the moon. As his recording of this began to encounter many technical problems, he recorded his record of this documentation. The final piece became a insight into Joes tangled production of this project
The duo Roxy Topia and Oliver Braid, who exhibited with A Proper Horrorshow at Red Wire showed their piece 'Shit C*nt'- a statue of legs and a fur c*nt, which shits beads. The piece was complimented by Olivers intricate embroidery and embellishment of cu*t hats and shit string.
The most captured souls record (left) was an underground performance by Amy Goring. As participants gambled with thier eternal future by projecting pomegranates (from the myth of Persephone) they either kept their soul or had it replaced by a rock or petal. Paddy Gould's (above right) 'The most understanding bounced off a dead rabbit' was a taxidermied rabbit with a thermometer shoved up its arse wrapped in gold blanketing. Paddy also contributed 'The least interesting piece about social sculpture' which existed as a title only.
Like Joe and Harry, Mike Aitken took an alternative voew of breaking records, by Breaking vinyl records- hundreds of them. As Mike, Tom Ford, Doug Kerr and Matthew Critchley gave their records a final outing, mike smashed the living hell out of them with a stell pipe. The result was an onslaught of sound with the occasional punctuated melody, before they all met their maker
The bands were great on the night- indoe popsters Puzzle played a variety of new tracks which have a more punk edge and Real Talk headlined with a wonderfully bizarre set a gothic instrumental disco