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About Available Light

Available Light is a new touring commission devised by London based artist, writer and musician, Morgan Quaintance. Presented by Outlands Network, this year-long expanded exhibition explores notions of home and belonging in contemporary society. Expanding from themes in an eponymously titled new film work that comprises interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Tokyo, and fragments of conversations with renters in that city and London.

Available Light also includes new formal and conceptual elements, writing, and sound compositions developed by Quaintance. This core body of new work is placed in a changing, configuration alongside other contributions — music, spoken word and moving image — from a range of invited artists.

At ACCA, the programme will be a multi-screen sound and moving image performance, dispersed across the interior theatre space. Georgian born and London-based artist and filmmaker Sophio Medoidze will present readings and images from her new monograph Bastard Sun, a book featuring a collection of photographs taken after the civil unrest in Georgia in the 1990s. The duo of Japan-born and London-based filmmaker Chiemi Shimada and British composer Jamie Man will present the performance Celestial Palpitations, a new work for recorded voice, analogue slide projector and electronics.

A group of musicians including Benjin (strings), Millips (samples and electronics) and Pharaoh Russell (drums) will perform live, playing new compositions by Quaintance and improvisations throughout the programme, accompanied by video fragments that are newly shot and also taken from the titular film.