Evolution

Over the weekend I volunteered for Lumen's annual festival of sound and vision, Evolution. My part wasn't much, just ticking people off the guest list and going on sandwich runs, but it was interesting to be involved anyway.

I didn't get to see as much as I would have liked but I quite liked some of what I saw/heard. One of the free events was a 16mm film installation by Jennifer West; the Nirvana Alchemy film. West experiments with affecting film in any number of ways, using alchemical processes, in this case sopping it with bleach, dousing it with mud and splashing it with Pennyroyal tea. Not hard to see how the name came about, if you know anything about the 90's grunge music scene. Anyway, the concept of physically altering a film intrigued me.



The lady who coordinated the volunteers also organises Moor Music Festival, and is looking for people to help with that too. Could be something to do over the summer.