OUROBOROS is a sound and movement installation. It exists somewhere between the states of being an object and an event.
It exists for one day only at Safehouse in Peckham.
It also exists as recorded media which you may bring into your own home. The recorded media can only be obtained by vsiting Safehouse on 22 April 2024.
If you visit Safehouse 1 on 22 April 2024 it may also continue to exist in your imagination.
Ouroboros will also periodically manifest on 22 April on YouTube
If you'd like to get in touch or hear about future projects click here.
SCHEDULE OF WORKS
Times are approximate and subject to change.
12:00 Installation open to public
12:00 -18:00 Daydreaming/ Gardening/ Gathering
18:00 Hypercello/ Evening session begins (book tickets here)
18:45 Gathering
19:00 Hymns
19:30 HERE COMES EVERYBODY
20:00 OUROBOROS speaks
20:11 Sunset; Dispersal
20:23 Safehouse closes to public; OUROBOROS continues.
Entry to OUROBOROS is free. Booking is required for the evening session from 18:00.
Book tickets for evening on Eventbrite from 22 March.
It exists for one day only at Safehouse in Peckham.
It also exists as recorded media which you may bring into your own home. The recorded media can only be obtained by vsiting Safehouse on 22 April 2024.
If you visit Safehouse 1 on 22 April 2024 it may also continue to exist in your imagination.
Ouroboros will also periodically manifest on 22 April on YouTube
If you'd like to get in touch or hear about future projects click here.
SCHEDULE OF WORKS
Times are approximate and subject to change.
12:00 Installation open to public
12:00 -18:00 Daydreaming/ Gardening/ Gathering
18:00 Hypercello/ Evening session begins (book tickets here)
18:45 Gathering
19:00 Hymns
19:30 HERE COMES EVERYBODY
20:00 OUROBOROS speaks
20:11 Sunset; Dispersal
20:23 Safehouse closes to public; OUROBOROS continues.
Entry to OUROBOROS is free. Booking is required for the evening session from 18:00.
Book tickets for evening on Eventbrite from 22 March.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This is the final artwork I am making for my PhD at Trinity Laban. I'm researching identity and transformation in transdisciplinary creative practice. That's quite a dense sentence, so let's unpick it:
I'm a composer, performer and sound artist. The work I make sits somewhere between pre-composed and improvised music, sound art and performance art. A lot of what I do involves drones (the sustained tone kind, not the flying kind): something that interests me about those is that theyr'e ambiguous things: sometimes you encounter them as events in the context of musical perfomance, while other times in the cointext of sound art and installations, thye seem to behave more like objects, things sitting in the room with you. My research has been a process of expanding that idea of ambiguity and the possibility of moving betwen those states into my whole way of working - and in the process taking my practcie out of the relms of "composing" or "music" into wider territories of perfomance and movement arts.
The Ouroboros is an ancient image of a snake or serpent eating its own tail: it's a symbol of infinity or circularity. This event is bringing my research project full circle so it's an appropriate image for my final work and also a good metaphor for the piece itself: a domestic sound installation (which you can also take home with you - see below) that has no beginning or end, and carries on as long as you want to stay in its presence.
The heart of this is my friend Carla Rees's contrabass flute. I've always thought this instrument is such an extraordinary presence that it occureed to me: do you need to pay it at all? What if it sat there like a totem pole or a devotional object?
That's essentially what's going on here. The contra sits upstairs, partially obscured. Meanwhile, a multi-channel sound in stallation based around samples of the contra carries on in a nonlinear kind of way. Occasionally flautists and dancers are in the house making sounds and movements related to some degree to the sounds and objects in the house.
WHAT WILL I FIND THERE?
In the afternoon, Ouroboros acts more in installation mode. Entry's completely free during this time. You'll find a sound environment carrying on at a low volume, there will be people there sitting and chilling, maybe having conversations, maybe rehearsing or trying things out. It's a relaxed environemnt to hang around in for however long you please.
In the evening from around 6pm things move into a more performative mode: there'll be a sequence of performances including dance, a flute choir, an experiemental text piece and a final farewell to the house which ends just after sunset at around 8:11-8:30. Entry to the evening session is free but booking is required as capacity is limited: Book here.
The house shuts then, but Ouroboros continues: sounds from the installation will be released on YouTube at regular intervals between midnight on 22 April and midnight on 23 April (Link will appear here on the day). There will also be a limited number of free CDs available at the house so you can take Outoboros away with you and have a version of it in your own home. A link to download the tracks from this will also be available on this page on the day. There will also be specially made badges, and for HERE COMES EVERYBODY everyone present will receive one card from a specially printed pack. At this point everyone gets to join in.
This is the final artwork I am making for my PhD at Trinity Laban. I'm researching identity and transformation in transdisciplinary creative practice. That's quite a dense sentence, so let's unpick it:
I'm a composer, performer and sound artist. The work I make sits somewhere between pre-composed and improvised music, sound art and performance art. A lot of what I do involves drones (the sustained tone kind, not the flying kind): something that interests me about those is that theyr'e ambiguous things: sometimes you encounter them as events in the context of musical perfomance, while other times in the cointext of sound art and installations, thye seem to behave more like objects, things sitting in the room with you. My research has been a process of expanding that idea of ambiguity and the possibility of moving betwen those states into my whole way of working - and in the process taking my practcie out of the relms of "composing" or "music" into wider territories of perfomance and movement arts.
The Ouroboros is an ancient image of a snake or serpent eating its own tail: it's a symbol of infinity or circularity. This event is bringing my research project full circle so it's an appropriate image for my final work and also a good metaphor for the piece itself: a domestic sound installation (which you can also take home with you - see below) that has no beginning or end, and carries on as long as you want to stay in its presence.
The heart of this is my friend Carla Rees's contrabass flute. I've always thought this instrument is such an extraordinary presence that it occureed to me: do you need to pay it at all? What if it sat there like a totem pole or a devotional object?
That's essentially what's going on here. The contra sits upstairs, partially obscured. Meanwhile, a multi-channel sound in stallation based around samples of the contra carries on in a nonlinear kind of way. Occasionally flautists and dancers are in the house making sounds and movements related to some degree to the sounds and objects in the house.
WHAT WILL I FIND THERE?
In the afternoon, Ouroboros acts more in installation mode. Entry's completely free during this time. You'll find a sound environment carrying on at a low volume, there will be people there sitting and chilling, maybe having conversations, maybe rehearsing or trying things out. It's a relaxed environemnt to hang around in for however long you please.
In the evening from around 6pm things move into a more performative mode: there'll be a sequence of performances including dance, a flute choir, an experiemental text piece and a final farewell to the house which ends just after sunset at around 8:11-8:30. Entry to the evening session is free but booking is required as capacity is limited: Book here.
The house shuts then, but Ouroboros continues: sounds from the installation will be released on YouTube at regular intervals between midnight on 22 April and midnight on 23 April (Link will appear here on the day). There will also be a limited number of free CDs available at the house so you can take Outoboros away with you and have a version of it in your own home. A link to download the tracks from this will also be available on this page on the day. There will also be specially made badges, and for HERE COMES EVERYBODY everyone present will receive one card from a specially printed pack. At this point everyone gets to join in.
CAN I TAKE PICTURES?
Absolutely! We would love to see any photos or film visitors make: please share them with us via WeTransfer to info[at]peternagle.co.uk PERFORMERS
Finch Ashwood Franziska Boehm Catriona Bourne Mary Bull Jamie Elless Irene Fiordilino Ana Geoghegan Emily Linane Peter Nagle Chiara Pagani Carla Rees Maisie Whiteman THANKS Hannah Chrystal/ Maverick Projects Jonathan Clark Will Elliott Sam Hayden Emma Nagle Paul Newland Ian Peppiatt |
WHERE IS IT?
OUROBOROS is at Safehouse 1 on 22 April onky. Safehouse 1 is at 139 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN. The nearest station is Pekham Rye. what3words: ///tone.over.trying |