Degrade: An audio arts installation piece by adrien châtelain
Schedule
Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Unit D North Level 1, New England House, BN1 4GH Brighton, United Kingdom | Brighton, EN
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Join us for an audio arts installation by adrien châtelain that confronts the damaging effects of our collective actions by gently destroying reel-to-reel tape loops in response to the audience.Drawing you in through immersive birdsong and shifting, lilting compositions, Degrade confronts the damaging effects of our collective actions by gently destroying reel-to-reel tape loops in response to the audience.
Made up of five reel-to-reel tape machines playing different loops to produce unique compositions, Degrade detects the audience’s position and pushes sandpaper against the tape loops based on your proximity to each of the vintage machines, hastening their destruction. At first, the audio begins to degrade, losing fidelity and top end before hissing, stretching and cutting in and out before, ultimately, failing completely. Degrade is designed to prompt the audience to reflect on the damaging cycles of consumption, causing the climate catastrophe.
Exhibition: Wednesday 10 - Saturday 13 September 2025 Time: 12-5 PM FREE. Just turn up!
Private View: Tuesday 9 September 2025, Time: 5 PM - 7 PM, Free, Booking Required
Degrade was produced with technical consultancy from Alex Johnson.
Made with support from Lighthouse. Come experience this hauntingly beautiful work by adrien châtelain, a Lighthouse Young Creatives (LYC) alumnus.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
adrien châtelain is a transdisciplinary musician & artist working with installation, analogue photography, audio & sonic arts, sculpture and more, exploring the climate catastrophe; the anthropocene; decay and the abandoned; regrowth; oppression; surveillance; gender, and the impact of technology, with an emphasis on texture. their artworks are identity informed as a nonbinary, queer & Desi creator.
adrien is an alumnus of the Lighthouse Young Creative programme and has performed and exhibited work at the Metropolis Contemporary, Boomer Gallery, and the Lighthouse Project Space, and taken part in residencies with Metal, The Nest Collective and Brighter Sound.
https://adrienchatelain.com
ACCESSIBILITY
No flashing lights. Degrade uses layered field recordings and compositions played at a volume level similar to an acoustic performance.
This event will be held on the ground floor, level access, of Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH
We have step-free access just to the left of our space. The step-free ramp is 1 metre wide, after the ramp you reach a blue door please use the 'Lighthouse' doorbell, one of the team will come to let you in and you will then go through a door that is 34 in / 86.5cm wide and after that another door in to the space that is 33.5 in / 85cm wide. There is an accessible toilet in the space on the same floor. We have one accessible parking space that must be booked in advance. For further information email [email protected] or call 01273 647197.
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Where is it happening?
Unit D North Level 1, New England House, BN1 4GH Brighton, United Kingdom, 3 New England Street, Brighton, BN1 4GH, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
