Taking place on Saturday 30 August, Space Time: The Future aims to celebrate the intersection of art and music, featuring 12 hours of performances, screenings and live music across three stages at the centre’s rural site in Bourn. This year’s festival, uniquely, offers a showcase of female talent, with a host of top experimental and electronic female musicians from across the globe, as well as bands fronted by women.
It’s a diverse line-up of entertainment which ranges from spoken word poetry and improvised sound performances through to jazzy post-punk, house music, techno and electro. Exploring this year’s theme of The Future are Helena Hauff (the impossibly cool resident DJ at Hamburg’s Golden Pudel club), as well as San Francisco based composer and sound artist Holly Herndon, known for augmenting her tracks with foraged vocal samples from YouTube, Skype, and other audio sources. They’ll be joined by post-pop-punk girl group Ravioli Me Away, as well as the lo-fi, hi-energy musical stylings of female trio Trash Kit. There’s also New York based multi-instrumentalist Ashley Paul, the skittering garage beats of Yola Fatoush and Nik Colk Void of London electronic trio Factory Floor will offer a solo performance.
Contributing to a screening programme meanwhile will be Bonnie Camplin, Rachel Maclean and The Gluts (Gina Birch of The Raincoats, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman), and all-female radio show The Other Woman will join forces with TGA Magazine and alt-choir Gaggle to present a panel discussion and Q&A, asking performers at the festival to share their experiences and expertise.
There’s also the opportunity to pick up some stylish souvenirs in the stalls area, which will present art and merchandise from experimental galleries, record labels and independent publishers including Behind the X, Arcadia_Missa and The Everyday Press.
Space Time: The Future will form part of Wysing Art’s 25th anniversary celebrations, and offers an ideal chance to explore the impressive centre, learning more about its innovative artistic output and some of the many programmes and events it runs throughout the year. The event takes place from 12pm until midnight and tickets cost £28, or £38 including camping.
www.wysingartscentre.org
