Commissioned by The Yard and presented in London and Berlin in 2019, Tim Spooner collaborated with composer Tom Richards to create a visual and sonic performance.
Using soft materials and hardware – velvet, electronics, sponge, lead, record players – they created a system which monitored and responded to itself. Set against Tom’s eerie, clanging soundscape, Tim demonstrated and dissected ambiguous sculptures and wire entrails. Small objects were magnified and manipulated into something sonically big and overwhelming. Vulnerability and intimacy awere exposed among catastrophic sound effects.
Like an abstract autopsy, things were opened up to reveal something tender and empathic – a weird world where the internal is externalised, soft tissues met jagged edges and soppy sculptures moved to inflexible rhythms.
“It’s a child’s playground, an artificial habitat, a morgue, a laboratory, a crime scene, all of those things at once.”
Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine on Cuteness Forensics
| Date | Title | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28–29 October 2019 | Cuteness Forensics | Theater der Dinge, Shaubude | Berlin |
| 5–9 February 2019 | Cuteness Forensics | The Yard | London |
