An Elixir event with
Artic and The Blessing
Friday 29th June 8pm

Stroud Valleys Artspace,
4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA

tel: 01453 751440
www.elixirnews.info

Artic
Video artist Reuben Knutson and musician/composer Pete Judge (under
the name Artic) have just completed an
Elixir residency in Gloucestershire Royal
Hospital. Elixir is placing eight artists in
eight hospital depar tments to make films that explore the invisible or less
understood activities of the hospital.
This film, along with others from
artists around the country, selected
by SVA and artNucleus, will make up the two-year programme of Elixir Screenings.

This film is a tribute to restlessness.
The staff of the Haematology Department carry out an endless dance built out of small gestures, shifts of location, and the darting movements of expert eyes. In ‘A Thousand Days’, so-called because of the 1,000 or so blood samples that pass through the depar tment each day, Artic have sought to capture this dance.
The soundtrack is made up of the
department’s electromagnetic activity,
blips, clicks and whirrs of its everyday
soundscape, and culminates in the
appearance of the 22-strong Haematology Choir.

• free

The Blessing
Pete Judge from Artic will be playing with The Blessing. Reuben Knutson will be on visual projections. Post jazz riffery, entirely without a road map, two feet on the accoustic gas. The jazz band colonel kurtz wanted. Rhythm section from Portishead (Jim barr, Clive Deamer, occasional Adrian Utley), horn section from heaven (Pete Judge, Jake McMurchie).

• £6.00

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