Sylvia Carpenter

Jun 4, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Sarah Pennington |Derek Horton |Sylvia Carpenter |Jessica Piette

Entering the gallery, I find a large tranquil space, suffused with the sounds of water and wildlife, unfamiliar language, the thrum of machinery and the banging of drums. Dimmed lights allow the films to glow from their positions on three walls, the polished white flooring softly reflecting the shifting colourways like peculiar aurora borealis reaching out to the audience seating before them.

May 9, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Jessica Piette |Sylvia Carpenter |Grace Edwards

CA Ryan is an artist based in the North of England, who works in a variety of formats including drawing, collage, modelling, carving and video. Over the past four years their work has been shown at AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, and Forth Portal, Gravesend, and has been included in publications such as WEIGHTLESS, by SU4IP. They have an ongoing commitment to questioning the relevance of their own practice in the light of global crises, such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

Mar 5, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Derek Horton |Sylvia Carpenter |Alasdair Milne |Jessica Piette

The School of Mutants was formed in 2018 by Stéphane V. Bottéro and Hamedine Kane as a collaborative platform for research, art and activism. With a home-base in Dakar, Senegal, The School is a nomadic collective, with a shifting number of participants from project to project, engaging internationally in cultural investigations, field work, participatory performances and conversations, archival research, writing, audio recording and sound art, film and video projects.

Nov 24, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Sylvia Carpenter |Amrit Randhawa |Marcus Barnett |Orla Foster

In 1952, American composer John Cage composed ‘4’33”’. This four-minute-thirty-three-second-long piece sees a performer come on stage, sit down at a piano, open its lid, flick through a few pages, then bow out. In 2013, the BBC broadcast an orchestra performance live at the Barbican, dividing the piece into three movements. Lawrence Foster conducts. He does not move, but you can see his chest, left hand flattened over it, quivering ever so slightly according to his breath.

Nov 6, 2023 | corridor8.co.uk | Sylvia Carpenter |Alasdair Milne |Jessica Piette

In 2020, towns and cities fell quiet as the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Working from home soon became the norm for many workers who had previously flocked to their centres. After successive lockdowns, the shift to business as usual was slow, and in some cases, no longer viable. Even before the pandemic, highstreets had been hit by a change in habits brought about by online shopping. Recently, national chain Wilko went into administration, leaving 400 stores hanging in the balance.